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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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101 Movie Hits
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
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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.
The most comprehensive single-volume blues publication ever, with
songs spanning the entire history of the genre. Every major blues
artist is well-represented, including Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson,
B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Alberta Hunter, Willie Dixon,
Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Witherspoon,
Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, and scores of others. Features
very easy-to-read engravings of 400 fantastic songs, including: All
Your Love (I Miss Loving) * Angel Eyes * Baby Please Don't Go *
Basin Street Blues * Beale Street Blues * Bell Bottom Blues * Black
Coffee * Crossroads * Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
* Everyday (I Have the Blues) * Fine and Mellow * Folsom Prison
Blues * A Good Man Is Hard to Find * Hellhound on My Trail * (I)
Can't Afford to Do It * I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues * Ice Cream
Man * Lady Sings the Blues * Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) *
Lucille * Mean Woman Blues * My First Wife Left Me * Nine Below
Zero * Oh! Darling * Road Runner * Royal Garden Blues * St. Louis
Blues * Steamroller Blues * Stormy Weather * Sweet Home Chicago *
Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do * The Thrill Is Gone * Worried Man
Blues * hundreds more!
The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning
artist Bill Frisell. FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH:
Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon
Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon;
Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill 'A
beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living
cultural treasures.' JOHN ZORN 'The perfect companion-piece to the
music of its subject.' MOJO 'Outlines the subject's life in a
series of scrupulous strokes and intimate interviews that are rare
in such undertakings . . . a cool, casual victory.' IRISH TIMES
Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established
himself as one of the most innovative and influential musicians at
work today. A quietly revolutionary guitar hero for our
genre-blurring times, he connects to a diverse range of artists and
admirers, including Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens,
Gus Van Sant and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, all of whom feature in
this book. A vital addition to any music lover's book collection,
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer tells the legendary guitarist's
story for the first time. 'Stuffed with musical encounters, so many
that every couple of pages there's an unheard Frisell recording for
the reader to chase down.' NEW YORKER 'Bill Frisell, Beautiful
Dreamer is the definitive biography.' BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWNBEAT
'Superb . . . the book races along like Sonny Rollins in full sail.
Like subject, like writer: this is super-articulate, adventurous
prose.' PERSPECTIVE '[Watson's] writing balances unbridled passion
and dispassionate research nearly as deftly as Mr. Frisell's
playing does sound and silence . . . compelling.' WALL STREET
JOURNAL
This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an
examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first
publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential
theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for
microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses the breadth and
complexity of Wilson's work by focusing on his microtonal keyboard
designs as a means to investigate his tuning concepts and their
practical applications. Narushima examines materials ranging from
historical and experimental tunings to instrument design, as well
as musical applications of mathematical theories and
multidimensional geometry. The volume provides an analysis of some
of Wilson's most significant theoretical ideas, including the Scale
Tree, Moments of Symmetry, Constant Structures, and
Combination-Product Sets. These theories offer ways to
conceptualize musical scales as patterns with structural integrity
and whose shapes can be altered to produce infinitely varying
forms. The book shows how these structural properties can be used
to map scales onto a microtonal keyboard by providing step-by-step
guidelines and clearly illustrated examples. Most importantly, it
brings together theoretical and practical methods of tuning to
enable composers, performers, and instrument designers to explore
previously uncharted areas of microtonality, making a significant
contribution to the fields of music theory, composition and music
technology.
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Bill Evans
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Bill Evans; Contributions by Aaron Prado
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This exciting edition contains 100 early intermediate selections in
their original form, spanning the Baroque period to present day.
The repertoire, which includes several minuets, folk dances,
character pieces and much more, has been carefully graded and
selected for student appeal by editor Lynn Freeman Olson.
Piano Mix is packed full of brilliant music that has been specially
arranged for easy piano. It's a whirlwind of styles and genres from
centuries gone by through to the present day. The repertoire
reflects the type of music found in our Piano syllabuses. In Piano
Mix 1 the pieces are mostly at Grade 1 standard, helping pianists
progress to Grade 2 towards the end of the book. The series has
been compiled and edited by David Blackwell with arrangements by
Alan Bullard, Nikki Iles, Christopher Norton and Tim Richards to
name a few. Every arrangement is enjoyable to play because it fits
well under the pianist's hands while remaining faithful to the
original work. Well-known music includes Handel's 'Fireworks
Minuet' and opera classics from Bizet and Verdi. There are also
lots of unsung melodies to be discovered, like Harry J. Lincoln's
'Bees-Wax Rag' and a traditional Swiss piece called 'In the Alps'.
From the orchestra to the opera and from folk to jazz, there's a
world of music at your fingertips!
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