Par ADELSON STEVE. A comprehensive exploration of revolutionary Chapman Stick an...(+)
Par ADELSON STEVE. A comprehensive exploration of revolutionary Chapman Stick and it's accompanying tap techniques. A primer on theory will explain all the musical logistics enabling the student to fully gasp the concepts in this book. Mr. Chapman's unique approach to his 12 string invention will be explained by Steve Adelson in respect to chords, melody, improvisations, rhythmic capabilities, counterpoint and bass lines. Novel and standard techniques enabling the player maximum creativity will be outlined in detail with many examples in the text. All levels of playing will be considered and will be helpful for beginner, intermediate as well as advanced playing. This book will bring all theseelements together, presenting a thorough study of this very new and exciting instrument. Includes access to online video. / Date parution : 2023-06-16/ Méthode / Chapman Stick
Par UNGAR JAY. Renowned fiddler and composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, his musi...(+)
Par UNGAR JAY. Renowned fiddler and composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, his musical partner and wife, have run the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp in upstate New York for many years. Jay wrote 'Ashokan Farewell' in 1982 at the camp season's end, to express the sense of loss he felt after the departure of the musical community. The melody's sweet, haunting sadness proved to be a perfect match for Ken Burns's 1990 PBS series The Civil War, which introduced it to millions of viewers.In this fingerstyle guitar arrangement, the bass line enters as an ascending response to the melody, which is then harmonized in sixths and thirds the second time through. The arrangement is a good study in position shifting up and down the fingerboard, and provides a great showcase for dynamic and tonal nuance in the phrasing of the melody. It is an excellent concert selection and will be a popular addition to the repertoire of any fingerstyle player, on either steel- or nylon-string guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Recueil / Guitare
Creative Transcriptions for Today's Guitarist. Par . This second volume of The C...(+)
Creative Transcriptions for Today's Guitarist. Par . This second volume of The Classical Guitarist?s Gig Book contains 63 intermediate to advanced solo arrangements of pieces in various styles. From ?The Water Is Wide? and Christmas and patriotic favorites to opera arias
?Julia Florida? by Agustín Barrios and Cello Suite No. 1 by J. S. Bach
all of the music in this book is written in standard notation only. Award-winning composer
university professor
2013 Winfield Fingerstyle Champion and 2022 Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Competition winner
Mark Cruz
has added a few of his own engaging compositions to this exceptional collection?ideal for the performing classic guitarist. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Recueil / Guitare
for Cello. Par DUNCAN CRAIG. Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles for...(+)
for Cello. Par DUNCAN CRAIG. Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles for Cello is a collection of 30 traditional Irish, Scottish, and English melodies that are particularly suited to the cello. Traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O'Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. The arrangements include stylistic phrasing and variations as well as chord changes for accompaniment. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Recueil / Violoncelle
Par . Rob MacKillop presents 20 classic lute transcriptions; the 'greatest hits'...(+)
Par . Rob MacKillop presents 20 classic lute transcriptions; the 'greatest hits' of the Renaissance and Baroque lute repertoire arranged for pick acoustic
electric
or classical guitar. MacKillop has for many years played all these pieces on the lute
and has created sensitive guitar arrangements that lose nothing from the original scores. Composers include Bach
Weiss
Dowland
Spinacino
among others. Finally
we have a book of lute-to-plectrum guitar transcriptions by an arranger who is deeply familiar with and respectful of both instruments. Includes access to online audio for every item recorded by Rob MacKillop in plectrum style. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Recueil / Guitare
Par GRANGER ADAM. Now for the first time in standard notation, all 508 fiddle tu...(+)
Par GRANGER ADAM. Now for the first time in standard notation, all 508 fiddle tunes in Adam Granger's seminal collection, Granger's Fiddle Tunes for Guitar, also published by Mel Bay Publications, are presented in The Granger Collection. This 248-page book is a wide-reaching and well-documented collection of fiddle tunes including reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles. There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. Over 40 tunes are also presented in alternate key settings. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book. Includes access to online audio by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other. Also included in The Granger Collection are descriptions of tune types presented in the book as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection. / Date parution : 2022-10-25/ Recueil / Guitare
