El McMeen

The body of sacred music takes many forms and, except for the area of Gospel music, has not been routinely explored by fingerstyle guitarists. Yet there are techniques available to the fingerstyle pla...

This fingerstyle guitar book includes many wonderful gospel songs adapted for DADGAD tuning a style not typically used in gospel. The material includes standards, as well as songs less familiar to fin...

Irish music offers the fingerstyle guitarist an exciting repertoire of haunting melodies and pulsating dance tunes. Irish Guitar Encores presents El McMeen's unique approach to arranging Celtic melodi...

Open G guitar tuning [DGDGBD] is a most evocative and versatile tuning. It has been a staple in blues and Hawaiian slack-key music, and it's a revelation when you learn that the classic rock tune you'...

Having written or contributed to several volumes of Celtic guitar music over the course of four decades, El McMeen offers fresh and unusual concepts in these 30 fingerstyle arrangements of both famili...

Authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk love the sound of a guitar when played like a harp! Rather than a bouncy, alternating-bass picking pattern, the notes flow and ring out in an atmospheric and evocativ...

El McMeen has authored many guitar books for Mel Bay Publications, but this book holds a special place in his heart. This cutting-edge collection includes melodic, challenging, and exuberant band marc...

The name of this book is no exaggeration. It includes some of the most gorgeous music that the authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk know. To make things even more interesting, none of the music was origi...

In this DVD, El shares his insights on music and guitar playing, along with his evocative and distinctive guitar style. His music ranges from Celtic songs and dance tunes, through alternating-bass Ame...

The variety of Christmas songs and Carols provides a fertile ground for fingerstyle guitarists. At the same time the familiarity of these tunes requires the guitarist to explore creative approaches in...