John Zaradin Jazz for the Classical Guitar PDF. A superb selection of jazz favourites arranged for classical guitar by John Zaradin. These arrangements provide the classical guitar players with an opportunity to add an impressive collection of jazz standards to their repertoire. The pieces are arranged as solos, offering the player scope to develop individual improvisations. Each selection is helpfully annotated with playing hints. John Zaradin is Europe’s foremost player of classical Brazilian guitar music. His early training at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire has combined with his deep involvement and love of the music...

Guitar Legendary Licks Classical Guitar Favorites dvd download. An in-depth visual guide to playing six well-known classical guitar pieces, featuring on-screen tablature for every piece. Discover this revolutionary way to learn pieces such as Bach’s Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring or the wonderful Malaguena, and get your classical guitar skills off the ground without having to read any complicated notation! This is an excellent instruction DVD. Danny Gill does a great job presenting 6 well known pieces.The video is very clear so you can see the action of both hands. This DVD is targeted at Intermediate level guitarists. Danny...

Ben Bolt Getting Into Classic Guitar PDF. This manual is designed for beginners who want to learn classic guitar style and technique the right way, as well as for guitarists already familiar with a few technical concepts who want to broaden their knowledge. Includes a ‘crash-course’ on Ben Bolt’s approach to the guitar with many of his best original didactic compositions and arrangements plus detailed photographs illustrating sitting position, string attack, and more. Features a private photo essay lesson with Professor Bolt, humorous stereotypical portraits of teachers you might encounter, thoughts on tools of the trade, how to tune...

Andrew York Jazz Guitar for Classical Cats Chord Melody PDF. World-famous guitarist and composer Andrew York has created the “Classical Cats” series to be the classical guitarist’s ultimate guide to jazz. This book includes introductory lessons on chord voicings, voice leading, and arranging for solo guitar. Original compositions by Andrew York are featured. The CD includes exercises and examples performed by the author. This book is well worth the price for a glimpse at his chord voicings which are in chord grid form with standard notation below. If you are not already knowledgeable of jazz, this book is not...

William Bay Classics For Flatpicking Guitar PDF. A collection of classical pieces arranged for flatpicking guitar, together with a few modern flatpicking originals in the classical style by William Bay. Includes works by J.S. Bach, Dowland, Handel, Krieger, Mouret, Playford, Praetorius, Quantz, Rameau, Sanz, and St. Jacome, as well as music by a couple of anonymous Renaissance lutenists-21 pieces in all. All selections appear in standard notation and tablature with fingering and suggested guitar chords when appropriate. The companion CD includes all of the selections in the book. This is really for intermediate pickers. The arrangements are simple, but...

Fingerstyle virtuoso Peppino D’Agostino examines topics such as solo guitar arranging, composition, alternate tunings, chord voicings, and fingerstyle techniques. New Acoustic Guitar contains 11 original Peppino works. This instructional book is very detailed in D’Agostino playing including alternate tunings, practice exercises and actual instrumentals that he tabs out very articulately! The book also comes with a CD of each track covered in the book which is very helpful. This book is simply the icing on the cake. The layout of the book makes sense for the various tunings you might want to explore. Each section has an intro lick...

Jools Holland’s Music Makers – The Violin With Ric Sanders DVD free download. This is a fantastic video for anyone who has always dreamed about being able to play the violin, but has always been put off by the snobbery surrounding this instrument. This video takes you through everything from buying your first violin to playing your first tune. Ric Sanders is the perfect presenter as he slowly takes you through the basics and explains everything he is doing. There are lots of close-ups which makes it easy to copy what he is doing on screen. Sander’s folk background...

Jerry Willard Easy Renaissance Pieces For Classical Guitar PDF. The Renaissance was a time of astonishing innovation and imagination in the musical arts. Easy Renaissance Pieces for Classical Guitar brings to life some of the best-known lute works of the Renaissance, including many musical selections from the plays of William Shakespeare, such as “Greensleeves,” “Where the Bee Sucks,” and “When That I Was and a Little Boy.” Many of the great lute composers are represented here, including Dowland, Johnson, and even King Henry VIII. Easy Renaissance Pieces for Classical Guitar is designed for the beginner and intermediate guitarist and...

George Lawrence Stone’s Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving “control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination,” with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam...

Lute Songs of John Dowland: The Original First and Second Books Including Dowland’s Original Lute Tablature (Dover Song Collections). The preeminent lute virtuoso and composer of the early 17th century, John Dowland wrote numerous songs, both gay and melancholy, that dazzled the courts of England and Europe. This rare compilation features 43 of these splendid works in transcriptions for voice and guitar, plus two dances. Original lute tablature and complete song texts included. These book can be used in a couple different ways. It’s written in a systems of 3 clefs – lute tablature, the same notes written in...