Series in Guitar
Books in Guitar
Essential Elements for Guitar - Book 1(With: Will Schmid)
The Ultimate Beginner Guitar Method * Essential Elements for Guitar – Book 1 is a comprehensive learning resource designed for beginners. Developed by Will Schmid and Bob Morris, this structured method teaches guitar chords, music theory, sight-reading, and ensemble playing, helping students build a solid foundation in guitar performance. * * Step-by-Step Learning with Popular Songs * This book features carefully sequenced lessons, ensuring gradual skill development through fun and engaging exercises. It includes cross-curricular activities, quizzes, improvisation techniques, and well-known songs in various styles. * * Perfect for Music Teachers and Self-Learners * Whether used in private lessons, classrooms, or self-study, this book meets the National Standards for Music Education. The combination of classic tunes and modern teaching techniques makes it an excellent resource for aspiring guitarists. * * Songs Included * All My Loving * Amazing Grace * American Pie * Au Clair De La Lune * Aura Lee * Can You Feel The Love Tonight * C.C. Rider * Corrina * Danny Boy * De Colores * The Drunken Sailor * Duke Of Earl * Dust In The Wind * Eleanor Rigby * Every Breath You Take * Fanfare Rondeau * For He's A Jolly Good Fellow * Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) * Give My Regards To Broadway * Good Mornin' Blues * Greensleeves * He's Got The Whole World In His Hands * Hey Jude * Hound Dog * I Gave My Love A Cherry (The Riddle Song) * Jambalaya (On The Bayou) * Jingle Bells * Joshua (Fit The Battle Of Jericho) * Let It Be * Low Rider * Marianne * Midnight Special * Minuet In G * Move It On Over * Ode To Joy * Pay Me My Money Down * Rainbow Connection * Ramblin' 'Round * The Red River Valley * Rock Around The Clock * Rockin' Robin * Scarborough Fair * Shenandoah * Simple Gifts * Sinner Man * Snake Charmer * Stand By Me * The Star-Spangled Banner * Surfin' U.S.A. * Sweet Home Chicago * and more.
Let Them Talk
Hugh Laurie - Let Them Talk 15 Classical Blues Songs Pvg Series: Music Sales America Medium: Softcover Piano/Voice/Guitar
The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music
"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues period of the 1920s had rich antecedents going back further than plantation orchestras featuring fiddles and bajos. The introduction of the guitar, at first not a solo instrument, really demonstrated rhythmic ingenuity. Sallis shows how folk music and a cross-fertilization of traditions and techniques resulted in blues, ragtime, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country-western. He writes eloquently about fourteen transitional or pivotal performers: the Mississippi Sheiks; Lonnie Johnson, the first virtuoso blues guitarist; Eddie Lang, the first great jazz guitarist; Roy Smeck, the foremost popularizer of guitar playing; Charlie Christian, the founder of modern jazz guitar; Riley Puckett, the first great country-music guitarist; T-Bone Walker, "daddy of the blues"; George Barnes; Hank Garland; Wes Montgomery, the jazz innovator; Mike Bloomfield, the heavy-rock guitarist; Ry Cooder; Ralph Towner; and Lenny Breau.
The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology
The Guitar in Jazz presents in rich, entertaining detail the history and development of the guitar as a jazz instrument. In a series of essays by some of jazz’s leading historians and critics, the volume traces the impressive evolution of jazz guitar playing, from the pioneering styles of Nick Lucas and Eddie Lang through the recent innovations of such contemporary masters as Jim Hall and Ralph Towner. Editor James Sallis has included essays that focus on individual guitarists, including Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, and JoePass. Other chapters vividly describe important jazz guitar styles, such as swing guitar and fingerstyle guitar. In all, The Guitar in Jazz provides a full and captivating portrait of the guitar’s place in jazz. The book also offers insights into the larger history of jazz—its development, the social contexts in which the music came into being, and its eventual recognition as "the American classical music." The essays will appeal to guitar players and enthusiasts, and to all jazz lovers.
With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars
For thirty-five years, bestselling author and accomplished musician Jonathan Kellerman has been, as he puts it in his Introduction to this lavishly illustrated, endlessly fascinating volume, “chasing fabulous sound.” The result of that quest is a world-class collection of guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments that number more than 120 . . . and counting. Kellerman takes us on a fascinating guided tour through his collection, complete with rich personal histories of his favorite instruments and of the brilliant, often eccentric craftsmen and musicians who brought them to life. It is a record of one man’s lifelong love affair with the guitar . . . and it is much, much more. Whether writing about household names such as Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Dobro or about marques revered by aficionados–D’Angelico, Hauser, Stromberg, and Torres–Kellerman brings to bear the same sure storytelling instincts and keen attention to detail that characterize his bestselling fiction, making each entry a sparkling mini-essay as much to be savored as the sensual photographs that follow. Your fingers won’t be walking through With Strings Attached . They’ll be strumming. Picking. Stroking. And dancing.