This comprehensive approach to basic guitar skills includes varied repertoire, theory, detailed instruction about seating and hand position, standard music notation, an introduction to tablature, basic improvisation, and teaches both the pickstyle and fingerstyle techniques. Great for college non-music majors, continuing education classes, music dealer in-store programs, and group guitar classes at the middle and high school levels. Book 1 contains 16 units, each with a variety of repertoire, exercises, and timed tests at the end. Unit 16 provides instructions for playing 11 hit songs. Students can cut out flashcards provided at the back of the book to use for home study. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. / Guitare

Easy Baroque Pieces for Classical Guitar is an outstanding introduction for the beginner to intermediate guitarist to the music of the Baroque period. Jerry Willard explains the intricacies of Baroque ornamentation (including trills, mordents and notes inégale in an easy-to-understand way, and performs each piece on the accompanying audio CD. Includes standard notation and tab. / Guitare et Guitare Tablatures

This songbook contains 15 Beethoven masterpieces arranged for solo guitar in standard notation and TAB. The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book also includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar. Songs include: Bagatelle Op. 119 No. 1 • Für Elise • Minuet in G Major • Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor (?Moonlight?) Op. 27 No. 2 First Movement Theme • Ode to Joy • Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 13 (?Pathetique?) 2nd Movement • Symphony No. 6 in F Major (?Pastoral?) First Movement Excerpt • Turkish March • Violin Concerto in D Major • and more!

A wonderful collection of pieces by some of the greatest and most pioneering composers for the Classical Guitar. Selected and arranged by Jerry Willard for performers of an early intermediate level, the anthology comes complete with a CD of professional performances so you can hear the pieces, and then play them yourself! / Guitare