Guitar category: 1577 books

Joel Pena, a professional musician with many years of experience, has created the definitive method book for those interested in taking up the unique instrument known as the Cuban tres or three-course guitar. This bilingual book/audio method addresses everything from appropriate string gauges to creating...

The Changes: Guide Tones for Jazz Chords, Lines, and Comping is offered for beginning to advanced players as a way to visualize guide tones on the fretboard. From these shapes lines can be created for soloing and voicings can be built for comping and chord melody. Most importantly, the changes of...

After more than 20 years of learning, teaching and using the modes this is my definitive guide to their understanding and application. We’ll be looking at the modes from three key perspectives then leveraging the knowledge gained to provide you with a more complete picture of the modes, and the...

This in-depth scale and arpeggio text is core curriculum at the University of Southern Californiafs Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California. Using a comprehensive approach that includes three different organizational...

An exact contemporary of Bach and Handel, Domenico Scarlatti was already a celebrated composer in Italy by the time he moved to Portugal. Later he traveled to Spain, where he worked as a harpsichord instructor for Princess Maria Barbara. The lessons he wrote for her are among the most imaginative...

This book was written for the student who wants to learn to play flamenco guitar correctly in the shortest time possible. A fanciful historical essay on the origins of the flamenco style begins this modest 32-page volume. Several of the most common techniques are used in the various introductory pieces,...

This text includes fifty-eight pieces of music as well as recorded audio of the entire book. Ben Bolt believes these pieces are the "best of the best" for developing technique, musicianship, and exposing the guitarist to the ingenious musical world of Fernando Sor. Regardless of your current...

This landmark historical text delivers the goods promised in its title. It does not address flamenco dance whatsoever, focusing instead on flamenco song forms with a special chapter devoted to the role of the guitar. Includes Spanish lyrics for dozens of flamenco songs along with English translations...

The product of a 14 year research project, this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four finger technique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords,...

The Capo Chord Book is an instructional method designed to aid the beginner/intermediate guitarist in capo transpositions. Playing in keys laden with bar chords can be frustrating to the novice. This book intends to remove this frustration by showing the player how to play in these difficult keys...

This book is packed with seventeen great fingerstyle arrangements of jazz standards. Each tune is presented in standard notation and tab for easy reading. These playable solos work great for fingerstyle players wanting to broaden their repertoire with jazz classics. Guitar solos include: All the Things...

This book offers a large number of essential chords and scales for the DADGAD tuning of the guitar. The material assembled here opens up a multitude of possibilities to expand and improve your playing in this unique tuning. Chords are shown in their customary harmonic contexts, instead of just listing...

A concise booklet which presents a complete practicing methodology for guitarists. Topics discussed include the concepts of inner and outer poise, issues affecting practice, visualization and much more.

Italian Folk Music for Mandolin is an enjoyable collection of pieces from various parts of northern, central and southern Italy. This anthology includes complete texts and translations of the songs with accurate accompanying arrangements for two mandolins, or violin and guitar. The selections include...