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Flatpicking Guitar Trios is designed to bring guitarists together. Each arrangement includes a melody a harmony and a rhythm part. All parts are written in both standard notation and 6-line guitar tablature. The arrangementscontain multiple chord charts allowing all trio members to get a quick glance of the chord sequence at any time while playing the tune. For more versions of these tunes please refer to the author’s 50 Tunes Volume 1 forGuitar (99941BCD) published by Mel Bay Publications Inc. The 50 Tunes guitar book comes with three compact discs and is available at music stores throughout the U.S. and many countries outside of the U.S.

Arranged For Classical Guitar-This anthology contains nineteen of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan classics arranged in easily sight-readable versions for beginning to intermediate classical guitarists. All the favorites are here ranging fromsentimental ballads such as Little Buttercup Willow Tit-Willow and There Grew a Little Flower to more up-tempo 'patter' type pieces such as Oh! A Private Buffoon Kind Sir You Cannot Have theHeart and A Policeman's Lot. The aim has been to provide both a useful teaching resource and a light-hearted alternative to the more 'serious' music of the Classical Guitar repertoire. All the pieces lendthemselves extremely well to the common idiomatic textures of the Classical Guitar. A variety of melody and accompaniment styles are employed including block chords arpeggio patterns and passages of double-stopped thirdsand sixths. A number of the pieces are in easy first position format while others explore the common higher positions. The standard Guitar keys are utilized (C G D A E) but there are occasional more challengingtemporary modulations to 'difficult' keys such as E flat major. There are also instances of drop-D tuning which is often required in Classical Guitar playing.

Volume 2 of the Guitar Class Method focuses on melodic development and solo playing and provides a vast collection of solos duets and quartets in multiple styles including rock blues classical Gospel and folk using flatpickand fingerstyle technique. A special quartet section presents the opportunity for intermediate-level players to experience ensemble playing. Presents individual segments on Chord Strumming Melody; Country style accompaniment;Bluegrass Style Solos; Blues and Contemporary Sounds; Fingerstyle Solos and Country Blues Solos; Note Reading and Melodic Development; Guitar Quartets; Note Reading Solos in Various Styles; and Melody-Chord Solo Playing. Writtenin standard notation and tablature with chords presented in both diagram and photo format. The individual segments can be used concurrently in any order.

The eclectic and versatile Mexican acoustic Guitar duo have taken the world by storm with their fiery blend of a rock and heavy metal sensibility a Flamenco flavour and a near-telepathic virtuoso partnership on duelling classicalGuitars. This songbook features standard notation and TAB for six of their best songs as well as professionally-recorded demonstration and backing tracks so you truly can Play Guitar With Rodrigo YGabriela. Featuring six of the duo's best-loved songs this songbook is a unique opportunity for a serious Rodrigo Y Gabriela fan to join the band or for an aspiring guitarist toexplore a very idiosyncratic style of playing. Whether it's the heavily percussive rhythms of Diablo Rojo the beautiful palm-muted melody of Tamacun or those sumptuously strummed chords of TheSoundmaker with this sheet music songbook you can learn every single note and chord exactly as this Latin-influenced rock band play them. Each song is transcribed in standard notation and TAB withGabriela's punchy chord rhythms outlined including where she hits the body of the Guitar or the strings. The chord symbols are included throughout with chord boxes at the beginning of each song so that you always knowexactly what to play. Rodrigo's brilliant solos are also represented featuring every meticulous Latin-infused note for your sheer playing pleasure. This is not just a mere songbook though. After you've learned everychord and every note while listening to the demonstration tracks to make sure you have every part right you can use the backing tracks to isolate either track. This means you can quite literally take the place of either member strumming Gabriela's intense chords or picking Rodrigo's lightning-fast solos. Featuring a great lineup of songs from different stages of Rodrigo Y Gabriela's career the

One of the foremost personalities in the world of Jazz Guitar Larry Coryell has played against the best and here presents an insight into his distinctive and fluid approach.From bebop heroes Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus to fusion superstars Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Coryell's guitar playing has graced the recordings of the hottest stars in Jazz making him a guitarist of huge reputation and respect. In this three-part DVD series Coryell analyses his own Jazz perspective providing an empirical method of solo and chord improvisation.Volume three includes:Sweep picking back picking hybrid-picking triplets and applying thesetechniquesBrazilian-orientated rhythm techniquesChords and basslines using just the fingersComping on Coltrane's Giant StepsHow to solo over Giant Steps using harmonic 'shortcuts' and unauthodox changesReharmonization of the melody and the 'blowing' changesReharmonization ideas as applied to Mingus's Goodbye Porkpie HatThe defining characteristics of advanced improvisation

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop-This two DVD set is for beginner and intermediate guitarists who want to start fingerpicking. Rev. Gary Davis used to tell his students that playing the guitar was easy. He would say that a piano player has only two hands (theleft keeps an alternating bass while the right plays a melody) but a guitarist has three hands! Our right hand thumb is one hand and plays the bass figures while our index finger is our second hand and plays the melody. Ourthird hand is our left hand which fingers chords. The results produce a full and orchestrated fingerstyle sound with a rhythmic bass played against melodic lines. This is the alternating bass technique which we sometimes jokinglyrefer to as 'bum-chick.' It is the most popular fingerpicking style played and has been used by legendary guitarists. Mississippi John Hurt Rev. Gary Davis Merle Travis Doc Watson Chet Atkins are but a few of the giantsof this style.On these two DVDs we will explore how to master the alternating bass style. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and then played again slowly on a split-screen so that you can carefully see what both hands aredoing. A detailed 60 page tab/music PDF is included. As well you will see footage of some of the great fingerstyle players such as Rev. Gary Davis Lightnin' Hopkins Mance Lipscomb Merle Travis Brownie McGhee ElizabethCotten John Jackson Pink Anderson and Doc Watson.