Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 1

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 1
Author: Morton Manus
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2007-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739048887

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! A DVD with iPod-compatible video is provided for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books ensure that you'll get everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students. Book 1 covers how to hold your guitar, tuning your guitar, basics of reading music, notes on all six strings, chords, scales and songs, bass-chord accompaniments, duets, photos and diagrams, and acoustic and electric guitars. Titles: Singin' in the Rain * Take Me Home Country Roads * Over the Rainbow * Annie's Song * When the Saints Go Marching In.

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 5

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 5
Author: Alfred d'Auberge
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1957
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457431388

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has expanded into a library, including theory, chord study, play-alongs and more. This best-selling method teaches the basics in a logical sequence, with concise and complete information that is easily accessible to students. Numerous chord diagrams and fingering photos help students quickly learn how to read music and play chords. Exciting music arranged in pop, rock, blues, country and folk styles makes learning to play the guitar an enjoyable and life-long reward.

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Bk 2

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Bk 2
Author: Morton Manus
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1997-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739048894

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and quicker to learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock music styles, plus more pop songs! Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfreds Basic Guitar Methodthe first and best choice for todays beginning guitar students. Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has expanded into a library, including theory, chord study, play-alongs, and more. This best-selling method teaches the basics in a logical sequence, with concise and complete information that is easily accessible to students. This second book in the series includes numerous chord diagrams and fingering photos to help students quickly learn how to read music and play chords. Exciting music arra

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Complete

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Complete
Author: Morty Manus
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 156
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457427541

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and quicker to learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock music styles, plus more pop songs! Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfreds Basic Guitar Methodthe first and best choice for todays beginning guitar students. This book combines all of the essential instructional material from Books 1, 2 and 3 of Alfred's Basic Guitar Method and is a complete course. Written in standard notation, it guides guitarists through the basics of playing the guitar using rock, blues, country and folk music. In addition, techniques such as bending, sliding, hammer-on and pull-off are included.

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele, C-Tuning Edition

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele, C-Tuning Edition
Author: Morton Manus
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2009-05-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457435063

Learn to play the ukulele and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about the history of the ukulele, its components, how to hold and tune it, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and playing a variety of well-known songs. You will learn different strumming techniques to help you play in a variety of musical styles. The book also contains a section teaching you how to play by ear. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key and know how to read music. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Transposition chart * Dictionary of tablature techniques * Ukulele fingerboard chart * Complete ukulele chord dictionary This book teaches entirely in C tuning. The D tuning edition of Alfred’s Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele (item 14135) is available from your favorite music retailer and at Alfred.com. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of the way.

Guitar Method, Book 1

Guitar Method, Book 1
Author: Ron Manus
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1996
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780882847108

Solid guitar instruction at a great value. Each book in this series comes with a CD so you can listen and play along with every song and example---all for the same price as the book alone! Learn by playing familiar blues, rock, jazz, classical, folk and country songs, from the fundamentals of level 1 to the more advanced techniques of level 4. 48 pages.

Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method 1

Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method 1
Author: Nathaniel Gunod
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2013-05-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1470624222

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method book 1 provides a completely new approach to learning guitar for students who want to play in the rock style. By starting on the 6th string, you are immediately able to play riffs and licks that inspire guitarists to continue learning and have fun doing it! The book features clear, well-paced instruction along with large photographs of fingering that is expected in the Alfred's Basic series. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Methods---the best choice for today's beginning guitar students. *Music & Sound Retailer Award-Winner

Jerry Snyder's guitar school

Jerry Snyder's guitar school
Author: Jerry Snyder
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739000281

Well-respected educator and best-selling author Jerry Snyder has put together the most versatile guitar method available. This comprehensive method for classroom or individual study comes in two sections: the first section teaches chords and accompaniment, while the second teaches note reading. This flexible method allows you to start with either section or use both sections simultaneously. The Teacher's Guide helps the instructor develop and organize a guitar class curriculum and provides background on the guitar class, teaching tips, elements of music and how to address the National Standards for Arts Education. The Teacher's Guide also includes 48 pages of reproducible worksheets. The ensemble book offers graded duets, trios and quartets as well as optional parts for bass.

Jazz Lead Guitar Solos: The Ultimate Guide to Playing Great Leads, Book & CD

Jazz Lead Guitar Solos: The Ultimate Guide to Playing Great Leads, Book & CD
Author: Ron Manus
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739031582

You know your scales, understand how to play over a chord progression, and learned enough music theory to fill an encyclopedia, but you still aren't satisfied with your solos. This book teaches jazz guitarists how to apply their knowledge of scales, chord progressions, and music theory towards creating great guitar solos. Eight full-length solos in a variety of styles are studied in detail, including analysis of chord progressions and the material used to improvise over them, techniques, and structural characteristics. Styles range from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin, modal and smooth jazz. All eight solos are performed on the accompanying CD.

Alfred's Basic Guitar Chord Chart

Alfred's Basic Guitar Chord Chart
Author:
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-10
Genre: Guitar
ISBN: 9780739048955

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and quicker to learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock music styles, plus more pop songs! Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfreds Basic Guitar Methodthe first and best choice for todays beginning guitar students. The essential reference guide for every beginning guitarist. Alfreds Basic Guitar Chord Chart includes all the basic chords in every key. The perfect reference now and at any stage of skill development. Nothing can stop guitarists from learning every song now!