ABRSM Guitar Star With CD

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ABRSM Guitar Star With CD

Guitar Star offers beginner guitarists a refreshing and inspirational choice of pieces to help build confidence and musical skills. These original compositions and arrangements by Gary Ryan are imaginatively tailored to develop techniques progressively through an exciting and varied range of musical styles. Key features -An engaging collection of pieces from beginner level to Prep Test and beyond - Solo pieces, with some optional teacher duet parts-Play-along CD of creative backing tracks-Fun extension activities-Brought to life with colour illustrations. Gary Ryan studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. He has taught at the Royal College of Music since 1996 and combines his role there as Assistant Head of Strings with a varied freelance career as a performer, composer, adjudicator and examiner. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music in 2013.

Contents

•Walking with Ease [Gary Ryan]

•Gentle Waves [Gary Ryan]

•G Force [Gary Ryan]

•Ant, Tiger, Armadillo, Ant [Gary Ryan]

•Apache Valley [Gary Ryan]

•Tune for 2 [Gary Ryan]

•Viennese Waltz [Gary Ryan]

•Climbing up the Stairs (in G) [Gary Ryan]

•A Sunny Day [Gary Ryan]

•Flamenco Fred [Gary Ryan]

•The Castle in the Mist [Gary Ryan]

•Climbing up the Stairs (in C) [Gary Ryan]

•The Old Hurdy Gurdy [Gary Ryan]

•Chinese Lantern [Gary Ryan]

•Hashtag Tango [Gary Ryan]

•Big Ben Waltz [Gary Ryan]

•Eventide [William Monk]

•The View from the Top [Gary Ryan]

•Cabbage and Egg [Gary Ryan]

•Climbing up the Stairs (in Am) [Gary Ryan]

•Canterbury Tale [Gary Ryan]

•O Come, O Come Emmanuel [Trad.]

•A Kite in the Wind [Gary Ryan]

•The River Dee [Gary Ryan]

•A Fanfare [Gary Ryan]

•Dad Dancing [Gary Ryan]

•Apache E (bass E) [Gary Ryan]

•Scotland the Brave [Trad. Scottish]

•12-bar Blues [Gary Ryan]

•Spooky Reggae [Gary Ryan]

•2nd Finger Boogie [Gary Ryan]

•March of the Romans [Gary Ryan]

•Skye Boat Song [Trad. Scottish]

•Packington's Pound [Trad. English]

•Caterpillar on a Twig [Gary Ryan]

•Copy Cat [Gary Ryan]

•Late for School [Gary Ryan]

•The Boy from Barcelona [Gary Ryan]

•Red Square [Gary Ryan]

•Calypso King [Gary Ryan]

•Cool Cat [Gary Ryan]

•Asturias [Isaac Albéniz]