This edition contains all the scales and arpeggios required for the Grades 6-8 ABRSM Guitar exams. Provides suggested fingering and a helpful introduction including advice on exam preparation.

Time Pieces for Guitar is a two-volume anthology of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements of music from the 13th century to the present day. The pieces are presented chronologically within each volume and include the year in which they were written, so you get a sense of the different styles of music through time. These volumes feature contrasting styles, from Machaut to Bernstein and from Purcell to Granados. Also includes duos for pupil and teacher.

Team Strings is firmly established as a leading series of string tutors. It presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each student, ideal for individual, group and class tuition - including the ABRSM music medals. The books in the series contain plenty of carefully graded music in a wide range of styles, from Baroque and Classical eras to film, folk, jazz and Latin American. The series encourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire and develops instrument-related aural skills, improvisation and composition. Included are scales and arpeggios and downloadable online audio of over 70 backing tracks to make every student feel like a star performer. Team Strings is available for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass all of which are compatible. There is also a separate book of Piano Accompaniments/Score. All of the books in the series are fully integrated allowing students using Team Strings to play in ensembles with students using Team Brass and Team Woodwind.

This is The Life is the official album-matching songbook to Amy MacDonald's debut, including all the songs from the album arranged for piano, voice and guitar and includes four pages of colour photographs. Scottish teen singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald has had a phenomenal rise to fame since appearing at 2007's Glastonbury festival. Heralded as the next KT Tunstall or Katie Melua, she posesses a talent way beyond her years, with an amazingly strong vocal, expertly-crafted songs and a traditional acoustic folk-rock sound. Her first single Mr Rock 'n' Roll topped the Scottish charts and went top 10 in the UK Singles Charts as did this debut album.

This fabulous collection features 34 of Elton's all-time greatest hits, including: Bennie and the Jets * The Bitch Is Back * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Candle in the Wind * Crocodile Rock * Don't Go Breaking My Heart * Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * Honky Cat * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * I'm Still Standing * Philadelphia Freedom * Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) * Sad Songs (Say So Much) * Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) * Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word * Tiny Dancer * Your Song * and more!

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). Over 50 Disney delights, including: The Ballad of Davy Crockett * The Bare Necessities * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo * Candle on the Water * Chim Chim Cher-ee * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * Heigh-Ho (The Dwarfs' Marching Song) * It's a Small World * Kiss the Girl * The Siamese Cat Song * Someday My Prince Will Come * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Under the Sea * When You Wish Upon a Star * Winnie the Pooh * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah * and more.

This exceptional songbook presents Bill Evans' most beloved melodies and songs arranged by noted jazz pianist/educator Andy LaVerne, himself a student of Evans. Titles include: Bill's Hit Tune * Children's Play Song * For Nenette (in both C and Db) * Laurie * Letter to Evan * One for Helen * Only Child * Orbit * Peace Piece * Show-Type Tune * Time Remembered * Turn Out the Stars * Very Early * Walkin' Up * Waltz for Debby * Your Story * and more. Features a reminiscence by LaVerne, with performance notes on his adaptations.

The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.

This book brings together, for the first time, nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 3 Guitar syllabus from 2019. The pieces - two solos and one duet chosen from each of lists A, B and C - have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information. Recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 3 syllabus are available. These can be purchased as part of the Guitar Exam Pieces with CD package or as audio downloads (see www.abrsmdownloads.org for more details). ABRSM also offers a range of apps to support musical learning, available from www.abrsm.org/apps. Support material for ABRSM Guitar exams [GEPs with CD] [Scales] [Specimen sight-reading] [Specimen aural tests]

This book brings together, for the first time, nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 1 Guitar syllabus from 2019. The pieces - two solos and one duet chosen from each of lists A, B and C - have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information. Recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 1 syllabus are available. These can be purchased as part of the Guitar Exam Pieces with CD package or as audio downloads (see www.abrsmdownloads.org for more details). ABRSM also offers a range of apps to support musical learning, available from www.abrsm.org/apps. Support material for ABRSM Guitar exams [GEPs with CD] [Scales] [Specimen sight-reading] [Specimen aural tests]

(Berklee Labs). Effective improvisation can add fun and individuality to guitar performances. This book presents a unique improvisation strategy based on ear training and a linear interpretation of note/chord relationships. You'll learn how to: develop an expectation of sound * master the relationships between notes, modes and harmonies * improvise over jazz standards * identify pitch tendencies within chord progressions * and more.

(String Letter Publishing). Learn the art of fingerstyle jazz guitar with these 12 insightful lessons. With chapters aimed at building chord vocabulary, separating bass and melody voices, and improvisation in the style of jazz guitar greats like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass, this book is your guide to building and playing great solo guitar arrangements of songs from the classic jazz-standard repertoire. Complete with jazz interpretations of traditional songs. Lessons include audio downloads, standard notation and tablature for all examples and songs, and much more.

(Fretted). Classical ukulele player Tony Mizen has arranged 22 of the best-loved pieces from the Baroque era for reentrant GCEA tuning. This includes well-known works by J.S. Bach, Corelli, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell and even an entire concerto by Vivaldi. All arrangements feature ukulele tablature and standard notation. Includes an overview of the music of the Baroque era and notes on each of the individual pieces. The CD contains beautiful performances of all of the arrangements by Mizen.

(Music Sales America). An illustrated volume of storybook and holiday songs, lullabies, marches, and rounds. Easy-to-read lyrics, piano arrangments, and guitar chords. Includes: Simple Simon * Take Me Out to the Ballgame * This Old Man * and more.