This collection presents 22
lyrical American tunes including traditional 19th century songs,
melodies from the WWII era, and modern-day pieces by William Bay,
president of Mel Bay Publications.
Whether
it’s a Civil War ballad or a jazz inspired tone poem, Raymond Gonzalez
has a gift for creating unique settings that occasionally blend
harmonics with normally fretted notes and open strings. The end result
is a flowing melody/chord/bass arrangement that is challenging but
accessible to the intermediate guitarist.
All
of the notation and tab settings in this book appear in standard or
dropped-D tuning and are suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar
performance. To keep page clutter to a minimum, the reader is referred
to the tablature for string, fret, and harmonic locations. Includes
access to online audio of every tune recorded by the author.