A comprehensive collection of 172 guitar solos for the flatpick or plectrum guitarist. All solos are written in standard notation with accompanying online recordings by the author. The solos include beautiful American, British and Celtic airs and ballads, Celtic dance tunes, lute and early music, popular classical repertoire and contemporary etudes. Includes access to online audio.

A comprehensive 96-page, large print/big note perfect-bound collection of over 90 all time favorite recorder tunes. Includes folk songs, sea chanties, gospel songs, spirituals, hymns, patriotic sons and more. Fingering chart and guitar chords are included.

Seven Festive Trumpet Solos is a collection of powerful and sparkling settings for trumpet and organ. Several of the compositions are original. Others are new arrangements on well-loved sacred hymns. This text is the first in a two book series. The follow up is called Trumpet Praise! All selections in this book and in the companion book, Trumpet Praise! may be heard in the companion free audio download. Seven Festive Trumpet Solos contains the organ and trumpet parts. A free download of th...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print perfect-bound jazz chord dictionary containing essential barre chord and rhythm chord forms. Included are chord froms ranging from major, minor and dominant 7th shapes to extensions such as minor 7b5, augmented 11, 9#5, 13th and more!

This QWIKGUIDE book provides a comprehensive electric bass chord reference. Chords are shown in chord grids as well as in standard notation, while individual root notes are shown in fretboard diagrams. The book concludes with a set of harmonized major and minor scales followed by a page of assorted blues progressions. This compact book will take you a long way towards unlocking the harmonic mysteries of the bass fretboard.

Younger left-handed students will enjoy this creative approach to playing simple guitar chords. Chords are taught with exercises that build upon each other, eventually progressing to logical and common chord progressions. These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in different keys. Chords are shown in diagram form with detailed illustrations showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. The book also introduces basic chords for folk music and power chords...

This book of triadic concepts is as much for the ears as it is for the hands. Playing harmonized scales in triadic form is very helpful for the progressing guitarist. By working through these exercises, the guitarist will learn the harmonic sound of each key and develop a strong sense of melodic and harmonic voice leading.These studies contain interesting melodic content and are very fun to play. The keys are presented in tonic major and tonic minor rather than tonic major and rela...

I have taught classical guitar at the Conservatory of Oulu since 1972. The pieces in this book were composed during my working years in Finland and over holidays in Andalusia Spain. Originally these pieces were extra material for my pupils. Later I noticed, to my delight, that they had been performed in many concerts all over the country! Through these small pieces, I hoped to increase the motivation of my students and I think it has been a successful venture. I hope these pieces will brin...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print perfect-bound chord dictionary containing essential chord forms ranging from major, minor and dominant 7th forms and venturing into extensions such as minor 7b5, 9th 11th, 13th and more. Presented exclusively for the left-handed guitarist.

These twenty-one studies present a variety of melodic themes composed to provide enhancement of technique. I wanted to write short, playable pieces designed to build fluency and coordination between the left and right hand. I also wanted these technical studies to contain melodic elements sufficient to allow them to be used as short pieces in concert or recital. As valuable as scale practice can be, it can also be tedious. I wanted these studies to be fun to play. I also utilized a variety...

Ideal for teaching electric bass to children and teenagers, as well as an excellent foundational text for bassists with no previous music experience. Covers note reading, rhythms, picking, solo playing, in addition to patterns and solos in C, G, F, D, E-flat, B-flat, D minor, A, A minor, G minor, E, E minor, A-flat, C minor, and F minor!

This is the flagship book in Mel Bay's new Achieving Guitar Artistry series. Herein you will find an extensive collection of linear pieces with interesting melodic content. Frequent performance of these etudes will not only enhance technique, but offer the guitarist a wonderful opportunity to improve tone, touch and lyrical phrasing.We suggest playing each etude at a slow tempo at first, the goal being to achieve a clear and beautiful tone on every note. The next objective is to de...