The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! This volume features 8 reggae favorites: Buffalo Soldier • The Harder They Come • I Shot the Sheriff • The Israelites • Legalize It • Marcus Garvey • Party Next Door • Tomorrow People.
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Enjoy the stunning evocative melodies of the rich Irish tradition with this special set of classical guitar solos, featuring many traditional harp melodies and dance tunes. The book boasts no less than 27 pieces, many of which are suitable for elementary guitar students. However, also featured are several compositions by the 17th century harpist/composer O'Carolan, which are ideal for more advanced guitarists. An accompanying CD of demonstrations perfectly illustrates the music, providing listeners with a useful guide to Irish phrasing and performance.
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The character and variety of Chinese music combined with the sounds found in instruments like the Pipa or Guqin lend themselves perfectly to the guitar, bringing exciting new techniques, textures and sounds for the instrument. In this book with online videos, author Fernando Pérez teaches how to play several Chinese melodies arranged for solo guitar. You'll learn about Chinese traditional music, history and meaning, and notation systems. You'll also learn Pipa and Guqin style guitar techniques. The songs include: Chai Tou Feng • The Grand Hujia • Heroic Little Sisters • Moonlight Over the River in Spring. You can access the online videos of Pérez demonstrating these melodies and other video lessons using the unique code found inside each book.
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Performed by Christian Reichert, guitar
Accompaniment: Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Nayden Todorov
Ferdinando Carulli, born in Naples but largely based in Paris, was one of the most influential figures in the history of guitar and author of a famous, 200-year-old method still in use today. He wrote hundreds of guitar works, and these two concerti, in E minor and A major, rank at the top of his oeuvre! Beautiful melodies and immense fun for the guitarist. So sit down with the orchestra and play to your heart's content!
Contains an authoritative printed solo part, edited by soloist Christian Reichert, and access to online audio recordings containing complete versions of each concerto with soloist; and accompaniments minus you!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune a Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrument technique for a new generation of musicians.
A New Tune a Day books have the same logical, gentle pace, and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD – with actual performances and backing tracks – will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. The DVD shows you the basics from how to set up your instrument to playing your first notes. It takes you through the first few pages of the book ensuring you get off to a good start. Plus, excellent advice and tips from a professional player.
Each book contains: advice on audio equipment • instructions for effective technique and comfortable posture • explanatory section on reading music • easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages • an audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks and audio examples • great music including duets and rounds • tests to check progress and comprehension • useful pull-out chart giving all fingerings • and a DVD, authored for Zone 0, to help you get started on your instrument.
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For over 20 years, Waltons classic ballad books have consistently outsold all others. When they first appeared in 1981, Dan Cohen of Dublin's Evening Herald newspaper wrote: “There are so many fine points to these books that they almost bear indexing.” Each volume in this beautifully produced four-volume series is packed with 50 old favorites and modern classics, including songs made famous throughout the world by Mary Black, Christy Moore, The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers, Paddy Reilly and a host of others. Each book includes charming, hand-tinted period photographs, depicting scenes of Ireland's bygone days.
Includes: Ride On • The Fields of Athenry • The Crack Was Ninety • Sonny's Dream • Song for Ireland • The Isle of Innisfree • Nancy Spain • Three Drunken Maidens • The Ould Triangle • The Green Fields of France • When You Were Sweet Sixteen • The Rose of Allendale • My Lovely Rose of Clare • The Boys from the County Armagh • Danny Boy • Fiddlers Green • Patrick Was a Gentleman • The Rocky Road to Dublin • and many more.
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Six of their greatest hits in easy-to-follow tab with chord symbols and full lyrics. Matching audio allows you to play guitar or sing along with the backing tracks or full performance demos. Songs include: America • The Boxer • Homeward Bound • Mrs. Robinson • A Hazy Shade of Winter • The Only Living Boy in New York.
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This quick guide to flatpicking Irish traditional music was written by Doc Rossi, a well-known citternist and guitarist in both traditional and early music. He's created this book for intermediate to advanced players who want to improve their technique, develop ideas and learn new repertoire. Starting with the basics of technique and ornamentation in traditional music, Doc then goes directly into the tunes, in standard notation and tab. Focusing on traditional music from Ireland, Doc has also chosen tunes from England, France, Flanders, North America and Corsica to reflect the guitar's broad range. Right- and left-hand techniques, ornamentation, arranging and other topics are taught through the tunes themselves. Doc has developed his own tuning for playing traditional music, and this book shows you how to use it. His tuning makes it easy to play tunes in all the important traditional keys without moving a capo around or having to negotiate difficult position shifts, while at the same time providing a number of open strings and other possibilities for playing your own accompaniment. An audio CD with all of the tunes played at medium tempo is included.
