Scottish Music for Solo Guitar


Book Description

(Music Sales America). Volume 2 features various tunes including old ballads and ancient Scottish hymns as well as lively dance tunes. Includes: Maire Bhan Og * Two Reels * Staten Island * and more.




Scottish Songs for Guitar


Book Description

(Guitar). Master guitarist and Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing writer Danny Carnahan teaches how to play 15 Scottish classic songs in fingerstyle arrangements with standard notation and tablature, in both standard and dropped-D tuning. Each song includes background information, complete lyrics, a video download and can function as a guitar and voice arrangement or a solo guitar piece. Songs include: Both Sides the Tweed * Cam Ye O'er Frae France * Fair Flower of Northumberland * The False Lover Won Back * Fortune Turns the Wheel * Glenlogie * Hughie the Grahame * Now Westlin Winds * Rattlin' Roarin' Willie * The Rigs of Barley * So Will We Yet * Tae the Beggin' * Tae the Weavers * The Wild Mountain Thyme * Will Ye Go to Flanders.




Scottish Music for Solo Guitar


Book Description

(Music Sales America). The tunes chosen for this collection hail from a huge variety of sources ranging from old songs and ballads to ancient Scots hymns as well as lively dance tunes. Includes: Scats Wha Hae * Auld Lang Syne * Mangister Voe * and many more.




Celtic guitar


Book Description

Forty beautiful Celtic melodies arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. All the songs are arranged to be easily playable. Most of the songs are in standard tuning plus there is an additional section in DADGAD tuning. A CD is included featuring all the songs.




SCOTTISH CLASSICAL GUITAR COLLECTION


Book Description

Scottish Romantic Guitar is a collection of intermediate and advanced pieces for classical guitar by leading composers of the 19th century, inspired by Scotland. While these pieces have previously been available from different sources, they are compiled here for the first time, in corrected editions, in one convenient volume. Highlights include, Mauro Giuliani’s beautiful settings of six favourite Scottish songs; Fernando Sor’s masterful ‘Variations on Ye Banks and Braes’ and Johan Kaspar Mertz’s dramatic evocation of the landscape of the Outer Hebrides, ‘Fingal’s Cave.’ This collection offers the guitarist a unique source of unfamiliar yet accessible repertoire that is both challenging and rewarding to play and which will appeal to any audience.




Acoustic Masterclass


Book Description

Guitar arrangements transcribed by the artists themselves, in standard notation and tab. Each edition includes a masterclass-style recording in which the artist walks you through the key aspects and techniques for each arrangement. Twenty-five beautiful Celtic melodies masterfully arranged for solo guitar, as performed by Jim Tozier on his Celtic Guitar album (Solid Air Records). Each amazingly accessible, yet truly beautiful arrangement was transcribed by Jim Tozier himself. The included full performance recording is so stunning that it alone is worth the price. Jim has been called one of most eloquent Celtic guitarists in the world" (Guitarnation.com), and his treatment of these traditional Irish and Scottish tunes is tasteful and true. This collection is comprised of time-honored favorites and lesser-known Celtic gems, which makes it an essential resource for players of all levels. Online audio with full-length recordings and performance notes is included. Songs are arranged in DADGAD, CGDGAD, and CGCGCD tunings."




Traditional Scottish Songs For Guitar


Book Description

A collection of some of the most well known songs from Scotland arranged for guitar by internationally renowned Scottish guitarist James Akers. Each song is offered at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. The songs included in this book of Scottish folk songs are as follows: Ae Fond Kiss Ca' the Yowes Comin' Thro' the Rye Green Grow the Rashes I Once Loved a Lass My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife The Bluebells of Scotland Flowers o' the Forest The Skye Boat Song Wild Mountain Thyme Ye Bank and Braes o' Bonnie Doon All songs are notated in both music and guitar TAB notation; if you cannot read music, you can still play all of the songs offered in this book. The advanced arrangements have been arranged in a style based around the work of contemporary folk guitarists like Tony McManus, Stephen Wake and Ian Melrose. In this style, traditional melodies are combined with elements from other genres. To complement this title, a special free download has been created which includes a PDF of all the chords (in full color) and the lyrics for the beginner versions. Details on how to get the download are within the book. Without doubt, James Akers has created a book of music that can be used by an individual guitar player on their own or with a guitar teacher from beginner to advanced. If you love Scotland, and you love guitar, then this is the book for you.




Fingerpicking Celtic Folk (Songbook)


Book Description

(Guitar Solo). A beautiful collection of 15 Celtic arrangements: The Ash Grove * Birniebouzle * Carrickfergus * Danny Boy * Loch Lomond * Mist Covered Mountains of Home * O My Love Is like a Red, Red Rose * Ned of the Hill * O'Carolan's Journey to Cashel * Scarborough Fair * Sheebeg and Sheemore (Si Bheag, Si Mhor) * The Skye Boat Song * Tarboulton Reel * Wild Mountain Thyme * Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon.




Celtic harp music of Carolan and others for solo guitar


Book Description

(Guitar). This unique publication features 45 harp tunes beautifully arranged for solo guitar. It also includes an introduction to the book's origins, info on the Celtic harp and biographical information on the author and Turlough O'Carolan. Most songs are arranged at an intermediate-level of difficulty and use standard tunings so that classical guitarists can enjoy them as well as steel-string fingerstylists.




Solo Guitar Playing


Book Description

This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.