Alfred Music Publishing Introduces The Big Easy Guitar Series

Apr 07, 2009

Alfred is proud to offer The Big Easy Guitar Series, a new series of carefully arranged guitar hits for novice and intermediate guitarists. The series contains three comprehensive guitar TAB collections: The Big Easy Book of Acoustic Rock Guitar, The Big Easy Book of Classic Rock Guitar, and The Big Easy Book of Rock Guitar.

In the '80s and '90s guitar TAB empowered a whole generation of guitarists to participate in playing and learning music via the written page. Virtually, all TAB available at first were note-for-note transcriptions detailing every nuance of every variation and improvisation played by the guitar greats—cool, but kind of complicated! The Big Easy Guitar Series songbooks are designed the way a friend might teach you a favorite song???covering all the basics and sounding just like the record???without adding needless complications, so you can play all your favorite rock hits with ease.

The Big Easy Book of Acoustic Rock Guitar (http://alfred.com/alfredweb/front/ProductDetail.aspx?itemnum=%20%20%20%20%2031794&pubnum=0), contains sixty-seven great unplugged guitar songs spanning from classic to modern rock. Titles: All the Pretty Little Ponies (Kenny Loggins); Beautiful (India.Arie); Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell); Cat's in the Cradle (Harry Chapin); Do You Want to Know a Secret (The Beatles); Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) *Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne); Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead); Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day); Hey There Delilah (Plain White T's); Home (Michael Bubl??); A Horse With No Name (America); If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot); Losing My Religion (R.E.M.); Maggie May (Rod Stewart); Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett); Maria Maria (Santana); Moondance (Van Morrison); Mr. Bojangles (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band); Peaceful Easy Feeling (Eagles); Shower the People (James Taylor); Sunshine on My Shoulders (John Denver); Take It Easy (Eagles); Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones) and many more.

The Big Easy Book of Classic Rock Guitar (http://alfred.com/alfredweb/front/ProductDetail.aspx?itemnum=%20%20%20%20%2031795&pubnum=0), presents fifty-nine of the greatest songs of the classic rock era. Titles: After Midnight (Eric Clapton); All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix); Black Dog (Led Zeppelin); Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC/DC); Don't Stop Believin' (Journey); Dr. Feelgood (Motley Crue); Gimme Some Lovin' (The Spencer Davis Group); Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac); Iron Man (Black Sabbath); Hotel California (Eagles); I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones); Jump (Van Halen); Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan); Kashmir (Led Zeppelin); Long Train Runnin' (The Doobie Brothers); Mama Told Me Not to Come (Three Dog Night); Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds); Panama (Van Halen); Sunshine of Your Love (Cream); Truckin' (Grateful Dead); Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin); Whipping Post (The Allman Brothers Band); Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin); Wild Night (Van Morrison); Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) and many more.

The Big Easy Book of Rock Guitar (http://alfred.com/alfredweb/front/ProductDetail.aspx?itemnum=%20%20%20%20%2031796&pubnum=0). encompasses fifty-eight great rock songs, including your favorites from the classic and modern rock eras. Titles: All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow); American Idiot (Green Day); Beat It (Michael Jackson); Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve); Because of You (Kelly Clarkson); Bring Me to Life (Evanescence); Complicated (Avril Lavigne); Headstrong (Trapt); I'll Stand By You (The Pretenders); Open Arms (Journey); Paralyzer (Finger Eleven); Runnin' With the Devil (Van Halen); The Reason (Hoobastank); So Far Away (Staind); Sorry (Buckcherry); Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns n' Roses); Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead); With Arms Wide Open (Creed) and many more.

The Big Easy Book of Acoustic Rock Guitar, The Big Easy Book of Classic Rock Guitar, and The Big Easy Book of Rock Guitar are now available as guitar TAB songbooks for $24.95 each. Pick up your copies at a local music retail store, or buy them online today at alfred.com.