Par GRANGER ADAM. This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented c...(+)
Par GRANGER ADAM. This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.The tunes in Granger?s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.The book comes with a link which gives access to mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.Also included in Granger?s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.Mel Bay also offers, The Granger Collection, by Bill Nicholson, the same 508 tunes in standard music notation.Spiral binding. / Date parution : 2022-10-25/ Recueil / Guitare
A Path to Fluency in Odd Meters and Polyrhythms for All Instruments. Par ALLEN D...(+)
A Path to Fluency in Odd Meters and Polyrhythms for All Instruments. Par ALLEN DAVE. Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 52 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Etude / Tout Instrument
for Jazz Improvisation. Par ORO XABIER. With content ranging from theory and his...(+)
for Jazz Improvisation. Par ORO XABIER. With content ranging from theory and history to practical exercises, examples, études, and play-along tracks, this book offers the most comprehensive guide ever written for this esoteric and traditionally obscure scale. Simply put, it reveals the last big secret of jazz fusion?s avant-garde.According to which music theorist believes he first discovered it, this scale has been known variously as Messiaen?s mode 3, Slonimsky?s Tcherepnin Scale (honoring his colleague), and Tcherepnin?s own name for it? the 9-note augmented or nonatonic scale.The nine notes of the double-symmetrical augmented scale have fascinated and crucially influenced legendary musicians like John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nelson Veras, Tim Miller, Gary Thomas, and Jerry Bergonzi, among many others.Coltrane?s historic composition, ?Giant Steps,? can be directly attributed to his familiarity with the nonatonic scale. With this book by Berklee College of Music honors graduate, Xabier Oró, you?ll know the secret too.Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Etude / Guitare
Beautiful American Airs and Ballads. Par DIEHL MARCIA. This collection of 41 tim...(+)
Beautiful American Airs and Ballads. Par DIEHL MARCIA. This collection of 41 timeless melodies is tastefully arranged for soprano and tenor recorders with suggested breath marks and accompaniment chords. Selections include a variety of influences which provide a historical and aesthetic view of the American musical landscape. The works of both well-known, classically trained composers and unknown folk artists are featured in standard notation arrangements suitable for performance by intermediate players. The one thing these tunes have in common is their striking melodies, which in many cases have endured throughout the ages. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Recueil / Flûte à Bec
Within Three-Part Harmony. Par HAAGE JOHANNES. This book focuses on the intersec...(+)
Within Three-Part Harmony. Par HAAGE JOHANNES. This book focuses on the intersection of melody and harmony. While valuable for all instrumental and choral composers and arrangers, it specifically explores ways to move melodic voices independently within three-part harmony on the guitar. All you need to benefit from this book is the ability to read standard notation on the guitar. Working through this book will improve fretboard knowledge and help you write better melody-chord arrangements.For the first time in print, VOICE MOTION presents a condensed, comprehensive list of all the possible ways for three voices to move in 2nds or 3rds within the context of common 7-note or heptatonic scales. With graphic illustrations that instantly reveal the nature of the motion (see front cover), the versatility of this list is unparalleled in modern music publishing.VOICE MOTION contains not only the essential list of all possible moves, in close and open (drop-2) voicing, but also:Begins with a complete course on diatonic three-voice chords and continues with a structured presentation of the ways to move voices within them.Introduces a unique harmonic toolbox which can be used at any stage of a musician?s personal artistic development.Provides an overview of heptatonic harmony and melodic movement which can be used when writing for or playing three voices in any harmonic situation.Vastly expands the reader?s chord vocabulary while demonstrating a clear method for learning to move any harmonic voice independently, in any inversion.Definitively explores all relevant heptatonic scales, their modes and three-part chord structures as well as presenting many examples, exercises and etudes to demonstrate their practical application.Presents a fretboard diagram and C major diatonic and chromatic scale exercises in notation and tab to clarify note locations on the guitar.Offers a special section applying the book?s principles to keyboard instruments.Includes access to online audio of select exercises and etudes plus three of the author?s original compositions demonstrating the techniques shown in this 316-page book. / Date parution : 2022-09-20/ Etude / Guitare
Par ARCHER DARRELL. When a prelude or offertory is played, it is obvious when th...(+)
