With over 1 million books sold, Rolling Stone Magazine recommends music professor Damon Ferrante's Guitar Book for Adult Beginners as the #1 Best Guitar Books for Beginners! Based on over 30 years of teaching experience, his easy-to-follow method is used by over a million guitar students and teachers. This excellent, interactive book and 46 streaming video course provides a complete foundation for learning the guitar. It is the most comprehensive book available for beginners. Music professor Damon Ferrante guides you through how to play the guitar with 108 lessons that progress step-by-step and cover how to play 40 famous songs, strum chords, learn the notes on the guitar neck, develop guitar technique, learn music theory, and many more beginner guitar concepts. The 46 video lessons demonstrate how to play songs, guitar technique, and music theory.108 Lessons - 46 Video Lessons - 40 Songs! No Music Reading Is Required!This comprehensive book and video-lesson course will greatly expand your guitar song repertoire, improve your guitar technique, teach you the notes of the guitar fretboard, and give you an understanding of music theory. Designed for absolute beginners, the book's fun and easy learning style enables you to learn songs quickly and improve rapidly. Within a few hours, you will learn to play your first song!This book is a companion with Guitar Scales Handbook, Ultimate Guitar Chords, Scales & Arpeggios Handbook, Beginner Rock Guitar Lessons, Piano Book for Adult Beginners, and Guitar Book for Kids 5 & Up (all also by Damon Ferrante).Whether you are teaching yourself guitar or learning with a guitar teacher, this book and video course will take your guitar playing to a whole new level!Ask yourself this:1. Have you always wanted to learn how to play famous guitar songs, but did not know where to start?2. Did you start guitar lessons once and give up because the lessons were too difficult?3. Are you struggling to follow online guitar lessons that seem to jump all over the place without any sense of direction or consistency?4. Would you like to expand your musical understanding and learn how to play the guitar through an affordable, step-by-step book and video course?If your answer to any of the these questions is yes, then scroll up and click the “Add To Cart” button to get your copy today and start your exciting guitar journey! You will join over 1 million guitarists who are making their guitar dreams come true!Here are some of the famous songs that are covered in this book and video course:* Amazing Grace* House of the Rising Sun* Scarborough Fair* Shenandoah* Happy Birthday* Kum-Bah-Yah* Jingle Bells* Home on the Range* This Little Light of Mine* Take Me Out to the Ballgame* Red River Valley* Silent Night* When the Saints Go Marching In* Greensleeves* Aura Lee* And Many More Great Songs! Read more

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This classical violin sheet music book includes 54 exquisite classical violin solos by some of history's greatest composers, including Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Brahms, Mozart, Paganini, Schubert, and More. There are many violin music books out there, but this one offers a combination of less popular pieces, along with the most popular pieces, making for a great diversity of choice. These pieces are also suitable for beginner, intermediate, and advanced violin players. This exquisite selection of classical violin sheet music makes a great gift for violin players, violin students, and violin teachers. What's Included?Johann Sebastian BachAir on G StringCello Suite No. 1Violin Partita No. 2Violin Partita No. 3Violin Sonata No. 1Violin Sonata No. 2Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony No. 7Fur EliseMinuet in GMoonlight Sonata IOde to JoyViolin Sonata No. 9George Frideric HandelAllegroSonata in F MajorViolin Sonata IVWedding Music IJohannes BrahmsSonata Op. 120/2Violin Concerto Op. 77Hungarian Dance No. 4Hungarian Dance No. 5Joseph HaydnSerenadeWolfgang MozartAria Queen Of The NightDer SpiegelEine Kleine NachtmusikSonata KV331Niccolò PaganiniCaprice No. 15Caprice No. 24Caprice in C MinorCaprice in A MinorCaprice No. 24Franz SchubertAve MariaErlkönigSymphony No. 8Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyMarchPas De DeuxSwan LakeViolin Concerto ExcerptValse SentimentaleCanzonetta-AndanteAntonio VivaldiViolin Concerto No. 2Concerto Em Lá MenorOtoñoViolin Concerto RV 388Violin Concerto RV 243Winter Read more

The Bluegrass Fakebook by Bert Casey features 150 All Time Favorites (including 50 Gospel songs) for guitar, banjo, mandolin, and more. This handy songbook contains lyrics, chord progressions, and melody lines to bluegrass and gospel standards. The book is printed in large, easy-to-read type with one song per page. This layout lends itself to use on stage or in jam sessions where everyone can read along. Also included are chord charts for the guitar, banjo, and mandolin as quick reference tool. Now all those obscure verses you can never remember are right at your fingertips. - Watch & Learn, Inc. Read more

