Beginning Folk Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

GuitarTime Popular Folk: Level 1 is a collection of popular folk songs especially selected and arranged for classical guitar using first position notes and basic rhythms. These arrangements are appropriate for beginning classical guitar students of all ages. Performance notes are included to aid the student in learning the music and historical facts about the music are offered as necessary to enrich the student’s knowledge of folk music. Right-hand fingering is indicated where necessary. Guide fingers are introduced to aid left-hand movement.

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their students. Siegfried Steinkogler became acquainted with “For Children” at the beginning of his guitar studies and, from them, learnt a great deal about melody and harmonisation. He has chosen 38 of the original 79 pieces to offer in arrangements for the guitar. They are presented with helpful fingerings, technical solutions and aids to familiarize the younger students with common notations. For beginners, ten of the pieces are played exclusively in the first position before a gently increasing level of difficulty helps the player broaden their skills. In these arrangements, Bartók’s ingenious teaching pieces will be as invaluable to guitarists as they have been to your pianists for over one hundred years./ Répertoire / 2 Guitares

Specially transcribed and arranged for beginning and intermediate guitar players this anthology of 49 classics includes such perennial favourites as 'Beautiful Dreamer ' 'Amazing Grace ' 'Aura Lee ' 'On Top of Old Smoky ' 'Blue Tail Fly ' 'Camptown Races ' 'Dixie's Land ' 'Yankee Doodle ' 'Sweet Betsy from Pike ' 'John Henry ' and many more.

Easy Folk Songs. This original collection presents more than 20 popular folk songs that have been specially arranged for beginning guitarists. The timeless melodies are supplemented with a helpful tutorial on guitar basics that offers tips on identifying the strings, tuning, and basic chord patterns and strums. These arrangements of Skip to My Lou, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Oh! Susanna, Down in the Valley, Barbara Allen, and other tunes include advice for following the time signatures, strumming patterns, and other suggestions. Best of all, each song features a free MP3 download for students to listen to and play along with. The recordings will familiarize beginning guitarists with the pieces' melodies and tempos, and provide practical guidance for playing these beloved folk songs.

More than just a collection of folk songs Harry Tuft and Dick Weissman have created an album designed to aid the beginning guitarist in everything from holding the guitar properly to illustrating a large selection of strums and chords along with each song. A complete method for the beginner illustrated with finger positions and fret diagrams as well as notation for each song. Songs include: He'd Got the Whole World in His Hands Down in the Valley The Cuckoo 500 Miles Greensleeves Man of Constant Sorrow Walking Bass This Train and more. Performed by Harry Tuft guitar Accompaniment: Dick Weissman guitar Judy Roderick vocals

Ken Perlman teaches beginning or advanced guitarists how to master the basic musical skills of fingerpicking techniques needed to play folk blues fiddle tunes or ragtime on guitar. With the music for more than forty songs diagrams illustrations and photographs - this easy to understand guide will develop these new skills and help you apply them in your playing.

In this textbook 50 simple accompaniments are included that are perfect for guitarists of all levels but especially for beginning guitarists. The 50 accompaniments can be performed on the acoustic or electric Guitar and encompass a vast number of different styles from folk pop and rock to blues and bossa nova. Techniques like arpeggios using the fingers or the plectrum strumming and hammer-ons are included. The various accompaniments are based on the creations of famous guitarists helping you develop a sense of rhythm learn how to use your instrument skilfully and learn the essential techniques for playing theGuitar.  The accompanying CD offers an accompaniment play-along. The 50 tracks can be played at two different tempos both normal speed and a slower speed letting you learn each gradually at your own pace. In the playalong at actual speed the Guitar will play at first then fade out to let you take its place. Each track is deliberately long totalling about 5 hours of music. This gives you enough time to practice and play for as long as you want. Similarly the DVD lets you listen to and watch each track ensuring you understand the optimal fingering and rhythm.

Artie Traum. How to play the guitar from the very beginning to advanced techniques. A complete method for learning country folk blues and rock styles. Introduces chords strums tuning etc plus simple songs to play.