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Mel Bay Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Guitar

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This is a great work if you are interested in playing Irish fiddle tunes. I discovered this music for myself while I was learning the basic of playing guitar. The progam often used these Irish fiddle tunes to demonstrate a technique. I found them fun and interesting to play and they sounded good playing solo. I came across this book in my search for a volume of this music. This book is really good for an advanced beginner - it contains a complete section on technique and rhythm. It's really a lesson book. The songs are composed in both standard notation and tabulature. There are about 75 songs - you'll find something in here of interest to play. I use this book with my guitar instructor to practice rhythm and note reading. I didn't give this book a full five stars because there are some errors in the notation and my guitar instructor has looked at a few pieces and stated there isn't an ending on this piece. If you overlook those minor inconsistencies - this is an outstanding book.

This book and CD contains lots of great songs to play. My criticism is with the tabulature. The fret numbers are written only in the spaces in the tab rather than on the correct "string line". This makes the tab very hard to read. In addition, not all of the songs are included on the CD.