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A collection of 28 fingerstyle guitar solos and duets by fingerstyle guitarist John Renbourn. These solos are drawn from Medieval and Renaissance lute dance tunes and solos. All solos are in notation and tablature. The online audio contains 13 of the solos from the book.

Jazz Theory Handbook is a complete guide to all the essential topics of jazz theory, suitable for all treble instruments. Its approach is clear and concise, realistic and practical. This book will help you to understand how contemporary jazz players think, and to apply theory concepts in your own...

A modern arpeggio handbook and comprehensive training manual for developing fast, flowing arpeggio runs that connect the entire fretboard. Emphasis is on developing fluid, non-shifting arpeggio patterns (across the neck) using hammer-ons and pull-offs for speed and fluidity; and also on developing...

Never wonder how to play certain jazz chords on guitar again with this easy-to-use and comprehensive text. Also an excellent reference book, this book presents a plethora of chords and voicings commonly found used when playing jazz guitar. Virtually every type of jazz chord and its inversions is presented...

As opposed to Complete Piano Photo Chords, this edition encompasses only the most commonly used chords that you will find in Jazz music. All photos are shown in the left hand, except where two hands are necessary. A vivid graphic illustrates the location of the notes and a list of note names and the...

These arrangements of many pieces by J. S. Bach make the great composer's works accessible to the mandolinist. The bulk of the music has been adapted from various suites, sonatas, and partitas. Includes: 'Bouree Angloise' from Partita in A Minor for Solo Flute, 'Marche' from The Anna Magdalena Bach...

This book will teach guitarists how to construct and play the scales and modes used in jazz improvisation. Through the study of these scales, students will expand their musical vocabulary for jazz improvisation. Scales are presented in standard notation, tab, linear diagrams showing the scales intervallic...

Finally, a great method which will show you how to play the acoustic jazz guitar in the style of players like Django Reinhardt, Oscar Alleman and Eddie Lang - their style is characterized by a powerful rhythm guitar and a vital swinging single-note solo line. Due to the fact that it can be very hard...

All the exercises in "Killer Technique: Classical Guitar" are either based on or inspired by challenging passages and patterns that appear in compositions. Technical elements and passages have been stripped down and transformed into exercises to help the reader concentrate on specific targets...

Getting into Slide Guitar covers slide for acoustic or electric guitar and focuses on open-G tuning. The book explains the concepts of technique, basic theory, improvising, harmonic and melodic concepts and provides many essential examples. Most of the context for the book is blues-based, but the ideas and examples are applicable to all styles. Comes with access to online audio.

This is a well written, informative study of the solo and rhythmic guitar styles found in Latin America. Featured is music from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Most of the compositions are in E major or E minor and all are scored in notation and tablature.

This book offers an easily learned method that will quickly move the student from intermediate into advanced harmonic territory, adding richness, texture and uniqueness to the improvisational approach. The concept starts with common elements of basic diatonic harmony and 'moves' them in ways that...

Learning the blues and the chords that are commonly used has never been easier. This book presents blues chord voicings along with applications in a logical, sequenced order. Dominant seventh, minor, minor seventh, chords and many others that are used in the blues are presented in standard notation and tab accompanied by a photo of the chord being executed on the guitar fingerboard.

This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns, as well as a dictionary of common mandolin chords. Each key section includes the first position scale...