Guitar category: 1577 books

This new book is designed for seniors who wish to learn to play the ukulele. Care has been taken to select repertoire familiar and appealing to a more mature audience and attention has been given to the pacing of the material. Basic chords are given and variety of songs and exercises make the learning...

This book, with downloadable online accompanying audio, includes 27 classic holiday favorites arranged in chord melody style for solo ukulele. The songs come from the rich palette of Christmas, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah traditions. The style features the melody voiced on the high strings with accompanying...

In this addition to the popular series "School Of", Carr explains how to develop unique solos to any bluegrass tune or song. Using a combination of soloing source materials, including melody, scales, patterns and common licks, this work shows how to develop pleasing solos using the melody...

The 4-Chord Songbook: Favourite Hits allows the beginner guitarist to build a repertoire of acoustic songs without having to remember reams of obscure chords: Just four will do! Artists such as Blink-182, The Clash and Bob Dylan are all presented with these special arrangements, making this the perfect...

Quiero Tocar El Bajo by Victor M. Barba is a tremendous book for the bass. Written for both acoustic or electric bass, in this book you'll find all you need to learn the basics. The book features 20 progressive studies, basic music theory, and many scales. Every example or song is presented in standard...

This book will give bassists insight into many of the scales used in jazz. Each scale is presented with standard notation, tablature, and fingering patterns for both one octave and two octaves. The book starts with the basic major scales, then delves into the modes (Lydian, Phrygian, etc.), altered...

The Little Black Songbook returns with a collection of 70 All-Time Smash Hits from the biggest names in rock and pop. This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs or a spot of busking. This little book includes: - All By Myself [Eric Carmen] -...

Bust into the chords that form the basis of great blues playing. You will learn the essentials of blues chord playing through eight different styles which include Traditional Shuffles, R & B, Delta, Ragtime Blues, Jazz Blues and contemporary blues. Loads of exercises and examples allsupported by video...

This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions.The book covers chord substitution, twelve-bar blues, minor blues, eight-bar blues, and sixteen-bar blues. Chord frames are supplied...

This book and audio set teaches 101 jazz bass patterns played over chords and chord progressions that are fundamental to the harmonic language of jazz. This is a very useful collection of major, Dorian, and Mixolydian patterns, eight bar patterns, turnaround patterns, and more. Because each pattern...

This book is the final in my first series of Irish Folk tunes for guitarists. If you learn to play these six tunes and understand the technique and theory, you will have gained some great repertoire and fantastic foundation skills.The moves and patterns in these tunes pop up everywhere in music,...

Make your old-time and bluegrass music sing through the warm open-string sound of DADGAD tuning! This book includes twenty classic old-time and bluegrass tunes, arranged and recorded by Rob MacKillop. The material is ideal for players of easy to intermediate levels and is designed for flatpicking,...

First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. It doesn't get any easier than this! Students learn how to hold the mandolin correctly, how to read mandolin tablature, basic note reading, the most popular mandolin...

Rock’n’Roll scale with diagrams, note names, intervals, fingering, theory, all in 12 keys. Plus tabs, audio tracks and backing tracks, in the key of C (links under tabs).