The Essential Acoustic Album

Effortless Guitar Series-This is THE DVD for expanding your playing into the more exotic personalities of the acoustic guitar. 'Essential Acoustic Textures' provides an easy-to-learn method for learning Caribbean South American and Spanish styles that can work well in all musical situations from rock and pop to blues and bossa nova. Learn about: the samba style · rhumba · reggae · bossa nova · authentic flamenco techniques · rasgueado and golpe techniques · innovative plucking and strumming · and recommended guitars and strings. Richard Smith is a session player and recording artist who lives in Los Angeles California. His recordings have garnished praise such as 'Best Contemporary Jazz Guitar Album'(Tune Up Magazine) a nomination for 'Record of the Year' (Ad Lib Magazine Tokyo) and 'Best New Artist' (Radio

All the songs from the best-selling compilation album arranged from the actual recordings in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics.

60 essential riffs from some of the greatest acoustic guitar moments of all time. Includes: Angie · Annie's Song · Bus Stop · Change the World · Crash into Me · Dust in the Wind · Fire and Rain · Free Fallin' · Heaven Beside You · Here Comes the Sun · Hold My Hand · Iris · Landslide · Leader of the Band · Loser · Maggie May · Melissa · More Than Words · Name · Silent Lucidity · Wonderwall· You Were Meant for Me · and more.

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides an exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. This book is for the Guitar. Each book in the GCSE Performance Pieces series has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the best opportunityto show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This Guitar book includes: Pieces that are suitable for all exam boards Ten songs from a range of genres and styles with differing difficulties that are appropriate for GCSE level A CD accompaniment of professionally recorded backing tracks so you can hear how each song should sound.  A great selection of songs is included in this book with some old favourites some contemporary classics and tunes that will work really well on acoustic or electric Guitars. Featuring Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis Back In Black by AC/DC Pinball Wizard by The Who as well as The Pretender by Foo Fighters and many more. The songs included in the book correspond roughly to Grades 3 to 6 allowing you to select a piece that you are familiar with but also that you will be able to play well and comfortably. Each tune features a useful page of essential information giving you performance tips and recommended listening. Helpfully a  YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested

The Didgeridoo is an ancient instrument of the Aborigines of Australia but the discovery of its rhythmic and harmonic richness has only been in the West for a few years. This work gives all the essential advice needed to test appreciate and buy a Didgeridoo. The many exercises and sound samples given in the audio lets you appreciate the acoustic qualities and playing potential of the Didgeridoo. Audio download available online.

American Fingerstyle Guitar Favorites-Learn to play twelve classic fingerstyle songs with one of the masters of the style Pat Donohue. With note-for-note transcriptions in both staff notation and Guitar tablature (tab) learn to play these great American folk songs exactly as they were intended.Drawing influences from blues legends like Robert Johnson and folk heroes like Bob Dylan Donohue takes the best of both worlds to produce an idiosyncratic blend of warm acoustic fingerpicking and traditional American travelling songs. With the Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library you can learn every note and nuance from the cream of Pat Donohue?s backcatalogue with selections from his 2008 album Freewayman going way back to his 1989 album Big Blind Bluesy. Each song from American Fingerstyle Guitar Favorites has been expertly transcribed into both staff notation and tablature making this book perfect for any fan of acoustic-folk music or somebody who wants to learn the essentials of fingerpicking. Whatever your background there is nobody better to learn from than Pat Donohue who has been called ?one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today? by none other than Chet Atkins. As if this wasn?t enough to convince you this edition of the book also comes with free audio access to Donohue himself playing the songs. All you have to do is enter the code provided on the Hal Leonard website to download digital versions of songs like Big Blind Bluesy and Maple Leaf Rag. To see the full list of songs included in this songbook please see below.With an unparalleled level of precise transcription the Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library offers the best possible way for you to perfectly learn a dozen fingerstyle classics that come from the very hands of one of the greatest.