Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710), widely regarded as the most famous Baroque-period guitarist, published three influential volumes of music characterized by memorable melodies, lively Spanish cross-rhythms, and cascading scale passages. Due to shared characteristics, the Baroque guitar is a close relative of the modern ukulele; for instance, the smaller four-course Baroque guitar utilized a similar re-entrant tuning.Sanz frequently employed the campanella style, a technique where scale note...

This book is devoted to playing the soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele tuned in perfect fifths as used by the string and mandolin families of instruments, as well as the cittern and tenor banjo. The book’s scores are all in tablature; you’ll have no trouble adapting to the tuning and playing in the book’s various styles.The 55 pieces in Play Ukulele in 5ths Tuning progress from simple to advanced and can be played fingerstyle or with a pick. To help you come to grips with the tunin...

Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements and compositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues, C. C. Rider and more, alongside 15 full-length studies. The book begins with easy arrangements, progressing to intermediate and more advanced ones - in short, ...

Seasoned music educator and multi-instrumentalist, Rob MacKillop presents this introductory classical repertoire for the intermediate tenor banjoist. Derived from method books for the mandolin, cello and guitar, these progressive melodic studies are typeset in standard notation and tablature. Readers are encouraged to start at the beginning and listen to the author’s online recordings for guidance. Various keys, rhythms and time signatures are represented for a thorough grounding in note r...

This book and accompanying audio include twenty of the most popular kids' tunes of all time, arranged for small hands to play on the ukulele. Chords are supplied for other instruments to join in the fun, as well as lyrics for singing. The ukulele tablature makes learning fun and easy, while the arranger (with 25 years of teaching experience) has laid the foundations for good fingerstyle technique. This book is therefore both fun and educational. The ukulele is a wonderful instrument for ki...

Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjo music by some of the early leading players, James Buckley, Albert Baur, and the great Frank B. Converse, the greatest virtuoso of his day. From folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka, Mazurka and Schottische, to advanced Romantic-period classical-style solo...

Rob MacKillop presents 24 superb solo guitar works by Belgian composer Gilbert Isbin, one of the most interesting, dynamic and poetic composers writing for the guitar today.All 24 pieces have been recorded by Rob MacKillop–a magnificent solo recording in itself. The book contains standard notation and tablature, and an interview with the composer. The music ranges from student pieces to advanced concert solos. Although composed with a plectrum in mind, they can also be played finge...

In this book, multi-instrumentalist and music historian Rob MacKillop explores an unexpected aspect of the 5-string banjo repertoire with slower, expressive, and even sentimental qualities. Drawing upon various 19th and 20th century resources, MacKillop offers 27 engaging international melodies in gDGBD or gCGBD tuning that can be played on any 5-string banjo, whether old or modern, with either fingertips or picks.In contrast to the hard-driving bluegrass “Dueling Banjos” approach,...

This book features twenty superb arrangements of traditional Old Time American tunes by ukulele maestro Rob MacKillop. Included are classics such as Wildwood Flower, Man Of Constant Sorrow, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Angeline The Baker, and many others. All the music is playable with a pick or finger style, and the tunes are presented in both tablature and standard notation. Includes access to online audio.

20 favorite Scottish and Irish tunes, brilliantly arranged for fingerstyle ukulele by Rob MacKillop. Titles include such well-known session tunes as Drowsy Maggie, The Kesh Jig, The Connaught Man's Rambles and The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Rob is a master of the campanella style of ukulele fingering, which exploits the unique tuning of the ukulele, and which helps these airs, jigs and reels flow across the fingerboard effortlessly, at times sounding like a small Celtic harp. The compani...

Many great Scottish traditional tunes can be traced back to 17th century lute music. In this collection, multi-instrumentalist Rob MacKillop has transcribed and arranged 25 popular tunes derived from various lute manuscripts. While idiomatic to the guitar, some of these arrangements include fast runs and chord changes, so are best suited to the intermediate-level flatpicking guitarist.This guitar collection consists of the same melodies in the same keys found in its mandolin counte...

Bach's solo cello suites are essential studies for many instruments, and the great advantage of playing them on the Mandola is that both instruments share the same tuning: CGDA. In this edition, the bass clef has been transposed to the alto clef, commonly used for the mandola part in mandolin orchestras and other ensembles. This edition provides great practice in reading the alto clef, and TAB notation is also included. Both the Alto clef and the TAB are presented separately, thus avoiding...