Here are the keys to develop your steel guitar playing to a higher level. Learn how to apply advanced harmony and music theory concepts on the steel guitar. Elaborated explanations, exercises and musical experiments suggestions to develop your playing in the music style of your choice. By following these suggestions you will make this book worth a thousand pages. Steel guitar chord voicings, functional harmonic exchange, colors and tensions, motives development, composing and improvising. Written for G low bass tuning, it explains in depth how to transfer all your steel guitar knowledge to different tunings right on the spot. (ebook/PDF 77 pages + audio)

With this book you will learn how to play fingerpicking guitar using DADGAD tuning. It is full of explanations and exercises covering right and left hand techniques, scales, chords and more advance concepts like crossed strings scales, harmonizing melodies, arranging compositions, etc. It also contains several full pieces arranged for solo guitar in Celtic and Folk styles. Compositions like The Blarney Pilgrim Jig, The Kesh Jig, The Road Back to Ireland Slip Jig, Bound to America (Appalachian Folk style) and the Skye and Boat Song.
All the instructional material in this book is intended for intermediate and advance guitarists. Everything is written in music notation as well as guitar tablature accompanied by audio files. (ebook/PDF 69 pages + audio)

Learn how to play traditional Japanese music on guitar. The author explains important concepts to understand the music of Japan. How oriental modal music works, its pentatonic scales and modes, as well as guitar techniques to produce an authentic Japanese sound using microtones and other nuances. Learn the styles played on instruments like the Japanese Koto or Shamisen applied to the guitar in compositions like the famous Rokudan No Shirabe, Sakura Sakura, Rinzetsu, Kumiuta, Ringo Bushi, etc. All the instructional material in this book is intended for intermediate and advance guitarists. Everything is written in music notation as well as guitar tablature accompanied by an audio file. (ebook/PDF 72 pages + audio)

This book focuses on learning how to play Bulgarian music on guitar. It begins with an explanation about Bulgarian music and its instruments. How to play and apply Bulgarian music concepts on guitar. Understanding and practicing Bulgarian and Balkan rhythms. It also includes several pieces based on different Bulgarian styles from the instrumental and vocal tradition. All of them arranged for solo guitar. All the instructional material in this book is intended for intermediate and advance guitarists. All the examples are written in music notation as well as guitar tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. (ebook/PDF 71 pages + audio)

This guitar method focuses on learning how Arabic music works and how to play it on fretless guitar. It begins with an explanation about the Arabic music system followed by guitar-oud tunings, technique exercises for left and right hand, playing microtones on guitar, ornaments, and Arabic rhythms. It also includes several pieces based on different Maqam and rhythms. The material in this books can be studied by guitar beginners and intermediate or advance players. All the examples are written in music notation as well as guitar tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. (ebook/PDF 90 pages + audio)

This guitar method focuses on learning how North Indian music works and how to play it on slide guitar. Contents can be played on a bottleneck slide guitar, lap steel or the original Indian slide guitar also known as Mohan Veena or Chaturangi. It begins with an explanation about the North Indian music system of Ragas. Followed by how to apply the concepts in different slide guitars. Tunings, technique exercises, ornaments, and Tal or rhythm cycles. You will learn how Indian melodies and rhythms are written in order to be able to use any Indian music dedicated material. It also includes several compositions based on different Ragas and Talas and their development. All the examples are written in music notation as well as guitar tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. (ebook/PDF 106 pages + audio)

With this book you will learn several musical compositions based on different world music traditions arranged for classical guitar. It includes compositions from West Africa, United States, Hawaii, China, Japan and Turkey. All the guitar exercises and compositions are addressed to advanced beginners and intermediate players. Everything is written in music notation and guitar tablature. The author makes an introduction of every piece explaining where it comes from, technical questions and suggestions to perform it. It includes explanations about how to use microtonal tunings to be able to play Turkish Makam music on a standard guitar, five fingers Chinese Pipa tremolos, West African Kora runs, Japanese Koto inflections. And many other new techniques coming from native instruments of world music cultures.

All the examples are written in music notation as well as tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. All the examples are written in music notation as well as tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file.All the examples are written in music notation as well as tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. All the examples are written in music notation as well as tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file.All the examples are written in music notation as well as tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. All the examples are written in music notation as well as tablature, each one of them accompanied by an audio file. All the pieces are written in music notation as well as tablature and accompanied by an audio file. Although the compositions are arranged for classical guitar they can also be played on any type of nylon or steel strings guitar in fingerstyle. (ebook/PDF 60 pages + audio)

Este livro contém diversas composições musicais baseadas em diferentes tradições musicais (world music traditions) e arranjadas para violão erudito/clássico.

Inclui composições da África Ocidental, Estados Unidos, Havaí, China, Japão e Turquia.

O autor faz uma introdução para cada uma das peças: explica de onde vêm, apresenta questões técnicas e sugestões para tocá-las. Nestas introduções, incluem-se: explicações sobre como usar afinações microtonais para se tocar a música makam (Turquia) no violão padrão, o tremolo de cinco dedos referente à tradição da Pipa chinesa, os licks característicos da Kora da África Ocidental, as inflexões melódicas no Koto japonês e muitas outras técnicas advindas de instrumentos nativos de outras culturas musicais.

Todos os exemplos estão escritos em notação musical tradicional (partitura) e tablatura, bem como acompanhados por um arquivo de áudio.

Embora as composições estejam arranjadas para violão erudito/clássico, também podem ser tocadas em qualquer tipo de violão, seja com cordas de nylon ou de aço. (ebook/PDF 63 páginas + arquivo de áudio)

With this book you will learn the keys to playing microtonal music on your standard guitar. This book is full of guitar exercises and songs designed for beginners and intermediate players in order to learn techniques when playing music using microtones on the guitar. Everything is written in music notation and guitar tablature. Step by step, the authors Fernando Perez and Tolgahan Çoğulu will guide you on how to use fretlets (added frets) by showing you exactly where to place them, making available the microtones used in different musical traditions. By learning this repertoire, you will discover new techniques while playing new styles. Volume One is dedicated to Persian and Turkish music. The Persian part includes Pish Daramad, Gatar, Reng or Tasniff styles among others. The Turkish one includes pieces like Yemen Türküsü, Wine Bir Gülnihal, Kara Toprak, etc. (ebook/PDF 88 pages + audio)