By Jan Michael Joncas. For Chorus and Keyboard accompaniment. Music Collection. Includes guitar chord names. Sacred. Level: easy/medium. 64 pages. Published by GIA Publications.

(75 Hymns and Choruses). By David Winkler. String ensemble. For medium voice, guitar. Easy. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company

((No Tab)). By Various. For Guitar. Easy Guitar. Softcover. 208 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Various Composers. Easy Guitar (Simplified arrangements for guitar). Size 9x12 inches. 112 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Performed by The Beatles. Easy Guitar (Simplified arrangements for guitar). Size 9x12 inches. 176 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Composed by Allan Alexander. Saddle stitch. World Music/Guitar Instruction. Book and Downloadable audio. Duration 70 minutes. Published by ADG Productions

(Lead And Rhythm Guitar Techniques Used By The Pros!). By Mark John Sternal. For guitar. Beginner to Advanced. DVD. Duration 1 hour 22 minutes

Guitar - easy

SKU: BT.BWH7016

Revised edition. Arranged by Peter Bursch. Pop & Rock. Book with CD. Composed 2021. 112 pages. Bosworth & Co. #BWH7016. Published by Bosworth & Co. (BT.BWH7016).

ISBN 9783920127187. German.

Jetzt wieder erhältlich: Beatles für Gitarre“ von Erfolgsautor Peter Bursch!

Die Fortsetzung des Beatles-Gitarrenbuches (Band 1 - BOE4493). Alle Griff- und Spieltechniken erklärt Peter Bursch so einfach wie möglich und mit vielen zusätzlichen Hinweisen. Auf der beiliegenden CD sind alle in dem Buch behandelten Beatles-Songs mit allen Spieltechniken zu hören und laden direkt zum Mitspielen ein.

Die speziellen Gitarren-Riffs, Melodieläufe, Anschlag- und Zupftechniken der Beatles werden ausführlich erklärt, damit jeder die charakteristischen Spieltechniken lernen kann. Dazu gibt es jede Menge Infos und Stories über die Beatles, ihre Musik sowie die Entstehungsgeschichten der Songs.

Peter Bursch gilt als Deutschlands Gitarrenlehrer der Nation und hat im Laufe seine Karriere insgesamt neunzehn Lehrbücher für verschiedene Spielniveaus und Stile veröffentlicht. Sein erstes Gitarrenbuch wird seit seiner Erstveröffentlichung 1975 weiterhin als wichtigstes Lehrwerk für den Einstieg ins Gitarrenspiel betrachtet. Die Gitarrenbaufirma Martin stellte für Peter Bursch ein Sigma-Signaturemodell her. Er ist der erste Deutsche, dem diese Ehre zuteilwurde. https://www.pete r-bursch.de/

12-String Guitar

SKU: HL.287559

By Various. Guitar Collection. Pop, Standards. Softcover. With guitar tablature. 120 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.287559).

ISBN 9781540043313. UPC: 888680904715. 9.0x12.0x0.299 inches.

This one-of-a-kind collection presents accessible, must-know songs from the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Dave Matthews Band and Tom Petty for those who have been learning 12-string guitar and are eager to put their new skills to work. You'll find a combination of tab, chords and lyrics for 50 great songs, including: California Dreamin' • Carry On • Closer to the Heart • Do You Believe in Magic • Free Fallin' • Give a Little Bit • A Hard Day's Night • Hotel California • Leaving on a Jet Plane • Life by the Drop • Like the Way I Do • Melissa • Mr. Tambourine Man • More Than a Feeling • The One I Love • Over the Hills and Far Away • Solsbury Hill • Space Oddity • Still the Same • Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) • The Waiting • Wish You Were Here • You Wear It Well • and more!

About First 50

You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series. The First 50 series steers new players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.

Guitar

SKU: HL.146362

Book Only. Guitar Tab Method. Instruction. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.146362).

ISBN 9781495023354. UPC: 888680070212. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches.

“The ultimate learning tool to go from zero to guitar hero in no time!” –Guitar World magazine Designed for electric or acoustic guitar. Get started quickly and easily – with songs you want to play! This method introduces notes with riffs like “Crazy Train” and “Smoke on the Water,” power chords with classics by AC/DC and the Who, chord-strumming with songs from Neil Young and Nirvana, and much more. The method's unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin will keep them playing and having fun. Book 1 includes: parts of the guitar, easy-to-follow guitar tablature, notes & riffs starting on the low E string, tempo & time signatures, understanding notes and rests, palm muting, vibrato, power chords, open chords, strumming, slides and slurs, hammer-ons and pull-offs, many music styles, nearly 100 riffs and songs, and more!