Par ARCHER DARRELL. When a prelude or offertory is played, it is obvious when the congregation occasionally gets ?swept away? and becomes intensely involved in the spirit of the music. Some may even begin to clap their hands in response to a favorite rhythmic hymn, gospel tune or anthem. With its messages of hope, resurrection and redemption, the music of the Easter season is a source of great joy and celebration for Christian believers. This collection presents the thrill and excitement of the Easter message through creative and engaging keyboard arrangements composed in the country/gospel style. Chord symbols are offered above the grand staff so that rhythm backup players can be included, and as an aid to those with improvising skills.While these melodies communicate the good news of the gospel, some of the arrangements are more subdued and reflective, while others are more energetic and upbeat. / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Recueil / Piano
Par BAY WILLIAM. This is a collection of 28 original guitar solos by William Bay...(+)
Par BAY WILLIAM. This is a collection of 28 original guitar solos by William Bay?a portrait of growing up and living in the Midwestern United States. Echoed in each piece are the melodies of sprawling farmlands, wooded hills and valleys, freshwater streams, small towns and villages. Together, these songs awaken a memory of what many refer to as the American heartland.Includes access to online audio of all the solos recorded by the author. Written in standard notation and tablature. / Date parution : 2022-09-14/ Tablatures / Guitare
An Anatomy of Position Playing for Jazz Guitar. Par MOONEY DAVY. If you?ve ever ...(+)
An Anatomy of Position Playing for Jazz Guitar. Par MOONEY DAVY. If you?ve ever wondered about the depth of thought vs. pattern playing that goes into jazz guitar improvisation, you?ll find the answer in this book. University of North Texas jazz guitar instructor and stellar musician, Davy Mooney is as fluid in writing about the physical and cerebral processes of jazz guitar improvisation as he is in playing over tunes, chord changes and modulations. Mooney describes the guitar fretboard as ??a labyrinth ruled by shapes and patterns.? He recounts his own journey toward fretboard fluency beginning with the CAGED major scale positions and connecting them with ascending arpeggio shapes. The purpose of his book is to show you a way into the labyrinth, how to navigate it, and find your way out, should you so desire. Five is the magic number in this book. With five jazz chord progressions, fretboard scale and arpeggio diagrams in five positions, and transcribed eighth-note improvisations, Mooney illustrates how five giants of jazz?Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Thelonious Monk, and John Coltrane?might have approached improvisation had they been jazz guitarists. Written in standard notation and fretboard diagrams for the intermediate to advanced guitarist already well-acquainted with jazz scale and chord theory. Includes access to online audio for all 60 etudes, play-along and improv examples. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Etude / Guitare
Par BARRETT RUTH. Dulcimer Muse is a beautiful collection of fingerpicked and st...(+)
Par BARRETT RUTH. Dulcimer Muse is a beautiful collection of fingerpicked and strummed tunes and songs arranged for the mountain dulcimer for players seeking to expand their repertoire. Thirty-one arrangements are gathered from Medieval and Renaissance eras, traditional folk music of Ireland, Scotland, England, Brittany and Spain, plus original compositions. Intended primarily for intermediate to advanced players and for some ambitious beginners, the pieces include melody lines in standard notation, mountain dulcimer tablature, with chords above most of the dulcimer tablature that can be shared with other musicians for accompaniment. Suggestions on how to play with greater musicality and ease are included. Set one-step lower than customary to bring out the dulcimer?s deeper tones; the majority of pieces are arranged in Mixolydian and Aeolian tunings. / Date parution : 2022-09-14/ Recueil / Dulcimer
A Tribute to the Legacy of W. C. Handy. Par SHAIN JON. Award-winning blues songw...(+)
A Tribute to the Legacy of W. C. Handy. Par SHAIN JON. Award-winning blues songwriter and performer Jon Shain brings us his fingerstyle guitar arrangements of some of the earliest blues and rags ever published. W. C. Handy, known as the \'Father of the Blues\', wrote and arranged for piano and voice and sometimes for full ragtime orchestra. Shain has arranged these compositions to be played on guitar, weaving the timeless vocal melodies and bass lines throughout the pieces. Guitar tablature, standard musical notation, and lyrics are all included, along with historical background on each song. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-09-14/ Tablatures / Guitare
Par MACKILLOP ROB. This book is devoted to playing the soprano, concert, or teno...(+)
