(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook includes all 15 songs from the 2006 release, Jackson's first ever gospel album. Songs: Blessed Assurance * How Great Thou Art * I'll Fly Away * In the Garden * The Old Rugged Cross * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.

The Concert Performer Series brings you 18 well-known piano pieces, beautifully presented on strong, high-sheen card, complete with a special CD-Rom which contains both audio and MIDI to help you practise for a truly great performance. About the CD: Track 1 contains an audio concert performance. This track is playable on any CD player or computer equipped with a CD-Rom drive and audio CD player software. Track 2 is a special audio 'study track', on which you'll hear the same performance as Track 1 at a slower speed. Listening to and playing along with this track can help you resolve questions of rhythm and interpretation as you are learning the piece. MIDI data is provided for both Macintosh and PC. In order to use these files, you must have software and hardware designed to play and/or edit MIDI files. The file is a type 1 standard MIDI file (SMF) and is completely compatible with most current hardware and software sequencers and players. The instrument assignments conform to the General MIDI Standard. Mute one of the channels to practise one hand alone. Change the tempo or even transpose the whole piece to a new key. Add an orchestral or rock background - the possibilities are endless!

A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England This book is the first to explore the popularity and novelty of the guitar in Georgian England, noting its impact on the social, cultural, and musical history of the period. The instrument possessed an imagery as rich as its uses were varied; it emerged as a potent symbol of Romanticism and was incorporated into poetry, portraiture, and drama. In addition, British and Irish soldiers returning from war in Spain and Portugal brought with them knowledge of the Spanish guitar and its connotations of stylish masculinity. Christopher Page presents entirely new scholarship in order to place the guitar within a multifaceted context, drawing from recently digitized original source material. The Guitar in Georgian England champions an instrument whose importance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often overlooked.

(Guitar Solo). The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book also includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar. Songs include: Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Don't Know Why * Endless Love * Every Breath You Take * I'll Be * Imagine * Leader of the Band * Let It Be * My Heart Will Go On * Piano Man * Stand by Me * Wonderful Tonight * and more.

Tab transcriptions for 22 tunes from the original shred master who brought the neo-classical style into the forefront of the metal movement. Songs include: Bedroom Eyes * Black Star * Deja Vu * Dreaming (Tell Me) * Eclipse * Far Beyond the Sun * Heaven Tonight * I'll See the Light Tonight * Icarus Dream Suite Opus 4 * Liar * Marching Out * Rising Force * You Don't Remember I'll Never Forget * more.

Master the mechanics of single-string technique with this clear concise book and feel the creative freedom that comes when your fingers easily express any musical idea you conceive. Includes: Alternate, economy, sweep, outside, and inside picking . Precise string damping and muting for clear punchy tone . Anticipating and preventing fingering glitches . Scales, modes, triad and 7th arpeggios with inversions . CAGED system fretboard navigation . Intervallic exercises from 3rds through 7ths, with sequencing permutations to keep your fingers and brain working for years to come . Developing natural phrasing senses . Breaking down the learning and memorization process . Making sure practice time produces results . Sprint training regimen for efficiently building speed . Examples notated and tabbed with exact picking and fingering . Password to download audio of all 114 examples.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Seven-song matching folio with an introduction and 8 pages of color photos. Includes: Bad Horsie * Juice * Die to Live * The Boy from Seattle * Ya-Yo Gakk * Kill the Guy With the Ball/The God Eaters * Tender Surrender.

EBoutique Acoustics: 180 Years of Hand-Built GuitarsE tells the history behind the important acoustic guitar makers a some recognizable some obscure a who all have played a key part in the evolution of the instrument and the myriad acoustic guitar models we have on the market today. The book covers the birth of the steel-string the rise of small factories the advent of one-man shops the origins of various trends in guitar construction a the design of cutaways; the use of a variety of woods polishes and other aesthetic detailing; and the incorporation of high-tech materials such as carbon fiber and Nomex a and more. Makers covered include Ashborn Bohmann Bruno Gibson Guild Tilton Washburn Martin Bozo Gallagher Ernie Ball Klein Taylor Bourgeois Tony Yamamoto Zimnicki and others. Also included in this lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive guide to every significant US maker descriptions of the most popular styles and a detailed reference section about boutique guitar models.

