Performed by Ted Nugent. DVD. DVD (Digital Video Disk). Size 5.3x7.5 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Guitar - Intermediate

SKU: MB.31094M

Saddle-stitched. Technique. Book and online audio. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31094M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31094M).

ISBN 9781513473062. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

This electric blues guitar approach to playing roots music dives deep into gear, right and left-hand technique, and advanced soloing and rhythm accompaniment concepts, including “partial” chords that can be used creatively while a bass guitarist supplies the missing primary chord tones.The author provides unique insights on harmonically intense chord voicings as well as a fresh look at phrasing and thematic soloing ideas. A pragmatic approach to comping includes custom-built voicings for blues and roots styles, a section dedicated to Freddie Green chord forms, 12-bar maps with various turnarounds, and an introduction to the concept of layered rhythm parts.The section on soloing delves into applying chord tones for more expansive ideas; it contains fretboard charts illustrating pentatonic scales, the blues scale and the Mixolydian mode and suggests opportunities for tension and release by applying diminished and altered dominant subterfuge.The book’s excellent play-along guitar, bass and drums companion recordings in jump and funk blues, rockabilly, Latin, and Cajun styles will be useful not only as rhythm guitar examples and backup tracks for lead playing, but also for songwriters who want something more than a metronome or drum track for lyric inspiration and phrasing accuracy.Musical examples are shown in standard notation and tab, extended fretboard diagrams plus the Nashville numbering system, making it easy to play chord backup in any key like a pro.

Performed by Robben Ford. Instructional DVD for guitar. Series: DVD video. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Guitar

SKU: BT.MUSME0298

Latin. Book, CD and DVD. 60 pages. Play Music Publishing #MUSME0298. Published by Play Music Publishing (BT.MUSME0298).

English.

As it is the most commonly used instrument in Bossa Nova, the Guitar stands at the very core of these 25 complete accompani­ments; they are performed in the style of legendary Bossa Nova Guitar players such as Gilberto Gil, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Baden Powell, Antonio Carlos Jobim and many more. Wistfully swaying rhythms and subtle chords are adorning the pages of this coursebook - admittedly, intended for learning purposes, yet, without ever disregarding the pleasure of playing. The approach to be followed for the interpretation of these 25 musical pieces is illustrated in detail within the three preliminary chapters of this coursebook: fingerstyle techniques, rhythmsand chords specific to Bossa Nova are accurately and meticulously explained to you. In addition to this, the DVD shows you all 25 musical pieces at their full length and at two different tempi: first, for demonstration purposes, recorded at actual playing speed, then at a slower speed, in order to give you the opportunity to practice and overcome the upcoming difficulties. For its part, the MP3 CD allows you to practice the musical pieces by playing them along to backing tracks of a proper length - once again at two different tempi: at a slower speed for practicing and at actual speed for playing contextually appropriately.

Guitar - Advanced

SKU: MB.30762M

Saddle-stitched, Solos. American Music. Book and online audio. 24 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #30762M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.30762M).

ISBN 9781513465692. 8.75x11.75 inches.

Civil War Suite for Classical Guitar is a collection of ten Civil War-era songs arranged in standard notation for the advanced solo classical guitarist. The suite includes music from the Confederacy and the Union, along with soldier's songs, parlor songs, and an African American spiritual. The sequencing of the pieces is designed to create a musical narrative, with songs grouped in a manner that shows various perspectives of the war before ultimately celebrating Union victory. Throughout the suite, extensive passages feature delightful special effects that emulate period instruments such as the banjo, snare drum, and fiddle. Includes access to online audio.

(Ultimate Guitar Techniques Series). By Danny Gill. Guitar. Lick Library. DVD. Hal Leonard #RDR0126. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Keith Wyatt. Edited by Tim Landers. Guitar video. Published by Warner Brothers.

(Essential Guitar Pure Theory - Basics). By Danny Gill. Guitar. Lick Library. DVD. Hal Leonard #RDR0242. Published by Hal Leonard

By William Bay. For Guitar (All). Chord book. Jazz. Level: Beginning. Chart. Size 11.75x8.75. 3 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

133 Songs from Around the World. Easy Guitar (Simplified arrangements for guitar). Size 9x12 inches. 128 pages

Guitar solo

SKU: GH.GE-11464

Composed by Benjamin Staern. Duration 15 minutes. Gehrmans Musikforlag #GE 11464. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.GE-11464).

