Great Fiddling Tunes - Celtic Gems

Celtic Gems contains 103 of the most played and loved melodies from the Celtic tradition including 40 reels, 40 jigs, 10 slip jigs, 3 strathspeys, 2 Irish hornpipes and 8 airs and waltzes. Tunes of similar style are grouped with melodies that work well in sets, or medleys. Stylistic bowing and ornament ideas as well as suggested chord changes are included to give options in interpreting the tunes. The online audio recording of each tune includes the fiddle melody with guitar accompaniment. Includes access to online audio.

Roving Through Ireland

Irish folk song is the generic term that refers to ballads, rebel songs, work songs, lullabies, laments and drinking songs. Many Irish folk songs developed from historical events and Celtic mythology, and include airs, polkas, set dances, long dances, jigs, slides, slip jigs, hornpipes, and reels. About 200 tunes of the great Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan have also survived through the aural tradition. This collection contains 38 tunes representing a broad cross section of Irish folk music which have been arranged for intermediate solo piano. Also, the songs are suitable for use as teaching material, as recital pieces, or as music for dance.

Guitar Picking Tunes - Celtic Gems

A sparkling collection of 35 Celtic airs, ballads, reels, jigs and slip jigs arranged for solo flatpick guitar. Written in notation and tablature and includes access to an online recording of each selection.

Celtic Mandolin Encyclopedia

This comprehensive book contains over 120 Celtic tunes arranged for mandolin presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes airs, marches jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, reels, strathspeys, country dances and selections by famed Irish harper, Turlough O'Carolan.

Street Knowledge An Insider?s Guide : To Jazz Guitar and Studio Work

Chris Tordini: Killer Technique - Upright Bass

Killer Technique: Upright Bass is designed to help open up your technique. It encourages an approach that will make you think and work hard in the practice room, but relax while performing. The content is geared toward an improvisatory approach. The lessons included are designed for pizzicato playing, but work just as well with arco. You will find exercises that present challenges to each hand. Above all, this book stresses that technique is a means to an end: creating beautiful music.

School of Mandolin: Bluegrass Soloing

In this new addition to Mel Bay?s popular ?School Of? series, Carr explains how to develop unique solos to any bluegrass tune or song. Using a combination of soloing source materials, including melody, scales, patterns and common licks, this work shows how to develop pleasing solos using the melody as a guide or only following the chord progression. This work is designed for players who want to develop the ability to solo ad lib over bluegrass changes. For intermediate players.

Guitar Picking Tunes : Country Gospel Guitar Solos

This is a collection of 22 old-time gospel favorites arranged for solo flatpicking guitar. All arrangements are in notation and tablature with chords included and work well when played with another guitarist, banjo, or mandolin player.

Immigrant Songbook

A historically significant major work containing over 140 songs from 44 countries (417 pages!) in their original languages with singable English translations. Arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords. Historical photos and anecdotal commentary are included.

Jazz Solos Volume 1

These jazz solos are play-along jazz standard chord progressions for guitar with Frank Vignola's solos written out. Each track has plenty of time for the student to jam along and work out ideas for commonly used jazz standard chord progressions.

Jazz Solos, Volume 2

These jazz solos are play-along jazz standard chord progressions for guitar with Frank Vignola's solos written out. Each track has plenty of time for the student to jam along and work out ideas for commonly used jazz standard chord progressions.

Fingerstyle Jazz

This book is packed with great fingerstyle arrangements of jazz standards. Each tune is presented in standard notation and tab for easy reading. These playable solos work great for fingerstyle players wanting to broaden their repertoire with familiar tunes. Perfect for gigs or fun.

Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar

The ancient Celtic repertoire offers the fingerstyle guitarist a tantalizingly wide range of moods and emotions from sad laments to lyrical ballads to vibrant dance rhythms. This collection presents a vast array of fingerpicking guitar solos settings on timeless airs, hornpipes, reels, planxties, set dances, jigs, slip jigs, marches, songs and compositions by the renowned 17th century blind Irish bard, Turlough O'Carolan. The solos are in varied guitar tunings and are presented in notation and tablature. Performance notes and suggested listening guides are also included. 27 songs from this book are on the CD.

Mandolin Anatomy And Mechanics Wall Chart

Mandolin Anatomy And Mechanics Wall Chart is a fantastic visual chart for any one interested in Mandolin. This brilliant poster shows you all internal and external components of a Mandolin, as well as descriptions of all the major parts, and an explanation of how they work.

Celtic Fiddle Tunes for Solo and Ensemble - Cello, Bass

This collection contains 14 arrangements of 22 traditional tunes from Ireland and Scotland in a variety of styles including jigs, reels, hornpipes, slip jigs, strathspeys, waltzes and airs.  The harmonies are written so that various combinations from solo instrument with piano, to duets and trios, to full string quartet/orchestra are possible.  The cello book includes melody (solo) cello, cello harmony, bass and piano accompaniment.  All of the Celtic Tunes for Solo and Ensemble books (Violin, Viola and Cello/Bass) are written as ensemble books, so they can be played as solo books or together as ensemble.

Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar

The ancient Celtic repertoire offers the fingerstyle guitarist a tantalizingly wide range of moods and emotions from sad laments to lyrical ballads to vibrant dance rhythms. This collection presents a vast array of fingerpicking Guitar solos settings on timeless airs, hornpipes, reels, planxties, set dances, jigs, slip jigs, marches, songs and compositions by the renowned 17th century blind Irish bard, Turlough O'Carolan. The solos are in varied Guitar tunings and are presented in notation and tablature. Performance notes and suggested listening guides are also included. Comes with access to online audio with 27 songs from this book.

