Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele

With Online Audio-While the Ukulele is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance on the mainland in the land of its birth it has never gone out of style. Hawaiians took to the jumping flea right from the start creating music of stunning beauty andversatility. Now intermediate players can learn to play lovely finger style solo arrangements of classic Hawaiian songs folk songs standards - even a few pieces from the classical Guitar repertoire.The book offers 27arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature playable on any Ukulele. Songs are grouped according to level of difficulty starting with simple arrangements well within the grasp of dedicatedbeginners and intermediate players and leading through more challenging songs featuring unusual chord voicings inversions up the neck tricky fingerings and 'all the fun stuff' the author could muster. To aid the student thecompanion audio download available online includes all of the songs taught. Includes chord charts inversion studies introductory material on finger-picking and making the transition from strumming to melodic playing.

With Online Audio-From the author of Mel Bay's best-selling book Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele we are proud to present Favorite Fingerstyle Solos For Ukulele. This book and accompanying audio offer a variety offingerstyle solos for the Ukulele. The music stretches across several styles including Hawaiian ragtime bossa nova and classical. The solos progress in difficulty and tips on technique are included along the way. Moreadvanced arrangements introduce chord inversions and different rhythmic approaches for the right hand. Thirty-three arrangements are presented in standard notation and tablature. Transposition charts are included for baritoneukulele. Includes access to online audio.

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrate the off-color blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops but Bo Carter's pencil won'twrite no more! There's lots of variety with songs from the 1930s 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful ragtime chord changes. Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solosfor all the songs. The evocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith) She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter) Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith) Big TenInch (Bull Moose Jackson) You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby (Amos Milburn). You'll learn to accompany yourself singing the songs and howto play a fingerstyle instrumental version of each one. Fred's easy-going instructional style his tips on playing the arrangements and his slowed-down split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All thearrangements are written out in tab and music as well...both the backup and solos. 76 minutes - Level 2 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD.  DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.

Grammy winning guitarist and acclaimed author Mark Hanson teaches you how to play great fingerpicking blues guitar instrumentals on this DVD. Included are Mark's fun arrangements of Every Night When the Sun Goes Down Stick With Me Baby and his extended bluesy guitar solo of the classic Amazing Grace. Also included are Mark's sprightly ragtime composition 'Riff Raff' and a thorough explanation of developing fingerstyle solo techniques through multi-voiced back-up shuffle patterns. As an added bonus Mark is shown performing his highly regarded arrangement of Water Is Wide. Contains complete music notation and tablature for all the fivetunes. Individual lesson segments and multiple camera angles and close-ups all to help your learning!

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Bluegrass & Country Series : Complete Number of pages : 200 Fingerstyle guitar is extremely popular today. This is because it lends itself to very personal and lyrical solo and accompaniment styles. This method is one of the very best at teaching the basics of fingerpicking. Written by Nashville's fine guitarist, Tommy Flint, you will learn chording, Travis picking, soloing, scales and accompaniment patterns, playing over the entire fingerboard, barre-chords, two-string harmony, combining hammer and slide, three-against four roll, contrary motion, crosspicking, harmonics, right and left hand agility studies, and much more. A bonus is the inclusion of over 50 great, original Tommy Flint fingerpicking guitar solos which reflect a rich diversity of styles. This volume includes material previously published in two volumes as Mel Bay's Deluxe Fingerstyle Guitar Method. Written in notation and tablature. This package includes a split-track CD which provides play-along demonstrations of many of the exercises and solos in the book, starting with page 41. The solo guitar is on the right with accompaniment guitar on the left, so you can eliminate the solo part or accompaniment by adjusting the balance control of your player.

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland. Stefan produced Ton's first solo album, Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos, in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975, Ton's second solo album, Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers, was released containing transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags, early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solo fingerpicking Guitar, this time with a repertoire covering jazz, blues, contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town, Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in several anthology projects, i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals, I Got Rhythm, Masters of Ragtime Guitar, The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs. Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure some of his most requested arrangements. This second volume presents Ton Van Bergeyk's renditions of Duke Ellington's Jubilee Stomp and Take It Easy, Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk and the George Gershwin standard I Got Rhythm. / Niveau : Facile / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland.Stefan produced Ton's first solo album Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975 Ton's second solo album Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers was releasedcontaining transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s.In 1980 Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solo fingerpicking Guitar this time with a repertoire covering jazz blues contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in several anthology projects i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals I Got Rhythm Masters of Ragtime Guitar The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs. Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure some of his most requested arrangements. This second volume presents Ton Van Bergeyk's renditions of Duke Ellington's Jubilee Stomp and Take It Easy Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk and the George Gershwin standard I Got Rhythm.

Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjomusic by some of the early leading players James Buckley Albert Baur and the great Frank B. Converse the greatest virtuoso of his day. From folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka Mazurka and Schottische toadvanced Romantic-period classical-style solos. Can be played on modern banjos or period-style instruments. The audio recording by Rob MacKillop features a gut-strung banjo and is played with the flesh of the fingertips in theold American tuning. For modern instrument players Rob has provided TAB and a Standard Notation stave at modern banjo pitch. Clawhammer players will find many of the pieces in the book suitable for their technique andbluegrass/fingerstyle players will be able to play all the pieces. Rob MacKillop provides a fascinating introductory essay placing the music in its historical context while his audio of performances can be viewed as astand-alone recording by a leading player in the revival of this great American banjo heritage. Includes access to online audio.

How to Play Alternating-Bass Fingerstyle Guitar Solos-The 30th anniversary edition of this fingerpicking instruction book will help you learn the essential techniques of virtuoso-level fingerpicking through astute exercises and 14 fun instrumentals. Included in 50 Greatest Guitar Books this updated title from Grammy-Award winner Mark Hanson includes four new guitar solos instruction listening lists and more. Includes online instructional audio standard notation and tablature tunes and exercises played at slow and performance speeds and standard Drop-D DADGAD

Zweite Ausgabe-The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world.Book 2 includes:Am Dm A E F and B7 ChordsPower ChordsFingerstyle GuitarSyncopations Dotted Rhythms and TripletsCarter Style SolosBass RunsPentatonic ScalesImprovisingTablature92 Great Songs Riffs and ExamplesNotes in First and Second PositionCD Includes 57 full-band tracks fordemonstration or play along