Guitar category: 1577 books

This is a step-at-a-time enjoyable method for learning to play great sounding country guitar. Dix Bruce, in his humorous yet musically "right-on" teaching style, introduces you to country back-up, bass runs, Carter-style bluegrass picking, the Nashville Numbering System for indicating chord...

Jerry Garcia, the lead guitarist, singer, and alleged leader of the Grateful Dead, became an icon of the 60s youth movement. It was well-known that Jerry was a huge fan, and probably considered himself a player, of old-time American music, from mountain fiddle and banjo music, to English ballads,...

The Guitar Fretwork Compendium - Beyond the Basic Chords combines Parts 1 - 3 of the series into one volume. Topics include Major and Minor Triads, Pedal Tones, Broken Chords, Intervals, Scale Construction, and the Basics of Music Theory.

"If someone is singing a song or playing a melody, how can I know what chords I can play with it?" This is a common question asked of guitar teachers and players. If you are the guitarist at a campfire sing, if you want to learn a song from a recording, or if you want to write your own songs...

This collection of classic guitar studies is intended for the intermediate guitarist. As a whole, these etudes emulate the content of Carcassi's famed 25 Etudes, yet in a more contemporary harmonic and rhythmic idiom. These pieces are also distinguished in that they are not only valuable as left and...

This new series of graded repertoire for guitar has been put together with the aim of providing students with the most attractive, stylistically comprehensive, and inspiring music available, while at the same time realistically meeting the pedagogical needs of teachers. Students and teachers will...

Advanced Picture Chords for Guitar offers a key-by-key guide to chord triads, chord substitutes, movable chord shapes and useful chord sequences. Each chord now has full-colour pictures to demonstrate exactly how to position your fingers along with colour-coded diagrams of the notes being played. While...

(Guitar Educational). This handy reference provides easy-to-see photos and easy-to-read chord grids for more than 900 guitar chords open and barre, partial chords and broken set forms. Also includes basic chord theory and fingering principles.

Over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection

After the death of Debussy (25 March 1918) Henri Prunieres asked Falla to contribute to the planned memorial issue of Revue musicale, of which he was the publisher. Though Prunieres had asked for an article Falla preferred to respond with a piece of music: the Homenaje Simultaneously satisfying...

This innovative and comprehensive arpeggio studies book takes the guitarist past the studies of Sor, Coste, Aguado, Giuliani, and Carcassi. These studies explore the entire fingerboard within the harmonic evolution of the 20th century with the key of E as the basic guide. The book deals with harmonies...

J. S. Bach is the most sought after composers of all time. He is everybody's favorite! Best selling author Ben Bolt has inked 12 solos for guitar in this book. Included are moderate to advanced solos in notation and tablature. All 12 solos are recorded in order like the book. The recording can easily...

In this collection, masterful Brazilian guitarist Paolo Bellinati has meticulously transcribed his solo guitar arrangements of ten melodies by his beloved countryman and pioneering bossa nova composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim. Bellinati particularly labored over his arrangements of Jobim's instrumental...

Eleven original compositions for the classical guitar composed in the eclectic style for which Frederic Hand has become well known. Written in standard notation only, some of these pieces allow for optional improvisatory sections (About Time and Missing Her). The composer performs all of the compositions...