The late Lenny Breau was admired throughout the world for his complex fingerstyle jazz stylings. The first part contains Breau's Guitar workshop dealing with Building the Blues; Three Against Two and Harmonicsat Work. Section 2 presents three great Lenny Breau solos (Five O'Clock Bells; Little Blues and Freight Train). Written in notation and tablature. Contains Breau's 'master class' on fingerstylejazz Guitar. 3 songs from book are not included on the audio files. Includes access to online audio.

Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons-Learn the art of fingerstyle jazz guitar with these 12 insightful lessons. With chapters aimed at building chord vocabulary separating bass and melody voices and improvisation in the style of jazz guitar greats like WesMontgomery and Joe Pass this book is your guide to building and playing great solo guitar arrangements of songs from the classic jazz-standard repertoire. Complete with jazz interpretations of traditional songs. Lessons includeaudio downloads standard notation and tablature for all examples and songs and much more.

Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar is the perfect continuation of Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar. This book is great for fingerstyle guitarists who already know the basics and are ready to proceed to the next level. Along with alternate tunings topics include fingerpicking patterns bass lines modes barre chords diatonic harmony special techniques and an exploration of different music styles. These range from Country Blues Celtic to contemporary new age styles. There is also a essential section on arranging with a clever step-by-step approach. Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar comes complete with an accompanying CD to help with the learning process.

This handy case-size QWIKGUIDE book offers a baker?s dozen effective warm-up exercises plus 31 progressive ?Warm-Up Solos?. The book is written in notation and tablature with above average backup chords suggested for the solos.While written with the flatpicking guitarist in mind fingerstyle and classic players would also benefit from sightreading these pieces. The original solos present a wealth of bluegrass and swing material that can be played with arhythm guitarist or the companion CD which includes all of the tunes and exercises in the book. The solos are presented in the keys of C/Am (no sharps or flats) the sharp-bearing major and relative minor keys through Emajor/C# minor (4 sharps) and in the flat-bearing keys and their relative minor keys through E-flat major/C minor (3 flats). The tunes offer a great introduction to swing eighths triplets and syncopated rhythms. Author andcompany president William Bay?s gift for writing engaging tunes that offer insight to the fretboard is clearly evident here making this book an excellent sight-reading resource.

Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD shows how fingerstyle guitarists can use DADGAD tuning to play traditional tunes including twenty-four complete arrangements of common American Irish and Scottish ballads airs jigs and reels. The bookexplores techniques and patterns for playing melodies across the strings producing a harp-like effect that adds a distinctive and beautiful character to traditional melodies. In addition to building repertoire the materialdemonstrates ways to arrange your own melodies or even write your own tunes based on the techniques provided. This is a perfect follow-up for guitarists who have studied Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar and arelooking for tunes to learn or for those who want to go deeper into harp-style playing. It is also an excellent introduction for those who prefer to just dive head-first into DADGAD by learning some classic tunes.

Volume 1-This first volume in Master Anthology Of Fingerstyle Guitar Solos includes both new pieces and outstanding previously published fingerstyle tunes. Veteran performers and talented young upstarts are given aforum for their best work. Intermediate to advanced in difficulty with nearly all pieces appearing in standard notation with tablature. Includes access to extensive online audio. The contributors are: Jonathan Adams Muriel Anderson Seth Austen D.R. Auten Douglas Back Duck Baker Steve Baughman William Bay Pierre Bensusan Larry Bolles Ben Bolt Bill Brennan Thom Bresh Rolly Brown Robin Bullock Jonathan Burchfield MichaelChapdelaine Mike Christiansen William Coulter Marcel Dadi Peppino D'Agostino Craig Dobbins Pat Donohue Doyle Dykes Steven Eckels Tim Farrell Peter Finger Tommy Flint Rick Foster Stefan Grossman Ole Halen ToddHallawell Roger Hudson Jack Jezzro Buster B. Jones Laurence Juber Phil Keaggy Pat Kirtley Jean-Felix Lalanne Jay Leach Paul Lolax Woody Mann Dennis McCorkle El McMeen Dale Miller Franco Morone Stevan Pasero KenPerlman Al Petteway Bill Piburn Chris Proctor Harvey Reid John Renbourn Don Ross Vincent Sadovksy Dylan Schorer John Sherman Martin Simpson Johnny Smith Fred Sokolow Tim Sparks John Standefer David Surette Guy VanDuser Al Viola Paul Yandell Andrew York and John Zaradin.

