Guitar category: 1577 books

This book is aimed at beginner lute and guitar players interested in playing Renaissance lute music on either instrument. Lute and guitar tablature are included, along with notes on technique, biographies of lute composers from the 16th century, and general advice on buying, stringing and tuning a...

Designed for the beginner, these diverse solos acquaint the student with musical selections by a myriad of great composers. Standard notation only.

An extremely handy and valuable guide for any guitarist! This unique book/compact disc combination may be utilized as a method supplement, a technical study guide, or as a daily technique builder. Written in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

This 48-page method is geared toward the beginning student of guitar. The method is presented in tablature - not standard music notation - in order to get the student playing as quickly as possible. Notes are presented one string at a time. Students will be taught the most widely used scales and chords on the guitar. Includes online audio for each exercise and piece in the book.

This book/audio teaches you how to hear and play Groove Time. Tunes include: Evil Ways; Blue Tuesday, Truckin'; Blues Drive; She Done Me Wrong; and Coastin'. Two improvising scales are shown for every tune, and each selection presents a different blues style for improvising. Blues tunes are presented...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print perfect-bound, open tuning chord dictionary. Chords are shown in Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, Open E, Open A, Open D, Open C and Orkney tunings. Chords include major, minor, dominant 7th, diminished, major 7th, 6th, augmented and more.

A unique, yet simple, format makes this a valuable book for any guitarist. The chords are shown in a tree-dimensional visual format and are classified as easy, standard, full-sounding, barre, jazz, and rock power forms. Chords are shown in each of these categories where applicable. In each key, major,...

25 Punk Rock rhythms patterns. With power chords, tab, rhythm slash, chord diagrams. Audio with web link under each tab (direct access).  

Jazz Pentatonics is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and audio is included in which the more difficult exercises are played at a slower as well as faster tempo. The audio was recorded...

Over 30 tunes in standard notation and tablature with sections on ragtime finger-picking, chord positions, open tunings, right-hand bass styles and the use of chords. With drawings and chord boxes.

Grant Green was one of the most innovative jazz guitarists of the 1960s. His horn-like lines, original tone, and superb sense of time elevated him to being one of Blue-Note Records first call session players as well as a respected bandleader. This book covers many of the techniques Grant used in his...

Mel Bay Publications presents a collection of arrangements and original compositions from Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel's 2005 CD, Endless Road. Not for the faint of heart, this outstanding collection of intermediate to advanced solos includes two pop standards ('Somewhere Over the Rainbow'...

Players of all kinds of instruments including flute, fiddle, mandolin, recorder, whistle, guitar, harp and more can use this collection of music which is popular at modern renaissance festivals. The music is presented simply, with melody lines and chord symbols, allowing for a wide range of interpretation....

The studies of Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) stand alongside those of Fernando Sor, Matteo Carcassi, Dionisio Aguado and Ferinando Carulli as the staples of the didactic pieces by the ""first generation"" of classical guitarists. Giuliani was one of the most celebrated guitarists...