Guitar Music Books

Guitar Music Books is for everybody who loves the music guitars make. This blog has been created for people looking for sheet music for guitar or chord charts featuring all guitar chords including the popular power chords. You will also find guitar tab books containing chords for songs and guitar solo tabs.
Showing posts with label acoustic guitar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acoustic guitar. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2007

Mozart for Acoustic Guitar

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arranged by Ben Bolt. For Guitar (Classical & Fingerpicking). Solos. Acoustic Guitar Series. Classic. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.5x11. 128 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Because Mozart was a profoundly versatile composer, his music suits the guitar as well as it does a chamber orchestra. Includes outstanding transcriptions of movements from several well-known compositions: Concerto No. 21; !Romance! and !Menuetto! from A Little Night Music; Allegro (K525); !Allegro Molto! from Symphony No 40; and more. The text is written in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese and includes both standard notation and tablature.

Double tracked?
"Some of the songs are well arranged and some sound suspicously double tracked and cannot be played as transcribed in tab, without drowning out the melody line by the fill picking. Without knowing how the right hand is fingering the strings or what R.H. technique is used many songs seem impossible to dupicate on your own instrument unless of course you double track or have friend over to play a duet. I have been playing for 10 years and I would not call these songs intermediate by any means, unless of course you pick the easiest fingering passages of each song. "
-- philip delgrosso from Rochester, MI., July 23, 2007
It's a matter of what you want I guess
"It's sort of a 'greatest hits' of passages of music of 1-2 minutes length generally. The CD is slowed down so it's not fun to listen to casually. A huge chunk of the book is repetitive introduction in foreign languages. The lovely Sonata in C major would be very, very hard if not impossible to play as transcribed at anything approaching 'allegro', so it's kind of not the same. Still, there's plenty of good work in evidence here and there's no doubt something for everyone."
-- W Stallard, February 25, 2006
Mozart for Acoustic Guitar

Friday, December 14, 2007

The Guitar Music Of Spain, Vol. Three

Edited by John Zaradin. Guitar solo book for guitar. 88 pages. Published by Amsco.

Traditional Spanish and Hispanic music by composers such as Rodrigo, Calatayud, Llobet, Cardoso, Sainz De La Maza, and other masters.
Contents:
Dos Piezas Para Guitarra - Bolero A Minor, composed by Bartolome Calatuyud
Dos Piezas Para Guitarra - El Majo D Minor, composed by Bartolome Calatuyud
Seis Variaciones Sobre Un Tema De Milan D Major, composed by J. Nin-Culmell
Preludio En Mi Mayor E Major, composed by Miguel Llobet
El Noi De La Mare (Cancion Popular Catalana) D Major, composed by Miguel Llobet
Scherzo - Vals A Major, composed by Miguel Llobet
Aire De Milonga (Sobre un Tema De Eduardo Falu) A Minor, composed by Jorge Cardoso
Vals Venezonalo E Minor, composed by Jorge Cardoso
Petenera E Minor, composed by Regino Sainz De La Maza
Zapateado E Major, composed by Regino Sainz De La Maza
Madronos E Major, composed by F. Moreno Torroba
Romance A Major, composed by F. Moreno Torroba
Pajaros De Primavera A Major, composed by Joaquin Rodrigo
Tango Y Zapateado A Major, E Major, composed by Celedonio Romero
Caprico Arabe D Minor, composed by Francisco Tarrega
Bolero C Major, composed by Eduardo Sainz De La Maza
Campanas Del Alba A Minor, composed by Eduardo Sainz De La Maza
Paseo A Minor, composed by Eduardo Sainz De La Maza
The Guitar Music Of Spain, Vol. Three

Friday, November 16, 2007

Irish Traditional Guitar Accompaniment

By Gavin Ralston. For Guitar (Classical & Fingerpicking). Rhythm/backup. Walton. Celtic/Irish. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.25x11.75. 96 pages. Published by Walton's Mfg., Ltd.

Learn the exciting new accompaniment styles used by today's great players from Steve Cooney to Arty McGlynn. Written in dropped-D tuning, this book contains tablature, alternative chord shapes, bass melodies, bass runs, scratching, flamenco rolls, and more. If you want to back traditional Irish music with drive, energy and flamboyance then this is the book for you. Numerous examples will take a variety of new chord shapes and strum patterns, demonstrating how they can be used to make tunes come alive. Three songs are also included to illustrate alternative ballad and folk song accompaniment. Notation and tablature.
Irish Traditional Guitar Accompaniment