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Learn to play traditional folk songs for babies and toddlers, with tab, standard notation, and chord diagrams arranged by Peter Penhallow.
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Learn how to position your fretting hand to play notes, chord, and scales cleanly and efficiently. Discover the correct way to position your fretting-hand thumb on the guitar neck. Play scales in the keys of C, G, D, E, A, working on fingerings and playing in the first and second fretboard positions. Includes 12 minutes of video. By Alex de Grassi
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Before you get started playing slide guitar, you'll need to go over some of the basics.This lesson includes: How to choose and set up the best guitar for slide playing How to pick a slide: glass, metal, or ceramic The most common slide tunings, Open G and Open D Your guide comes complete with 7 pages of written and 14 minutes of video instruction by David Hamburger.
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If you love singing your children to sleep, these 15 traditional tunes are bound to be a fun addition to your bedtime tradition. Author Peter Penhallow shows you how to bring these beautiful melodies to life, guiding you through each tune, step by step. This book-and-CD package makes it easy to learn new lullabies. Just listen to the simple instructions on the recordings, then use the transcriptions to practice basic strums, simple chords, and single-note melodies in open position. On the companion CD, accompaniment patterns are played up to tempo, then slowly so you can follow along as you learn to play each tune. Includes complete song lyrics; full guitar parts in standard notation, tablature, and chord diagrams; and detailed notes on song origins. Includes: All the Pretty Little Horses Shoo Fly This Old Man The More We Get Together Down in the Valley Mockingbird My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Make New Friends The Bear Went Over the Mountain Over in the Meadow Kookaburra Jenny Jenkins Brahms' Lullaby Happy and You Know It Golden Slumbers
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Explore Alternate Tunings is your expert guide for the world beyond standard guitar tuning. The master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine help you get oriented in ten popular tunings, and share chords and songs drawn from blues, folk, Celtic, Hawaiian, and classical traditions. This comprehensive guide is available in two different formats: Book & CD package: 70 pages with written instruction, notation and tab, plus accompanying audio instruction available as companion CD. PDF & Audio Download package: Downloadable version featuring the complete written instruction (including standard notation and tablature) from the book, plus accompanying audio instruction. Includes: GET STARTED D-D Tuning. By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers. Dropping the Third String. By David Hodge. Accompaniment in Open G and Open D. By Mark Hanson. Intro to D A D G A D. By Doug Young. MOVE ON Explore D A D G A D. By Doug Young. Hawaiian Slack -Key Guitar. By Fran Guidry. C G D G B E Tuning. By Sean McGowan. Orkney Tuning. By Steve Baughman. High-Strung Tuning. By Doug Young. BONUS SONGS Prelude from the Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. By Patrick Francis. Old Joe Clark. By Joe Miller. Hi'ilawe. By Patrick Landeza.
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Get answers to all your acoustic amplification questions with Acoustic Guitar Amplification Essentials: Complete Edition - the ultimate guide to amplifying your acoustic guitar. Learn how to use monitors, PAs, EQ, and effects. Discover the differences between the various pickups, the strengths of each, and how to install them. Learn how to choose and position microphones to capture your guitar's natural tone. Contains 146 minutes of video. By Doug Young. Includes: Introduction to Amplifying Acoustic Guitars All About Pickups Acoustic Preamps Pickup Installation Using Microphones Amplifiers and PA Systems Equalization and Effects Monitors
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Learn an easy version of the children's classic, with tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, and complete lyrics, arranged by Peter Penhallow.