(60 Songs Arranged in Sequence of Difficulty for Solo Guitar). By Various. For Guitar. Guitar Solo. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

Adult Contemporary, Perfect binding. Jazz. Book and online audio. 92 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31004M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Guitar - Intermediate

SKU: MB.31008M

Perfect binding. Blues. Book and online audio. 160 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31008M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31008M).

ISBN 9781513467016. 8.75x11.75 inches.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was a trail blazer, both as a singer and guitarist, but also as a commercial phenomenon, for he was the first blues musician to establish the tremendous appeal that blues, as played and sung by rural African American folk, had for the record-buying public. It is no exaggeration to say that the sales of Lemon’s records paved the way for a host of other solo rural blues musicians to record in his wake and made the record companies more willing to give other musicians a chance, in the hopes of achieving similar success. 

Lemon ’s record sales weren’t what made him a great musician, though - that could only be attributed to his startlingly virtuosic guitar - playing and soulful singing, developed over years of busking, building on his natural gifts with a great deal of practice and work. In the Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson author John Miller presents transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature, of 22 of Lemon’s greatest performances, with an additional essay examining Lemon’s senses of time and phrasing and his picking techniques. Also included is a download link to all the original recordings. 

To present a picture of Lemon the man, noted blues researchers Alan Governar and Kip Lornell have contributed an essay focusing on Lemon’s early life, the origins of his music, and his time spent in a musical partnership with Lead Belly. Links are provided to downloadable performances of the songs in the book from which the transcriptions were made, so that you can have Lemon’s sound in your head as you learn to play his songs.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was remarkable, even in a style that abounded in great musicians, and some measure of his influence can be seen in the fact that musicians recorded in the 1960s, more than thirty years after his death, were still covering his songs and stealing guitar licks from him. The Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson gives you the resources needed to learn what was so special about Lemon’s music, and to experience his musical excellence from inside the music itself.

Titles include: One Dime Blues, Got The Blues, Dry Southern Blues, Big Night Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues, Shuckin' Sugar Blues, Where Shall I Be, Wartime Blues, Black Horse Blues, Prison Cell Blues, Piney Woods Money Mama, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, He Arose From The Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke And Hungry, Bad Luck Blues, Matchbox Blues, Lemon's Worried Blues, That Crawlin' Baby Blues, Easy Rider Blues, Stocking Feet Blues and Right of Way Blues

Level 2/3 • 160 pages • Direct download link to audio files. 

(Play the Melodies of 20 Pop and Rock Songs) Guitar/vocal songbook for guitar. With standard guitar notation, chord names, lyrics and introductory text. Series: Hal Leonard Guitar Method. 39 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Book. Performed by Various Artists. Guitar Method. Size 9x12 inches. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard Corporation.

Performed by Various. For easy guitar. Strum It (Guitar). Size 9x12 inches. 64 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Hal Leonard Guitar Method. By Various. Guitar Method. Softcover Audio Online. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.697440).

Book. Performed by Various Artists. Guitar Method. Size 9x12 inches. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard Corporation.

(Hal Leonard Guitar Method Supplemental Songbook). By Various. For Guitar. Guitar Method. Softcover. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Various. Easy Guitar (Simplified arrangements for guitar). Softcover. 210 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Guitar

SKU: FG.55011-324-4

Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #55011-324-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-324-4).

ISBN 9790550113244.

Quad ri Morandi (2014) ties together two essential themes of Kai Niminen's (b. 1953) compositional style: guitar and a subject inspired by Italy. The strong presence of the guitar in his works is natural since he is in an actively performing guitarist himself, and guitar works indeed play a significant role in his oeuvre. Moreover, he has written plenty of orchestral music; for instance two symphonies, numerous concertos, and chamber music. In the field of Finnish music he is a composer who can be characterized as free from any specific school or style. In his musical language, free tonal in essence, one can detect traces of Impressionism, Neoromanticism and even Expressionism at times, but he is also willing to employ more recent 20th-century stylistic devices. Nieminen has mentioned that he finds himself very similar to Japanese Toru Takemitsu both musically and in thought.

Mediterannean culture and Italy especially have been close to Nieminen's heart ever since he first visited the country and appeared in the jury of the international Fernando Sor guitar competition in 1981. He has composed a great number of works which refer to Italian landscapes or artists. The work Quadri Morandi (Morandi's pictures) is written in four movements. It has at its centre the painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), who is known as a master of still lifes and landscapes painted in a plain manner and is subdued colours. Their atmosphere typically reflects a calm spirit. This is the third guitar work that nieminen has written for Kleemola.

