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Number ten in the Mel Bay/Alfred collaboration contains a collection of beginning to intermediate arrangements for Brazilian Guitar. All tunes included in standard notation and tablature are: 'One Note Samba', 'Meditation', 'Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars', 'Chega de Saudade', 'How Insensitive', 'The...

This collection contains 100 favorite gospel songs and hymns for flute and guitar. Inside you will find rousing camp meeting songs, sentimental expressions of a deep-rooted faith, and gospel oriented hymns with an old-time music flavor. In preparing this collection I felt the sincere and solid faith...

The accurate interpretation of swing rhythm is the most important element in jazz music. This collection of 7 jazz etudes and 11 exercises for solo guitar gives the student practice in playing this rhythmic pattern as well as working on other important skills. The etudes are written in notation only...

Here, for the first time, Mel Bay Publications offers Persian folk music arranged for the guitar by the Iranian-born, award winning international concert guitarist, Lily Afshar. This collection includes four love songs and a lullaby. These arrangements are extremely lyrical as they depict a singer's...

A Dozen Italian Diversions is perfect both for honing technical skills and for solo guitar performance at the intermediate level. Dedicated to his parents who took him to Italy frequently as a child to cultivate an appreciation of his heritage, the author named each piece after an important Italian site or cultural entity.

This much-anticipated book presents favorite Irish melodies in stunning fingerstyle arrangements that blend traditional and modern influences. The majority of tunes are performed with the guitar in DADGAD or DGDGBD tuning. The author offers an introductory section on fingerstyle technique as well...

This book contains 18 popular traditional Greek songs and dances arranged for acoustic guitar solo. All arrangements are in notation and tablature. Dusan Borjanic has scored these solos so that they would appeal to the classic, flamenco and fingerstyle guitarist. The arrangements reflect a diversity of moods, tempos and passion.

The classic resonator guitar sound is currently popping up in all types of music ranging from country to bluegrass to blues to rock. Resonator Guitar is a fun instrument to play. Janet Davis has taught people of all ages to play resonator guitar and in her own words, "They all have a good time...

This book features 37 vibrant and passionate songstransliterated from Russian and Hungarian to singable English. In this guitar/vocal edition, each song is shown with lyrics in the original language and English with chord symbols and annotated guitar accompaniment, as well as in a separate, stand-alone...

This book/online audio set presents six complete songs and 19 licks and patterns (in both standard and open G tuning) in the styles of banjoists Earl Scruggs and Allen Shelton, and guitarists Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. (Also included is the 3-finger roll tour de force Strike It Rich by 2001Winfield...

Classical music and DADGAD tuning work amazingly well together, as Rob MacKillop's latest book shows. You might be surprised how easy it is to play tunes by Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and others on the steel-strung acoustic guitar. These brilliant arrangements start easy, then gradually...

This book focuses on the key elements of the Django Reinhardt Gypsy jazz or jazz Manouche guitar style. The information revealed here was gleaned from years of experience jamming with French Gypsies and studying with masters of the style. A native of France, Stephane Wrembel acquired his skills entirely...

In this book and online audio, master jazz guitarist Frank Vignola has taken eight different jazz standard chord progressions and recorded rhythm guitar parts so you can play along and learn these most commonly used chord progressions. He has also written out a jazz solo for each of the eight tunes....

This collection features transcriptions of pieces by renowned Spanish composers arranged with non-conventional guitar fingerings. Each piece demonstrates Lily Afshar's musicality and sense of touch, especially noticeable in Danza Espanola by Granados, Capricho Arabe and Adelita by Tarrega and Tango...