Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes - Beautiful American Airs & Ballads
Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes - Beautiful American Airs & Ballads

Author: Raymond Gonzalez

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2022-03-30

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1513459171

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This collection presents 22 lyrical American tunes including traditional 19th century songs, melodies from the WWII era, and modern-day pieces by William Bay, president of Mel Bay Publications. Whether it’s a Civil War ballad or a jazz inspired tone poem, Raymond Gonzalez has a gift for creating unique settings that occasionally blend harmonics with normally fretted notes and open strings. The end result is a flowing melody/chord/bass arrangement that is challenging but accessible to the intermediate guitarist. All of the notation and tab settings in this book appear in standard or dropped-D tuning and are suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar performance. To keep page clutter to a minimum, the reader is referred to the tablature for string, fret, and harmonic locations. Includes access to online audio of every tune recorded by the author.

Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes - Beautiful American Airs & Ballads
Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes - Beautiful American Airs & Ballads

Author: Raymond Gonzalez

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Published: 2022-03-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781513468624

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This collection presents 22 lyrical American tunes including traditional 19th century songs, melodies from the WWII era, and modern-day pieces by William Bay, president of Mel Bay Publications.Whether it's a Civil War ballad or a jazz inspired tone poem, Raymond Gonzalez has a gift for creating unique settings that occasionally blend harmonics with normally fretted notes and open strings. The end result is a flowing melody/chord/bass arrangement that is challenging but accessible to the intermediate guitarist.All of the notation and tab settings in this book appear in standard or dropped-D tuning and are suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar performance. To keep page clutter to a minimum, the reader is referred to the tablature for string, fret, and harmonic locations. Includes access to online audio of every tune recorded by the author.

Gorgeous Melodies for Fingerpicking Guitar
Gorgeous Melodies for Fingerpicking Guitar

Author: El McMeen

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2023-12-13

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1513476890

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The name of this book is no exaggeration. It includes some of the most gorgeous music that the authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk know. To make things even more interesting, none of the music was originally written for guitar! In addition to Celtic favorites, El includes his arrangements of two of the most beautiful arias in all of opera: "Che Gelida Manina" from Puccini's "La Boheme" and "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" (“Mon Coeur S'ouvre à ta Voix”) from "Samson and Delilah" by Camille Saint-Saëns. Sandy's contributions range from Celtic to French love songs to Stephen Foster, manifesting Sandy's gift for chordal subtleties and innovation. Each piece is in either standard tuning (EADGBE) or Drop D tuning (DADGBE). Written in standard notation and tablature with computer generated audio files of each arrangement.

Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD
Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD

Author: Doug Young

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1619114887

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Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD shows how fingerstyle guitarists can use DADGADtuning to play traditional tunes, including twenty-four complete arrangements ofcommon American, Irish and Scottish ballads, airs, jigs and reels. The bookexplores techniques and patterns for playing melodies across the strings, producing a harp-like effect that adds a distinctive and beautiful character to traditional melodies. In addition to building repertoire, the material demonstrates ways to arrange your own melodies or even write your own tunes based on thetechniques provided. This is a perfect follow-up for guitarists who have studiedUnderstanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar and are looking for tunes to learn, or for those who want to go deeper into harp-style playing. It is also an excellent introduction for those who prefer to just dive head-first into DADGAD by learning some classic tunes

Songs of Wales for Fingerstyle Guitar
Songs of Wales for Fingerstyle Guitar

Author: Luke Edwards

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 151345935X

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In this unique solo fingerstyle guitar collection, Luke Edwards presents 17 melodies from the Celtic nation of Wales, The Land of Song, sheep and dragons and birthplace of Merlin the wizard. With arrangements derived from ancient to more modern traditional tunes, this book provides a glimpse into a fascinating musical culture. Often overlooked in comparison to neighboring Scotland and Ireland, the music of Wales is rich and multifaceted. This book covers a variety of traditional Welsh genres including hymns, lullabies, hornpipes, fiddle tunes, and even a selection from The Robert Ap Huw Manuscript of 1340, the oldest known example of harp music in the world. As all of the arrangements were made in guitar-friendly keys in either standard or drop-D tuning, they can be readily combined into sets for performance. Written in both standard notation and tablature, historical notes and complete right and left-hand fingerings are provided throughout. Recommended for the intermediate to advanced guitarist, the collection includes access to online audio.

All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Fingerstyle Guitar Solos
All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Fingerstyle Guitar Solos

Author: Mike McAdoo

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2023-10-24

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1513472860

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This book presents easy to intermediate fingerstyle guitar arrangements of 19 familiar folk and gospel favorites. Some of these creative settings reflect the influence of Chet Atkins’ alternating bass lines, while a few present mildly challenging syncopated rhythms. All lies well on the fretboard, the result of the author’s years of arranging experience and dedication to the guitar. Every tune is set in a guitar-friendly key and shown in both standard notation and tablature. For ease of learning, this book includes access to online audio, expertly played by the author.

Celtic guitar
Celtic guitar

Author: Glenn Weiser

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780769296807

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Forty beautiful Celtic melodies arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. All the songs are arranged to be easily playable. Most of the songs are in standard tuning plus there is an additional section in DADGAD tuning. A CD is included featuring all the songs.

Complete Fingerstyle Guitar Book
Complete Fingerstyle Guitar Book

Author: Stefan Grossman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2020-01-24

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1619119765

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This comprehensive text covers the spectrum of fingerpicking technique and styles. Performance and stylistic notes, fingerstyle guitar solos and a listening guide are presented for each section of the book. Sections include: Folk Songs; Gospel Songs; Country Blues; Ragtime Blues; Rags and Dances; Appalachian Fiddle Tunes; Celtic Airs; Jigs and Reels; Classic Rags; Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar & Fingerstyle Guitar Duets. All solos are in notation and tablature and are written by noted fingerpicking guitarists Stefan Grossman, Elizabeth Cotten, Dean Sires, Ton Van Bergeyk, David Laibman, Rev. Gary Davis, Duck Baker, Seth Austen, Steve Tilston, John Morris, Sid Percy, Tom O'Farrell, Jim McLennan, Leo Wijnkamp Jr., Lasse Johansson and Claes Palmqvist.

Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes - Christmas in the British Isles
Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes - Christmas in the British Isles

Author: Raymond Gonzalez

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2022-10-05

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1513471325

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Christmas Carols in the British Isles presents 20 songs from the Renaissance through early 20th century. It includes familiar compositions such as the “Coventry Carol”, “Away in a Manger”, and the “Wexford Carol”, and incorporates some lovely pieces that may be new to the listener. The melodies for these lyrical pieces appear in their most easily recognized form before any variation is presented. Raymond Gonzalez has a gift for combining traditional harmonies with occasional harmonic and rhythmic twists, providing freshness, color, and new life to familiar tunes. All arrangements are in standard or dropped-D tuning, suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar performance and should be comfortably accessible to the intermediate guitarist. The reader is referred to the tablature for string, fret, and harmonic locations. The book includes access to online audio of every tune recorded by the author.

Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar
Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar

Author: Stefan Grossman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1610655060

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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.