ACOUSTIC GUITAR

PLAY ACOUSTIC, The Complete Guide to Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles. DAVE HUNTER. 2 CD TABLATURE

Series: Book
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: Dave Hunter

The acoustic guitar is the instrument of the people and Play Acoustic tells the people how to play it. This detailed and beautifully illustrated book explores the history of the acoustic guitar, from the jazz age to the folk revolutions of the early 1960s and late 1990s to the current rebirth of bluegrass and the singer-songwriter boom of the past decade. Skilled professional musicians and experienced tutors coach the reader through 11 styles, using exercises suitable to novice players new to each style and working up to full pieces and advanced techniques. Entire chapters are devoted to folk, rock and pop, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, and more, with detailed guidance through both musical notation and tablature, diagrams, and explanatory text. An accompanying CD also offers listening examples of the most crucial of these exercises, to help players master each style. 252 pages.

GUITAR ATLAS, JAPAN. CD TAB.

SERIES: National Guitar Workshop
CATEGORY: Guitar Method or Supplement
FORMAT: Book & CD

To most of us, Japan is an exotic and faraway land. When we see images of Shinto shrines, pagodas, geisha, and Kabuki actors in strange face paint, our imaginations are immediately captured. Now, experience this rich and mysterious culture through its music. In addition to arrangements of classic folk tunes like Sakura and Edo Komori-uta, Guitar Atlas: Japan teaches about Japanese scales, modes, and tunings, and traditional instruments such as the shamisen, koto, shakuhachi, and more. Learn guitar techniques to emulate the sounds of these exotic instruments. Discover the fascinating world of Kabuki music, including a style of shamisen playing called ozatsuma. Learn about the Bon odori, or bon dances, held during the summer festival of Bon. This exciting introduction to the music of Japan offers new and interesting music to add to your repertoire, and teaches techniques, theory, and traditions that will enhance your playing and enrich your spirit. The CD demonstrates all the examples and compositions featured in the book.

JUBER LAURENCE, POPULAR SONGS FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR.

Alison, ELVIS COSTELLO
-Angie, ROLLING STONES
-Every Breath You Take, POLICE
-God Only Knows, BEACH BOYS
-In My Life, BEATLES
-Let It Be, BEATLES
-Maybe I'm Amazed, PAUL MC CARTNEY
-My Girl, SMOKEY ROBINSON
-My Love, BEATLES
-Oh! Darling, BEATLES
-Stand By Me, JOHN LENNON, BEN E. KING
-Your Song, ELTON JOHN. CD TAB.

12 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar
Series: Guitar Solo
Softcover with CD - TAB
Arranger: Laurence Juber

12 songs arranged for solo guitar in standard and altered tunings, arranged by Wings lead guitarist and two-time Grammy-winning fingerstylist Laurence Juber. Extensively fingered in notation and tablature, with a bonus one hour Masterclass CD with Juber teaching and playing each song.

THE FOLK HANDBOOK, Working with Songs from the English Tradition. CD

Series: Book
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Medium: Softcover with CD
Author: David Atkinson
Author: John Morrish
Author: Mark Brend
Author: Martin Carthy
Author: Nigel Williamson
Author: Rikky Rooksby
Author: Vic Gammon

by David Atkinson, Vic Gammon, Rikky Rooksby, Mark Brend, John Morrish, Martin Carthy, and Nigel Williamson
Words & melodies for 80+ traditional songs, plus detailed explorations of their history & meaning and their value to writers & performers. With a CD of 20 songs recorded in the field. 288 pages

DVD ACOUSTIC GUITAR

DVD/Book Pack
Series: At a Glance
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Softcover with DVD - TAB
Guitar

Author: Chad Johnson
Author: Mike Mueller
VIDEO PERFORMER: DOUG BODUCH

Watch and learn with this innovative DVD/book system!

The AT A GLANCE series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and popular song examples help to demostrate the concepts in action.

Lesson include:

STRUMMING CHORDS: Covers the fundamentas in developing a rock-solid strumming technique. Learn how to keep steady time, use common tones and open strings when moving between chords, and dress up your strum patterns with syncopation.

FINGERSTYLE BASIC: Covers all the essentials for first-time fingerpickers, inclusicg right-hand position, simple arpeggio patterns, block chord style, and an introduction to Travis Picking.

CAPO BASICS: Learn what a capo is, its common uses, and other useful tips. You'll wonder how you ever got by without one.

TRAVIS PICKING: Covers this must-known technique inside and out. You get a thorough tutorial on the basics, as well as tips for playing through progressions, using different string groups, and many variations on the standard pattern.

A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. Acoustic Guitar "At a Glance" features four lessons, including: Strumming Chords, Fingerstyle Basics, Travis Picking, and Capo Basics and uses the riffs of 16 songs, 32 pages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Choosin an Acoustic Guitar

Strumming Chords

Down-Strums

Up-Strums

Common Tones

The Open Strum

"Maggie May" Rod Stewart

"Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison

Accents

Syncopation

Ghost Strokes

"Signs" Tesla

"Space Oddity" David Bowie

Fingerstyle Basics 1

Hand Position

Arpeggios

'Time in a Bottle" Jim Croce

Block-Chord Fingerstyle

"Yesterday" The Beatles

"More Than Words" Extreme

Travis Picking

Basic Technique

Other String Groups

Variations

"Watershed" Indigo Girls

"Julia" The Beatles

"Dust in the Wind" Kansas

Capo Basics

Adjusting the Key for Vocal Range

Reading Capoed Tab

Avoiding Barre Chords

Creating Alternate Guitar Parts

Unplayable Parts

"Free Fallin'" Tom Petty

"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" The Beatles

"Night Moves" Bob Seger

"Landslide" Fleetwood Mac

"Thick as a Brick" Jethro Tull

"Stay" Lisa Loeb

Afterword

DVD is filmed in high-definition and features on-screen music. Book includes the following songs:

BROWN EYED GIRL
DUST IN THE WIND
FREE FALLIN'
JULIA
LANDSLIDE
MAGGIE MAY
MORE THAN WORDS
NIGHT MOVES
NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN)
SIGNS
SPACE ODDITY
STAY
THICK AS A BRICK
TIME IN A BOTTLE
WATERSHED
YESTERDAY