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The duets in Ten Concert Pieces for Classic Guitar Duo are written in different musical styles and varying degrees of difficulty. In addition to several pieces emulating the Baroque and Classical periods, the collection includes compositions inspired by the bossa nova, jazz, blues, and even the musical...

Although there are many fine scale books on the market, none of them are really for INSIDE the scales to explore the various intervals, harmonized scales in triads and diatonic 7ths, and neighbor tones to achieve some chromaticism. This book helps to employ multiple-use scales (modes) by superimposing...

Arpeggios are chord notes played one at a time rather than strummed or plucked all together. They are an essential part of great improvising and melody writing because playing chord notes in the right places creates solid melody lines. Chord notes sound more resolved than notes that are chromatic...

This collection presents guitar duets by Laurindo Almeida and musical friends plus related photographs of historical interest. Features Radames Gnattali, "Pixinguinha" (Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho - "Father of the Samba"), Heitor Villa-Lobos, Charlie Byrd, Ernesto Nazareth, and...

This collection includes Legendary guitarist Laurindo Almeida's guitar trio arrangements on Rio Rhapsody, Flora and Retratos (Pixinguinha, Ernesto Nazareth, Ancleto Medeiros and Chiquinha Gonzaga.)

This collection includes Legendary guitarist Laurindo Almeida's guitar trio arrangements on Brazilliance, Discantus, and the Brazilian Popular Suite (Invocation to Shango, Toada, Choro Calido, Ballad-Samba, Baiao, and Marcha Carioca.)

Guitar/Clarinet arrangements by the legendary guitarist, Laurindo Almeida. Included are Laurindo's settings on Debussy's First Arabesque and Danse.

This collection of 16 guitar duets offers professionals, teachers or students a wide variety of styles from the Baroque to the Post-Romantic periods. Some of this music is unique to the guitar repertoire. For example, the six Serenades introduce some of the most popular music of the late 19th century...

A collection of 17 masterful guitar/flute duets composed and arranged by the legendary guitarist, Laurindo Almeida. Includs score, guitar part, and flute part.

At last, a complete method on how to play the tremolo and octave harmonicas. Another Phil Duncan step by step method designed to help you learn to play these special double reed harmonicas. Irish, folk, gospel, bluegrass, and country are a few of the musical styles covered. Single tone and tongue...

This Qwikguide gives you easy access to playing harmonica. This book uses the 12 or 16-hole chromatic harmonica in the key of C, as well as the 10-hole diatonic in the key of C, in standard tuning and blues harp style. The tunes are written in standard notation and tablature (arrows and numbers) with...

A collection for diatonic, crossharp, and chromatic harmonica. The gospel songs presented here are written as the song has been presented throughout the years. Key changes have been made to accommodate the harmonica. The first section is standard harmonica, key of C. The second section is in cross-harp...

A collection of Christmas and Hanukkah songs arranged for chromatic, diatonic, and cross harp. A unique, must have book for the harmonica enthusiast. The audio is a stereo recording of Chromatic and diatonic harmonica solos that includes over 53 minutes of tunes from the book arranged singly and in...

Attention all harmonica enthusiasts! Join in the fun of playing at a bluegrass festival with a bluegrass band. This book brings to you the often performed tunes by every bluegrass and country player of all instruments. Select a few of these tunes and play them on your harmonica and you will be an...