The Guitar Journals series is the ultimate reference guide to studies and solos in several different genres. This volume is dedicated to sight reading and presents studies based on each string, then continues with etudes in each of the 12 major and minor keys, offering studies in four different positions on the fretboard. This is a must-have source book for the student to professional musician's library, ideal for everyday use! The deluxe hard cover with hidden spiral binding and premium stock paper make this book a durable resource that you will treasure for years to come. This deluxe edition is the ultimate guide for mastery of note locations on the fretboard and the perfect reference manual for everyday sight-reading practice. -Ultimate guide for reading and mastery of the fingerboard and perfect reference manual for everyday use -Covers studies on each string, studies on each key (each of the 12 major and minor keys is presented in four different positions on the fingerboard and a study is presented for each, and four major and minor studies are presented in each position -Ideal for the student to professional musician

An exhaustive and complete guide to learning to read notes on the guitar. This text was drawn from all the best of William Bay's Modern Guitar ethod/Expanded Version, Mastering the Guitar and First Lessons/Guitar books. If you want to master note reading on the guitar fingerboard, this is the book for you

This is the flagship book in Mel Bay's new Achieving Guitar Artistry series. Herein you will find an extensive collection of linear pieces with interesting melodic content. Frequent performance of these etudes will not only enhance technique, but offer the guitarist a wonderful opportunity to improve tone, touch and lyrical phrasing. We suggest playing each etude at a slow tempo at first, the goal being to achieve a clear and beautiful tone on every note. The next objective is to develop a sense of lyrical completeness to each musical phrase. Make the phrases sing! Once you have achieved the desired quality of tone and expression, increase the tempo to work on the technique. Mel Bay's Guitar Journals - Mastering the Fingerboard: The Reading Book (MB20903) would make an ideal supplement to Linear Guitar Etudes as itpresents etudes in all keys and positions. The pieces in Linear Guitar Etudes are multi-positional. That is, the player will be required to move from position to position on the fingerboard. The music ispresented in standard notation only, with left-hand fingering included on the more complex passages, and circled numbers to indicate the strings where certainnotes and passages are to be played. These etudes sound good on both nylon and steel-string guitars, and will be a valuable addition to the music library of any guitarist, enhancing their abilities regardless of the style of music played.

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of exercises and solos in different genres. This comprehensive collection of studies and solos presents a diverse and eclectic array of music. In addition to great sounding warm-ups and picking studies, solos are presented in the following categories: Fiddle Tunes, Ballads and Waltzes, Celtic, Rags and Swing, Gospel, Classics, Playing on Up the Fingerboard, Playing in Mixed Positions, Advance Solos and for the truly adventurous Strange Solos. All music in notation and tablature. Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable music that you will treasure it for years to come.•Comprehensive collections of flatpicking study and solo material•Warm-Up and Picking Studies, Fiddle Tunes, Ballads and Waltzes, Celtic, Rags and Swing, Gospel, Classics, Playing on the Up the Fingerboard, Playing In Mixed Positions, Advance Solos and "Strange" Solos.•All music in notation and tablature•Beautiful hard cover with covered spiral binding and premium paper.

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This incredible volume for jazz includes a wonderful collection of arrangements by jazz greats Joe Diorio, Johnny Smith, Gene Bertoncini, Bucky Pizzarelli and many more. Covering a wide range of areas including Latin, comping, rhythm changes, blues, etc. This is a must-have and is perfect for everyday use for the student to the professional musician. Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for years to come! Companion CD of examples included.•

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This superb volume on technique covers warm-ups, picking studies, string skipping, tremolo, triplets, cross-picking, intervals, linear studies, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and pick control. All exercises have tunes matched to their particular study and are perfect for the student to professional musician's everyday use. A must-have for any guitarist's library! Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for years to come!•Ultimate guide on technique and perfect reference manual for everyday use•Covers warm-ups, picking studies, string skipping, tremolo, triplets, cross-picking, intervals, linear studies, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and pick control•All exercises have solos matched to their particular study•Ideal for the student to professional musician•Beautiful hard cover with covered spiral binding and premium paper

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. Included in this wonderful fingerstyle journal are a myriad of tunes in many styles: Easy, Blues, Gospel, Classic, Fiddle Tunes, Thumbpicking, Patriotic, Ballads, Early Jazz, Latin, Celtic, DADGAD, Ragtime and Contemporary. Perfect for the student to professional musician, this wonderful book contains tunes which can be revisited daily. All music in notation and tablature. Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for years to come!•