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Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry was originally published in 1971 and
has become the classic chord reference book for two generations of
guitarists. Whether you are just beginning to search beyond basic
barre chords or are already an advanced player looking for new
sounds and ideas this is the book that will get you there. Designed
to inspire creativity this book is a musical treasure chest filled
with exciting new ideas and sounds.
Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with
this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours
of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends,
and colleagues.When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on
October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since
his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled
debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to
fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all
genres and around the world. Van Halen's debut sounded unlike
anything that listeners had heard before and remains a
quintessential rock album of the era. Over the course of more than
four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar
playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo
technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died
before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own
words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained
elusive-until now. In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and
Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid,
compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most
influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more
than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie
Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary
5150 studios at Ed's home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is
drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as
conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. In addition to
discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician,
including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen's masterpiece 1984,
the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward's early struggles
as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language,
which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance
abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines
his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar
manufacturing.As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the
closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie's side of the story
when it comes to his extraordinary life.
All the key chords, in every key, organised as a chord per page,
this is a flexible, comprehensive solution for anyone learning or
playing the guitar at any level. This no-nonsense, easy to carry,
concealed spiral book will fit into a gig bag, flight case or hand
bag with the minimum of fuss.
The guitar has adapted to every musical evolution. Few musical
instruments have experienced such a wide variety of models, shapes,
colours and materials. This book features more than 160
instruments, spanning more than four centuries of guitar history.
They are the works of the great Italian and French craftsmen from
the 17th century to modern times. From the signature models such as
Les Paul and Stratocaster to the most surprising creations
(harp-guitars and Lap steel guitars), this book describes the
musical trends and features the favourite instruments of the great
masters.
This book assesses the influence and reception of many different
forms of guitar playing upon the classical guitar and more
specifically through the prism of John Williams. Beginning with an
examination of Andres Segovia and his influence upon Williams'
life's work, a further three incisive chapters cover key areas such
as performance, perception, education and construction, considering
social and cultural contexts of the guitar over the past century. A
final chapter on new directions in classical guitar examines the
change in reception of the instrument from the mid-1970s to the
present day, and Williams' impact upon what might be termed
'standard classical guitar repertoire'. With in-depth discussion of
the cultural and perceptual impact of Williams' more daring
crossover projects and numerous musical examples, this is an
informative reference for all classical guitar practitioners, as
well as scholars and researchers of guitar studies, reception
studies, cultural musicology and performance studies. An online
lecture by the author and a transcript of the author's interview
with John Williams are also available as e-resources.
No band would be complete without a bass element giving depth and
unity. "How to Play Bass Guitar" contains everything the new or
intermediate bass player needs to perfect their playing of this
vital instrument. Highly practical, the book leads you from the
basics of how to hold, fret, pluck and play scales through to
playing chord-framing patterns and muted percussive rhythms -
understanding how the bass underpins the harmonies of a band. The
clear text is accompanied by illustrative photos and diagrams, and
the guide is complemented by a chord finder, scales and modes
finder, a glossary and further reading.
Updated 2021/2, this is a step-by-step guide to playing the
electric guitar, shown in over 600 photographs, illustrations and
exercises. It shows you how to master a range of diverse musical
styles, such as funk and disco, heavy rock, indie rock, electric
blues, country guitar, jazz, lounge and reggae. It includes a
beautifully illustrated directory of over 250 electric guitars from
the 1930s up to the modern day. It discusses the complete history
of the electric guitar, from the early archtops and lap steels up
to the latest developments, including the Fender stratocaster, the
Gibson Les Paul, the electric bass and the superstrats. It contains
boxed features on influential electric heroes, such as Eric
Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, Allan Holdsworth, B. B.
King, Jimmy Page, and many more. The electric guitar is arguably
the most important musical instrument of the modern age. This book
explains how to buy the right instrument and set it up, and how to
play. It demonstrates basic techniques and chords, and introduces
genres such as rock 'n' roll, jazz, heavy rock, metal and blues. A
history section explores the first electric guitars, and how the
great rivalry between Fender and Gibson led to an explosion in the
popularity of the instrument. With expert step-by-step
instructions, an illustrated directory of over 250 guitars, and
over 600 photographs and musical exercises, this comprehensive
manual is an essential guide for all electric guitarists.
From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose
of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include
rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught
include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string
skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These
exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and
fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout
licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different
metronome settings.
No band would be complete without some kick-ass electric guitar.
"How to Play Electric Guitar" contains everything the new or
intermediate electric player needs to perfect their playing of this
vital instrument. More than a simple how-to-play guitar book, this
great new addition to a best-selling series also shows you how to
use effects, how to adapt to stage and rehearsal amps, how to
record the electric guitar at home on your computer and how to cope
with cables, feedback and dodgy microphones while playing live on
stage. The clear text is accompanied by illustrative photos and
diagrams, and is complemented by some how-to-play basics, selected
scales and modes and useful barre and power chords.
Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the
stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player's perspective.
