Bach for Guitar -- Masters in TAB

by Howard Wallach

Easy to intermediate pieces by J. S. Bach including Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Bourrée and more. Musical and technical information accompany each piece, and helpful fingering suggestions are also included.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1998

About the author

Howard R. Wallach began performing on both the jazz and classical guitar at the of ten. He studied with guitar at the Conservatory of Lausanne in Switzerland, then received his B.A. in Music from John Hopkins University.

Reviews

[Silas]

This was a fun, but short book that contains some enjoyable arrangements of Bach songs for guitar. I only recognized the one song, but that might just be my own lack of experience. While I can't fault the arrangements or the fingering suggestions, which are very helpful, I would have liked to have seen the songs in drop-D tuning separated from the ones in standard tuning, since they are in no particular order, and there is a good deal of filler, including blurry manuscript paper and random woodcuts of cellists and lutenists. Just the same, what is there is interesting, and though I have a good bit of experience on the guitar, it took me to places and voicings that weren't familiar, and challenged me a good bit.