This book features 22 gems of gospel and hymn music, arranged in various keys in dropped D tuning (DADGBE - 6th to 1st string) for the intermediate and advanced guitarist. The arrangements provide compelling evidence that dropped D tuning has been liberated from its usual position as simply a variant of standard tuning. In this book, it takes on an exciting open-tuning character. Innovative string choices and guitar voicings are employed to evoke different textures for the various melodies. The music ranges from the single-note treatment reminiscent ofthe solo singer, to the flowing, arpeggiated approach of the harper, to the chordal power of the organist. The pace can be slow and meditative, or up-tempo andcelebratory. The presentation is in tablature and standard notation

(Guitar Educational). The Hal Leonard Christian Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide uses well-known praise and worship songs to teach you the basics of guitar style and technique. The accompanying CD features all of the songs in the book for demonstration and play-along. Songs include: Awesome God * Blessed Be Your Name * Here I Am to Worship * How Great Is Our God * I Could Sing of Your Love Forever * Oh Lord, You're Beautiful * Open the Eyes of My Heart * You Are My King (Amazing Love) * and more.

(Finger Style Guitar). Virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist and clawhammer banjo player Steve Baughman shares 17 hymns and gospel songs arranged for solo guitar in standard notation and tablature, with video downloads available online for all songs. This rich collection features a variety of tunings, background information, technical tips and humorous asides. Songs include: At Calvary * Down by the Riverside * Fairest Lord Jesus * Go Tell It on the Mountain * Great Is Thy Faithfulness * It Is Well with My Soul * Just As I Am * Love Divine, All Loves Excelling * Nearer, My God, To Thee * Old Rugged Cross * Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Savior * Rock of Ages * Shall We Gather at the River * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder * Whispering Hope.

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.

(Easy Guitar). A virtual bible of more than 100 songs of faith arranged for easy guitar! This collection includes: Amazing Grace * At Calvary * Blessed Assurance * Church in the Wildwood * He Touched Me * His Eye Is on the Sparrow * How Great Thou Art * I Love to Tell the Story * I Saw the Light * Just a Closer Walk with Thee * The Lily of the Valley * More Than Wonderful * The Old Rugged Cross * Rock of Ages * Shall We Gather at the River? * Sweet By and By * Turn Your Radio On * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * and more.

The outrageous and often hilarious autobiography of legendary session musician and lead guitarist and singer of Toto. "...one of the most entertaining rock memoirs of recent years..." - Houston Press No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant sound of the late ‘70s and ‘80s was not punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B first staked out on Boz Scaggs’ Silk Degrees. That album was shaped in large part by the founding members of Toto, who were emerging as the most in-demand elite session crew in LA, and further developed on the band’s self-titled multi-platinum debut. A string of massive hits followed for Toto while Lukather and bandmates David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, and Steve Porcaro also served as creative linchpins on some of the most successful and influential records of the era, including Michael Jackson’s Thriller. In this incisive memoir, Lukather tells the complete Toto story. He also lifts the lid on what went on behind the closed studio doors, shedding light on the unique creative processes of some of the most legendary names in music: from Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, and Elton John to Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Roger Waters, and Aretha Franklin. Lukather’s extraordinary tale also encompasses the dark side of stardom and the American Dream. Frank, engaging, and often hilarious, The Gospel According to Luke is no ordinary rock memoir. It is the real thing.

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