MEL BAY THE Spirituals Their Story Their Song Guitar Solos & Songbook Cd Included

Spirituals: Guitar Solos and Songbook (eBook + Online Audio)

Songs of Faith, Freedom, Hope & The Human Spirit

99420BCDEB
by Dave Marshall

The Spirituals, Their Story, Their Song is both a collection of guitar solos and a songbook devoted to African-American spirituals. The music is placed in historical context to help the reader better appreciate and interpret this amazing musical legacy. The book provides solo guitar arrangements in standard notation and tablature plus a vocal stave with complete lyrics and chord diagrams for 60 songs of faith, freedom, hope and the human spirit. A companion online audio includes the author's rendition of all of the guitar solos in the book.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the various meanings and messages of the spirituals, and traces the musical forms that grew out of them, namely blues, jazz, gospel, country, calypso, rhythm and blues, soul, and rock. This book is for all who play the guitar including: students, music teachers, parents, performing guitarists, vocalists and anyone with an interest in folk, gospel and sacred music. Includes access to online audio.

Contents

• All My Trials
• All Night Long
• Amazing Grace
• Amen
• Balm in Gilead
• Battle Hym of the Republic
• Bound to Go
• Bye and Bye
• Come Out the Wilderness
• Darling Nelly Gray
• Deep River
• Didn't It Rain
• Do, Lord, Remember Me
• Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
• Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
• Follow the Drinking Gourd
• Go Down, Moses
• Go Tell It On The Mountain
• God's Going to Set the World On Fire
• Goin' Home
• Hard Trials
• I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
• I've Been 'Buked
• Kumbaya
• Let Us Break Bread Together
• Little David, Play on Your Harp
• Little Wheel A-Turnin' in My Heart
• Live a Humble
• Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road
• Lord, I'm Troublin'
• Mary and Martha
• Mary Wore Three Beads
• Michael Row the Boat Ashore
• My God Is So HIgh
• My Lord, What a Morning
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I See
• Now, Let Me Fly
• Oh, Freedom
• Oh, Sinner Man
• Old Abe Lincoln
• Peter, Go Ring Them Bells
• Plenty Good Room
• Poor Rosy
• Rise Up, Shepherd
• Rock-a My Soul
• Roll, Jordan, Roll
• Sit Down, Sister
• Somebody's Calling My Name
• Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
• Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• Steal Away
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot Theme
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• That Lonesome Valley
• The Battle Cry of Freedom
• This Little Light of Mine
• Wayfarin' Stranger
• Were You There?
• When I Get Home
• When the Bridgegroom Comes

Product Number: 99420BCDEB
Format: eBook + Online Audio
Skill Level: Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type: Standard Notation and Tab
Pages: 142
Binding: eBook
ISBN: 1-6106-5763-2
ISBN13: 978-16106-5763-1
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 8/18/2011