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The most comprehensive collection of Irish tenor banjo tunes currently available! Here are 50 jigs, reels and hornpipes arranged for two types of tuning; the standard CGDA used by Gerry O'Connor, and the traditional GDAE tuning used by David McNevin. The first 25 tunes are played by O'Connor, whose creative and individual style has earned him the reputation of being one of Ireland's finest banjo players. The remaining tunes are arranged and played by McNevin, an extremely skillful player in the traditional style, who has received major awards for his achievements on the banjo.
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Performed by Christian Reichert, guitar
Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Nayden Todorov
This sumptuous guitar concerto, written by the great Castelnuovo-Tedesco on the eve of World War II, quickly became a modern classic, almost approaching the popularity of Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez.' Its appreciation has grown with the ensuing years and it is now considered a 20th-century classic. Don't miss this lyrical masterpiece!
The book includes the solo part and access to online professional recordings of the concerto with orchestra and soloist, and a second performance minus you, the soloist. The concerto is voluminously indexed for your practice and performance convenience.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Performed by Christian Reichert, guitar
Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Nayden Todorov
MMO is pleased to bring you one of the all-time classics for the guitar, Mauro Giuliani's Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major. This familiar and ever-so-beautiful piece has been a success since its premiere in the early nineteenth century. Listen to stunning virtuoso Christian Reichert perform the concerto with the Plovdiv Philharmonic and then you take his place with that same magnificent orchestra! Includes an authoritative, engraved solo part including Mr. Reichart's extensive fingerings to guide your preparation of this classic work.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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For over 20 years, Waltons classic ballad books have consistently outsold all others. When they first appeared in 1981, Dan Cohen of Dublin's Evening Herald newspaper wrote: “There are so many fine points to these books that they almost bear indexing.” Each volume in this beautifully produced four-volume series is packed with 50 old favorites and modern classics, including songs made famous throughout the world by Mary Black, Christy Moore, The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers, Paddy Reilly and a host of others. Each book includes charming, hand-tinted period photographs, depicting scenes of Ireland's bygone days.
Includes: Arthur McBride • Biddy Mulligan • The Boys of Fairhill • Finnegan's Wake • The Galway Races • The Galway Shawl • The Homes of Donegal • Katie • The Leaving of Liverpool • Lough Sheelin Side • Love Is Teasing • The Merry Ploughboy • Whiskey in the Jar • The Water Is Wide • The Spanish Lady • Only Our Rivers • Nora • The Sash Me Father Wore • Sam Hall • The Patriot Game • Mystic Lipstick • Take Me Up to Monto • and many more.
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110 of the most popular and enduring session tunes in Ireland and around the world. Join in wherever you go with this session-friendly collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, airs and more. Suitable for all melody instruments.
Volume 1 includes: A Day at the Races • Sorry to Part • The Mooncom Jig • Paddy's Return • Phil's Jig • The Thrush on the Strand • The Blackhaired Lass • The Brosna Slide • The Castleisland Polka • The Wedding Polka • Flaherty's • The Golden Eagle • The Poppy Leaf • The Sunny Banks (The Blackbird) • Bonnie Kate • The Concertina • The Earl's Chair • Geehan's Frolics • Maeve's Return • The Morning Dew • The Roscommon Reel • Toss the Feathers • and more.
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The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!
8 songs: Água De Beber (Water to Drink) • The Girl from Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema) • Ho-Ba-La-La • How Insensitive (Insensatez) • Meditation (Meditacao) • So Nice (Summer Samba) • Telephone Song • Watch What Happens.
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The full range of traditional fiddle repertoire is now at your fingertips! Using these generous collections, you can create your own ceilidh, barn dance, jazz club or Sarajevo street-café. Some of this music is familiar, some more exotic, but all of it is absolutely authentic, faithfully arranged and, above all, hugely enjoyable.
Each title in the series is available in two formats: the Violin Edition (with an optional easy violin part and guitar chords); or the Complete Edition, which also includes both keyboard and violin accompaniments. Either format is hugely flexible, which means the music can be played as solos, duets or trios as well as with larger ensembles.
Edward Huws Jones has travelled extensively researching fiddle-playing traditions. In each book he explains the background of the particular musical style, giving his own suggestions for a lively performance.
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Master guitarist and Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing writer Danny Carnahan teaches how to play 15 Scottish classic songs in fingerstyle arrangements with standard notation and tablature, in both standard and dropped-D tuning. Each song includes background information, complete lyrics, a video download and can function as a guitar and voice arrangement or a solo guitar piece. Songs include: Both Sides the Tweed • Cam Ye O'er Frae France • Fair Flower of Northumberland • The False Lover Won Back • Fortune Turns the Wheel • Glenlogie • Hughie the Grahame • Now Westlin Winds • Rattlin' Roarin' Willie • The Rigs of Barley • So Will We Yet • Tae the Beggin' • Tae the Weavers • The Wild Mountain Thyme • Will Ye Go to Flanders.
