New Guitar Music For Beginners

Why did I write this book of folk tunes for guitar and flute? Well, firstly I love the tunes. It is a collection of traditional songs for guitar and flute. Many years ago one of my favourite occupations was to play and sing in sessions. Then life got in the way. When I hear folk tunes it brings back those days and many memories of singing and playing - and I just love the combination of classical guitar and flute!

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Resume from Lulu:

"A collection of well loved songs and tunes from around the world competently arranged by a professional composer, educator and guitarist for young flute players and guitarists. (The flute part is playable also by guitar and violin). These arrangements are properly transcribed in full in traditional notation for both instruments but professionally edited guitar TAB is given for the non-reader on acoustic guitar. This beautifully presented book is an ideal present for the guitarist, flautist or folk music enthusiast.

Contents:

The Drunken Sailor
The Water Is Wide
The Keys of Canterbury
Carrickfergus
For Auld Lang Syne
Romanza
Fhear A Bhata
Spanish Ladies
MacPherson's Lament
The Cutty Wren Song
Volga Boat Song
A Bunch of Thyme
The Bluebells Of Scotland
Now the Green Blade Rises
Lisa Lan
Hava Nagila
The Mountains of Mourne

This is a lovely book designed with retro Edwardian Script titles. The cover I designed from my own night photo of Lincoln Cathedral.

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Quoting from Lulu:

"A selection of best loved traditional carols arranged for students over many years. These have worked well for me. In addition to old favourites and must haves there are some slightly less usual carols in this collection for solo fingerstyle guitar. Each includes a single note version for pre-grade one players, sometimes in an easier key, and a full version for the more experienced. I have produced separate pages for notation and TAB - two reasons - minimizing page turns which guitarists hate and encouraging reading. However TAB readers are well catered for with TAB versions of all full solos."

Standard ranges from grade 1 to grade 4.

Contents are:

Away In A Manger
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Coventry Carol
Noel Nouvelet
Joy To The World
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
See Amid The Winter Snow
We Three Kings Of Orient Are
The Crown Of Roses
Deck The Halls.

Another retro feel book for those who like their chestnuts roasting on an open fire and candles on their tree.... Lovely retro Edwardian fonts and effective, melodic arrangements for flexible ensembles.

You can buy this book of Christmas Tunes for Guitar Choir by clicking on the button below.



My Lulu description:

"This book is a selection of new arrangements of well known and well loved carols for beginner guitar ensembles. The author is a guitar teacher with 30 years experience both as teacher and performer. The level of ability within the arrangements is from pre-grade 1 up to grade 3. There are guest parts for drums, recorder and cor anglais on individual carols (and all have a single note melody part which is transferable to other instruments). Fonts are large with note name noteheads and TAB. All carols have been chosen as personal favourites by the author and for their traditional warmth and Christian feel although some arrangements are quite upbeat."

Contents:

Silent Night,
Ding Dong Merrily On High,
Joy to the World,
The Seven Joys of Mary,
We Three kings of Orient Are,
See Amid the Winter's Snow,
Noel Nouvelet,
Coventry Carol

Obviously the more time I can devote to my music, the more I can get done so I do charge a fee for my books. However some music I do offer for free, this is generally easy music for beginners. You can see examples of this on my guitarlincs lens, or alternatively why not visit my baby website? The address to copy is http://www.guitarlincs.com

As you will see if you click through to the link list, this is available with and without TAB. Some teachers prefer not to use it, and others prefer to have it available.



This is the write up:

"Songs of the Reef has a sea theme, led by the Octopus on the cover. Many thanks to Colin Mason, for the wonderful purple Octopus who even holds his guitar correctly! I call these Octo-Pieces because they explore octaves! Very young children often learn music happily through note names and Kodaly hand signals, coming to notation later. At this point the guitar offers bewildering choices. This was written as a fun way of getting children used to high and low versions of the same note! Song of the Reef contains easy to read large notation with note name noteheads. I wanted to produce an attractive book for young guitarists at an early stage of reading and playing. The pieces are from grade 1 to grade 3 level. In the later pieces, higher notes and harmonics are added and special effects and dynamics are explored. I know my pupils like these pieces, my hope is that they will become a firm favourite with young guitarists of all ages, from 6-106!"

For more information on this guitar based project, please visit the Band In A Jam lens. This project is best appreciated in the CD Rom version which contains all instrumental parts and WAV files of the audio.

Clicking on the button below will take you to the CD Rom version of the project:



Here is the information on the guitar book:

This book contains all the six string guitar parts for Band in a Jam which aims to encourage improvising in a band context. (This was written for KS2 and KS3 rock bands with orchestral parts added and is suitable also for guitar projects and class bands). This book contains all the parts for the guitars. Beginner parts have note names in the noteheads and stave size is larger to facilitate reading. Harder parts may also have TAB versions. Scales for jamming are given in easy, first position and higher position forms with notation and TAB. Each scale has a corresponding fretboard diagram showing most of the notes in the range of acoustic guitar. This is a very visual book, intended to be useful to all readers. A whole fretboard view of each scale (in diagram form with notenames) is also given for the more adventurous player. For the last tune only there are also suggested arpeggio patterns for tapping. These are in music, TAB and whole fretboard diagram form.