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The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone just learning
to play ukulele. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's
guide by acclaimed performer and uke master Lil' Rev includes many
fun songs of different styles to learn and play. Includes: types of
ukuleles, tuning, music reading, melody playing, chords, strumming,
scales, tremolo, music notation and tablature, a variety of music
styles, ukulele history and much more.
`Valentin Berlinsky (1925-2008) was a founding member of the
Borodin Quartet and its cellist and mainstay for more than six
decades. A proud Russian but also a man of compromise, his was a
life lived for and through the Borodin Quartet. This book tells his
story in his own words, lovingly compiled and edited by his
grand-daughter, Maria Matalaev, from his diaries, correspondence
and interviews, and his accounts of his close friendships with the
likes of Shostakovich and Richter, Rostropovich and Oistrakh.
Supplemented by tributes from family and friends, as well as an
impressive annexure giving every performance, broadcast and
recording made by the Borodin Quartet, this book constitutes one of
the most revealing chronicles of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian
musical life. In 2005, at the celebrations for both his 80th
birthday and the 60th anniversary of the Borodin Quartet, Valentin
Berlinsky sat down at a table with his students and said: `My
dears, please, keep going: never leave Russia!'
A valuable assortment of teacher/student duets in their original
form written by teachers and composers during the 18th and 19th
centuries. Arranged in order of difficulty, the student parts are
limited to a single five-finger position and fall primarily within
the grand staff reading range. Each book includes works by such
composers as Diabelli, Gurlitt, Bercucci, Wohlfahrt, Berens and
others.
SONGS INCLUDE:A Boy Named Sue, Cry! Cry! Cry!, Hurt, I Walk the
Line, Jackson, The Man Comes Around, The Man in Black, Ring of
Fire, San Quentin, The Wanderer, Dont Take Your Guns to Town,
Delias Gone, Cocaine
This edition of Op. 13 (Pathetique) comes from the complete
three-volume edition of Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas published by
ABRSM, edited by Professor Barry Cooper, renowned Beethoven
specialist. Includes an introduction covering editorial method and
commentary to the sonata including history, full assessment of the
sources and detailed notes on interpretation.
Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 6 (Late Intermediate) is
part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to
improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome
problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through
rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical
issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions,
and finally by `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded
sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio
available online for students to check their performances against.
The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your
reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will
ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.
Metal is back! Dimebag Darrell is a walking textbook of modern
metal guitar techniques, liberally spraying bone-crushing power
chords, dissonant intervals, tremolo arm insanity, and a shredding
lead voice worthy of the masters. Now all metal guitarists can go
behind the scenes with Dimebag and Pantera. Here, he teaches the
patterns and techniques that have driven Pantera to become one of
the most successful heavy metal bands in rock history. A must-have,
this book will go down in metal history as a classic.
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(Bass Instruction). A walking bass line is the most common approach
to jazz bass playing, but it is also used in rock music, blues,
rockabilly, R&B, gospel, Latin, country and many other types of
music. The term 'walking' is used to describe the moving feeling
that quarter notes create in the bass part. The specific goal of
this book is to familiarize players with the techniques used to
build walking bass lines and to make them aware of how the process
works. Through the use of 90-minutes' worth of recorded rhythm
tracks, players will have the opportunity to put the new learning
directly into action. This book literally gives bassists the tools
they need to build their own walking bass lines.
Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own a a glitzy
wacky retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all
kinds of popular music from timeless stars to unknown teens. The
Beatles Chet Atkins Duane Eddy and Brian Setzer all made their mark
with Gretsch and new bands continually discover and fall in love
with the Falcons Gents 6120s Jets and the rest.THEThe Gretsch
Electric Guitar BookE comes right up to the present including
Gretsch's alliance to the powerful Fender company a move that has
done wonders for the reliability and playability of the modern
Gretsch axe. Every great model is here but the book also tells the
story of the lesser-known guitars and the projects that almost
never happened. There are archival and fresh interviews with
Gretsch personnel over the years and with many leading Gretsch
players including Chet Atkins Billy Duffy Duane Eddy and Brian
Setzer.THIn the tradition of Tony Bacon's best-selling series of
guitar books his updated and revised story of Gretsch is three
great volumes in one: a compendium of luscious pictures of the
coolest guitars; a gripping story from early exploits to the most
recent developments; and a detailed collector's guide to every
production electric Gretsch model ever made.
Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from
the late eighteenth century through to the middle of the
nineteenth, representing a central moment in both public occasions
and the private lives of many artists. Composers dedicated
themselves to this practice at length while formulating the musical
ideas later found at the core of their published works;
improvisation was thus closely linked to composition itself. The
full extent of this relation can be inferred from both private
documents and reviews of concerts featuring improvisations, while
these texts also inform us that composers quite often performed in
public as both improvisers and interpreters of pieces written by
themselves or others. Improvisations presented in concert were
distinguished by a remarkable degree of structural organisation and
complexity, demonstrating performers' consolidated abilities in
composition as well as their familiarity with the rules for
improvising outlined by theoreticians.
The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world's
legendary stringed instruments-violins and cellos, mandolins and
guitars-comes from seven near-mythic European forests. In his
latest book, Jeffrey Greene takes the reader into those woodlands
and into luthiers' workshops to show us how the world's finest
instruments not only contribute to great musical art but are prized
works of art in themselves. Masters of Tonewood describes the
"hidden life" of stringed instruments, beginning with the unique
wood, expertly chosen and sometimes cured for decades, that gives
them voices that rivet audiences. Greene takes us to forests in
Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Romania, Poland, and the Czech
Republic. We are introduced to the acoustical and aesthetic
properties of the spruce that Stradivari treasured, and the mystery
of why just one in a thousand maple trees contains decorative
figuring worthy of the highest-quality instruments. Greene visits
the greatest traditional centers of this craft, from Spain to the
United States. He recounts the ideas and experiences of tonewood
millers, luthiers, and musicians and discusses their concerns about
environmental issues associated with a tradition dependent on
ancient woodlands in a modern world.
Titles: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki)
* French Folk Song (Folk Song) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Song of
the Wind (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * O Come,
Little Children (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) * Allegro
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion in D Major (Shinichi Suzuki) *
Perpetual Motion in G Major (Shinichi Suzuki) * Long, Long Ago
(T.H. Bayly) * Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki) * Andantino (Shinichi
Suzuki) * Rigadoon (H. Purcell) * Etude (Shinichi Suzuki) * The
Happy Farmer from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R. Schumann)
* Minuet in C, No. 11 in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena
Bach, BWV 841 (J.S. Bach) * Minuet No. 2 from Minuet in G Major,
BWV 116 (J.S. Bach).
This title is available in SmartMusic.
Written especially for the older beginner, Pianoworks 1 explains
all you need to know to get you started on the piano. It focuses on
the traditional concept of learning to play from music but also
includes hints on improvisation and playing by ear. At every stage
there is an appealing and accessible range of pieces to play, from
classical to modern in style, including a number of new pieces by
the authors. New ideas are introduced at a steady pace, and
examples and exercises reinforce learning and build confidence.
There are useful notes on how to approach each piece, and a CD
contains performances of all the pieces, accompaniments to play
along with, demonstrations, and additional exercises. Pianoworks 1
can be used with a teacher or as a stand-alone resource.
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