Unleash the creative potential of your guitar, and express your imagination through your music! This inspiring, practical and fun approach to composing and improvising will develop your sense of dynamics, articulation, rhythm, melodic direction and musical E.S.P. Think out of the box, and journey inside this truly unique collection of creative resources for the curious guitarist. Your guitar will thank you! "A wonderful book by a very special musician." - Mike Stern

80 songs presented with simply their chords and lyrics for easy strumming fun: Alison * American Pie * Annie's Song * Closer to Fine * Constant Craving * Dust in the Wind * Here Comes the Sun * Me and Bobby McGee * Mrs. Robinson * Nights in White Satin * Somebody to Love * Tangled Up in Blue * Time in a Bottle * Vincent * You Were Meant for Me * You've Got a Friend * and more.

13 head-banging hits spanning the career of this British rock star.

(Easy Guitar). 20 of Johnson's legendary blues classics arranged for easy guitar in standard notation and tablature: Come on in My Kitchen * Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) * From Four Until Late * I Believe I'll Dust My Broom * I'm a Steady Rollin' Man * Kind Hearted Woman Blues * Ramblin' on My Mind * Sweet Home Chicago * Traveling Riverside Blues * Walkin' Blues * When You Got a Good Friend * and more.

An introduction to country bass for electric or upright players. This book/CD pack is an insider's look at country bass playing on stage and in the studio. The book includes lessons and music in the style of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzel, Marty Stuart, David Ball, and more. The CD includes 35 songs with full band backing. You'll learn classic and modern country bass lines, how to be a studio bassist, how to read music with the Nashville Number System, and more! A killer country primer.' Bass Player magazine

(Piano). This eight-movement suite was written by composer Tan Dun when he was a student in 1978-1979, about the time he left his home in Hunan to study at the conservatory in Beijing. He was homesick, and wrote this suite as a diary of his longing, while also being immersed in studying Western classical and modern music. Twenty years after its composition, pianist Lang Lang premiered the suite at the Kennedy Center in 2003, and he also played it at Carnegie Hall, in a performance recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.

The term burst has been used to describe a specific Gibson Les Paul guitar manufactured from 1958 to 1960. The impact of this guitar has and continues to shake the music world. For dozens of guitar idols who've played it - and those fortunate enough to have owned one or more - the Gibson Les Paul Sunburst possesses a mystique and magic not found in any other electric guitar. With its unique sound, spectacular beauty and playability, the burst has shaped the landscape of the blues/rock genre as we know it today. The Burst Believers in this book - Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons, Kirk Hammett, Rick Nielsen, Waddy Wachtel, Slash, Steve Lukather, the Burst Brothers and many more - have been kind enough to share their experiences and stories that you will enjoy reading. These recollections, plus hundreds of fantastic colour photographs and a serial number index, make this book a must for players and collectors everywhere.

Guitar Workout is an intensive, comprehensive program that will increase your speed, agility, and creativity. This is the ultimate workout for any guitarist who wants to accelerate and articulate their speed picking! Train like a professional while gaining a greater understanding of the diatonic major scale, scale harmony, and the picking technique needed to play super-fast licks and riffs with melodic intelligence and creativity. Internationally renowned guitarist John Heussenstamm leads you through rigorous single-note warm-up exercises, speed drills, fingering patterns, sweeps, arpeggios, and melody construction.

(Easy Guitar). Over 150 of the Beatles' greatest, arranged for easy guitar. Songs include: All You Need Is Love * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Day in the Life * Help * Nowhere Man * Yesterday * more.

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Our matching folio to Slipknot's eponymous major label debut features these Des Moines masked marauders at their mega-aggro best Includes photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 14 songs: Diluted * Eeyore * Eyeless * Liberate * Me Inside * No Life * Only One * Prosthetics * Scissors * (Sic) * Spit It Out * Surfacing * Tattered and Torn * Wait and Bleed.

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning folk guitar. This book uses popular folk songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carter Family, Peter Paul & Mary, John Denver, and many others. You'll learn: basic strumming; strumming variations; Carter-style flatpicking; bass runs; basic fingerstyle patterns; alternating thumb patterns; flatpicking solos; hammer-ons and pull-offs; fingerpicking solos; using a capo; I-IV-V chord families; and much more. Songs include: Blowin' in the Wind * Freight Train * The House of the Rising Sun * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Little Boxes * Puff the Magic Dragon * Scarborough Fair * This Land Is Your Land * Tom Dooley * Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There Is a Season) * and more.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Disney's Tangled is a story of adventure, heart, humor and hair lots of hair. The soundtrack matches the fun & adventure of the film, with original songs and score from legendary, 8-time Academy Award -winning composer Alan Menken and Tony and Grammy nominee Glenn Slater. Features Mandy Moore singing on several of the songs, and Grace Potter performing her hit "Something That I Want." Also includes: Healing Incantation * I See the Light * I've Got a Dream * Mother Knows Best * and When Will My Life Begin, plus a stunning section of full-color art

(Guitar Method). Learn to master the entire guitar fretboard with the Guitar Chords, Scales & Arpeggio Finder . This comprehensive reference guide contains three voicings for the 31 most important chord types, diagrams for 17 essential scales types, and 28 arpeggio qualities for each key presented in four different shapes. Basic music theory is also included to assist in using this book. An ideal supplement to any guitar method

(Bass Method). The Hal Leonard Blues Bass Method is your complete guide to learning blues bass. This book and CD package uses classic blues songs and standards to teach you how to lay down your own solid blues bass lines. Learn to play by studying the songs of famous bluesmen such as B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan (Tommy Lee Shannon), Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, The Allman Brothers, Otis Rush, T-Bone Walker, Louis Jordan, and many more. Learn actual riffs from blues classics including: Born Under a Bad Sign * Hideaway * Hoochie Coochie Man * Killing Floor * Pride and Joy * Sweet Home Chicago * The Thrill Is Gone * and more.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Matching folio to the classic album now available through Hal Leonard. Songs include: I Feel the Earth Move * It's Too Late * (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman * You've Got a Friend * and more.

(Mandolin). Features more than 40 traditional favorites arranged specifically for mandolin Includes: Arkansas Traveler * The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn) * Buffalo Gals * The Crawdad Song * (I Wish I Was In) Dixie * Give Me That Old Time Religion * Good Night Ladies * Home on the Range * I've Been Working on the Railroad * John Brown's Body * John Henry * Kumbaya * Man of Constant Sorrow * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * My Old Kentucky Home * Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen * Oh Susanna * Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) * The Old Gray Mare * She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain * Turkey in the Straw * The Wabash Cannon Ball * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * When the Saints Go Marching In * Worried Man Blues * Yankee Doodle * The Yellow Rose of Texas * and more