Fiddle 365: 52 Weeks of Daily Fiddle Exercises—with free audio downloads and streaming—is presented in an easy-to-use, one-exercise-per-day format to teach you essential fiddle skills you’ll need to succeed as a fiddle player!Inside this book are 365 fiddle exercises, one for each day of an entire year. Concepts such as intonation, bow control, fingering, rhythm, and tone are covered throughout the book to help you develop musicianship and musicality.The goal of this book is to provide you, the practicing fiddler, with fun, interesting, and effective material to practice at home alone or with a professional instructor. After all, to become a better player, you must dedicate time each day to growth on your instrument, and Fiddle 365 is the perfect place to start!WHAT’S COVERED:Intonation (Playing in Tune)Bow ControlFingering ExercisesRhythm PatternsToneFiddle LicksWeekly Review ExercisesAnd Much More!And the best part? No music reading is required! Inside this book, all music exercises are presented in both standard notation and easy-to-use fiddle tab, so you can choose which method you prefer—or use both!MUSIC STYLES COVERED:CelticBluesOld-TimeBluegrassCountryAnd Others!FREE: Easy access to instant audio downloads from Troy Nelson Music’s website is included.BONUS: Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Just email us, and we'll happily help you.ABOUT MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Originally from Redding, California, Megan Lynch Chowning is a seven-time national fiddle champion, touring musician, Grammy-nominated recording artist (for her participation in the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project), teacher, singer, and flatfooter. She spent four years touring with legendary country artists Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan, and has played with bluegrass stars Dale Ann Bradley, Roland White, Larry Cordle, Jim Hurst, Chris Jones, 3 Fox Drive, Due West, Chris Stuart, and BEML (her duo with Bill Evans).Megan has fiddled and sung on dozens of projects and released a series of entirely solo fiddle albums, focusing on crowdsourcing fabulous but slightly obscure fiddle tunes. She has taught fiddle and vocals at prestigious camps such as Augusta Heritage Week, Nimblefingers, Sore Fingers Bluegrass Week in the UK, Walker Creek Music Camp, and the California Bluegrass Association Camp, among many others. Megan has also judged the National Fiddle Championships three times, as well as many state championships throughout the country. She’s the co-director (with her husband, Adam) of the IBMA-award-winning Nashville Acoustic Camps and a teacher for the popular online platform fiddlevideo.com. Megan is also an accomplished author. In December 2022, she released 16 Easy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddle Songs to critical acclaim.Since 2016, Troy Nelson Music has offered customers the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow lesson books and songbooks for a variety of instruments—everything from guitar and mandolin to piano, saxophone, and clarinet. With 30+ years in the music publishing industry, veteran guitarist Troy Nelson has sold hundreds of thousands of books as both an author and publisher due to the quality and effectiveness of his books and the service he provides.NOTE: To ensure that you receive a quality product and customer service, be sure to buy directly from Amazon, rather than from a marketplace seller.Free shipping with Amazon Prime. Read more

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface Winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award and of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the YearBeginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid_sixties. Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written. Read more

Learn 30 super-easy big-note sheet music songs for bluegrass guitar! This big book of easy bluegrass guitar sheet music includes extra-large music staffs and notes, letters (note names) inside all noteheads, chord charts for strumming, and easy-to-follow guitar TAB!No complicated guitar sheet music arrangements here! Instead, Super Easy Bluegrass Guitar Sheet Music for Beginners is arranged with beginning guitar players of all ages in mind. Yet, even seasoned guitarists will find this collection of popular songs fun to play!This simple guitar songbook is the best way to learn your favorite bluegrass tunes on the guitar. This large print guitar songbook with letters includes bluegrass classics such as "Nine Pound Hammer," "Black Mountain Rag," "Angeline the Baker," "Whiskey Before Breakfast," and many more!With each song, you'll get:A beginner-level big-note song arrangementExtra-large music staffsLarge print music notes with letters (note names)Chord charts for strummingStandard notation & guitar TABDownloadable and streamable audio tracksGuitarist and author Kirk Tatnall presents 30 easy-to-learn big-note guitar sheet music arrangements of timeless bluegrass tunes. This is the ultimate guitar sheet music songbook for learning your favorite bluegrass tunes—fast!The 30 Bluegrass Tunes:Amazing GraceAngeline the BakerArkansas TravelerBanks of the OhioBig SciotaBill CheathamBlack Mountain RagBlackberry BlossomCluck Old HenCotton-Eyed JoeCripple CreekEast Tennessee BluesFly Around My Pretty Little MissHome Sweet HomeIn the PinesJohn HenryKitchen GirlLittle Liza JaneLonesome Road BluesNine Pound HammerOld Joe ClarkRed-Haired BoyShady GroveSquirrel HuntersSt. Anne's ReelTemperance ReelTurkey in the StrawWhiskey Before BreakfastWildwood FlowerWill the Circle Be Unbroken?Super Easy Bluegrass Guitar Sheet Music for Beginners includes some of the most beloved bluegrass tunes ever written!FREE: Easy access to instant audio downloads from Troy Nelson Music’s website is included—free of charge!BONUS: Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Just email us, and we'll happily help you!ABOUT KIRK TATNALL:Since he was just three years old, Milwaukee-area guitarist Kirk Tatnall has been chasing music via his favorite vehicle: the guitar. In addition to authoring instructional books, Kirk continues to perform, compose, record, and release original music, teach guitar and bass, and lend his playing to other artists and various commercial music sessions.ABOUT TROY NELSON MUSIC: Since 2016, Troy Nelson Music has offered customers the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow lesson books and songbooks for a variety of instruments—everything from guitar and mandolin to piano, saxophone, and clarinet. With 30+ years in the music publishing industry, veteran guitarist Troy Nelson has sold hundreds of thousands of books as both an author and publisher due to the quality and effectiveness of his books and the service his company provides. Read more

