Mastering The Guitar - Book 1A with Online Audio and Video

Mastering The Guitar - Book 1A with Online Audio and Video

A Comprehensive Method for Today's Guitarist

Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, comprehensive approach to learning guitar, co-authored by William Bay and Michael Christiansen. This method applies the internationally acclaimed Mel Bay teaching concept to a wide range of musical styles, from Celtic to classical, Cajun to Flamenco, rock to blues, and jazz to Reggae. The method incorporates both flatpicking and fingerstyle techniques for solo and accompaniment playing, written in both notation and tablature.

Book 1A covers the keys of C, Am, G, and Em, presenting over 155 solos and duets, along with more than 140 scale and picking studies, chord etudes, and accompaniment pieces. The book provides a solid foundation for contemporary guitar performance, perfect for beginners to intermediate players.

In addition to the book, you'll gain access to online audio and video, helping you further refine your playing. The Mastering the Guitar series offers a complete path from foundational techniques to advanced positions on the guitar fingerboard, making it one of the most comprehensive methods available. With 144 pages of music and study materials, this is an essential resource for any guitarist looking to build a strong technical foundation and expand their musical repertoire.

Songs Include:

• A Minor Blues

• A Poor Wayfaring Stranger

• Acres Of Bluegrass

• Allegro

• Andante

• Anitra's Dance Theme

• Anna's Axe

• Arcadian Melody

• Arkansas Traveler

• Arpeggio Picking

• Ashley's Song

• Baby Don't Love Me

• Bahia Tranquilo

• Ballad

• Barcelona

• Bass Line Lead/Bluegrass Style

• Bending The Blues

• Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

• Blow Away The Morning Dew

• Blow, Ye Winds

• Blue Elegy

• Blue Rain

• Blue Ridge

• Bottleneck Joe

• Bransle Double

• Brighter Side

• Buena Vista

• Bury Me Beneath The Willow

• Caleb's Gorge

• Call The Ewes

• Cara's Farewell

• Casa De Grout

• Celtic Dawn

• Chanson

• Chimes

• Classic Boogie

• Classic Rock Boogie #1

• Cripple Creek

• Cruisin' Sunset

• Cruising Down The Super Highway

• Cumberland Ridge

• Danny Boy

• Don't Step On Alligators

• Double Stops

• Down In Yon Forest

• Down Shift

• Drivin' Pick

• Early American Hymn

• Early Christmas Morn

• Echoes

• Eleven Mile Canyon

• English Maiden

• Estudio

• Far From Home

• First Gear

• Flatt Shuffle

• Flyin' South

• Four-String Blues

• French Carol

• Gavotte

• Gilotte

• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

• Good Mornin' Blues

• Greensleeves

• Half Past Midnight

• Hammer-On Blues

• Hard Drive

• Hard Luck Street

• Heavy Weight

• Hiking Up The Mountain

• Hills Of Eire

• House Of The Rising Sun

• How Pleasant It Is To Dwell In Harmony

• Hungarian Dance #4

• I Don't Know Why

• In The Pines

• Interlude

• Irish Mist

• Jamaican Shoreline

• Jazz Breakdown

• Jimmy's Shuffle

• Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier

• Kentucky Rise

• Lonesome Blues

• Lord Randal

• Man Of Constant Sorrow

• Marianne

• Memories Past

• Menuet

• Mexican Lament

• Midnight Drive

• Midnight Special Blues

• Midnight Walk

• Minor Song

• Minuet

• Misty Morn

• Molly Malone

• Moon Drops

• Morning Song

• Morrison's Jig

• Na Pali Coast

• Nepal Sunrise

• Not Forgetting Her

• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

• O Mio Babbino Caro

• Octave Chorale

• Oh, Sinner Man

• On The Banks Of That Lonely River

• Parson's Farewell

• Past Midnight

• Picardy

• Red Rocking Chair

• Renaissance Dance

• Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms

• Rondeau

• Room 124

• Running The Strings

• Sakura

• Salt Creek

• Same As You

• Sao Paolo

• Shabat Shalom

• Shady Grove

• Shaker Dance

• Silent Night

• Slane

• Smithfield Boogie

• Soldier's Joy

• Soliloquy

• Song Of Joy

• Sourwood Mountain

• Spanish Dance

• Spanish Groove

• Spanish Knights

• Spanish Nights

• Spanish Romance

• St. James Infirmary

• Star Of The County Down

• Sugar In The Gourd

• Swallowtail Jig

• Swamp Buggy

• Sweet Sunny South

• Tambourin

• Tango Guitarra

• That Distant Shore

• The Ash Grove

• The Clergy's Lamentation

• The Clock

• The Cuckoo

• The Flowers Of Sweet Erin The Green

• The Marsh Of Rhuddlan

• The Sally Gardens

• The South Wind

• The Teetotaller's Reel

• The Tie

• The Water Is Wide

• Three Fishermen

• Three Past Midnight

• Three Ravens

• Toll Free

• Trev And Tom

• Triplet Blues

• Two-Part Estudio

• Two-String Solo

• Walking Guitar

• Washed In That Beautiful Pool

• Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

• Xiomara

• You're The Cure