Of Brownie Mcghee-Brownie McGhee's rhythmic fingerpicking style rich accompaniments intricate lead playing and wide-ranging repertoire influenced generations of Guitarists around the world. Happy Traum learned to play directly from this master bluesman and he knows how to make Brownie's songs and techniques accessible to all aspiring acoustic blues players. Happy starts with the basics so that even novice blues players will be able to get off to a solid start. Concentrating on the keys of E and A his detailed lesson covers all the musical components that made Brownie's playing distinctive. Happy provides numerous playing tips and advice along with first-hand insights into Brownie'slife and music.

This one-of-a-kind collection provides accessible must-know children's favorites from pop hits and show tunes to TV themes and folk songs. Songs are presented in a combo of tab chords and lyrics for the most popular kids'songs beginning guitarists like to play. Titles include: Addams Family Theme · Alphabet Song · Any Dream Will Do · Castle on a Cloud · The Chicken Dance · Do-Re-Mi · Hakuna Matata · Happy Birthday to You · Heart and Soul · The Hokey Pokey · If You're Happy and You Know It · Kum Ba Yah · Let It Go · My Favorite Things · On Top of Spaghetti · Over the Rainbow · Puff the Magic Dragon · The Rainbow Connection · Sesame Street Theme · Sing · SpongeBob SquarePantsTheme Song · Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious · Take Me Out to the Ball Game · Tomorrow · The Unicorn · Won't You Be My Neighbor' (It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) · You Are My Sunshine · Bob the Builder (Main Title) · and more.

One of the best of the new generation of singer-songwriters, Brandi Carlile plays a unique blend of alt-rock and country-folk music. This songbook features all 35 songs from her three studio albums, Brandi Carlile,The Story, and Give Up the Ghost. All songs in this must-have collection are arranged as Brandi recorded them. Titles: Again Today * Before It Breaks * Cannonball * Caroline * Closer to You * Downpour * Dreams * Dying Day * Fall Apart Again * Follow * Gone * Happy * Have You Ever * I Will * If There Was No You * In My Own Eyes * Josephine * Late Morning Lullaby * Looking Out * Losing Heart * My Song * Oh Dear * Pride and Joy * Shadow on the Wall * Sixty Years On * Someday Never Comes * The Story * That Year * Throw It All Away * Touching the Ground * Tragedy * Turpentine * Until I Die * Wasted * What Can I Say. / Miscellaneous, Scores, Songbooks / Recueil / Guitare

Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar with one of the world's most respected teachers and performers Happy Traum. This is a hands-on beginner's course in acoustic country blues made famous by Mississippi John Hurt Lead Bellyand Merle Travis to name but a few legendary figures. b Happy Traum delivers a fantastic lesson that begins with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern gradually adding fills runs turnarounds and bass rhythmsthat make the basic blues progression come alive. An accompanying CD provides demonstrations of all examples in the book

Happy Traum. The most useful guitar chords in every key diagrammed in three different positions. The first position is accompanied by a photograph.

100 facili melodie da 3 a 8 note di autori classici. ?Play Happy? is a collection of 100 pieces from the classical repertoire arranged for beginners at their first steps in playing an instrument. Second guitar accompaniments have been arranged by the well-known guitar teacher and player Roberto Fabbri.

Happy enseigne cinq mélodies fingerpicking fondamentaux qui devraient être dans chaque répertoire de guitaristes. Il commence avec les principes de base, puis enseigne des compétences essentielles du style : hammer-ons, pull-offs, pistes de bass, sauter des notes, ascenseur et autres techniques importants. / Guitare / Dvd

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton's city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman's reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means 'conversation with the gods' in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao's (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950's following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo's ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece's characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don't Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli's Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish's A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony's co-production of George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess.

Media Comments:(...)A publication that is relevant and enjoyable to use on your own as it is in a tutorial setting is a rare thing indeed but wonderfully achieved here by Richard Graf in his book of duos Guitar for Two. Entertaining titles of original works include Mission Possible (an entertaining spoof version of Mission Impossible) and Reggae for Carmen (an amusing mix of Stevie Wonder’s Masterblaster and the Habañera from Carmen) as well as other more traditional arrangement of tunes such as Danny Boy and House of the Rising Sun. The relatively simple top line combined with the more detailed accompaniment offers a range of challenges which will make this book of usethroughout the easy to intermediate stages of learning the guitar. A CD included allowing accompanied performance of the pieces at home. Although the CD is performed on steel-strung guitars this book is nevertheless also perfectly relevant for classical guitarists. Graf has pitched his writing to provide challenging yet idiosyncratic pieces within a framework of highly entertaining styles.(...)(Music Teacher 6/03)Contents: Graf Richard: RichBlues · Bonfa Luiz: Manha de Carneval (Black Orpheus) · Graf Richard: Rain in Spain · Scarborough Fair · Graf Richard: Mission Possible · Russian Tango (Dark Eyes) · Graf Richard: Whatz up · Reggae for Carmen (Habanera) · Graf Richard: Sad Tango · Graf Richard: Flip Flap · House of the Rising Sun · Graf Richard: Bolero · Danny Boy · Oh Happy Day · Graf Richard: Zeit vergeht

You Should Play on Guitar-Accessible must-know Christmas songs are included in this one-of-a-kind collection arranged for guitar solo with a combo of tab chords and lyrics. Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth · Blue Christmas · The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) · Do You Want to Build a Snowman' · Feliz Navidad · Happy Xmas (War Is Over) · I'll Be Home for Christmas · Last Christmas · Mary Did You Know' · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · Santa Baby · Silent Night · White Christmas · Winter Wonderland · and more.