Hear It and Sing It!: Vocal Solo: Vocal Tutor

Night Dance was written between September 1986 and January 1987 to a commission from David Starobin who gave the first performance on 5 April 1987 at the Wigmore Hall London. It is a miniature tone-poem depicting ascene of an old man sitting in a doorway at dusk. He is playing a guitar and begins by plucking the lowest string as though searching for what he wishes to play. As the music gains momentum it gradually moves upwards by meansof the guitar’s open strings and breaks into a dance. Now it is dark and a nightmarish band of dancers passes by the old guitarist. The dance jerky and uneven develops melodically and harmonically the initial material of thepiece. After a climax the dancers move on - the dance music subsides and a nocturne is heard interrupted periodically by the music of the dance in the distance. Maybe this is not geographical distance but the distance oftime perhaps the whole episode has been mere memories. The piece ends musingly with the motive from which it began.

Classical Guitar Tunes - English Folk Songs. This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barré chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. ?It?s an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian. ?These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition.? Gerald Garcia

This book and 2-CD set was intended for the mature picker who desires great arrangements to the classic songs we hear sing and play. Included are great sounding solid songs which are fun to play but not with those ?impossible?blinding runs. This unique book is also perfect for the beginner who is ready to branch into the intermediate world of guitar. ?Amazing Grace? ?Blue Ridge Mountain Blues? ?When The Roses Bloom In Dixie Land? ?Georgia Mail? ?When You And I Were Young Maggie? are just a few of the 45 full blown songs in this terrific volume. Lyrics notation and TAB along with pictures performance notes and of course companion CDs are all included; anothermust-have from Steve Kaufman.

All the songs from Damien Rice's extraordinary debut album of heart-felt acousticfolk-pop. The most exciting album from an acoustic artist for a good while Ireland's Damien Rice is a troubadour in the great tradition of Nick Drake John Martyn and Neil Young. This album displays his singer-songwriting talents to the full confirming his place with such exalted company. This folio contains all the songs from the album presented in notation and full tab with lyrics.

Explore the creative and diverse guitar styles of legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young in this exclusive book/CD pack. Featuring songs from his Greatest Hits album this pack includes detailed transcriptions in-depth analyses gear discussion photos and historical information on the life and times of a true music innovator. 16 songs: After the Gold Rush · Cinnamon Girl · Comes a Time · Cowgirl in the Sand · Down by the River · Harvest Moon · Heart of Gold · Helpless · Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) · Like a Hurricane · The Needle and the Damage Done · Ohio · Old Man · Only Love Can Break Your Heart · Rockin' in the Free World · Southern Man.

Par . The musical appeal of the Blues, as they began to be heard in the early twentieth century, was so infectious that musicians with open minds and ears were drawn to it as soon as they heard it. And that appeal crossed the racial and ethnic divides that characterized American society. So it was, that even before African American guitarists were recorded playing fingerstyle blues guitar, their white neighbors had already begun learning the music?listening to, watching, and imitating the musicians whose music they so admired. And what these white musicians ended up expressing in their own playing and singing was not simply imitation, but their own reconfiguration of what their models did, played in accordance with their own senses of rhythm, phrasing and how to sing the music.In Hillbilly Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, author John Miller offers transcriptions, in tablature and standard notation, of twenty-eight pieces by these white fingerstyle blues players, taken from recordings made in the period 1926?1970. Some of the featured musicians in the book, like Sam McGee, Frank Hutchison, Maybelle Carter, Hobart Smith, and Roscoe Holcomb are pretty well known, but the tunes by more obscure players like Debs Mays, Lake Howard, or Lester McFarland certainly don?t suffer by comparison, and in many instances are spectacular. The pieces have been chosen for variety, too?you?ll encounter pieces played in C, E, and A in standard tuning, as well as songs in Open G, Open D tunings and an exotic offshoot of Open G tuning. Downloadable links to all of the original performances from which the transcriptions were made come with the book, so you can get the sound of the tunes in your head. The musicians in Hillbilly Fingerstyle Blues Guitar gravitated towards the Blues because the music spoke to them so strongly that they felt compelled to make it part of their own musical language. And they did just that. These performances are strong and worthwhile in their own right, but they?ll also show you how you can honor those who have inspired you by singing and playing in your own voice. And that?s an important lesson to learn. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Recueil / Guitare

There are a lot of books on the market offering “licks” in the Funk/Fusion style but this book goes a lot further. The 16 challenging compositions by renowned Australian guitarist Peter O’Mara cover a variety of tempos and grooves and are presented using a real rhythm section (from Klaus Doldinger’s “Passport”) to achieve a maximum of authenticity. Rhythm-guitar riffs are integrated into the overall groove and there is plenty of room for improvisation as well. The audio play-along tracks are presented in an order of increasing complexity. CD 1 contains complete recordings of all instruments so that you can hear how each track can sound. CD 2 omits all guitar parts so that you can play along with the rhythm section and create your own soli and rhythm parts. Midifiles of all compositions are also included on CD 2.

Internationally known singer/songwriter and guitarist Janis Ian has been writing and recording music since the 1960s. As a teenager, she released her first hit single, the controversial Society's Child. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Janis Ian had several hit songs, both in the U.S. and abroad, including the Grammy Award-winning At Seventeen. A respected songwriter, her songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Mel Torme, Cher, and many others. After a nine year hiatus between 1983 and 1992, Janis Ian returned, releasing Breaking Silence . Her most recent record, Folk Is the New Black , was released in 2006, which she supported with a worldwide tour. The Janis Ian Guitar Songbook features 14 of Janis Ian's biggest hits. This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs included. Titles: At Seventeen * Fly Too High * From Me to You * I Hear You Sing Again * In the Winter * Jesse * Joy * Love Is Blind * Ride Me Like a Wave * Society's Child * Stars * Tattoo * The Last Train * The Other Side of the Sun.