First Fingerstyle Songs

Beginning Solo Guitar: First Fingerstyle Songs features 15 classics carefully arranged for the beginning fingerstyle guitarist.Each solo combines melody and harmony in one full-sounding arrangement. Lyrics are also included.This songbook contains the hits Blowin' in the Wind Can You Feel the Love Tonight Don't Know Why Every Breath You Take The Godfather (Love Theme) Hallelujah Happy Birthday to You In My Life Lean on Me Moon River and more.

You Should Fingerpick on Guitar-Do you feel you've learned enough fingerstyle technique to start playing some real tunes? If so this is the book for you. 50 must-know songs including Blackbird The Boxer Dust in the Wind Fire and Rain Greensleeves Hell Hound on My Trail Is There Anybody Out There? Julia Puff the Magic Dragon Road Trippin' Shape of My Heart Tears in Heaven Time in a Bottle Vincent (Starry Starry Night) The Wind and more.

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.

Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar. With Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, author John Miller has written a book designed to provide newcomers to this style, whether first-time guitarists or guitarists who have previously only played with a pick, the techniques needed to develop a solid foundation for playing fingerstyle. The book uses songs for teaching, presenting multiple ways of playing a song, starting simply, and building gradually in terms of technical difficulty. And the exercises are designed to build skills in a wide range of fingerstyle skills: strumming, thumb-lead playing, pattern picking, and melody arrangements with the thumb playing alternating bass. What specific features does the book offer for the beginning fingerstyle guitarist? ? Over fifty exercises, for playing through the songs, all notated in both standard notation and tablature. ? Links to sound samples for all of the exercises, with each exercise played at a slow tempo, for starting out, and a target tempo, with all of the exercises counted in, so that you can play along with them. ? Chord diagrams are provided for each song with the fingerings indicated that you would need to play the exercises. ? Playing tips precede each exercise, offering guidance on how to play the exercises with the greatest ease and efficiency in both the picking and the fretting hands. ? A special section on playing Blues at the end of the book.Additional guidance is offered on understanding tablature, practicing, developing your tone, scale structure and transposition and use of a capo. So, in Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, you will find a full service instruction manual?one that has been designed to enable you to progress comfortably at your own rate of learning, while steadily building skills and moving forward in terms of your own confidence and willingness to accept new challenges.

The Beatles For Fingerstyle Ukulele contains 25 favorite songs each presented two ways: first as solo fingerstyle arrangements for playing simple chord-melody instrumentals with tab and chord diagrams included and also as lyric-and-chord lead sheets for basic strumming and singing.Songs are introduced in order of difficulty and also include fun and interesting facts about The Beatles' original recordings and history.Songs include: Across the Universe • And I Love Her • Can't Buy Me Love • Eight Days a Week • Here Comes the Sun • Hey Jude • In My Life • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds • Something • While My Guitar Gently Weeps• Yesterday • You've Got to Hide Your Love Away and more. Watch an introduction to The Beatles For Fingerstyle Ukulele:

Tin Pan Alley Favorites for Fingerstyle Guitar. During the first quarter of the 20th century, most of America's hit songs were produced on a two-block stretch of 28th Street in New York City known as Tin Pan Alley for the constant racket of beat-up pianos being played in the dozens of music publishing houses there. Many of these songs became timeless standards of American popular music, and live on to this day. This book is a collection of 31 classic songs from Tin Pan Alley's golden era, arranged for solo guitar with notation, tab, fingering indications, chord symbols and online audio.

DVD Two: Mountain Songs Fiddle Tunes and Blues-Learn how to play in the Appalachian style with this easy-to-follow instructional DVD.In Appalachian Fingerstyle Guitar Grammy-winning guitarist Al Petteway continues his exploration of the evocative DADGAD tuning with a variety of must-learn tunes in the Southern mountain tradition.This second DVD in the series features lessons on playing in the bluegrass blues and country style and includes the songs The Coo-Coo Bonapart's Retreat Black Mountain Rag and more. The first DVD in the series can be found here .

Pat Donohue is recognised worldwide as a virtuoso fingerstyle jazz guitarist with a genre-blending fusion of techniques which makes him the perfect teacher for these jazz classics. The overall theme of these lessons is to showthe roots of classic Jazz; leading on to how to arrange a jazz composition and then how to improvise around the arrangement using various techniques. In the first lesson with the help of three great Jazz compositions Patdescribes the arrangements in detail and then guides you towards improvising over them. An exhaustive lesson the DVD holds archival footage of the featured songs including Duke Ellington performing Stormy Weather in1943. A 24 page PDF booklet of the music accompanies these 81 detailed and practical minutes of Jazz classics which will aid and improve your playing.

Kev's QuickStart-12 popular Christmas songs are presented in this collection arranged by Kevin Rones for easy fingerstyle Ukulele. Songs include: 'Away in a Manger' 'Carol of the Bells' 'Deck the Hall' 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' 'Jingle Bells' 'Joy to the World' 'O Come All Ye Faithful' 'O Christmas Tree' 'The First Noel' 'We Three Kings of Orient Are' and 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'.

Sing Along With Easy Fingerpicking Guitar Accompaniment is a songbook featuring 30 popular songs arranged for Guitar and Voice in standard notation and tablature. Whether you're performing solo or backing up another singer the Guitar arrangements in this book will provide the perfect accompaniment. The chords and overall harmony of each song are especially tailored for fingerstyle performance and written in both standard notation and tab. The melody and chord symbols are also shown above the Guitar part for reference. The online audio tracks contain a demonstration of the complete Guitar part. Songs include Ain't NoSunshine Black Hole Sun Don't Know Why Fields of Gold Imagine Let It Be Wonderful Tonight and more.

Happy Traum's long association with the iconic Bob Dylan makes him the perfect instructor to teach these seven fingerstyle arrangements of Dylan favourites. The detailed in-depth lessons are designed for both early intermediate and more experienced players who will gain important guitar technique along with first hand historical insights.

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.