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Steve James, one of today's leading roots-music performers, recording artists, and teachers, presents a treasure trove of traditional American guitar styles in this unique series. Guitarists will learn fingerpicking and slide techniques not through dry exercises but by playing from James' own repertoire and from such masters as Furry Lewis, Blind Willie McTell, Sam McGee, and Mance Lipscomb. Drawing on his extensive research and first-hand experience with these guitar pioneers, James tells the stories behind the songs, too. This comprehensive guide is available in two different formats: Book & Audio Download package: 88 pages with written instruction, notation and tab for 25 songs, plus accompanying audio instruction performed by Steve James, available to download. PDF & Video Download package: Downloadable version featuring the written instruction, standard notation and tablature for 12 songs, plus accompanying video instruction performed by Steve James. Includes: FUNDAMENTALS Alternating-Bass Fingerpicking Open Tunings Bottleneck Slide SONGS AND STYLES Eight Views on the Blues Back to the Country Naturals: Sam McGee and Furry Lewis SONGS Railroad Bill Take Me Back Milwaukee Blues Things About Comin' My Way Jack O' Diamonds Way Out on the Desert Spanish Fandango Liberty Bear Creek Hop Amos Johnson Rag Guitar Rag Railroad Blues Sugar Babe Sebastopol John Henry Crow Jane Roll and Tumble Stack Lee’s Blues Blues in A Buddy Bolden’s Blues I Got to Cross That river of Jordan Spanish Fandango (Revisited) Buckdancer’s Choice Judge Harsh Blues I Will Turn Your Money Green "This is probably the best single book of basic American rural fingerstyles."—Sing Out!
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Study, play, and perform Fernando Sor's solo-guitar étude "Estudio 5," arranged for four guitars. Includes complete score and four individual guitar parts in both tablature and standard music notation. With audio recordings for each guitar part and the complete score. By Ruth Parry
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Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this traditional, easy-to-play Irish song. PDF & Audio: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and audio for the song -- played slowly and up to speed. PDF & Video: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and 5 minutes of instructional video. By Danny Carnahan
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Learn an easy version of the holiday classic. Includes: Tab Standard notation Chord diagrams Complete lyrics Audio for accompaniment and melody, played slowly and up-to-speed By Peter Penhallow
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Learn to play in open-G and open-D tunings like blues greats Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Robert Johnson, and others. Master chord patterns and slide licks. Play double-stop melodies. With 18 minutes of video instruction by Orville Johnson.
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Learn an American folk song for beginning guitar, with tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and audio. Arranged by Peter Penhallow.
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Learn to play a classic jazz song with this guitar arrangement. Guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, and audio. By David Hamburger
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Learn to play a classic jazz song with this guitar arrangement. Guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, and audio. By David Hamburger
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Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this traditional, easy-to-play Irish song. PDF & Audio: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and audio for the song -- played slowly and up to speed. PDF & Video: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and 5 minutes of instructional video. By Danny Carnahan
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Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this traditional, easy-to-play Irish song. PDF & Audio: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and audio for the song -- played slowly and up to speed. PDF & Video: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and 5 minutes of instructional video. By Danny Carnahan
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Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this traditional, easy-to-play Irish song. PDF & Audio: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and audio for the song -- played slowly and up to speed. PDF & Video: Downloadable guide includes tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, complete lyrics, and 5 minutes of instructional video. By Danny Carnahan
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Get complete music and lyrics to the traditional song, "Little Willie." Learn Jody Stecher's style of flatpicking accompaniment and melody playing. Your guide includes six minutes of video. By Jody Stecher.
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Learn to play guitar the fun and easy way, right from the beginning. Whether your passions lie in rock, jazz, fingerstyle, blues, or any other style of music, this guide will introduce you to chords, melodies, and rhythmic patterns you need to start playing today. In Lesson 2 of The Beginner's Guide to Guitar, you'll learn a three-note C chord, notes on the guitar's second string, half-note rhythms, how to change chords while strumming, proper fretting finger technique, plus four easy songs to play on two strings. Includes: Chord Library: How to play C major Learning Pitches: Notes on the second string Reading Rhythms: Half notes and rests Songs to Play: Four songs played on two strings Strumming Sessions: How to change chords while strumming Practical Advice: Proper fretting-hand and picking technique
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Learn to play traditional folk songs for babies and toddlers, with tab, standard notation, and chord diagrams arranged by Peter Penhallow.
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Learn to play traditional folk songs for babies and toddlers, with tab, standard notation, and chord diagrams arranged by Peter Penhallow.
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Learn an easy version of the children's classic, with tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, and complete lyrics, arranged by Peter Penhallow.
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Learn 15 easy versions of holiday classics, with tab, standard notation, chord diagrams, and complete lyrics. Contains audio for accompaniment and melody, played slowly and up-to-speed. Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High Away in a Manger Deck the Halls God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Hark! The Herald Angels Sing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Jingle Bells Joy to the World O Christmas Tree O Come All Ye Faithful Silent Night The First Noel We Three Kings of Orient Are We Wish You a Merry Christmas What Child Is This?
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