Guitar Tunebooks

Celtic Back-Up for all Instrumentalists $22.95 with CD

Chris Smith

This book teaches how to perform tasteful, supportive, imaginative improvisational accompaniment back-up with a chordal instrument in the Celtic Session. This is an extremely thorough book, with examples, explanations, and exercises (yes-homeowrk!!!) The 99 track Cd augments the instruction with good ear-training and practice sessions. This is a technical and detailed book that I highly recommend if you are serious about learning to accompany a melody instrument.

Celtic Encyclopedia:Fingerstyle Guitar Edition $25.00

Glenn Weiser

Over 100 tunes arranged for guitar, standard tuning or dropped D, and displayed both in notation and tablature. Includes Airs, waltzes, marches, reels, jigs and hornpipes with harp tunes from the Bunting and O'Caralon collections. This is a thorough assembly of well known and more unusual tunes.

Celtic Favorites for Open-Tuned Guitar $9.95

Jeff Jacobson

16 fingerstyle solos clearly written in both tab and notation. Old favorites such as Danny Boy, Molly Malone, Haste to the Wedding. No explanation, just music.

Celtic Guitar Encyclopedia: Fingerstyle Edition $25.00

Glenn Weiser

Over 100 arrangements in standard and dropped D tuning.

Celtic Melodies for Fingerpicking Guitar $24.95 with 3 CD's

Duck Baker, Stefan Grossman, John Renbourn

Six tunes, two per artist, taught note for note on the CDs. Originally released in the 70's on cassettes, these are remastered discs with newly printed notation and tab in book form. Tunes include Planxty Irwin, Hewlett, Logan Water, Captain Magan, Mist Covered Mountains of Home, and The Orphan.

DADGAD Tuning $17.95 with CD

Julie Henigan

This book is intended for guitarists who would like to explore DADGAD, but feel a need for more guidance than their ears can initially provide. Fingerstyle guitar.Mainly Irish dance tunes, the lay out is both in notation and tab and is very clear and easy to read. An introductory section with explanations is valuable, as are the simplified alternatives to Irish fiddle ornamentation. Nice discography and bibliography in the back with CD for Aural Reference. I recommend this book!

Easy Celtic Solos for Fingerstyle guitar $14.95 with CD

Lisle Crowley

Thirteen well known Irish tunes arranged with an easy version and a more difficult version. This book needs to be used with a (classical) guitar teacher as there are postion markers over the music which would be meaningless with out explanation and they are not explained at the beginning of the book.

Encyclopedia of Flatpicking Tunes for Celtic Guitar $29.95

Steve Kaufman

249 songs from the Celtic tradition, clearly layed out in both easy to read tab and notation. Accompanying chords are above the music. Standard tuning only; This is a Bluegrassers dream collection for moving on beyond Sally Goodin or Cripple Creek. Good explanation at the beginning on timing, rolls, and a little music theory.

Encyclopedia of Irish and American Fiddle Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar $24.95 with CD

Duck Baker

A pile of good tunes.

Fingerpicking Fiddle Tunes; vol. 2 $24.95 with 3 CDs

Duck Baker

Irish Dance Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar $24.95 with 3 CDs

Eric Thompson

Includes 3 CDs.

Irish Hornpipes, Slip Jigs and Reels for Fingerstyle Guitar $24.95 with 3 CDs

Duck Baker

Includes 3 CDs.

Irish Traditional Guitar Accompaniment $20.95

Gavin Ralston

Mostly melody line notation with chords on a fingerboard grid above the notes. The presentation is a little obnoxious with these big grids above the notes but it is very helpful to know which chord shape is to be used. Some good strumming patterns are also diagrammed as well as bass runs and rolls. All in dropped D tuning.

Northumbrian and Border Folk Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar $19.95 with CD

Bill Brennan

Includes CD.

Scottish Traditional Music for Guitar $15.95

Rob MacKillop

This tutorial contains 32 tunes selected from 17th Century lute manuscripts and 18th and 19th Century Scottish instrumental collections. !2 and in open G and 20 in DADGAD. All the music is presented in staff and tablature; notes to the tunes provide technical advice including fingerings and information on the provenance of the material. The music is clear and easy to read! A good section of introductory instruction and notation is included at the beginning of the book

The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book $19.95

Sarah McQuaid

Traditional Irish Guitar $34.90 with CD

Paul de Grae

I like this book a lot. The author is very generous with the text, both in giving explanations of what he is teaching and in the nature and origins of the tune. It is a single note rather than a fingerstyle or classical (with more than one string sounded at a time) approach to playing traditional tunes on the guitar. There is some tab, but many of the pieces are in notation only so the ability to read music would be helpful. Full of advice on alternative tunings, chord substitutions, technique, accompaniment, solo playing, I would recommend this book highly, both as a tutor and as a source of music an information.