Par LAURINDO ALMEIDA. This collection presents guitar duets by Laurindo Almeida and musical friends plus related photographs of historical interest. Features Radames Gnattali, 'Pixinguinho' (Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho - 'Father of the Samba'), Heitor Villa-Lobos, Charlie Byrd, Ernesto Nazareth, and 'Garoto' (Anibal Augusto Sardinha). In addition to music from Brazil this collection addresses a v…

Par SMITH GAIL. This benchmark text includes hundreds of exercises by great composers including Hanon, Czerny, Brahms, Chopin, Wieck, Phillip, and many others. Gail Smith has composed the ultimate palindrome finger exercise containing all the 120 known patterns for your five fingers! Give your fingers the best workout ever. Pieces range from easy to very difficult. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / All …

This book includes a multitude of beginning to intermediate studies, designed to build right-hand picking technique and coordination between both hands. The material includes vertical picking exercises across various string combinations, linear picking studies, tremolo studies, warm-ups, picking etudes, triplet exercises and picking solos-essential material that will supplement any guitar method. …

10 Contemporary Classical Guitar Solos. Par HAMMETT LARRY. In the author?s words this collection of 10 modern classical guitar pieces was composed to emulate the ?elusive graceful fragile subtle elegant stealthy qualities? of cats. Inspired by a rich tapestry of styles including classical flamenco jazz pop avant-garde Balkan and more generally?world music this book is perfect for anyone wishing to…

Par AL PETTEWAY. Whispering Stones won the award for 'Best Recording' from the Washington Area Music Association and has continued to be a favorite with fans of fingerstyle guitar music throughout the world. The book features Celtic-inspired original and traditional tunes performed on solo acoustic guitar with the occasional addition of flute, mandolin, cello, piano, or bells. The tunes appear in …

Par BAY MEL. Ragtime music has a character all its own. While it lends itself ideally to a variety of settings and moods, it always maintains its unique joyful feeling. The banjo is an instrument ideally suited for ragtime. The bright crisp banjo sound truly adds a new dimension to the ragtime feeling. Mel Bay and Roy Smeck have teamed together in arranging a variety of Scott Joplin and some origi…

Par TWISS TIM. Five-string banjo enthusiasts who play in the stroke, clawhammer or guitar styles will enjoy these 50 melodic, tab-only arrangements. The collection is unique in that it includes reels, polkas, jigs, hornpipes, minstrel songs, ballads, light classics, and a Christmas tune?nearly all in C tuning with the fourth string a step lower than the typical 5-string G tuning. Well-known classi…

Ten classic soul numbers in melody line arrangements by Jack Long with specially recorded backing tracks. Hear full performance versions of all the songs on Disc 1, the instrumental part is then omitted from Disc 2 so you can play along with the recorded accompaniments. Includes I Say A Little Prayer , Stand By Me and I Get The Sweetest Feeling . / Saxophone

Par BAY WILLIAM. A collection of classical pieces arranged for flatpicking guitar, together with a few modern flatpicking originals in the classical style by William Bay. Includes works by J.S. Bach, Dowland, Handel, Krieger, Mouret, Playford, Praetorius, Quantz, Rameau, Sanz, and St. Jacome, as well as music by a couple of anonymous Renaissance lutenists-21 pieces in all. All selections appear in…

Christmas Guitar Solo Anthology. Par BAY WILLIAM. This book contains all 60 of William Bay?s guitar solos found in his three Christmas solo collections: Guitar Picking Tunes ? Beautiful Carols of Christmas, Guitar Picking Tunes ? Christmas in the British Isles, and Guitar Picking Tunes ? An Early American Christmas. In this volume, all solos are presented in notation only. Includes access to an on…

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you love.This pack contains the songs for Level 1, covering grades 1, 2 and 3. Level 1 is tailored to those of you who are building up confidence as a vocalist. Each book is a standalone resource that features sound-alike backing tracks with top line melody featuring a wide range of artists including Robbie Williams, Coldplay and The Beatles.The leve…

Par BAY WILLIAM. A case size edition of Mel Bay's best-selling Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords. - Chord forms uniquely broken into melody forms, inside forms, rhythm guitar forms, and bottom four-string chord forms. Thousands of great-sounding guitar chords presented. - Each diagram shows notes in the chord, fingering, and essential chord tones on the bottom and top note of the chord form. Ch…

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. Tales of the Bay is a collection of four short musical sketches portraying events that took place in the early 1800s in the Cheapside Bay region of the USA. It was here that the first English settlers landed. An exciting musical lesson in American history. / Niveau : 2.5 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie