Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Contemporary Picking Etudes written by Keijo Pennanen and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among fretted-instrument players there is an expression that states, "The fret hand marks a player, but the pick hand distinguishes an artist." The 23 original compositions in this book offer a fresh basis to explore and develop plectrum or pick-style playing technique to a professional level. These pieces require various playing techniques and include: linear studies, double-stops, counterpoint, and chord playing. By studying and learning these pieces, guitarists can not only refine their technical mastery, but also enhance their skill level and artistry in solo guitar performance. This collection also includes eight duet arrangements to be played by two guitarists. The duets are fun to play as student/teacher sight-reading exercises, and can be used as guitar duo performance repertoire as well. The music is written in standard notation only. Includes access to online audio containing all 31 pieces.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Lyrical Etudes written by Keijo Pennanen and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 21 original, melodic, song-like solo-guitar etudes which will infuse your playing with lyricism. The compositions are very approachable, containing highly melodic song forms with emotional and narrative content. All the material is written for the plectrum guitar but can also be played fingerstyle. In addition to the solo arrangements, ten of the compositions include a lead-sheet version (for duo or ensemble playing). The etudes are perfect for performance situations such as auditions, recitals, concerts and for enjoyment. Written in standard notation only. Includes access to online audio. The Mel Bay Achieving Guitar Artistry series is designed to condition and guide the developing guitarist to an advanced level of proficiency, regardless of the style of music performed.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Contemporary Preludes Sonatas Nocturnes written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original, contemporary, concert-style compositions for plectrum or flatpicked guitar includes 15 preludes, 4 sonatas with multiple movements, and 12 nocturnes. The solos present a colorful spectrum of tonality, harmony, rhythms and moods ideal for concert or recital performance. All solos are written in standard notation only with appropriate fingering and string markings.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Odd Time Etudes written by Wiliam Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odd-time signatures are often an enigma to the Western musician and present specific challenges when it comes to phrasing and feeling. This book will improve any musician's ability to intuit odd-time signatures, through 48 etudes in 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 10/8 and 11/8 time. "Mixed etudes" are also included, which feature different traditional and odd-time signatures within each piece. All of these studies will facilitate note-reading and position playing abilities, and are applicable to jazz, classical and contemporary guitar genres. The Mel Bay Achieving Guitar Artistry series is designed to condition and guide the developing guitarist to an advanced level of proficiency, regardless of the style of music performed.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Odd Time Etudes written by William Bay and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odd-time signatures are often an enigma to the Western musician and presentspecific challenges when it comes to phrasing and feeling. This book will improve any musician's ability to intuit odd-time signatures, through 48 etudes in 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 10/8 and 11/8 time. Mixed etudes are also included, which feature different traditional and odd-time signatures within each piece. All of these studieswill facilitate note-reading and position playing abilities, and are applicable to jazz, classical and contemporary guitar genres. The Mel Bay Achieving Guitar Artistry series is designed to condition and guide the developing guitarist to an advanced level of proficiency, regardless of the style of music performed.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Linear Guitar Etudes written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊThis is the flagship book in Mel Bay's new Achieving Guitar Artistry series. Herein you will find an extensive collection of linear pieces with interesting melodic content. Frequent performance of these etudes will not only enhance technique, but offer the guitarist a wonderful opportunity to improve tone, touch and lyrical phrasing. We suggest playing each etude at a slow tempo at first, the goal being to achieve a clear and beautiful tone on every note. The next objective is to develop a sense of lyrical completeness to each musical phrase. Make the phrases sing! Once you have achieved the desired quality of tone and expression, increase the tempo to work on the technique. Mel Bay's Guitar Journals - Mastering the Fingerboard: The Reading Book (MB20903) would make an ideal supplement to Linear Guitar Etudes as it presents etudes in all keys and positions. The pieces in Linear Guitar Etudes are multi-positional. That is, the player will be required to move from position to position on the fingerboard. The music is presented in standard notation only, with left-hand fingering included on the more complex passages, and circled numbers to indicate the strings where certainnotes and passages are to be played. These etudes sound good on both nylon and steel-string guitars, and will be a valuable addition to the music library of any guitarist, enhancing their abilities regardless of the style of music played.