Songs for Spanish and Classical Guitar

Songs for Spanish and Classical Guitar offers 17 guitar technique exercises and 25 songs to learn in the form of a book and videos.

Are you a guitarist who wants to improve your repertoire, or are you just starting out and looking for some songs to learn?  Do you like improvising against backing tracks with the help of chord charts and scale maps? 

This book and video package will increase your knowledge of theory, improve your technique, and introduce familiar and original songs to your playlist.  The book begins with a series of 17 arpeggio, picado, and stretching studies; but the bulk of the text consists of songs divided into three categories: Christmas/festive songs; Spanish and classical titles, all of them original; and traditional songs from Europe and the Americas.  This varied repertoire is both fun and challenging to play.  You will find that mastering these songs will help you to improve your barre, arpeggio, picado, and rumba techniques.

Titles include:

• Festive Songs: Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry
  Christmas (solo and duo versions), Jingle Bells, Auld Lang Syne, Happy
  Birthday (solo and duo versions).
• Spanish and Classical Songs: Eight Drops of Life, Ophelia Storm, The Castle, Rain, Camino, Journey, Bluebird, Blue Balloons.
• Traditional Songs: Greensleeves (UK), Ten Penny Bit
  (IE), Bella Ciao (IT), Spanish Romance (ES), Cielito Lindo (MX), La
  Cucaracha (MX), La Bamba (MX), La Cumparsita (UY), Tico-Tico (BR),
  Tavaszi Szel Vizet Araszt (HU)

Some of the songs include scale maps, chord charts, and backing tracks at two different speeds to help you to freely improvise your own melodies against the underlying chord structures.