SKU: A0.1364489

These info sheets show guitarists how to play the 7 modes of G Harmonic Minor, in a variety of positions around the guitar neck. In standard notation and TAB, with note names and fingerings written into the score. All sheets also have the diatonic chords for each mode to enable students to know which chords belong to each respective mode. An excellent resource for guitarists looking to further their knowledge of scales, modes, and chords.

SKU: A0.1360895

These info sheets show guitarists how to play the 7 modes of F Melodic Minor, in a variety of positions around the guitar neck. In standard notation and TAB, with note names and fingerings written into the score. All sheets also have the diatonic chords for each mode to enable students to know which chords belong to each respective mode. An excellent resource for guitarists looking to further their knowledge of scales, modes, and chords.

SKU: A0.1360067

These info sheets show guitarists how to play the 7 modes of Bb Melodic Minor, in a variety of positions around the guitar neck. In standard notation and TAB, with note names and fingerings written into the score. All sheets also have the diatonic chords for each mode to enable students to know which chords belong to each respective mode. An excellent resource for guitarists looking to further their knowledge of scales, modes, and chords.

SKU: A0.1363385

These info sheets show guitarists how to play the 7 modes of Eb Harmonic Minor, in a variety of positions around the guitar neck. In standard notation and TAB, with note names and fingerings written into the score. All sheets also have the diatonic chords for each mode to enable students to know which chords belong to each respective mode. An excellent resource for guitarists looking to further their knowledge of scales, modes, and chords.

SKU: A0.1361060

These info sheets show guitarists how to play the 7 modes of G Melodic Minor, in a variety of positions around the guitar neck. In standard notation and TAB, with note names and fingerings written into the score. All sheets also have the diatonic chords for each mode to enable students to know which chords belong to each respective mode. An excellent resource for guitarists looking to further their knowledge of scales, modes, and chords.

SKU: A0.1362807

These info sheets show guitarists how to play the 7 modes of Bb Harmonic Minor, in a variety of positions around the guitar neck. In standard notation and TAB, with note names and fingerings written into the score. All sheets also have the diatonic chords for each mode to enable students to know which chords belong to each respective mode. An excellent resource for guitarists looking to further their knowledge of scales, modes, and chords.

SKU: M0.99662EB

ISBN 9781609743352. 8.75x11.75 inches.

A very representative collection of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, skillfully adapted for solo guitar from lute and piano works. This book contains well-recognized pieces by master composers, many of which have already become essential repertoire for the classical guitar. Compiled with the performance skills of the beginner guitarist in mind, this collection also fulfills repertoire requirements of the student guitarist, as well as providing valuable exercises in sight-reading in standard notation for the more intermediate and advanced performers.

SKU: A0.876582

To write Tiento para un pensador, I found inspiration in an experience that I had many years ago, when I was a student in Dusseldorf, Germany. I was spending time one night with my friend Rafael Aguirre, a virtuoso classical guitarist, as he was casually playing through some of his repertoire. He asked me if I thought that it was possible to play a Baroque fugue - one of the most complex of musical genres - on the guitar. Before I had time to think about the question, he started playing his own arrangement of a fugue by J.S. Bach, talking me through it as the fugue theme appeared in different registers and the counterpoint got more and more intricate.

The effectiveness and beauty of the contrapuntal sounds I experienced that night stayed with me. So in 2020, when I was invited to attend the Twisted Spruce Symposium and had a chance to compose my first piece for the guitar, I quickly decided that I would take up the challenge of writing my own fugue for the instrument. Looking to find a more specific context for the new work, I discovered the early Spanish genre of the tiento, essentially an early Hispanic form of the fugue. I came up with a melody which, I sensed, featured elements of that early style combined with a touch of Andean melancholy. As I composed, I strived to follow this basic affect throughout, letting the lines evolve organically as the piece seemed to engage in a long, continued search for its cultural and temporal identity.

Para un pensador means for a thinker in Spanish. It is my homage to the intellectual guitarist, to the reflective and discerning performer of intricate contrapuntal music.

I would like to extend special thanks to Nathan Fischer for producing this valuable edition of Tiento para un pensador.

SKU: M0.98462MEB

ISBN 9781610656801. 8.75x11.75 inches.

Dropped D Guitar: Bach to Blues provides in-depth strategies to help the seasoned beginner to intermediate guitarist gain familiarity with the patterns of dropped D, utilizing a series of hands-on exercises for playing in dropped D tuning. Actual music is provided (no scales here) in the major keys of C, G, D, A, and the minor keys of Dm, Am, and Em. In addition, the guitarist is given a wide-ranging source of music, in a variety of musical styles and keys. There are works written by classical masters, traditional music, and early blues - all arranged for fingerstyle guitar in dropped D tuning in both standard notation and tablature. Background narrative is given on musical periods, composers, and the music to add to the reader's understanding and interest. All instructional and solo material is played by the author on the accompanying audio. Includes access to online audio.