Par MACKILLOP ROB. This book is devoted to playing the soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele tuned in perfect fifths as used by the string and mandolin families of instruments, as well as the cittern and tenor banjo. The book?s scores are all in tablature; you?ll have no trouble adapting to the tuning and playing in the book?s various styles.The 55 pieces in Play Ukulele in 5ths Tuning progress from simple to advanced and can be played fingerstyle or with a pick. To help you come to grips with the tuning, the book includes Classical-era studies originally written for instruments tuned in 5ths, followed by Scottish traditional tunes, bluegrass, blues, and early jazz pieces, and ultimately?Bach\'s gorgeous Baroque cello music. Includes access to online audio for every piece recorded by the author to facilitate your progress.Anytime you play with musicians who use instruments tuned in fifths, you can all use the same fingerings. As a result, the music can sound more \'together\'. In addition, having played the uke tuned in perfect fifths, if you ever want to play any of those traditionally 5th-tuned instruments, you will have had a head start! / Date parution : 2022-09-14/ Etude / Ukulélé
Par FINE ELAINE. The etudes in this book offer students a musically and intellec...(+)
Par FINE ELAINE. The etudes in this book offer students a musically and intellectually satisfying means of practicing scales in all major and minor keys, even while remaining in first position. Although presented in the traditional order of the circle of fifths, this is where similarities to other violin scale-oriented books end.Of course, the etudes can be played using a mixture of positions by more advanced students. The studies also resonate very well on the viola if played at pitch. These are instructive etudes and can be played as appealing solo pieces. The stepwise motion in the etudes makes intervals between pitches easy to hear, even in keys with many flats or sharps.Both the book and etude titles refer to names of animals that have scales, so you will see natural and harmonic minor scales named after various moths, and major scales named for unusual reptiles, birds, and mammals throughout. The author hopes that in addition to experiencing more enjoyable scale practice, students will be inspired to learn more about these amazing animals or even write scale studies of their own. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Etude / Violon
Par GONZALEZ RAYMOND. This collection presents 22 lyrical American tunes includi...(+)
Par GONZALEZ RAYMOND. This collection presents 22 lyrical American tunes including traditional 19th century songs, melodies from the WWII era, and modern-day pieces by William Bay, president of Mel Bay Publications.Whether it's a Civil War ballad or a jazz inspired tone poem, Raymond Gonzalez has a gift for creating unique settings that occasionally blend harmonics with normally fretted notes and open strings. The end result is a flowing melody/chord/bass arrangement that is challenging but accessible to the intermediate guitarist.All of the notation and tab settings in this book appear in standard or dropped-D tuning and are suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar performance. To keep page clutter to a minimum, the reader is referred to the tablature for string, fret, and harmonic locations. Includes access to online audio of every tune recorded by the author. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Recueil / Guitare
Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles. Par SAREK ONDREJ. In this colle...(+)
Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles. Par SAREK ONDREJ. In this collection of 23 melodies from the British Isles, award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Ondrej Sarek treats the soprano ukulele as the lyrical solo instrument it can truly be. Along with fingerstyle arrangements of traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing, and the timeless melodies of Irish harpist Turlough O?Carolan, the book includes settings of a few original tunes by Mel Bay Publications president, William Bay.All arrangements appear in gCEA tuning in standard notation and uke tablature with suggested backup chords and occasional light fingering. / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Recueil / Ukulélé
Par TROXEL JEFF. Guitarist, composer, songwriter, and Mel Bay author?Jeff Troxel...(+)
Par TROXEL JEFF. Guitarist, composer, songwriter, and Mel Bay author?Jeff Troxel has been successful in the flatpicking contest world as well as being a sought-after college and summer camp instructor. In this book, he shares a lifetime of knowledge about one specific role of the bluegrass guitarist? that of accompaniment or ?backup?.Beginning in Chapter One, Troxel lays the foundation for what is to come in rendering alternating bass lines, chord progressions, ornamentation, intros, endings, bass runs, chord-melodies, pedal tones, and other essential concepts that contribute to effective rhythm guitar playing.Five appendices address: Basic Music Theory, Capos and Transposition, Tuning, Guitars, Picks and Strings, and Lead Sheets for the dozen bluegrass tunes featured in the book.All music appears in standard notation and tablature with 69 audio tracks. By the time you finish reading and playing the examples in this book, you?ll be ready to jam or perform with the best!Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Etude / Guitare
Par LARSEN GREY. Here are 34 easy-to-play folk, popular and classical favorites ...(+)
Par LARSEN GREY. Here are 34 easy-to-play folk, popular and classical favorites arranged for tin whistle (also known as pennywhistle) or Irish flute. Chords are included for guitar, keyboard, or other accompaniment instrument.
