Popular Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar

Fingerstyle Guitar Edition. Par ECKELS STEVEN ZDENEK. The arrangements in this book have been designed for use by the beginner and professional alike. The arrangements consist primarily of the melody, bass and chord symbols so that the professional will be able to easily sight read and embellish them during holiday performances. The beginner will find them straightforward and will be able to learn them quickly. To add variety, many of the songs are presented in two keys or two versions and the pages are laid out to avoid awkward page turns during performance. The contents include all of the well known Christmas favorites plus some lesser known gems In addition to Christmas carols, many of the greatest melodies associated with Christmas have been included. Some of these are: Selections from the Nutcracker - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Ave Maria - the Pastorale from the Christmas Concerto by Corelli - Pachelbel's Canon and others As a bonus, the book includes ten popular Chanukah songs for Jewish celebrations. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Christmas - Solos / Recueil / Guitare

In this double DVD set Stefan Grossman teaches a wide array of folk blues arrangements. You will study playing in various tunings i.e. Standard Dropped D DADGAD Open D and Open C tunings.The songs range from popular bluesand rags to old-time mountain ballads.All are taught phrase by phrase and the movements of both the left and right hands are clearly illustrated on the split screens.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as PDF files oneach DVD as well as printed format.As an extra bonus original old recordings from the 1920s and 1930s are included so that you can hear the roots from where these tunes derived.

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.

Creating Powerful Arrangements-Treat yourself to an intimate lesson with one of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of recent years and discover the secrets of her lush arrangements unusual tunings and fingerstyle techniques.Patty teaches some of her most popular songs making them immediately accessible to all guitarists. Each song is analysed in depth showing tunings exact fingerstyle techniques and how these dazzling guitar arrangements dovetail perfectly with her captivating vocals.

Fingerpicking Blues Guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the Guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a blues played in the keys of A G D or E. This series focuses on a single key for each lesson. The key of G offers specific advantages. It is ideal for the alternating bass technique i.e. Mississippi John Hurt's style of playing. In this lesson we start by learning an arrangement of Marshall Owens' 1930s recording of Try Me One More Time. This was originally played in an Open G tuning but is here arranged in standard tuning using a JohnHurt approach. Not all blues from the 1920s and 1930s were fingerpicked. Jim Jackson was a popular Memphis songster who basically strummed his Guitar. But his repertoire was full of wonderful songs. Stefan Grossman has taken his Wild About My Loving and has tried to keep the original feel by combining a strum approach intermingled with fingerpicking the melody. Little Hat Jones was an amazing fingerstyle bluesman. His Bye Bye Baby Blues was played in the key of G. Here his version is fully transcribed note for note. Blind Boy Fuller recorded many blues in the key of G. In this lesson we'll tackle three of his arrangements: Baby Let Me Lay It On You Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways and I Crave My Pigmeat. We study his playing note for note but also explore variations. By the end of this lesson you will know six great tunes and have an insight in to fingerpicking blues in the key of G. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. As well the original old recordings are included in the Bonus Audio section. Titles include: Try Me One More Time Wild About My Loving Bye Bye Baby Blues Baby Let Me Lay It On You Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways and I Crave My Pigmeat. 100 minutes

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.

12 Popular Songs Arranged for Solo Fingerstyle-Travis-picking is a fingerpicking style that uses on-the-beat alternating bass patterns picked by the thumb to support treble notes picked by the fingers. This book presents a dozen classic songs from a variety of genres and eras arranged beautifully in this distinctive style for intermediate to advanced fingerpickers. Songs include: Fields of Gold Clocks Happy Together Brown Eyed Girl House at Pooh Corner Moonshadow She Will Be Loved In the Summertime I Will Follow You Into the Dark Jennifer Juniper Walk Away Renee Three Little Birds. The accompanying CD is a full-length stand-alone listening recording.

This DVD lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking country blues guitar improve their playing skills and increase their repertoires using an alternating bass technique. Stefan Grossmanillustrates and explains in detail ten fingerstyle arrangements in the keys of C D E A G and F. These popular blues and ragtime songs come from the playing of the Mississippi John Hurt Rev Gary Davis Mance Lipscomb andElizabeth Cotten. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing. A detailed 44 page tab/music PDF booklet is included with this lesson.

Fourteen classic rock favorites arranged for beginning/intermediate fingerstyle guitar. These arrangements can be easily played on nylon or steel string guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature this is the perfect bookfor those looking to augment their popular music repertoire with great sounding arrangements that are easy to play. This collection includes rock classics like Hotel California Tears in Heaven and Oh Pretty Women.

Solo guitar arrangements of John's most popular songs arranged in tablature and standard notation. Includes 'Annie's Song' 'Fly Away' and 'Leaving On A Jet Plane'.

Teach yourself how to play ragtime Guitar with these easy fingerstyle Guitar lessons. Progressive Ragtime Fingerpicking Guitar covers the important techniques required to learn to play ragtime fingerstyleGuitar including free stroke alternative thumb style picking with the thumb pinching syncopating a melody hammer-ons pull-offs slides and combining a melody and bass line.This book includes 57 ragtime fingerstyleGuitar exercises chord progressions patterns melodies bass lines and popular easy Guitar songs in ragtime styles.Progressive Ragtime Fingerpicking Guitar is in full color throughout with photos diagrams and easy-to-read music with chords and tab. This set includes a CD containing Guitar audio demonstrating all examples.Prior knowledge of how to read music and playing Guitar is required to teach yourself using thisbook which is suitable for all ages and all types of acoustic Guitars.

This approach really works. It holds my student's interest. These are typical comments on the effectiveness of William Bay's Guitar Class Method. As no other instrument lends itself to so many moods and styles of music (blues folk rock country classical flamenco jazz etc.) playing the guitar as a popular mode of expression and the instrument itself have become an integral part of American life. The Guitar Class Method was written with the hopeit would expand the range of people of all ages who would be exposed to the guitar through a meaningful authoritative method that is easy to follow. Volume 1 of this method for individual or group study offers an overview ofthe various styles of guitars and playing techniques with advice on purchasing and caring for the instrument selecting guitar strings and playing positions. Includes special sections devoted specifically to chord strumming blues structure and style fingerstyle technique note reading and music theory. The individual sections can be used simultaneously in any order to take the class in any direction it wants. Written in standard notation andtablature with chords presented in both diagram and photo format. Lyrics are included for many songs and a few melodies are presented as duet arrangements.