Mark Hanson's Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar: (Book & CD)12 Beautiful Songs & Carols for Solo Guitar
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0769263666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Titles: The First Noel * Go Tell It on the Mountain * In Dulci Jubilo * Joy to the World * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Silent Night * Winter Wonderland * and more.. Twelve classic holiday songs for solo fingerstyle guitar. Includes performance notes, multi-level arrangements in both standard notation and TAB, and CD accompaniment
Great Christmas Book for the Gigging Guitarist When buying a book of arrangements to classic tunes from an artist I never heard of before worries me because I don't have any idea what kind of quality the arrangements are going to be. On such books my biggest question is: Is this book for the performing musician or for the beginner student wanting to learn some simple arrangements?Mark Hanson's Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar book is made for the intermediate/advanced player wanting to learn performance worthy arrangements of Christmas tunes. "Go and buy it!" according to E. VanPelt. This is a fantastic book for the intermediate guitar player! If you are a classical player and you want to play some Christmas tunes I suggest you go out and buy this book.I initially bought another book by the same author called "Fingerstyle Jazz Images for Christmas." That book was too difficult for me to hit the ground running with, so I went and purchased this book hoping for something a bit less challenging. After all, Christmas carols are for fun, right? This book did not disappoint me. Good stuff. But lots of alternate tunings tex This book is a little odd. The tunes start really basic, then work their way up. The tunes in the back of the book are really nice, and are "gig-ready." My biggest complaint however is that many of the tunes in the middle of the book (which look like good arrangements of good songs) are in weird tunings - and I'm not talking about drop D or even drop D/Gno, these entail tuning multiple strings down. That may be fine for some, but for me when I'm out gigging as a solo player I'm okay with tun