ISBN 979-0-070-11464-6. A4 inches.

Work note by the composer:

When I received the news of this commission, I had no idea what it would lead to. Writing for guitar solo is not the same as composing for orchestra where you have forty voices where you can easily mask an entire section. Here you are very naked to the bone.
The starting point for this work was from J.S. Bach's Chaconne in D-minor that Johannes had performed in concert, originally written for violin but there is a version transcribed for guitar and piano made by Ferruccio Busoni. When I went to Cortona (in Tuscany, Italy) completed the southern mentality of this work.
Arpalineais actually a merged word in Italian language. Arpa means harp, however in a musical context it's more or less resembled with the word arpeggio, which means broken chords. Lineameans line.

The work is divided in three parts.
I. Arpeggio: It starts with an opening chaconne-like sequence and is marked with a certain depth in which the chords starts to separate from the organum note in the bass and it culminates into a section called with rhythmical focus. These sections alternates, variates which each other.
The middle section has a playful and childish atmosphere where the guitarist knocks on the body of the guitar resembling a Spanish folk instrument cajon. This is leading to a section which tends more to a very aggressive fusion-like riff that loses control and reaches its climax at the end.

II. Linea: The static rhytmical pulse is now disintegrated and it forms more or less sort of a free, improvisational state in a rubatolike tempo. The character is described as a very hot day with temperatures rising above 37! C (or 100! F) where you can hardly do anything just sitting dozed off and pespiring because of the extreme heat watching a huge fog coming up in the evening that spreads around the Tuscan atmosphere.

III. Finale: It starts off with fast one-note ostinati then more and more notes pop up like a gradual rain storm with thunder strikes! And eventually it leads to that is a large flood through the streets of an medieval Southern town. The work ends with a short circuit slapped strings along with extremely fast tremolos that reaches higher and louder as possible!

Benjamin Staern

Guitar

SKU: BT.MUSCH80344

Composed by Gabriel Yared. TV-Film-Musical-Show. Book with CD. Wise Publications #MUSCH80344. Published by Wise Publications (BT.MUSCH80344).

ISBN 9781849385954.

This folio contains 20 of Gabriel Yared’s best-loved pieces specially arranged for classical guitar, including themes from The English Patient, Betty Blue and The Talented Mr Ripley.

Eachp iece is demonstrated by the arranger on the included CDs. Four of the pieces are presented in arrangements for guitar duet, and the second CD includes alternative play-along versions each giving prominence to one partor theother.

Guitar

SKU: HL.650742

Composed by Various. Play Today Instructional Series. Instruction. Softcover with DVD-ROM. 80 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.650742).

ISBN 9781423485100. UPC: 884088436865. 9.25x13.32 inches.

This pack includes everything you need to “Play Today”: a method book that takes you step-by-step through detailed instruction, and a teacher-led CD of demonstrations! The DVD ensures you don't miss a thing, following along with a professional, and the songbook/CD pack is just the thing to keep you interested and instantly show your progress as an aspiring guitar player.

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-111

Notturno - Napolitana - Roma. Composed by Francesco Balilla Pratella. Edited by Maurizio Mazzoli. Saddle stitching. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 111. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-111).

ISBN 9790215316317. 9 x 12 inches.

The three original pieces for guitar Notturno, Napolitana (popolar songs) and Roma (March for guitar), together with three transcriptions, are included in a manuscript of 36 pages, noting in the frontispiece “Transcriptions and compositions of F. Balilla Pratella sent as a tribute to M.R. Brondi (1920)”.
These compositions follow a traditional language, and, in the tonality and the alternating themes, are an expression of Pratella’s folkloric vein, with cantabile and melancholy melodies, with the exception of the march, that show some echoes of the nineteenth century guitar masters’ way of composing.
There is a characteristic use of the quartine with no alternated thumb forefinger tremolo, that immediately recalls the plectrum orchestra so much used by Pratella in his youth.
The discovery of these pieces – which happened accidentally and saved them from certain destruction – contributes to enhance that period of great guitarist turmoil preceding Segovia,  establishing itself at the beginning of twentieth century in Italy with three compositions from an author that, along with the Bonaccorsi and Colacicchi, anticipated that current – already initiated by the Fara, Gabriel, Caravaglios – which was, in the following decades, to go by the name of ethnomusicology.