Also included with this book:
? Access to online audio for all 34 songs, with tin whistle, Irish flute, piano, and guitar
? Three duet arrangements
If you don?t read music, you can still use this book! In addition to music notation, there is a specially designed tablature for tin whistle and Irish flute.
What makes these tune arrangements easy'
? They are played in the lower two octaves of the whistle and flute?s range, ascending no higher than B in the second octave.
? They are in easy tin whistle and Irish flute keys, such as: D major, G major, E minor and B minor. No metal keys are needed on the Irish flute.
? They use only eight notes: D, E, F#, G, A, B, C and C#.
? They are also easy to play on soprano and tenor recorder, modern flute, and piccolo.
Grey Larsen is a master musician who performs and teaches internationally. He has played tin whistle and Irish flute since the 1970s and has written nine books, including First Lessons Tin Whistle and the best-seller, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle.
The author recommends using a tin whistle in D or a standard Irish flute (with or without keys) with this book. You can also use soprano and tenor recorders, modern flute, and piccolo. However, the tablature in this book uses only tin whistle and Irish flute fingerings. / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Recueil / Flûte Traversière
Par MIDDLETON OWEN. Composer/arranger Owen Middleton delivers the goods in these...(+)
Par MIDDLETON OWEN. Composer/arranger Owen Middleton delivers the goods in these intermediate-level, idiomatic arrangements of 21 traditional hymns and patriotic songs for solo classic guitar. The book includes optional parts for cello and flute in supporting and lead roles. Written in standard notation only, a few tunes feature altered tunings. Light left-hand fingering is provided for the more challenging passages as well as access to online audio for each piece.Middleton?s years of experience as a choral singer and composer for the guitar and piano shine through in these tasteful settings; his awareness of voice-leading concepts, inner parts, and basslines often gives these time-honored melodies a modern twist. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Recueil / Guitare
Par CASTELLANI JOANNE. We are pleased to present this collection of masterful co...(+)
Par CASTELLANI JOANNE. We are pleased to present this collection of masterful concert arrangements that have been a major part of the Castellani Andriaccio Duo?s touring and recording repertoire for decades. These arrangements stand out as works of art unto themselves in addition to their place in the broader musical repertoire that they represent. This contribution to the classical guitar repertoire is just one component of the Castellani Andriaccio Duo?s legacy to the instrument as one of the foremost guitar duos in history. Includes separate pull-out parts for Guitar 1 and Guitar 2. / Date parution : 2022-06-14/ Recueil / 2 Guitares
Par TWISS TIM. Five-string banjo enthusiasts who play in the stroke, clawhammer ...(+)
Par TWISS TIM. Five-string banjo enthusiasts who play in the stroke, clawhammer or guitar styles will enjoy these 50 melodic, tab-only arrangements. The collection is unique in that it includes reels, polkas, jigs, hornpipes, minstrel songs, ballads, light classics, and a Christmas tune?nearly all in C tuning with the fourth string a step lower than the typical 5-string G tuning. Well-known classical and popular composers: Beethoven, Foster, and Vivaldi, plus collector/historian-authors: Converse, Emmett, Howe, Kerr, O?Neill, and Ryan?are all represented in this book.With the exception of two Twiss originals, the music was chosen from sources available circa 1840 ? 1890. Some of these settings can be used as accompaniment to unison singing; all are designed to lie well on the 5-string fretboard for optimal playability. Using a custom-built fretted, nylon-string banjo, the author has provided online recordings of every tune for ease of learning. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Recueil / Banjo
Par ISBIN GILBERT. Belgian guitarist and composer Gilbert Isbin presents 50 orig...(+)
Par ISBIN GILBERT. Belgian guitarist and composer Gilbert Isbin presents 50 original, short, contemplative pieces in this book and online recording. Designed for sight reading and performance by classical and fingerstyle players of all ages, these world music, blues and jazz-influenced tone poems are written entirely in first and second position in guitar-friendly keys.Adventurous rhythmic concepts with frequent use of pickup notes, syncopated basslines and meter changes make these contemporary guitar solos creative and extremely interesting. The solos feature singable melodies and are easily within the skill level of the intermediate level guitarist. Ideal for concert, recital or just playing for fun. Includes access to an online recording of the author performing each piece. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Recueil / Guitare