Ray Price: The Lasting Legacy of a Country Legend – How His Music Still Lives On is a deep and heartfelt exploration of one of country music’s most influential figures. From his early days as a Cherokee cowboy in Texas to his rise as a pioneer of honky tonk and countrypolitan sounds, Ray Price’s story is one of passion, reinvention, and perseverance.This book takes readers on a journey through Price’s remarkable career, detailing his early struggles, his legendary collaborations with stars like Hank Williams and Willie Nelson, and his transformation from honky tonk trailblazer to smooth ballad singer. Through every chapter, we see how Price not only adapted to the changing landscape of country music but also helped shape it.With detailed accounts of his chart-topping hits, including “Crazy Arms” and “For the Good Times”, as well as a look into his final years, farewell tour, and lasting impact, this book captures the essence of a man whose music transcended generations.Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering his music for the first time, Ray Price: The Lasting Legacy of a Country Legend offers a rich, in-depth tribute to a voice that will never be forgotten. His influence continues to live on in modern country music, proving that true legends never fade. Read more

John Wright's collection of interviews and stories about Ralph Stanley puts readers around a campfire at a bluegrass festival while old-timers weave yarns far into the night. Told by those who create, produce, stage, love, and virtually live for old-time mountain music, these tales come from the longtime coworkers, sidemen, promoters, friends, and others in the orbit of the music legend. The storytellers include a scholar who knew Stanley from the early days, the housewife who ran the Stanley Brothers Fan Club, and a souvenir seller for whom the discovery of Stanley's music was almost a religious experience.Wright also uses these invaluable oral histories as a foundation to describe and evaluate Stanley's long career with the Clinch Mountain Boys and the development of his music after the death of his brother Carter. An appendix covers Ralph's prolific recording activity through the mid-1990s, including a breathtaking forty-five albums compromising more than 550 songs and tunes. Read more

