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Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles
Put together for the first time in one book, the artist approved
Radiohead: The Acoustic Guitar Songbook contains over 20 of the
greatest guitar songs from Radiohead. Spanning their entire career
to date, each song is transcribed for acoustic guitar in standard
notation and tab, with melody line and chord boxes.
The 30 NOTE SPELLING LESSONS are for the reinforcement of the music
fundamentals found in the early levels of the David Carr Glover
Piano Library. They present note spelling on the grand staff, leger
lines and spaces, chord note spelling, whole steps and half steps,
forming tetrachords and major scales and notes and rests in 4/4,
3/4, 2/4, and 6/8 meter.
The Michael Aaron Piano Course Lesson books have been completely
re-engraved, expanded (adding more definitions of musical terms and
more musical pieces), updated (with modernized artwork), and
re-edited (with less emphasis on fingerings and more on
note-reading).
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.
Steve Beresford's polymathic activities have formed a prism for the
UK improv scene since the 1970s. He is internationally known as a
free improviser on piano, toy piano and electronics, composer for
film and TV, and raconteur and Dadaist visionary. His résumé is
filled with collaborations with hundreds of musicians and other
artists, including such leading improvisers as Derek Bailey, Evan
Parker and John Zorn, and he has given performances of works by
John Cage and Christian Marclay. In this book, Beresford is heard
in his own words through first-hand interviews with the author.
Beresford provides compelling insight into an extensive range of
topics, displaying the broad cultural context in which music is
embedded. The volume combines chronological and thematic chapters,
with topics covering improvisation and composition in jazz and free
music; the connections between art, entertainment and popular
culture; the audience for free improvisation; writing music for
films; recording improvised music in the studio; and teaching
improvisation. It places Beresford in the context of improvised and
related musics – jazz, free jazz, free improvisation – in which
there is growing interest. The linear narrative is broken up by
'interventions' or short pieces by collaborators and commentators.
George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic,
often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer
magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In
the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving
"control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy,
power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular
coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the
weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types
includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through
categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll
combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short
roll progressions.
Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of
what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever
invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan LeRoy reveals the
untold story of how their mechanical pulse became the new heartbeat
of popular music. The pristine snap of the LinnDrum. The
bottom-heavy beats of the Roland 808. The groundbreaking samples of
the E-MUSP-1200. All these machines-and their weirder,
wilder-sounding cousins-changed composition, recording, and
performance habits forever. Their distinctive sounds and styles
helped create new genres of music, like hip hop and EDM. But they
altered every musical style, from mainstream pop to heavy metal to
jazz. Dan LeRoy traces the drum machine from its low-tech
beginnings in the Fifties and Sixties to its evolution in the
Seventies and its ubiquity in the Eighties, when seemingly
overnight, it infiltrated every genre of music. Drum machines put
some drummers out of work, while keeping others on their toes. They
anticipated virtually every musical trend of the last five decades:
sequencing, looping, sampling, and all forms of digital music
creation. But the personalities beneath those perfect beats make
the story of drum machines a surprisingly human one-told here for
the very first time.
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