This fingerstyle guitar book includes many wonderful gospel songs adapted for DADGAD tuning–a style not typically used in gospel. The material includes standards, as well as songs less familiar to fingerstyle players. Intended for advanced-beginners, intermediate-level players, and anyone looking to dive into alternating-bass music and more complex chordal work. Includes access to online audio.

Authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk love the sound of a guitar when played like a harp! Rather than a bouncy, alternating-bass picking pattern, the notes flow and ring out in an atmospheric and evocative way. This book explores the application of that approach to tunes in several different genres, to show the range of possibilities: hymn music, Irish, Scottish, and English traditional music, Stephen Foster Americana, and a Jerome Kern show tune. Includes access to online audio.

This fingerstyle guitar book is a collection of popular music written by women composers during the North American parlor music era. Adapted for fingerstyle guitar, these 12 tunes are a representative sample of songs written from the 1840s to the 1920s: including a hymn, a march, topical songs, patriotic songs, folk-style tunes, and the blues. It was a period of time when women were little encouraged to write and publish music and were vastly underrepresented by publishing houses. However,...

The name of this book is no exaggeration. It includes some of the most gorgeous music that the authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk know. To make things even more interesting, none of the music was originally written for guitar!In addition to Celtic favorites, El includes his arrangements of two of the most beautiful arias in all of opera: "Che Gelida Manina" from Puccini's "La Boheme" and "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" (“Mon Coeur S'ouvre à ta Voix”) from "Samson and Delilah" by Camil...