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Studies for Improving Technique written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a multitude of beginning to intermediate studies, designed to build right-hand picking technique and coordination between both hands. The material includes vertical picking exercises across various string combinations, linear picking studies, tremolo studies, warm-ups, picking etudes, triplet exercises and picking solos–essential material that will supplement any guitar method. Written in standard notation and tablature.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Linear Guitar Etudes written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the flagship book in Mel Bay's new Achieving Guitar Artistry series. Herein you will find an extensive collection of linear pieces with interesting melodic content. Frequent performance of these etudes will not only enhance technique, but offer the guitarist a wonderful opportunity to improve tone, touch and lyrical phrasing. We suggest playing each etude at a slow tempo at first, the goal being to achieve a clear and beautiful tone on every note. The next objective is to develop a sense of lyrical completeness to each musical phrase. Make the phrases sing! Once you have achieved the desired quality of tone and expression, increase the tempo to work on the technique. Mel Bay's Guitar Journals - Mastering the Fingerboard: The Reading Book (MB20903) would make an ideal supplement to Linear Guitar Etudes as itpresents etudes in all keys and positions. The pieces in Linear Guitar Etudes are multi-positional. That is, the player will be required to move from position to position on the fingerboard. The music ispresented in standard notation only, with left-hand fingering included on the more complex passages, and circled numbers to indicate the strings where certainnotes and passages are to be played. These etudes sound good on both nylon and steel-string guitars, and will be a valuable addition to the music library of any guitarist, enhancing their abilities regardless of the style of music played.
Download or read book Achieving Guitar Artistry Triads written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of triadic concepts is as much for the ears as it is for the hands. Playing harmonized scales in triadic form is very helpful for the progressing guitarist. By working through these exercises, the guitarist will learn the harmonic sound of each key and develop a strong sense of melodic and harmonic voice leading. These studies contain interesting melodic content and are very fun to play. The keys are presented in tonic major and tonic minor rather than tonic major and relative minor. This is the second book in Mel Bay's Achieving Guitar Artistry series and follows the initial Linear Etudes text. Readers should develop a routine of practicing one key per day for the best results. Mastery of this book will domuch to enhance the guitarist's sense of voice leading, note reading and improvising.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Blues Jazz Jam Tunes written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles, with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Guitar Solos for Improving Technique written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 36 solos, etudes and technique studies was written especially for the developing intermediate guitarist. A variety of musical styles and genres are presented, along with a colorful assortment of flatpicking techniques and melodies. In addition to their appealing sound and being fun to play, many of these pieces are suitable for performance in recitals or concerts. Every effort has been made to be sure that these musical selections “lie well under the fingers,” and are very guitaristic or idiomatic in nature. Guitar Solos for Improving Technique is ideal as a standalone solo collection or as a technique-building text. The collection also works well as a supplement to any intermediate guitar method. Includes access to an online audio recording of each piece.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Hymns of Beauty and Strength written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in the Guitar Picking Tunes series presents 29 favorite hymns arranged for guitar solo. The material spans the centuries, but reflects a deep faith, including lyrically-beautiful hymns such as “Just as I Am”, to the powerful “Crown Him with Many Crowns”. These solos work well as preludes, offertories, communion hymns and even recessionals, or simply for enjoyment. All solos are written in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Master Pick Style Guitar Technique written by Tom Bruner and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Pick Style Guitar Technique: A Natural Approach teaches you to develop a technically correct and musical approach to playing the guitar. It is a straight-forward summation of what the author learned, observed and put into practice about music, digested into a logical, systematic and musically oriented way of approaching the problems of building capability and knowledge about the guitar. It is a way you can learn to build the competence that will allow you to play your own music and other people’s music without technical limitations.
