Classical Studies for Pick-Style Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)


Book Description

(Guitar Method). This Berklee Workshop, featuring over 20 solos and duets by Bach, Carcassi, Paganini, Sor and other renowned composers, is designed to acquaint intermediate to advanced pick-style guitarists with some of the excellent classical music that is adaptable to pick-style guitar. With study and practice, this workshop will increase a player's knowledge and proficiency on this formidable instrument.




A Modern Method Guitar


Book Description

(Berklee Methods). The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar, used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program, has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand, Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1, 2, and 3, including all audio and video tracks. Now, serious guitar students and instructors, from beginning through advanced, have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos, duets, and exercises progressively teach melody, harmony, and rhythm. This edition contains audio and video produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department), demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.




A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)


Book Description

(Guitar Method). This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.




Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (Music Instruction)


Book Description

(Guitar Method). A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source for duets, sight-reading and chord studies.




Reading studies for guitar


Book Description

(Guitar Solo). A comprehensive collection of studies for beginners to improve their reading and technical ability. Covers: positions 1 through 7 in all keys while introducing scales, arpeggios, written-out chords, and a variety of rhythms and time signatures.




Classical Studies for Pick-style Guitar


Book Description

(Guitar Method). This Berklee Workshop, featuring over 20 solos and duets by Bach, Carcassi, Paganini, Sor and other renowned composers, is designed to acquaint intermediate to advanced pick-style guitarists with some of the excellent classical music that is adaptable to pick-style guitar. With study and practice, this workshop will increase a player's knowledge and proficiency on this formidable instrument.




Classical guitar


Book Description

A beginner's guide to playing the guitar.




Masters of the Plectrum Guitar


Book Description

This landmark book of music for the plectrum style jazz guitar took years to compile, write and edit. It contains some of the greatest solos and duets ever written and performed on the plectrum or flatpicked guitar, including works by Carl Kress, Dick McDonough, George Van Eps, Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Eddie Lang, George M Smith, Al Valenti, Mel Bay, Frank Victor, Harry Volpe, Carmen Mastren, Oscar Moore, Mundell Lowe, Tony Mottola, Al Hendrickson, and Cal Collins. All solos are in notation and tablature while the duets are shown in standard notation only.




Berklee Basic Guitar - Phase 1


Book Description

"An essential resource for every beginning guitar student. This modern instructional method is designed for individual study or a classroom environment. Guitar technique and reading skills are developed through two-, three-, and four-part ensemble arrangements of both traditional and newly-composed music. To round out your training there is also an introduction to chord playing. 'Berklee Basic Guitar' is THE way to learn guitar. Guitar players quickly advance with the essential tools provided here." -- page 4 of cover.




Popular Classics for Classical Guitar Volume 1


Book Description

Teach yourself how to play classical guitar sheet music by the world’s greatest classical composers, carefully arranged for the classical guitar player. ***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.*** "As a fairly new classical guitar player I am finding this series [...] extremely useful. [...] contains numbers such as "Liebestraum" by Liszt and "Caro Nome" by Verdi [...] The simple, uncomplicated arrangements encourage and inspire me to continue. [...] The included [audio] is also proving helpful for tempo and the odd tricky chord. Paging through the contents I notice the pieces get progressively more difficult. A wonderful challenge and one to which I can aspire." - By Jennifer A. Harrison [Amazon] Progressive Popular Classics Volume 1 is suitable for beginner to advanced classical guitar students of all ages. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing classical guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play classical guitar songs from this book. Features include: • 35 of the world's most popular classical music pieces brilliantly arranged for classical guitar by a professional classical guitar teacher • Difficulty levels ranging from easy classical songs for guitar to more advanced classical music for guitar • Easy-to-read classical guitar sheet music • Color-restored illustrations of the classical music composers featured in the book Composers of classical guitar scores include: • Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonin Dvorak, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms, John Waldron, Johann Sebastian Bach, Juventino Rosas, Franz von Suppe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Leo Delibes, Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner and Maurice Ravel Guitar teachers will also benefit greatly by virtue of being able to substitute classic music for guitar written by Carulli, Sor and Giuliani by the popular instrumental music of Chopin, Strauss and Tchaikovsky. LearnToPlayMusic.com's classical guitar lessons are used by students and classical guitar teachers worldwide. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted classical guitar sheet music books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.