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Ever since the first European immigrants landed on North American shores, the music of the British Isles has been a decisive factor in the formation of the American folk and popular songbook. Although...

All of the arrangements in this book were especially prepared for the beginning bluegrass banjo student. Written in G tuning, melody and accompaniment tabs are shown for 51 banjo favorites! Lyrics are...

Gospel Songs for Banjo Made Easy is a collection of gospel favorites arranged for bluegrass 5-string banjo. The arrangements stay true to the classic three-finger 'Scruggs style' techniques with the m...

An exciting beginning blues harmonica course! The ideas presented are solidly in the blues tradition with great sounding bluesy licks to play, even at the beginning level! Topics include Phrasing Conc...

First Lessons Blues Harmonica is an exciting course for the beginning blues player. The ideas presented are solidly in the blues tradition with great sounding bluesy licks to play, even at the beginni...

You Can Teach Yourself Blues Harp has been designed to allow the beginning student to gain maximum results in the shortest amount of time. This innovative book enables the student to play rhythm chord...

First Lessons on Banjo is an ultra-easy instruction manual for beginning five-string Banjo played in the three finger style in G tuning. It can be used by those with no previous experience with the Ba...

The mandolin is a great instrument for kids. These simple arrangements of all-time popular songs are ideal for younger learners and will get them playing in no time! This repertoire book is easy to re...

The Art Of Transcribing is a book that makes transcribing for the Drum set as easy as 1-2-3. Here is how it works: 1) Learn one rhythm at a time (every variation of 16th notes and 8th note triplets ar...

Blues Drums Play-Along Trax, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting play-along that contains the most common grooves used in blues bands today. All of the examples are minus the...

The Rhythm Encyclopedia is a collection of 6, 561 different rhythms written in notation that can be used for Drum set, Conga, Djembe, Cajon and any other Drum that has a high tone and a low tone. This...

Take your creativity to another level with this book! Rock music is, or should be, a form of personal expression. This text was written to encourage and develop the drummer's ability to create and dev...

Basic drum set coordination can be learned very quickly using vocal sounds instead of written notes. Drums from Day One is an adaptation of the proven 'solfege' technique to thedrumset. 'Solfege, ' (...

This handy video takes the guitar student through all the basic guitar chords starting with the easy to play forms and moving into the standard and more difficult fingerings. Every chord is shown in a...

This very easy to understand, step by step introduction to note reading and guitar solo performance presents basic notes in first position. It features a companion play-along online audio and video wi...

How good of a musician you become is predicated on how much practice you do and the quality of that practice. In all likelihood, you don't have access to a harmonica teacher (a rare breed), so it's up...

This book presents easy to intermediate fingerstyle guitar arrangements of 19 familiar folk and gospel favorites. Some of these creative settings reflect the influence of Chet Atkins’ alternating bass...

My First Country Guitar Picking Songs is an ideal book for beginners interested in learning country-style guitar and basic reading skills. Author Steve Kaufman uses his award-winning method to teach p...

26 of Steve Kaufman's Favorite Jamming Fiddle tunes presented in notation and tablature. Companion Audio available online.

This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in 'Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar' (MB 95748) but the book was so large and heavy that they couldn't put all...

Traditionally the role of the guitar in Celtic music has been confined to accompaniment of lead instruments or a vocalist. In this book Steve Baughman suggests ways to break free of this mold, allowin...

En Mode is a set of twenty-two easy character pieces for guitar with a light contemporary flavor, 'in the style of..., ' that provide early students with a wider range of musical genres than is usuall...

This new series of graded repertoire for Guitar has been put together with the aim of providing students with the most attractive, stylistically comprehensive, and inspiring music available, while at...