Traditional Songs for Beginning Guitar

In this second volume of The Acoustic Guitar Method series for beginning guitarists you'll expand on Book 1 and continue to learn traditional American music using authentic techniques and songs! Learn how to play alternating bass notes in a country backup pattern how to combine chords and classic bass runs and how to play your first fingerpicking patterns. You'll find out what makes a major scale work and what blues notes do to a melody all while learning more notes on the fingerboard and more great songs from the American roots repertoire. Whether you are studying with a teacher or on your own this comprehensive approach with graded lessons andsupplementary songs is the tool you need to get started!

DADGAD and DGDGCD Tunings is an extension and expansion of the previously released Mel Bay book DADGAD Tuning. It includes a number of additional instrumental solos in DADGAD for beginning-intermediateguitar players while introdtucing DGDGCD a related open tuning. Although many of theselections are traditional Irish dance tunes the book also includes an American dance tune two traditional Irish songs and original instrumentals by Frederick Boyce Jake Schumacher Gilles le Bigot and the author. The book iswritten in tablature and standard notation.

Here are two DVD lessons that will be deeply satisfying for any acoustic guitarist who wants to move beyond simple chords and easy strums. Beginning and intermediate players will quickly gain an understanding of guitar basics through the process of creating beautiful compelling arrangements of well-known much-loved traditional songs. DVD 1: The Cuckoo Delia's Gone The Water is Wide. DVD 2: Hard Times Come Again No More Wayfaring Stranger Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies.

The Logic Of Fretboard-The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake Robert Johnson Big Bill Broonzy Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By exploring the ways that chords melodies and rhythms work Woody Mann presents practical and simple ways to create variations in your playing. Woody teaches a new approach to seeing the fretboard and techniques for 'breaking down' chord blocks into smaller 'pieces' and connecting them throughout the fretboard. As he teaches the repertoire of the masters of acoustic blues he demonstrates how melodies andharmonies can be derived from simple moveable chord shapes. The Logic Of Fretboard is a method for relating the entire fretboard to the basic first position chord shapes that we all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords melodies and variations in your music. Studying the songs and concepts that Woody presents in this program will help students to break out of ruts and begin playing up-the-neck without relying on bar chords or scale patterns. Woody's approach to varying melody and bass lines against each other will also help students to develop a more syncopated and stronger picking technique. This simple and effective method allows students to increase their chord vocabulary by relying on logic instead of memorization.Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively performed throughout the world and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

Southpaws rejoice! This world-famous method is now available in a special edition just for lefties with customized photos and diagrams. Students enjoy the method's easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music educationwhile letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction covering tuning; 1st-position melody playing; C G G7 D7 and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; solos and ensembles; and strumming. Featuresa chord chart and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace • Greensleeves • and When the Saints Go Marching In.

Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this collection of traditional easy-to-play American roots music. This book and CD pack contains fifteen old-time classics arranged so that acoustic guitarists can practice single-note melodies basic strums and basslines and simple chords. Includes detailed notes on song origins and arrangements complete song lyrics standard notation tab and chord diagrams plus a companion CD with complete guitar parts!

Learn to Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics-Learn to Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics. Add to your repertoire with this collection of traditional easy-to-play holiday classics. You'll practice and reinforce the techniques you've learned in The Acoustic Guitar Method Book One. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the recordings on the companion CD and then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies in open position basic downstroke strums and simple chords. Songs: Jingle Bells · Joy to the World · Deck the Halls · Silent Night · The First Noel · Away in a Manger · O Christmas Tree · O Come All Ye Faithful · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing · It Came upon a Midnight Clear · What Child Is This' ·We Three Kings of Orient Are · God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Angels We Have Heard on High · We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Includes tab lyrics and notes on the song origins and arrangements.

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

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.

Everybody's favourite Christmas carols and songs in one wonderful carefully selected edition come together to create The Best Christmas Songbook Ever featuring 49 songs arranged for Piano Voice andGuitar.  Every member of the family is catered for young and old with a selection of favourites which covers the traditional classics that make the season special like Away In A Manger We Three Kings OfOrient Are and O Come All Ye Faithful. Not only this but more recent pop tunes are represented such as I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day  Last Christmas and SantaClaus Is Coming To Town. The generous selection of songs from old carols to new tunes makes this the perfect book for you this Christmas so you can begin Christmas Eve with the classic carols and bring in Christmas Day withthe fun contemporary pop.  The accessible arrangements of lyrics melody Piano and Guitar chords in this sheet music mean that you don't have to spend too much time practising before family and friends can gatheraround the Piano for a Christmas sing-along. Because this songbook has everything you can keep it as part of your music collection and dig it out every year for those times when the family can gather around and sing the songsthat get you into the spirit of the season.  For the best and most varied collection of Christmas sheet music ever compiled from old to new classic to contemporary pick up The Best Christmas Songbook Ever and put a Yuletide smile on the face of everyone with these universally loved tunes. You can also purchase this book in a  handy A5format  for the utmost Christmas convenience.

2-DVD Set-A unique double-DVD set that teaches you to play guitar from the very beginning using the sounds and techniques of Amezn American roots music. Suitable for total beginners as well as those wishing to discover a different approach Hamburger's method will get you playing a whole bunch of traditional American songs in no time.DVD 1: covers all the basic chords and flatpicking techniques you will needDVD 2: provides a solid start in fingerpicking along with more advanced flatpicking stylesYou will learn how to use a capo how to add bass runs and how to apply a variety of strumming patterns and other important techniques. Soon you'll be playingsuch evergreen classics as Scarborough Fair Careless Love and Columbus Stockade Blues.