It is easy to find a counterpart for the encaptivating realm of Morandi's art in Nieminen's clear and pure expression. The titles and expression markings also include several references to Morandi. For example, in the opening movement Prelude the words la Natura morta (still life) appear as an additional note on the chord sequence following the freely flowing opening section. At the end of the movement one can hear rhythmic motif coloured with flageolets that repeats the syllables of the painter's name: Gior-gio Moran-di. A similar motif can be heard at the end of the second movement Quasi cadenza. The tranquilly breathing third movement Paesaggio (landscape) creates an illusion of landscape by imitating the echo of monastery bells (come campane del monastero) and at the same time refers to il monaco (the monk), the name by which Morandi was often called. The final movement Ritratto (Portrait) is the most extensive of all the movements and can be seen, with its recurring motifs, as a reflection of the stable yet subtly varying elements of Morandi's art. The work ends with the rhythmic motif that once more echoes Morandi's name, like signature.

Lead Sheets for 200 Jazz Standards. Composed by Various. Guitar Book. Softcover. 382 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Pat Metheny. For guitar (no tablature). Format: fake book. With leadsheet notation and chord names. Jazz and jazz fusion. 448 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Guitar; Methods and Music for Children

SKU: UT.CH-157

Composed by Giorgio Signorile. Saddle stitching. Classical. Score and Parts. 40 pages. Ut Orpheus #CH 157. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-157).

ISBN 9790215320369. 9 x 12 inches.

Vals d'la Masca; Il racconto della Montagna; Sequenze sotterranee

Th e Alpinia Suite was commissioned and composed for the festival <> and is dedicated to my friend and colleague Elio Galvagno. It was performed for the first time on August 30, 2011, in the Church of San Giovanni in Saluzzo, by an ensemble of professional and student guitarists from all over Europe. This piece was written to commemorate the first ascent of mount Monviso, by William Mathews, Frederick Jacomb, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, exactly 150 years before, on August 30, 1861.
The first movement is a small Waltz. I imagined a Masca (a sort of alpine pixie, a teasing sprite), dancing all around the house and playing tricks, mostly harmless and funny. The Masca is a legendary and very important character in the folklore of my valleys, and all rationally inexplicable events of everyday life are ascribed to her - such as objects that cannot be found anymore, holes in flour sacks, salt in sugar bowls...
The next two movements are a homage to the Mountains. The Tale is a sort of journal, a bright and peaceful chronicle of a hike uphill, in which the beauty of the place is highlighted by an easy harmony and a sweet melody. After this, Underground sequences evokes that same world in a darker and nocturnal way; the faster pace and the choice of repeated and varying patterns are meant to show the transformation of the former environment into something more complex and tormented. Here mountains are a metaphor of human life, warts and all: their sundrenched slopes and their green pasture grasslands, but also their icy and dangerous northern sides, which demand calm, training and caution.
(G. Signorile).

Guitar

SKU: FG.55011-071-7

Hommage to Paul Klee. Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #55011-071-7. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-071-7).

ISBN 9790550110717.

Comp leted in Karstula, Finland during late July 2010, this carefully structured, but also free-ranging work is drawn from ideas for a much earlier work in four movements, Fantasy dating from the 1980s.
Kai Nieminen has been for a long time an admirer of the work of artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), and the solo presented in its final form here is influenced by the painting Dances caused by Fear or as it is often refered to Dancing from Fear painted towards the end of Klee's life in Bern, 1938.
Having left Germany for Switzerland in December 1933, Klee's later works were often full of signs and lines, very often represented in black, depicting human figures or various objects against a variety of coloured backgrounds, in the case of this painting of a brownish hue. This development in his painting style and technique is felt by some to be an effect perhaps of his long-term illness, systemic sclerosis, but in the case of Dances caused by Fear there is suggested an atmosphere of panic and terror, an attempt to escape from horrors to come (World War II), represented in the violent movement of the arms and legs of the figures, and the dark, indeed brooding nature of the colours.
In Kai Nieminen's guitar work Images of Fear, there is only a very brief passage of calm at the very beginning, after which come three main connected sections in which a wide range of musically unsettling ideas emerge one by one, making use of the tritone, minor seconds, glissandos, tamboura, campanella, etc. The third and final section incorporates the grouping of 5 sixteenth-notes, to give an uneasy feeling to the music, with a short haunting and pleading five-note phrase (Cantando) heard immediately following this passage, before the work ends with further glissandos, and distant and diminishing harmonics.
As with Kai Nieminen's other guitar works, the use of 'orchestral colour' is vital to the performance, and passages suggestive of for example brass, strings, woodwind, etc., should be taken into account and played with suitably considered contrast of tone.

John Mills.

Composed by Giorgio Signorile. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 376. Published by Ut Orpheus