Keep your music sounding fresh with these ideas for ways to expand and improve your guitar playing. Learn how to: improvise with chords • use chord synonyms • work with modes, licks, and arpeggios • use dynamics and tone • improve melodic lines • use the entire fingerboard • improve your solos' contour • and many more technical and creative ideas.

Covering music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic and Romantic eras, this fabulous collection includes 50 solos in notes and tab from Bach, Carcassi, Dowland, Giuliani, Handel, Sor, Tárrega and other acclaimed composers.

Most classical guitar folios feature compositions by the lesser-known “guitar” composers. This collection, however, exclusively features music by the world's most renowned composers. The works of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel represent the culmination of the Baroque era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stands at the summit of the Classical era. Ludwig van Beethoven straddles the Classical and Romantic eras, and Johannes Brahms is the giant of the Romantic era. For educational purposes, the pieces have been organized in order of difficulty within each composer's section. In addition, complete performances of all pieces can be heard on the accompanying CD. Enjoy! Includes: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring • The Harmonious Blacksmith • Ode to Joy • Lullaby • and more.

Now Available With CDs!

This multi-volume method was developed to allow students to study the art of classical guitar within a new, more con-temporary framework. For private, class or self-instruction. Book One features an all-new format that incorporates chord frames and symbols, as well as a record to assist in tuning and to provide accompaniments for at-home practice. Book One also introduces beginning fingerboard technique and music theory. Book Two and Three build upon the techniques learned in Book One.