In this series for the intermediate guitarist, John Fahey teaches a wide variety of instrumental solos. Critics have called John's style American Primitive Guitar. The book includes tablature and notation with three compact discs featuring...
Canadian fiddle music receives the credit and recognition it deserves in this lively collection of tunes from virtually every province and ethnic group in Canada. Originally published in 1990, this project is the result of generous donations by...
Jerry Garcia, the lead guitarist, singer, and alleged leader of the Grateful Dead, became an icon of the 60s youth movement. It was well-known that Jerry was a huge fan, and probably considered himself a player, of old-time American music, from...
The piano rag is musical form unlike any other. Although melodious, ragtime's excitement and appeal derives from its syncopated rhythms. Ragtime music achieved notoriety through its greatest composer, Scott Joplin (1868-1917). At an early age he...
When it was first published in 1939, oil historian James A. Clark called this book, "the most valuable collection of historical, biographical, and statistical data on Texas oil ever assembled." That is still true today. It is the definitive history of...
Written in a supportive, easy-to-follow style, this big book covers just about everything of interest to harpers, beginning through advanced, and is recommended by players and teachers as an excellent tool to better understand your instrument. It...
Ken Mansfield can write authoritatively about the music business of the sixties because he was there making it happen. As a young record label executive at Capitol Records, the Beatles were his clients, and they became his friends. Ken was hand-picked...
Chicago is full of ghosts, mysterious deaths, murders, and tragic events. Visit over eighty macabre Chicagoland locations you'd never want to visit after dark. The most famous Chicago ghost stories, including ""Resurrection Mary"" and ""Bachelor's...
Written in standard notation and tablature, this book features pieces in both standard and alternate guitar tunings.
This beginning guitar book, for use with private students or in a classroom setting, is divided into 15 lessons. Beginning at the complete novice level, the lessons guide players thru learning chords, scales and more advanced techniques. The appendix...
Offers fingerstyle transcriptions of Joe's famed Virtuoso #3 recording, composed during Joe's 1978 European tour.
This book contains a sampling of the work of eleven women composers of the past, plus an original piano solo from the author.
Bass runs; how to play leads; eighteen great songs; basic backup technique; introductory music theory; transposing from one key to another; "sources" section for further study; hammer-on's, pull-offs and slides; seven fiddle tunes for guitar; soloing...
Pages: 40, Paperback, Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
At four o'clock one April afternoon 172 years ago, 934 men, unwashed, underfed, caked with mud and dressed in rags, began a slow walk through knee-high grass. A half hour later they crested a low hill. What they did in the next eighteen minutes made...
Whispering Stones won the award for "Best Recording" from the Washington Area Music Association and has continued to be a favorite with fans of fingerstyle guitar music throughout the world.
This great collection of 19th century music is a recognition of Cuban composers who along with Manuel Saumell and Ignacio Cervantes produced a rich legacy of music in both popular and classical genres. Written in standard notation.
Transcribed by a guitarist, for guitarists in standard notation and tablature, fans of Crary's sparkling flatpicking style are going to love this! Notation and tablature.
The diversity of the music in this edition is truly amazing and en compasses fiddle tunes, gospel, brother duets, traditional songs, love songs, funny songs, tragic songs, and much more. Transcriptions of recordings by Norman Blake, Mark O'Connor,...
A peaceful lighthouse at Prescott, Ontario, was once the flashpoint of American invasion in an undeclared war. Robbers called "Blackbirds" preyed on Lake Erie shipping, using false beacons to confuse their victims. The lighthouse at Oswego, New York,...