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A collection of popular Brazilian music edited and arranged by John Zaradin for solo guitar. Suitable for intermediate guitarists and arranged in standard and guitar tab notation with chord symbols.
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Eduardo Sainz de la Maza was both a successful guitarist and important composer. Although well known for his arrangements of Spanish folk songs, it is his original works which are seen as most significant today. His musical language is described as eclectic, combining impressionistic influences with Spanish musical traditions. Jazz was also an influence, although much of his music is described as intimate and lyrical, as depicted by Platero y yo Suite – one of the most notable compositions for the guitar of the 20th Century, within this unique collection of works. Text in Spanish.
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The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the banjo tab, listen to the audio to hear how the banjo should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming featuring Playback+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down the audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
This volume includes: Billy in the Low Ground • Cluck Old Hen • Devil's Dream • Fisher's Hornpipe • Little Maggie • Over the Waterfall • The Red Haired Boy • Soldier's Joy.
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A collection of popular Argentinean music edited and arranged by John Zaradin for solo guitar. Suitable for intermediate guitarists and arranged in standard and guitar tab notation. Includes: El Cuando • Derecho Viejo • La Firmeza • Gato • El Maroto • El Palito • and more.
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The author of the successful Romantic Guitar Anthology series, Jens Franke, returns with a new collection of pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries. The first volume of the Baroque Guitar Anthology contains 25 beautiful and rarely available pieces transcribed for guitar by co-author Stuart Willis, including works by Gaspar Sanz, David Kellner and Robert De Visée. The book includes composerbiographies and teaching notes on each piece, together with recordings of all works performed by Jens Franke. Suitable for students of c.2-3 years of playing experience, or grades 1-2 level.
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With this beautifully produced and comprehensive 4-volume collection of Scottish songs and ballads, Waltons have expanded their great collections. Each book contains 50 enduring favourites and modern classics from the great Scottish song tradition. From the tragic and celebratory historic ballads to the great poetic love songs and bawdy comic turns, the turbulent political, personal and social history of Scotland can be traced in the great songs and ballads of these wonderful collections. Each book includes charming illustrations and photographs depicting scenes and figures from Scotland's past, as well as a helpful glossary.
Includes: Annie Laurie • The Banks of Loch Lomond • The Campbells Are Coming • The Mingulay Boat Song • Ye Banks and Braes • Glasgow Peggy • Highland Mary • The Lewis Bridal Song • The Glenwhorple Hielanders • The Duke of Argyll • The Loch Tay Boat Song • My Name Is Jock Stewart • O Sing to Me the Auld Scotch Sangs • Scotland the Brave • Scots Whae Hae • Sound the Pibroch • Laird oÕ Logie • Johnny of Braidesley • Huntingtower • Happy Roun' the Ingle Bleezin' • Killiecrankie • The Deil Cam Fiddlin' • and many more.
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Guitar Solo (also Lute)
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Explore the romantic and complex music of Greece, its melodies, harmonies and rhythms. Fernando Pérez teaches several Greek melodies arranged for the guitar's unique capabilities in video demonstrations available online. Songs include: Zeybekiko • Syrtaki • Karsilamas • Tsamiko • Balkan Kalamatianos • Epirus Dance • and more.
Online video is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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The cream of Irish traditional music is presented in three core collections of essential session tunes. Each book includes 110 of the most popular and enduring session tunes in Ireland and around the world. Join in wherever you go with these collections of jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, airs and more. All the books feature accurate transcriptions in an easy-to-read format, and include guitar chords.
Volume 2 includes: Billy Brocker's Castle • Kelly Cooley's Dublin Reel • The Dunmore Lassies • Eileen Curran • The Enchanted Lady • Famous Ballymote • The Flowers of Redhill • The Geehan's Glass of Beer • and more.
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A fantastic volume of superb Spanish melodies by Venezuelan Rodrigo Riera. Contains eight pieces for intermediate guitarists: Cancion Carorena • Choro • Danza a Maracaibo • Elorac • Merengue Venezolano • Nana • Preludio Criollo • Serenta Ingenua.
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The full range of traditional fiddle repertoire is now at your fingertips! Using these generous collections, you can create your own ceilidh, barn dance, jazz club or Sarajevo street-café. Some of this music is familiar, some more exotic, but all of it is absolutely authentic, faithfully arranged and, above all, hugely enjoyable.
Each title in the series is available in two formats: the Violin Edition (with an optional easy violin part and guitar chords); or the Complete Edition, which also includes both keyboard and violin accompaniments. Either format is hugely flexible, which means the music can be played as solos, duets or trios as well as with larger ensembles.
Edward Huws Jones has travelled extensively researching fiddle-playing traditions. In each book he explains the background of the particular musical style, giving his own suggestions for a lively performance.
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Transcriptions for guitar written adn performed by Frédéric Zigante.
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