A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books in one volume!

Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns.

When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques.

Songs include:

• Bury Me Beneath the Willow
• Delia
• Frankie and Johnny
• The Girl I Left Behind Me
• House of the Rising Sun
• Ida Red
• In the Pines
• Little Sadie
• Man of Constant Sorrow
• Sally Goodin
• Scarborough Fair
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
  and many more.

All audio tracks are available for download as instructed in the book!

Are you ready to design the ax of your dreams? Unlike other DIY guitar making sources (which deal with woodworking, mostly) this book focuses on how to achieve astonishing looks, excellent playability and a killer sound. Written collaboratively with top luthiers from the U.S. and Europe, this inspiring book covers in depth each aspect of electric guitar design, plus topics not found on other sources, like: - How to design a classic, how to design a radical - Thousand-year wisdom applied on Stratocasters and Les Pauls - Secrets of sustain - How to create a well balancing guitar - Ergonomics - How to choose, match and place pickups - Control design - The 4 laws of wood selection ... And much more. These 220 pages will have you making sketches from the first read

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Iconic jazz/blues guitarist Robben Ford has played with a wide range of artists including Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, The Yellowjackets, George Harrison, and many more. This collection features guitar tab for 17 of his best-known songs, including: Busted Up * Chevrolet * Get Away * Homework * I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues * Mama Talk to Your Daughter * Nothing to Nobody * Revelation * Step on It * Tell Me I'm Your Man * You Cut Me to the Bone * and more.

Modern Guitar Rigs covers topics of interest to guitarists looking to build pro-level rigs that move beyond a simple pedal board and combo amp. Whether you're playing clubs at the indie band level, getting set for a major tour, heading into the studio to record a new album, or just searching for ultimate tone, this revised and updated edition brings you the most current and effective sound-shaping tools and techniques, including: * Amp setups: integrating pedals and rack gear, wet/dry/wet configurations, modelling amps and profilers, rack-mounted amps, stereo rigs, and audio looping systems * Rack gear: multi-effects processors and dedicated signal processors, audio loopers, amp function switching systems, and MIDI foot controllers * Guitar options: piezoelectric pickups and splitting guitar signals to multiple amps * Effects loops: choosing the right loop for your specific needs * Rig infrastructure: power conditioning, noise suppression, power attenuators, wireless systems, custom cabling, and equipment racks * Rigs of the stars: a look at the complex rigs used by many leading guitar players, including John Petrucci of Dream Theater, Alex Lifeson of Rush, and Steven Wilson and John Wesley of Porcupine Tree * Interviews with leading custom rig builders, including the legendary Bob Bradshaw of Custom Audio Electronics.

(Worship Musician Presents). As opposed to a systematic pedagogy for bass playing (many such resources already exist), The Worship Bass Book is a fun and informal, yet extremely practical, resource for bassists playing in the worship environment. Acclaimed bassist and music educator Norm Stockton covers a broad range of topics in bite-size chunks, allowing players to emerge with solid perspectives and a practical understanding of effective bass playing in a rhythm section. Players at all levels will find helpful insight into topics, including phrasing, a passion for the groove, tools of the trade, fingerboard familiarity, musical styles, slap and tap techniques, bass and drum synergy, solo bass arranging, real-world groove lessons, and much more.

Inventing the American Guitar is the first book to describe the early history of American guitar design in detail. It tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar. This transformation happened within a mere 20 years, a remarkably brief period. The person who dominates this history is C. F. Martin Sr., America's first major guitar maker and the founder of the Martin Guitar Company, which continues to produce outstanding flat-top guitars today. After emigrating from his native Saxony to New York in 1833, Martin quickly established a guitar making business, producing instruments modelled after those of his mentor, Johann Stauffer of Vienna. By the time he moved his family and business to rural Pennsylvania in 1839, Martin had absorbed and integrated the influence of Spanish guitars he had seen and heard in New York. In Pennsylvania, he evolved further, inventing a uniquely American guitar that was fully developed before the outbreak of the Civil War. Inventing the American Guitar traces Martin's evolution as a craftsman and entrepreneur and explores the influences and experiments that led to his creation of the American guitar that is recognised and played around the world today.