Alfred is pleased to release the authentic guitar TAB version of the album-matching folio for the Dixie Chicks’ Taking The Long Way.

Produced by Rick Rubin, Taking The Long Way has already reached the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard Top 200 and Hot Country Albums charts (2006), and produced the hit singles “Not Ready To Make Nice,” “Lullaby” and “Everybody Knows.” This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs on the record.

Titles are: The Long Way Around * Easy Silence * Not Ready to Make Nice * Everybody Knows * Bitter End * Lullaby * Lubbock or Leave It * Silent House * Favorite Year * Voice Inside My Head * I Like It * Baby Hold On * So Hard * I Hope.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred Publishing is proud to present the album-matching folio for heavy metal band Mastodon’s latest release, Leviathan.

For the last six years, Atlanta-based band Mastodon has been steadily gaining attention as one of the best new heavy metal groups, receiving tremendous critical acclaim from The New York Times, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, Guitar World, and Rolling Stone.

Leviathan, the band’s 2nd release, is Mastodon’s crowning achievement. An epic heavy metal song cycle based on the classic novel Moby Dick, Leviathan was simultaneously awarded 2004’s “Album of the Year” by REVOLVER, KERRANG! and TERRORIZER magazines.

This album-matching folio provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs on the record. Songs include: Blood and Thunder * I am Ahab * Seabeast * Island * Iron Tusk * Megalodon * Naked Burn * Aqua Dementia * Hearts Alive * Joseph Merrick.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release Celtic Guitar Solos, one of the latest additions to the Acoustic Masterclass series.

The Acoustic Masterclass Book & CD packages provide guitar arrangements transcribed by the artists themselves, in standard notation and tab. Each edition includes a masterclass-style CD in which the artist walks you through the key aspects and techniques for each arrangement.

Celtic Guitar Solos presents twenty-five beautiful Celtic melodies masterfully arranged for solo guitar, as performed by Jim Tozier on his Celtic Guitar CD (Solid Air Records). Jim has been called “one of most eloquent Celtic guitarists in the world (Guitarnation.com),” and his treatment of these traditional Irish and Scottish tunes is tasteful and true.

This collection is comprised of time-honored favorites and lesser-known Celtic gems, which makes it an essential resource for players of all levels. A CD with full-length recordings and performance notes is included. Songs are arranged in DADGAD, CGDGAD, and CGCGCD tunings.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Reverend has announced the Jetstream HB guitar, one of the new Stage King series designed by award-winning luthier Joe Naylor. The solid spruce top (not veneer or plywood) and mahogany body with strategically placed tone chambers create a resonant, light, and lively instrument.

Features:

• 5.5 mm solid spruce top, chambered mahogany body
• Wilkinson VS50 tremolo
• Wilkinson staggered EZ-Lock tuners
• Two Reverend humbucker pickups
• 3-Way pickup switch
• Volume, Tone, and Bass Contour (bass roll off) controls
• 25.5″ scale bolt-on maple neck with graphite nut and dual-action truss rod
• Rosewood fingerboard with 12″ radius and 22 frets
• Retail price: $529

Options:

• Midnight Black, Tobacco Sunburst, Metallic Red

For more information, visit their web site at www.reverendguitars.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release 2000-2005 Best Rock Songs, the latest addition to Alfred’s Best Songs series of books.

Distinguished by genre, each book in Alfred’s Best Song series provides the lyrics along with piano and chord arrangements for some of the most popular hit songs released during the first five years of the new millennium. Songs are listed alphabetically, making it easy to find the songs you’re looking for.

2000-2005 Best Rock Songs includes over 30 Billboard-charting hits from rock artists like Green Day, Nickelback, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Simple Plan, Staind, Chevelle, and Sugar Ray.

Titles include: American Idiot (Green Day) * Best I Ever Had (Vertical Horizon) * Broken (Seether featuring Amy Lee) * Devils & Dust (Bruce Springsteen) * Everyday (Bon Jovi) * Hero (Chad Kroeger) * How You Remind Me (Nickelback) * It’s Been Awhile (Staind) * One Thing (Finger Eleven) * The Reason (Hoobastank) * The Red (Chevelle) * Too Little Too Late (Barenaked Ladies) * When It’s Over (Sugar Ray), and many more.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Ritter has been making massive inroads into the hardshell case market with the introduction of 60 different models in 7 separate ranges. One of these is the RA7000-6 Series of ABS precision moulded guitar cases.