Learn 50 Irish Folk Songs for Fiddle or Violin! Every Celtic fiddle tune includes standard notes and fiddle TAB, two-page song spreads to avoid page turns, bowing directions for every note, and audio downloads for every song!No complicated Celtic folk songs here! Instead, each Irish fiddle tune is arranged for easy accessibility for musicians of any age or ability.This easy Irish Folk Music Fake Book is the best way to learn traditional Celtic folk songs on fiddle or violin.With each song, you'll get:Standard Notation & Fiddle TABEasy-to-read, medium-sized notesTwo-page spreads to eliminate page turnsBowing Directions for Every NoteDownloadable and streamable demonstration tracks for all 50 songsFiddle instructor and author Megan Lynch Chowning presents 50 easy-to-learn fiddle arrangements of traditional Irish folk music songs. This is the ultimate fiddle sheet music songbook for learning Celtic folk songs—fast!The 50 Irish Folk Songs:A Fig for a KissBallydesmond No. 2Banish MisfortuneBansheeBlarney PilgrimBoys of BluehillBritches Full of StitchesCastle KellyCliffs of MoherConnaughtman's RamblesDrowsy MaggieDunmore LassesEarl's ChairFarewell to IrelandFoxhunterGravel WalksHarvest HomeHaste to the WeddingIrish WasherwomanKerry PolkaKesh JigKid on the MountainKing of the FairiesLark in the Clear AirLark in the MorningLittle BeggarmanLondonderry AirMaggie in the WoodsMaid Behind the BarMerry BlacksmithMiss McLeod's ReelMonaghanMorning DewOff to CaliforniaOut on the OceanRakish PaddyRights of ManRocky Road to DublinRose in the HeatherSaint Anne's ReelShips Are SailingSí Beag Sí MorSilver SpearStar of MunsterSwallowtail JigTabhair Dom Do LámhTemperance ReelToss the FeathersWind That Shakes the BarleyWise MaidBONUS: Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Just email us, and we'll happily help you!ABOUT MEGAN LYNCH CHOWNING: Originally from Redding, California, Megan Lynch Chowning is a seven-time national fiddle champion, touring musician, Grammy-nominated recording artist (for her participation in the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project), teacher, singer, and flatfooter. She spent four years touring with legendary country artists Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan, and has played with bluegrass stars Dale Ann Bradley, Roland White, Larry Cordle, Jim Hurst, Chris Jones, 3 Fox Drive, Due West, Christ Stuart, and BEML (her duo with Bill Evans).Megan has fiddled and sung on dozens of projects and released a series of entirely solo fiddle albums, focusing on crowdsourcing fabulous but slightly obscure fiddle tunes. She has taught fiddle and vocals at prestigious camps such as Augusta Heritage Week, Nimblefingers, Sore Fingers Bluegrass Week in the UK, Walker Creek Music Camp, and the California Bluegrass Association Camp, among many others. Megan has also judged the National Fiddle Championships three times, as well as many state championships throughout the country. She's the co-director (with her husband, Adam) of the IBMA-award-winning Nashville Acoustic Camps and a teacher for the popular online platform fiddlevideo.com. Megan is also an accomplished author. In December 2022, she released 16 Easy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddle Songs to critical acclaim.FREE access to audio demos – downloadable or streamable – for all three arrangements of each song! Read more

The Dobro Primer Book for Beginners with Video & Audio Access by David Ellis was written for the beginning dobro player. A dobro may also be known as a resonator or resophonic guitar. These beginner lessons start with the absolute basics and advance to playing popular bluegrass tunes (19 breaks to 13 popular Bluegrass songs). The book features detailed photos and illustrations that will teach you proper playing technique, how to read tab, how to tune a dobro, and more. After covering the basic techniques, you will learn how to put these concepts together to play some bluegrass tunes. All music is written in tablature and standard music notation. You will also receive online access to over an hour of video instruction and audio tracks that play all music and exercises at two speeds.Watch & Learn, Inc. Read more

Do you want to become a great bluegrass guitar player?This book will give you all the tools you need to be the best you can be.If you are an intermediate to advanced, this book will help you hone your skills to a higher level. This book contains a series of arrangements and solos based on 10 bluegrass tunes and solo breaks that will help you build a song base for enjoying and performing some great bluegrass tunes.This book is written in standard note notation and tab to quicken your reading so you can focus on learning the tunes and having fun performing for friends and family. It will also help you develop skills as a bluegrass player and improviser.Seven reasons to buy this book:Ten standard bluegrass tunes arranged for guitar.Solo breaks arranged especially for each tune.The tunes are written in standard note notation for readers.The tunes are written in tab for quick learning.Cross picking is mixed into each arrangement and solo.Rhythm and speed coordinating left-hand and right-hand using metronome tempos.Slurs and slides are mixed into the tunes to develop these important bluegrass skills and techniques.If you want to be the best bluegrass guitar player everyone around you knows, buy this book.About the author:Speedy Beers has been teaching private lessons on guitar, violin, mandolin, and viola for sixty years. He has played professionally in orchestras, big band jazz, small combo pop bands and jazz bands. He has also played theater for many years playing guitar violin and mandolin. To read more about Speedy, go to speedybeers.mailchimpsites.com Website and read his bio and history. Read more

The Beginning Banjo Warm-up Series for Beginners Book with Online Video & Audio Access will help the student train the right hand to perform with the speed and accuracy that is essential to playing the 5 string banjo. The right hand is the driving force behind the three finger banjo style that is so popular today. Spending time to develop this technique now will pay big dividends in the future. During the video lessons, Geoff Hohwald will guide you through playing forward rolls at gradually increasing speeds. This teaching method has helped numerous beginner students to improve their right hand strength, speed, and accuracy. This course was designed to get the absolute beginner prepared to work through our Banjo Primer course. - Watch & Learn, Inc. Read more