Historical works to date have tended to pursue a 'top down'
reading, one that emphasizes the influence of the treble
instruments on the melodic and harmonic trajectory of jazz. This
book augments that reading by examining the music's development
from the bottom up. It re-contextualizes the bass and its role in
the evolution of jazz (and by extension popular music in general)
by situating it alongside emerging music technologies. The bass and
its technological mediation are shown to have driven changes in
jazz language and musical style, and even transformed creative
hierarchies in ways that have been largely overlooked. The book's
narrative is also informed by investigations into more commercial
musical styles such as blues and rock, in order to assess how, and
the degree to which, technological advances first deployed in these
areas gradually became incorporated into general jazz praxis.
Technology and the Jazz Bass reconciles technology more thoroughly
into jazz historiography by detailing and evaluating those that are
intrinsic to the instrument (including its eventual
electrification) and those extrinsic to it (most notably evolving
recording and digital technologies). The author illustrates how the
implementation of these technologies has transformed the role of
the bass in jazz, and with that, jazz music as an art form.
(Piano Solo Personality). This folio matches the album that, for
the first time, compiled all of Einaudi's best known music in a
single collection. Islands also includes the new tracks "The Earth
Prelude" and "High Heels" as well as two new remixes of "Lady
Labyrinth" and "Eros," plus tracks from critically acclaimed albums
including Le Onde and I Giorni .
"How to Play Guitar" contains everything the new or intermediate
guitar player needs to know to really get to grips with making
music on this most popular of instruments. Highly practical, it
leads you from the basics of how to strum, pick and play simple
chords, through the various elements of playing rhythm and
melodies, to more complicated chords and tunings. It includes
further techniques from slurs to harmonics, and a section on
performing. The clear text is accompanied by illustrative photos
and diagrams, and the guide is complemented by a useful chord
finder, examples of scales and modes, a glossary and further
reading.
In The New Guitarscape, Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of
guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social,
cultural and technological developments that have taken place
around the instrument. The author considers that a detailed study
of the guitar in both contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives
is now absolutely essential and that such a study must also include
discussion of a wide range of theoretical issues, literature,
musical cultures and technologies as they come to bear upon the
instrument. Dawe presents a synthesis of previous work on the
guitar, but also expands the terms by which the guitar might be
studied. Moreover, in order to understand the properties and
potential of the guitar as an agent of music, culture and society,
the author draws from studies in science and technology, design
theory, material culture, cognition, sensual culture, gender and
sexuality, power and agency, ethnography (real and virtual) and
globalization. Dawe presents the guitar as an instrument of
scientific investigation and part of the technology of
globalization, created and disseminated through corporate culture
and cottage industry, held close to the body but taken away from
the body in cyberspace, and involved in an enormous variety of
cultural interactions and political exchanges in many different
contexts around the world. In an effort to understand the
significance and meaning of the guitar in the lives of those who
may be seen to be closest to it, as well as providing a
critically-informed discussion of various approaches to guitar
performance, technologies and techniques, the book includes
discussion of the work of a wide range of guitarists, including
Robert Fripp, Kamala Shankar, Newton Faulkner, Lionel Loueke,
Sharon Isbin, Steve Vai, Bob Brozman, Kaki King, Fred Frith, John
5, Jennifer Batten, Guthrie Govan, Dominic Frasca, I Wayan Balawan,
Vicki Genfan and Hasan Cihat A-rter.
On the CD you will find two specially and professionally recorded
'soundalike' tracks for each song, the first being a full
demonstration with guitar showing exactly how the song should
sound. The second version is a full backing track without guitar
for you to play along with Metallica themselves! The matching music
book contains both standard notation and tablature for every song
plus chord symbols and complete lyrics for vocalists. This title
includes songs such as: "Enter Sandman"; "Fade to Black"; "Nothing
Else Matters"; and; "Ain't My Bitch".
The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music
during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by
the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s
and throughout the 1970s, a melismatic and inconsistent approach
towards the bass role ensued, which contributed to a major change
in how the electric bass was used in performance and perceived in
the sonic landscape of mainstream popular music. Investigating the
performance practice of the new, melodic role of the electric bass
as it appeared (and disappeared) in the 1960s and 1970s, the book
turns to the number one songs of the American Billboard Hot 100
charts between 1951 and 1982 as a prime source. Through interviews
with players from this era, numerous transcriptions - elaborations
of twenty bass related features - are presented. These are
juxtaposed with a critical study of four key players, who provide
the case-studies for examining the performance practice of the
melodic electric bass. This highly original book will be of
interest not only to bass players, but also to popular
musicologists looking for a way to instigate methodological and
theoretical discussions on how to develop popular music analysis.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Level 3A introduces 3/8 and 6/8 time
signatures and the triplet. Students learn the chromatic scale, the
7th, one-octave arpeggios, and explore the key of D major. Contents
include: Amazing Grace * Campbells are Coming * Cool Walkin' Bass *
Cossak Ride * Echoes of the Harp * Eine Kleine Nachtmusik * Ice
Dancing * Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho * Land of the Silver
Birch * Looking-Glass River * Lunar Eclipse * March Slav * and
more.
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