Download or read book Extreme Rock Guitar Soloing written by Pablo Pescatore and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expansive book, versatile Argentine guitarist and teacher Pablo Pescatore provides a masterclass in the theory behind creative rock soloing. From the ground up, he presents the theoretical building blocks of major, minor, pentatonic, and modal scales followed by triads and seventh chords in all keys, not just the guitar-friendly ones. Then he proceeds to analyze rhythm in all common and uncommon time signatures before delving into 20 exotic scales. Written in standard notation and tablature, the truly unique aspect of this book is the author’s insistence on improvising with an acute awareness of rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and dynamic values—not just playing fast and loud in predictable patterns. Demonstrating his ideas in 120 audio examples and a final knock-out blues progression, Pablo encourages readers to write, sing and otherwise incorporate their own variations into their music, dramatically changing the audio landscape of rock guitar soloing. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Famous Lute Solos Arranged for Plectrum Guitar written by Rob MacKillop and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob MacKillop presents 20 classic lute transcriptions; the "greatest hits" of the Renaissance and Baroque lute repertoire arranged for pick acoustic, electric, or classical guitar. MacKillop has for many years played all these pieces on the lute, and has created sensitive guitar arrangements that lose nothing from the original scores. Composers include Bach, Weiss, Dowland, Spinacino, among others. Finally, we have a book of lute-to-plectrum guitar transcriptions by an arranger who is deeply familiar with and respectful of both instruments. Includes access to online audio for every item recorded by Rob MacKillop in plectrum style.
Download or read book Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes for Guitar written by Gustavo Assis-Brasil and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video and audio access included! -- Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes is a collection of pieces that will allow you to further develop the technique through studies, compositions, lines, and solos. Each etude comes with suggested fingerings using both tablature and standard notation. They mix legato, alternate and sweep picking, but you can also choose to use fingerstyle/classical technique to play them. You can apply all the concepts presented here to your own phrasing, composition, and improvisation. --"Gustavo's new book is the perfect resource for any guitarist interested in improving or widening their abilities with hybrid picking. Where I find most educational material either too dense or too dry, Gustavo has (as always) found the perfect way to present both a clear methodology and a fountain of musically interesting examples and etudes." -PLINI"--These expertly constructed exercises invite you to a contemporary world of structured tonalities, through which you are able to progress and transcend style." - VARDAN OVSEPIAN"-- Gustavo's creative, angular etudes will challenge your mind and your hands in equal measure; attempt to learn them and you'll have your work cut out for you!" - PER NILSSON (Meshuggah, Scar Symmetry)--"Get ready for Gustavo Assis-Brasil's newest and most challenging book on studies using the Hybrid Picking technique. "Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes" presents valuable studies that will take you to the next level. The material is the most comprehensive ever made on the subject and has detailed applications of all your movements. I highly recommend it." - ISAAC NEGRENE--"In this new book, Gustavo Assis-Brasil presents a lot of material for exploring the mechanics of the guitar musically with the hybrid picking technique and also permutations for the left hand. A progressive approach is presented throughout the course, from preliminary etudes in the beginning, to full-fledged compositions. The pieces also have a sort of algorithmic approach in the transformation of raw permutations into real music. An outstanding resource for music and guitar." - DR. JULIO HERRLEIN
Download or read book Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes for Guitar Vol 2 written by Gustavo Assis-Brasil and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video and audio access included! -- Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes: Volume 2 is a collection of pieces that will allow you to further develop the technique through studies, compositions, lines, and solos. Each etude comes with suggested fingerings using both tablature and standard notation. They mix legato, alternate and sweep picking, but you can also choose to use fingerstyle/classical technique to play them. You can apply all the concepts presented here to your own phrasing, composition, and improvisation. --"Gustavo's new book is the perfect resource for any guitarist interested in improving or widening their abilities with hybrid picking. Where I find most educational material either too dense or too dry, Gustavo has (as always) found the perfect way to present both a clear methodology and a fountain of musically interesting examples and etudes." -PLINI"--These expertly constructed exercises invite you to a contemporary world of structured tonalities, through which you are able to progress and transcend style." - VARDAN OVSEPIAN"-- Gustavo's creative, angular etudes will challenge your mind and your hands in equal measure; attempt to learn them and you'll have your work cut out for you!" - PER NILSSON (Meshuggah, Scar Symmetry)--"Get ready for Gustavo Assis-Brasil's newest and most challenging book on studies using the Hybrid Picking technique. "Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes" presents valuable studies that will take you to the next level. The material is the most comprehensive ever made on the subject and has detailed applications of all your movements. I highly recommend it." - ISAAC NEGRENE--"In this new book, Gustavo Assis-Brasil presents a lot of material for exploring the mechanics of the guitar musically with the hybrid picking technique and also permutations for the left hand. A progressive approach is presented throughout the course, from preliminary etudes in the beginning, to full-fledged compositions. The pieces also have a sort of algorithmic approach in the transformation of raw permutations into real music. An outstanding resource for music and guitar." - JULIO HERRLEIN