The DADGAD Gospel : Gospel Guitar Solos in DADGAD Tuning

This fingerstyle guitar book includes many wonderful gospel songs adapted for DADGAD tuning a style not typically used in gospel. The material includes standards, as well as songs less familiar to fingerstyle players. Intended for advanced-beginners, intermediate-level players, and anyone looking to dive into alternating-bass music and more complex chordal work. Includes access to online audio.

Craig Duncan: Celtic Fiddle Tunes For Solo And Ensemble - Cello, Bass (Book/Online PDF Supplement)

This collection contains 14 arrangements of 22 traditional tunes from Ireland and Scotland in a variety of styles including jigs, reels, hornpipes, slip jigs, strathspeys, waltzes and airs. The harmonies are written so that various combinations from solo instrument with Piano, to duets and trios, to full String Quartet/Orchestra are possible. The Cello book includes melody (solo) Cello, Cello harmony, Bass and Piano accompaniment. All of the Celtic Tunes for Solo and Ensemble books (Violin, Viola and Cello/Bass) are written as ensemble books, so they can be played as solo books or together as ensemble. This book includes online PDF of the Piano accompaniment.

Contemporary Irish Music for Classic Guitar Solo

This book presents six contemporary guitar works by Irish composers. These works are fairly evenly divided with reference to their position in the composer?s output and also to the composers? age: three of the six are early works (Farrell, Bromhead and Fennessy) while the remaining three were produced during the composers? more mature years (O?Leary, Sweeney and Bodley); also, three generations of living composers are represented. The six works chosen vary widely in compositional style, approach to writing for the guitar, and technical requirements, thus presenting a generally good overview of contemporary Irish guitar music. This collection spans the period from 1970 to 2006 and includes ?Gemini? by Jerome de Bromhead, the first Irish solo concert work for guitar. A short introduction to each composer and a background to his/her work is included

The Didgeridoo

The didgeridoo is an ancient instrument of the Aborigines of Australia, but the discovery of its rhythmic and harmonic richness has only been in the West for a few years. This work gives all the essential advice needed to test, appreciate and buy a didgeridoo. The many exercises and sound samples given on the CD let you appreciate the acoustic qualities and playing potential of the didgeridoo.

Drum And Bass Synchronicity: The Ultimate Rhythm Section Workout Book And CD Set

If you're looking for a challenge, The Ultimate Rhythm Section Workout Book And CD Set is the book for you and your rhythm section.This book has an eclectic mix of Rock, Hip Hop, Latin, and Blues styles with a fantastic range of time signatures that will really challenge and tighten any rhythm section as you work through the book. This book also comes with an accompanying Audio.

Jeff Troxel: Flatpicking Up The Neck (Book/Online Audio)

A thorough and practical approach to understanding the upper positions on the fingerboard for the flatpicking guitarist. Chord shapes, scale patterns, position studies, and repertoire teach guitarists to visualize how melodies and chords work together up the neck. Concepts presented here are invaluable for arranging and improvising in the flatpicking idiom. Written in standard notation and tablature, with access to online audio. Guitarists will learn a system for organizing chords and scales up the neck, as well as moving horizontally between positions. Open strings are blended with upper position notes in keeping with the flatpicking style, and concepts are applied to real music through tunes and variations. Concepts presented are transferable to other styles of music besides flatpicking. Thorough and practical approach to playing up the neck. Guitarists learn how melodies and chords work together. Invaluable concepts for arranging and improvisation. Tunes and variations provide practical application for the material.

Craig Duncan: Celtic Fiddle Tunes For Solo And Ensemble (Book/Online PDF Supplement)

Celtic Fiddle Tunes For Solo And Ensemble contains 14 arrangements of 22 traditional celtic tunes from Ireland and Scotland in a variety of styles including jigs, reels, hornpipes, slip jigs, strathspeys, waltzes and airs. The harmonies are written so that various combinations from solo instrument with Piano, to duets and trios, to full String Quartet/Orchestra are possible. The Viola book includes melody (solo) Viola, Viola harmony, third Violin, and full score including Violin, Viola and Cello parts with Piano accompaniment. All of the Celtic Tunes for Solo and Ensemble books (Violin, Viola and Cello/Bass) are written as Ensemble books, so they can be played as solo books or together as ensemble. A PDF of the Ensemble Score is available online.

Renata Bratt: Celtic Grooves For Two Cellos: 47 Irish And Scottish Tunes (Book/Online Audio)

This collection features 47 traditional Celtic tunes, arranged by Renata Bratt for two Cellos with rockin' groove and chop-based accompaniments. Celtic Grooves For Two Cellos includes tunes from Ireland, Scotland, the Shetland Isles, and Canada in duet arrangements, all chosen with cellists in mind and in a variety of styles including jigs, slip jigs, reels, strathspeys, planxtys and airs in traditional keys. Performing in the groove is so important for string players that the American String Teachers Association recognises this skill as a separate category in their Alternative String Style Awards. Playing these idiomatic and often syncopated accompanimental patterns is a great way to learn these styles. Includes access to online audio with all arrangements performed by the author.

Paul Beuscher: The Didgeridoo (Book/Online Audio)

The Didgeridoo is an ancient instrument of the Aborigines of Australia, but the discovery of its rhythmic and harmonic richness has only been in the West for a few years. This work gives all the essential advice needed to test, appreciate and buy a Didgeridoo. The many exercises and sound samples given in the audio lets you appreciate the acoustic qualities and playing potential of the Didgeridoo. Audio download available online.