No comments about Modern Chord Progressions : Jazz & Classical Voicings For Guitar [Songbook].

No comments about Classical Guitar for the Steel-String Guitarist Instructional Book/CD (Book & CD).

1 comments about Easy Classics for Guitar.

1. This book offers a great collection of very approachable music for new (and out-of-practice) guitarists. More than that, there is a collection of transcriptions and arrangements here that serious guitarists will want to explore. Dig in and enjoy.

No comments about Bach Again for Guitar: Guitar Solo.

No comments about The Rock Classics Book (Book (Hal Leonard)).

1 comments about Sacred Music for the Guitar - Volume 2: Guitar Solo.

1. I enjoy Christopher Parkening's music books and this one was no disappointment. As a "hobby classical guitarist", this one presented many challenging pieces for me to learn, but I've enjoyed it. Well written and easy to understand.

4 comments about Renaissance Music For Guitar (Book&CD).

1. This is a great collection of tunes If you play the guitar and you aren't a concert standard player (whatever that means) you've probably had that experience where you buy a book of guitar music and a third of it is far too difficult to play (unless your last name is Bream or Williams). A third of it is playable but uninteresting, and that leaves a few tunes may be worth playing.

   This book is different. It contains great tunes with a range of difficulties though all are playable by that mysterious character, the intermediate guitarist. Some of the most beautiful are disarmingly simple. The beauty of renaissance music is that it was written for a stringed instrument like a guitar by people who played a stringed isntrument.It's not like someone has taken a chopin pollanaise and transcribed it. These short pieces are not only fun to play, but they have melody and rhythm and they sound good on the instrument.

   The editor's fingering makes sense (this isn't always the case in guitar anthologies) and the selection is interesting and varied. There are a couple of well known pieces, but some real finds too.

   This book has no dud tunes, and nothing that you look at and know you're never going to play. The fact that it is presented in both tab and standard musical notation makes it easier too. If you have a choice, buy the cd. Not only is it good to listen to but It makes learning so much easier. The cd doesn't get bored with you asking it to play the one piece over and over again while you're working it out. So if you want a collection of pieces that are not only fun to play, but which are worth playing and worth listening to Buy this. If you know nothing about renaissance music for the guitar, this is a good introduction. And if you know a flute or recorder player, buy the author's "renaissance music for the guitar and flute' from the same publisher. be warned though, much of this music is addictive.




2. This book has a very good selection, and is very clear and well made.



3. As usual with his books (I now own all but a few of his books), Mr. Alexander does a magnificent job finding a mix of familiar and lesser known pieces that stick in your memory. In addition he had done a nice job of selecting pieces which are playable and fingering them well (in some cases adding tasteful variations), and all but a few are within the reach of a determined intermediate player, and well worth the time investment to master. The CD alone would be worth the purchase price.
   
   I found following particularly fun to play the following four:
   Duo (Fuenllana)
   Courante (Praetorius)
   Christ Has Risen (Judenkunig) and
   Katherine Bardi
   
   Although I slightly prefer volume 2 in this series and the excellent South American collection (and the Ancient Music for Flute and Guitar is my favorite of his), this book is outstanding and highly recommended for any classical or fingerpicking guitarist except for beginners.



4. Guides your playing with note sheets and CD through rennaissance music in an easy accessible way. Priceless in a way!

No comments about STONE SOUR COME COME WHAT (EVER) MAY (Guitar Recorded Versions).

2 comments about Pumping Nylon (Pumping Nylon Series).

1. After going through this collection of pieces, I found that I was able to develop a sense of which pieces I needed to practice as the same old faults cropped up. A little like fixing my golf swing - old bad habits tend to creep back in. In any event, it is good to have a set of pieces with an accompanying CD, to check phrasing, timing and general hygiene factors. The downside is that none of the pieces are awfully inspiring, and I view playing them as more of a chore than anything else. Get through these, and then its back to Bach..
   
   It also does not seem necessary to have tied this book to the original "Pumping Nylon" instruction book (which I cannot recommend highly enough). While I understand that the publishers may have wanted to capitalize on the success of the brand generated by that effort, the marketing strategy has detracted from the fact that the books are in no way related, and that this is functions quite well on its own terms.
   
   I also recommend Andrew York's jazz book for classical players, from the same publisher.



2. The book is very attractive and very well print.
   The collected studies are from quite easy - The frog galliard- to very difficult like the cadenza of the Aranjuez : this means that the rate of improvement of yours technique must be very quick for reading the whole book.
   Nevertheless this is a very strong stimulus for overcoming yours limits.
   The CD is very helpfull . The suggestions before the pieces are quite
   predictable . Anyhow I think that this is a useful book if you are a guitarist half way between intermediate and difficul repertoire.

No comments about Mel Bay present's Teaching Pieces Classical Guitar.