Flatpicking Guitar Songs Book with Audio Access by Bert Casey is the clearest, most complete book on the market showing the secrets of playing bluegrass lead guitar and is the followup course to the Acoustic Guitar Primer Book. This lead songbook includes exciting, accurate arrangements to popular songs and is written in both tablature and standard music notation. There are 29 breaks for 12 songs, and each break is played both slow and fast on the Audio Tracks. The book features bluegrass songs that utilize several different chords and keys. Songs include Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Wildwood Flower, Home Sweet Home, Cripple Creek, Red Haired Boy, Nine Pound Hammer, Sally Goodin, Old Joe Clark, Black Mountain Rag, Salt River, Billy In The Lowground, and John Hardy.Watch & Learn, Inc. Read more

Banjo Primer Book for Beginners Deluxe Edition with DVD & 2 Jam CDs by Geoff Hohwald was written for the beginning student who wants to learn how to play Scruggs style 5 string bluegrass banjo technique. This course starts off with beginner basics like parts of the banjo, tuning, how to read tabs, and simple rolls. We'll then move on to learn some easy to play song arrangements along with up the neck breaks to classic bluegrass songs. These beginner lessons feature step by step instruction that can be used to teach individuals or groups. After learning basic techniques, the course functions as a bluegrass songbook. The included DVD provides video instruction on each exercise and let's you see and hear all songs at 3 speeds - very slow (for learning), medium tempo (for practicing), and uptempo (performance speed). The two Jam Track CDs play all of the songs at five speeds with a bluegrass band. This time tested banjo method will help you learn how to play today! The video lesson, audio exercises, and tablature are also available for online access. Read more

The Upright Bass Primer Book for Beginners with Online Video & Audio Access by Andy Hohwald is an instructional course that focuses on the beginning bluegrass player and emphasizes proper playing technique. This instrument may also be known as a double bass, contrabass, standup bass, bass violin, or bass fiddle. These beginner lessons will guide the student through learning parts of the bass, proper playing position, tuning the bass, right and left hand technique, marking the positions, how to read tablature, playing notes, and how to play with other instruments. The book focuses on playing in a folk or bluegrass style and will teach the beginner how to play several bluegrass standards. This course includes online access to audio tracks and over an hour of video instruction with split screens that allow for close up views of the left and right hand along with on-screen tablature. Songs include Tom Dooley, Pretty Polly, Going Down That Road, Worried Man Blues, Rueben's Train, Soldier's Joy, John Hardy, Nine Pound Hammer, Sittin' On Top Of The World, Dark Hollow, Billy In The Lowground, Cryin Holy, Little Maggie, Pallet On Your Floor, Wabash Cannonball, and Way Downtown. - Watch & Learn, Inc. Read more

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The Banjo Improvisation Book 3 Pentatonic Improvisation with Video & Audio Access by Geoff Hohwald will teach you how to incorporate pentatonic based licks into your banjo playing. These lessons will add a fresh sound to your playing and help you stand out in a jam session. We’ll start by learning the Pentatonic Scale itself and different places on the neck we can play it. Geoff will then teach you a wide variety of licks and how to use them in the context of a song. We’ll play along with New River Train, Think of What You’ve Done, Train 45, 9 Pound Hammer, John Hardy, Little Maggie, and a 12 Bar Blues. You can practice the along with 157 minutes of online video instruction and additional audio backing tracks. Read more

Uncover the magical world of fiddling!Are you ready for a musical journey to the heart of traditional folk and bluegrass melodies?Have you ever wondered how the fiddle’s enchanting tunes evoke emotion?Would you like to discover the secret to mastering this remarkable instrument?If so, “How to Play the Fiddle for Beginners” is your key to unlocking the world of strings and melodies.In this book, you will:Discover the impressive history and cultural significance of the fiddle.Unlock the remarkable secrets of bowing techniques that will make your fiddle sing like never before.Learn the delicate art of tuning and maintaining your instrument for optimal performance.Explore a simple, step-by-step approach to mastering essential fiddle tunes and styles.Experience the joy of playing alongside practice tracks and helpful exercises.Find new ways to express yourself through the language of music.With “How to Play the Fiddle for Beginners,” you hold the key to unlocking your musical potential. Whether you dream of performing on stage or want to serenade friends and family, this book will set you on a path to fiddle mastery. Take advantage of this opportunity to discover the magic of the fiddle.So click on the “Add to Cart” button now, unleash your inner fiddler, and let the melodies begin! Read more