Traditional Songs for Beginning Guitar

DADGAD and DGDGCD Tunings is an extension and expansion of the previously released Mel Bay book DADGAD Tuning. It includes a number of additional instrumental solos in DADGAD for beginning-intermediateguitar players while introdtucing DGDGCD a related open tuning. Although many of theselections are traditional Irish dance tunes the book also includes an American dance tune two traditional Irish songs and original instrumentals by Frederick Boyce Jake Schumacher Gilles le Bigot and the author. The book iswritten in tablature and standard notation.

Learn to Play Using the Techniques & Songs of American Roots Music. A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books and CDs in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues folk country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series you'll know dozens of thetunes that form the backbone of American music using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow · Delia · Frankie and Johnny · The Girl I Left Behind Me · House of the Rising Sun · Ida Red · In the Pines · Little Sadie · Man of Constant Sorrow · Sally Goodin · Scarborough Fair · Will the Circle Be Unbroken? · and many more.

The Logic Of Fretboard-The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake Robert Johnson Big Bill Broonzy Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By exploring the ways that chords melodies and rhythms work Woody Mann presents practical and simple ways to create variations in your playing. Woody teaches a new approach to seeing the fretboard and techniques for 'breaking down' chord blocks into smaller 'pieces' and connecting them throughout the fretboard. As he teaches the repertoire of the masters of acoustic blues he demonstrates how melodies andharmonies can be derived from simple moveable chord shapes. The Logic Of Fretboard is a method for relating the entire fretboard to the basic first position chord shapes that we all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords melodies and variations in your music. Studying the songs and concepts that Woody presents in this program will help students to break out of ruts and begin playing up-the-neck without relying on bar chords or scale patterns. Woody's approach to varying melody and bass lines against each other will also help students to develop a more syncopated and stronger picking technique. This simple and effective method allows students to increase their chord vocabulary by relying on logic instead of memorization.Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively performed throughout the world and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

Southpaws rejoice! This world-famous method is now available in a special edition just for lefties with customized photos and diagrams. Students enjoy the method's easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music educationwhile letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction covering tuning; 1st-position melody playing; C G G7 D7 and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; solos and ensembles; and strumming. Featuresa chord chart and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace • Greensleeves • and When the Saints Go Marching In.

Here are two DVD lessons that will be deeply satisfying for any acoustic guitarist who wants to move beyond simple chords and easy strums. Beginning and intermediate players will quickly gain an understanding of guitar basics through the process of creating beautiful compelling arrangements of well-known much-loved traditional songs. DVD 1: The Cuckoo Delia's Gone The Water is Wide. DVD 2: Hard Times Come Again No More Wayfaring Stranger Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies.

Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this collection of traditional easy-to-play kids' songs. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the recordings on the companion CD then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies basic strums and basslines and simple chords. A supplement to the Acoustic Guitar Method this terrific book/CD pack teaches fifteen beloved children's tunes and includes complete lyrics; full guitar parts in standard notation tablature and chord diagrams; and detailed notes on song origins and arrangements.

A collection of the most popular songs and traditional music celebrating love and marriage, arranged for piano, voice and guitar, complete with chord symbols and full lyrics where appropriate. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists. Includes Wagner's Bridal March, Schubert's Ave Maria, A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum and The Power Of Love by Jennifer Rush

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

Par FLINT TOMMY. A collection of traditional and Southern mountain songs progressively arranged in flatpicking guitar style. Many tunes are shown as both lyric versions with guitar chords and as flatpicking guitar solos. Selections include: This Train - John Henry - Old Smokey - The Midnight Run - Deer Lick Creek - Kentucky Hoe-down - Bill Cheatham - and many more. Written in standard notation and tab. The author also offers lead guitar solo concepts for traditional tunes like: The Galway Piper, Liberty, Billy in the Low Ground, Leather Britches, and others. A short fingerstyle segment on 'How to Play Bluegrass Banjo Style on the Guitar' closes the book. Throughout, the author displays an intuitive awareness of various left and right-hand techniques and their imaginative application. With the enclosed companion CD containing all of the selections and exercises in the book, this outstanding Mel Bay Value Line book offers the beginning to intermediate bluegrass guitarist a significant value. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Bluegrass - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures Flatpick et Plectre

With Online Audio-An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland arranged for easy flatpicking Guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as Guitar tablature. An accompanying audio download contains all thetunes played at a manageable speed with Guitar accompaniment.The collection contains airs well known songs polkas slip jigs slides double jigs hornpipes and reels all of which are specially arranged by the authorwith the beginning/intermediate guitarist in mind. On the audio download the tunes are played 2 or 3 times so you can really get into the feel of the tune when playing along. The speed of the tunes is quite slow but not soslow as to take away from the essential feel of the music.Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to bediscovered in this selection of great traditional music.