Take an in-depth look at the virtuosic playing of this Aussie acoustic master! This Signature Licks book includes detailed analysis of 12 songs plus online audio featuring demos of all the music examples in the book!

Martin Simpson is one of the most brilliant and lyrical fingerstyle guitar soloists on worldwide acoustic guitar scene. In this masterful book Martin captures the melodic beauty earthy rhythms and haunting modal temperamentsfound in the American gospel tradition. Nineteen guitar solos are offered. Notation and tablature.

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

American Fingerstyle Guitar Favorites-Learn to play twelve classic fingerstyle songs with one of the masters of the style Pat Donohue. With note-for-note transcriptions in both staff notation and Guitar tablature (tab) learn to play these great American folk songs exactly as they were intended.Drawing influences from blues legends like Robert Johnson and folk heroes like Bob Dylan Donohue takes the best of both worlds to produce an idiosyncratic blend of warm acoustic fingerpicking and traditional American travelling songs. With the Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library you can learn every note and nuance from the cream of Pat Donohue?s backcatalogue with selections from his 2008 album Freewayman going way back to his 1989 album Big Blind Bluesy. Each song from American Fingerstyle Guitar Favorites has been expertly transcribed into both staff notation and tablature making this book perfect for any fan of acoustic-folk music or somebody who wants to learn the essentials of fingerpicking. Whatever your background there is nobody better to learn from than Pat Donohue who has been called ?one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today? by none other than Chet Atkins. As if this wasn?t enough to convince you this edition of the book also comes with free audio access to Donohue himself playing the songs. All you have to do is enter the code provided on the Hal Leonard website to download digital versions of songs like Big Blind Bluesy and Maple Leaf Rag. To see the full list of songs included in this songbook please see below.With an unparalleled level of precise transcription the Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library offers the best possible way for you to perfectly learn a dozen fingerstyle classics that come from the very hands of one of the greatest.

Contemporary Picking Etudes-Among fretted-instrument players there is an expression that states 'The fret hand marks a player but the pick hand distinguishes an artist.' The 23 original compositions in this book offer a fresh basis to explore anddevelop plectrum or pick-style playing technique to a professional level. These pieces require various playing techniques and include: linear studies double-stops counterpoint and chord playing. By studying and learningthese pieces guitarists can not only refine their technical mastery but also enhance their skill level and artistry in solo guitar performance. This collection also includes eight duet arrangements to be played bytwo guitarists. The duets are fun to play as student/teacher sight-reading exercises and can be used as guitar duo performance repertoire as well. The music is written in standard notation only. Access to online audiois included for all 31 pieces.

With Online Audio-An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland arranged for easy flatpicking Guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as Guitar tablature. An accompanying audio download contains all thetunes played at a manageable speed with Guitar accompaniment.The collection contains airs well known songs polkas slip jigs slides double jigs hornpipes and reels all of which are specially arranged by the authorwith the beginning/intermediate guitarist in mind. On the audio download the tunes are played 2 or 3 times so you can really get into the feel of the tune when playing along. The speed of the tunes is quite slow but not soslow as to take away from the essential feel of the music.Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to bediscovered in this selection of great traditional music.

This collection of eleven flatpicking solos by National Flatpicking Guitar Champion Mark Cosgrove includes three which were winners at the National Flatpicking Championship in Winfield Kansas. These songs are challenging andenjoyable for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. More importantly for the potential flatpicking championship contender these tunes contain some of the required ingredients for a national competition: crosspicking open-string or floating passages and sections which require a certain amount of stamina when played at speed. However a good time can be had by all by just taking them apart and playing around with them slowly and easily. Thesolos are written in standard notation and tablature with Guitar accompaniment chords provided. Most but not all of the tunes found in this book were previously published in the book Good Medicine. This book has beenrevised and updated and the former book Good Medicine is out of print. Audio download available online.