Manufactured from a textured resin with full aluminium edging, these cases feature an easy to clean, hardwearing skin; all chrome hardware and a padded, contoured, plush black interior.

In addition to having an internal neck rest with built-in accessory compartment, the cases combine a multiple hinged lid with double restraining straps and benefit from a comfortable, robust, moulded carrying handle.

The RA7000-6 Series is designed to fit dreadnought, classic, electric and electric bass guitars.

For more information, visit their web site at www.ritter-bags.com.

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Avant funk fusion bassist and popular clinician JAUQO III-X has created an instructional program to help bassists improve their ability to groove. The program, entitled “The Essence of the Groove,” ($15) consists of 70 individual practice tracks created by III-X and a live drummer along with transcriptions of all bass lines. The program is available exclusively through the JAUQO III-X website.

Helping bassists to evolve is a natural next step in III-X’s mission to help evolve the bass. He says that he created this program to help bassists expand their ability to express themselves musically and to help them learn to groove more freely. III-X hopes that by helping bassists expand their ability - and thinking - more will become interested in exploring the different and evolving aspects of the bass, including multi-string basses.

According to III-X, the best way to use the program is to listen through all of the tracks until one catches your attention. He says players should then focus on that track and absorb as much of the essence of the groove as possible - without playing along at first. Once the spirit of the melodic idea is understood, he says, then begin working on it and continue working on it until it’s familiar and automatic to play.

The lesson doesn’t end there, however. Once familiar with the track the student is asked to consider (among other things), what characteristics of their playing sets them apart from others, their ability to control note length and tone/volume production and to note the current and desired level of physical endurance.

For more information, visit their web site at www.jauqoiii-x.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release the Greater Guitar White Pages.

At 1,096 pages, the Greater Guitar White Pages is larger than “the largest” collection of authentic guitar transcriptions ever published before.

It features more than 230 songs, in complete, authentic TAB transcriptions. This is a self-contained, complete guitar reference library spanning the classic rock era right through the modern rock era. Everything from the Beatles to Limp Bizkit!

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Guytron is pleased to announce the introduction of its new Guytron GT20 Amplifier System. The Guytron GT20 is a feature-rich guitar amplifier, based upon the Guytron GT100’s popular and patented preamp technology.

Designed to be a serious musician’s tool, the GT20 is perfectly at home anywhere from the studio to the most stringent of stage environments. Just like its bigger brother, the Guytron GT 100 F/V, the GT20 delivers the true feel and vibe of a cranked amp in pretty much any setting, and at any volume from 0 to 20 watts.

The GT20 features:

• Classic Vintage Styling with Versatile Modern Features
• Includes GT 100 F/V Channel Switching Pre-Amp with Gain, Tone, and Level Controls for Each Channel
• Introducing Post Phase Master Volume “Cut”
• Introducing all L.E.D. Back Lit Front & Back Control Panels
• Introducing the “All New” HLB Internal Sennheiser Microphone System
• Introducing New Anti-Beaming , HLB Baffle Design
• Includes Guytron Big Tone 12″ Speaker
• Effects Loops for Each Channel
• XLR Direct of Slave Out with Pad & Phase
• Two EL84 Class-A Output Stage with Modifier Switches:
  • Final Output Attenuator: 100%, 50%, 5%, and 0% = XLR Out Only
  • Focus Control: Deals with Clarity and Focus of Output Section
  • Slope Control: Controls High End Roll-Off Slope of Output Section
• Maximum Output: 20 Watts RMS
• Dimensions: Height = 20″, Width = 24″, Depth = 9″
• Total Weight: 46 lbs.
• Made in Troy, Michigan

For more information, visit their web site at www.guytron.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release the new Kenny Loggins Easy Guitar Anthology (20 Greatest Hits).

Kenny Loggins Easy Guitar Anthology contains twenty of Kenny Loggins’ greatest hits, from Loggins & Messina through his solo career. All songs have been arranged for easy guitar, and include tablature as well as easy-to-follow guitar chord frames.

Titles are: All the Pretty Little Ponies * Angry Eyes * Back to Georgia * Celebrate Me Home * Cody’s Song * Danger Zone * Danny’s Song * Footloose * Forever * Heart to Heart * House at Pooh Corner * I Believe in Love * I’m Alright * A Love Song * My Music * Now and Then * This Is It * Watching the River Run * Whenever I Call You Friend * Your Mama Don’t Dance.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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