(Schirmer Performance Editions). This new edition combines the contents of both books of the timeless Bach/Carroll Schirmer Library volume. Includes a companion CD recorded by the editor and performance notes on the individual pieces.

This book is part player's manual, part historical profile, and part musical portrait. It explores in-depth all facets of jazz bass playing - from the development of "walking" and other techniques, to the human and musical interaction inside a rhythm section, to the bassists who made their instrument an integral part of America's greatest art form. Citing examples from key recordings in the jazz canon, the book defines the essence of the musical contributions made by every important jazz bassist. These achievements are explained both conceptually and technically, helping musicians and fans alike understand the art and craft of jazz bass playing. Bassists get expert guidance on mastering proper technique, practice methods, and improvisation, plus new insight into the theoretical and conceptual aspects of jazz. The companion CD featuring bass plus rhythm section allows readers to hear technical examples from the book, presented in slow and fast versions. It also offers play-along tracks of typical chord progressions.

(Bass Method). This comprehensive supplement to any bass method will help students learn over 200 great bass licks, lines and grooves in many rhythmic styles. Bass Licks illustrates how simple melodic patterns can become the springboard for group improvisation or the foundation of a song. All examples are on the CD

17 of his greatest hits including: Back in the U.S.A. * Johnny B. Goode * Little Queenie * Maybellene * Roll Over Beethoven * Sweet Little Rock and Roller * and more.

(Guitar). Matching guitar tab folio to the album that rocketed Rodrigo y Gabriela to popularity. Includes: Diablo Rojo * Ixtapa * Juan Loco * Orion * PPA * Satori * Stairway to Heaven * Tamacun * Vikingman.

The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone just learning to play. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by uke master Lil' Rev features many fun songs in different styles to learn and play. Book 2 picks up where Book 1 leaves off, covering: chord families, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, 6/8 time, ukulele history, and much more. The accompanying CD contains 51 tracks of songs for demonstration and play along.

Improve your sight-reading! Guitar Grades 4-5 is designed to help classical guitarists overcome sight reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. Written to support the ABRSM's sight-reading requirements.

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard R&B Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning rhythm and blues guitar. This book uses real R&B, funk and soul songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead R&B guitar in the styles of Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, Curtis Mayfield, Jimmy Nolen, Billy Butler and many others. Songs include: But It's Alright * Honky Tonk * I Can't Turn You Loose * In the Midnight Hour * Knock on Wood * Mustang Sally * Papa Was a Rollin' Stone * Papa's Got a Brand New Bag * Soul Man * Stand by Me * What'd I Say * and more. CD features full-demo and play-along versions for each track.

(The Little Black Songbook). 80 of his biggest hits in one small package, including: America * 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover * Kodachrome * Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard * and many more.

Chords and lyrics for 40 of Nirvana's most popular songs, including: About a Girl * All Apologies * Big Cheese * Come as You Are * Floyd the Barber * Heart Shaped Box * The Man Who Sold the World * Mexican Seafood * Smells like Teen Spirit * Something in the Way * You Know You're Right * and more. 6 inch. x 9 inch.

The Ultimate Guitar Tutor provides a comprehensive introduction to playing the guitar. Suitable for acoustic or electric guitar, the step-by-step approach means no prior knowledge of music is necessary. Whether you are a budding lead guitarist or simply want to strum along with your favourite songs, this book provides all you need and more! The Ultimate Guitar Tutor features an introduction to TAB and standard notation; essential guitar techniques including tuning, power chords, barre chords, hammer-ons, string bending, sliding and left-hand damping; classic songs from legendary artists Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Van Morrison, Eagles, Green Day, Nirvana, Elvis Presley, George Michael and R.E.M.; well-known folk and classical tunes and online audio of backing tracks. For more information, audio and page samples visit The Ultimate Guitar Tutor Website. Author Tom Fleming is a skilled and highly experienced guitarist, adept at a wide variety of styles including rock, jazz and folk. He is also an arranger and composer, and an examiner for Rockschool, the UK's only dedicated rock and pop exam board.

The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.

(Book). This book by the founding editor and former publisher of Bass Player magazine not only celebrates the 50-year history of Fender's revolutionary Precision Bass, it also for the first time illuminates the full scope of its profound impact on music and society. Focusing on the bass' artistic influence, it details the technical milestones that gave the bass its musical power. This book also describes the impact of the bass in the hands of such visionaries as James Jamerson; cheers the innovations of rockers like Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, John Entwistle and Sting; and honors the inspired work of such virtuosos as Jaco Pastorius. Loaded with black & white and 100 stunning color photos.

Features all 30 greatest hits from the album arranged for guitar tab and complete with full lyrics.

40 of Petty's finest in one compact collection giving you just the basics you need to sing and strum. Includes: American Girl * Breakdown * Don't Come Around Here No More * Don't Do Me like That * Even the Losers * Free Fallin' * Here Comes My Girl * Into the Great Wide Open * Mary Jane's Last Dance * Refugee * Runnin' Down a Dream * Stop Draggin' My Heart Around * The Waiting * You Got Lucky * and more. 6 inch. x 9 inch.

(String Solo). Attractive solo literature for the intermediate level student. The pieces in this collection do not take the player beyond third position. Contents: Siciliano from the Sonata No. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017 (J.S. Bach) * Intermezzo, Op. 117, No. 1 (Brahms) * Allegro moderato from Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 (Dvorak) * Berceuse, Op. 16 (Faure) * Allegro from Pieces de clavecin, Op. 1 (Fiocco) * Waltz from Lyric Pieces, Op. 12, No. 2 (Grieg) * Sonata in F Major, HWV 370 (Handel) * Allegro from the Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, KV 304 (Mozart) * Allegro molto from the Sonatina for Violin and Piano in D Major, D. 384 (Schubert) * Rondo from the Pupil's Concerto No. 5 in D Major, Op. 22 (Seitz) * Allegro from the Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi).

As its title suggests, the Essential Acoustic Playlist is an essential purchase for anyone who owns an acoustic guitar - the book contains 70 songs that sound great! From classic tunes like Hotel California and Waterloo Sunset through to modern anthems like Bitter Sweet Symphony and Radiohead's Street Spirit (Fade Out), this book has a huge selection of favourites to keep you strumming away for hours. Each song is presented very simply, with lyrics and chord symbols, so there's no need to be able to read music. The spiral binding means that the book lays flat wherever you put it, allowing for maximum strumming pleasure! Chord shapes given are authentic and sound great on an acoustic guitar. The book features simple 'lyrics and chords' format; authentic and easy chord shapes given for every song; includes capo and tuning information where appropriate and special 'lay-flat' binding.