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This book will teach you all the basics of how to play the pedal
steel guitar. Sections describe how to tune the pedal steel guitar,
which picks to use, slides, explanations of signs and symbols, and
the use of right/left hand positions. Musical examples are given
throughout and a list of easy to intermediate practice songs is
included. This book is written in E9 tuning and is presentes in
notation and tablature.
The perfect companion to the 'Guitar Chords' book, 'Advanced Guitar
Chords' is a handy resource for guitarists who feel they are able
to take the next step. The simple and clean layout provides 360
chords shown as chord boxes, covering chords that are played
further up the neck and in 3rd position, along with more extensive
provision of augmented and diminished chords. Ideal for playing
genres such as jazz, this no-nonsense, easy-to-carry, spiral-bound
book will fit into a gig bag, flight case or handbag with the
minimum of fuss and will help musicians become more complete
guitarists.
This is an incredibly comprehensive book dealing with every
harmonic and technical aspect of guitar improvising. Included are
analyses of scales, arpeggios, picking technique, chord
progressions, cadences and modulations. In addition, numerous
studies and exercises are contained to help you play through the
concepts of being taught. The goal is technical and mental mastery
of the guitar fingerboard. Tablature is included.
(Stylistic Method). Because rhythm and timing lie at the foundation
of everything you play, its importance can't be underestimated.
This series will give you that solid foundation you need. Starts
with simple upbeat rhythms for the beginner and moves step by step
into advanced syncopations - all demonstrated with seriously heavy
metal examples that have practical applications to today's styles.
Tablature. Music and examples demonstrated on CD.
New research throws light on the history of the viol after Purcell,
including its revival in the late eighteenth century through
Charles Frederick Abel. It is normally thought that the bass viol
or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s,
and that Henry Purcell was the last composer to write for it. Peter
Holman shows how the gamba changed its role and function in the
Restoration period under the influence of foreign music and
musicians; how it was played and composed for by the circle of
immigrant musicians around Handel; how it was part of the fashion
for exotic instruments in themiddle of the century; and how the
presence in London of its greatest eighteenth-century exponent,
Charles Frederick Abel, sparked off a revival in the 1760s and 70s.
Later chapters investigate the gamba's role as an emblem of
sensibility among aristocrats, artists and intellectuals, including
the Countess of Pembroke, Sir Edward Walpole, Ann Ford, Laurence
Sterne, Thomas Gainsborough and Benjamin Franklin, and trace Abel's
influence and legacy farinto the nineteenth century. A concluding
chapter is concerned with its role in the developing early music
movement, culminating with Arnold Dolmetsch's first London concerts
with old instruments in 1890. PETER HOLMAN is Professor Emeritus of
Historical Musicology at Leeds University, and director of The
Parley of Instruments, the choir Psalmody, and the Suffolk Villages
Festival.
In Brian May's Red Special you will discover everything about Brian
May's unique, home-made guitar. Brian reveals all, from the
guitar's origins to playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace, from
Live Aid to the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from
the set of Bohemian Rhapsody to opening the Academy Awards in 2019
where the film scooped four Oscars. All of this is accompanied by
original diagrams, sketches and notes from the building of the
guitar, as well as a selection of classic photographs including
Brian on stage with his guitar, close-ups and even an X-ray. Rare
images are included throughout, as the entire guitar was dismantled
and photographed for the book.
This amazing book is a must for every bass guitarist's library. It
contains virtually every chord a player will be asked to produce.
With clear, readable diagrams, it contains more than 500 chord
shapes. What's more, it's designed to fit easily into your guitar
bag so you never need be without it!
Building an Award-Winning Guitar Program is a practical guide to
assist secondary and post-secondary music educators with the tasks
involved in establishing a successful music program. With the
rising interest in guitar, Mariachi, rock band, handbells,
bluegrass, music technology, and so on, more and more music
educators are being asked to teach innovative music classes. Author
Bill Swick has crafted this book to help these educators build such
innovative music programs from the ground floor, based on his years
of experience as a music educator specialized in guitar. The book
will assist music educators with classroom management, scheduling,
structure, organization, fund raising, festivals, travel, and other
subjects related to teaching guitar in the classroom, but its
principles are broadly relevant to any and all music educators
hoping to create a unique program that stands out within their
school district and state, attracting students, parents, educators
and administrators alike.
This is the first book written exclusively for the folk harp that
teaches the student how to play the instrument, step by step. Each
of the 12 lessons includes instructions, exercises and folk and
classical pieces using the new skills and techniques taught in the
lesson. This is an excellent book for any student, regardless of
previous musical training.
(String Solo). For violin and orchestra (piano reduction).
For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings
are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its
basic strengths - and limitations. But, once a guitarist gets
beyond basic skills, the desire to play in different styles and
achieve individual sounds leads inevitably to exploring alternate
tunings. Guitar Tunings: AComprehensive Guide is the first book to
offer practical advice for how to use the most common special
tunings for the greatest creative and musical effect. Illustrated
throughout with examples in standard notation and guitar tablature,
the author introduces different musical styles through the use of
appropriate tunings. Including downloadable resources, this book
gives clear and concise instruction for the guitarist who has
mastered basic skills but wants to go beyond them. It will appeal
to guitar students of all ages, and can be used for individual
self-instruction or in one-on-one or group teaching situations. In
short, Guitar Tunings: A Comprehensive Guide offers a comprehensive
approach for all guitarists to enhance their playing skills and
creative music making. Also includes 75 musical examples.
The Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Battista Viotti
(1755-1824) is considered today to have been one of the most
significant forces in the history of violin playing. In 1792 he met
Margaret and William Chinnery, a wealthy English couple with strong
connections in the world of arts and letters. From that point
onwards Viotti's life became inextricably bound up with theirs; he
moved into their home and became a second father to their children,
forming a remarkably successful menage A trois. Henceforth, all
Viotti's career decisions were taken with this family's welfare in
mind. The Chinnery Family Papers feature over 100 Viotti letters
and other documents. Drawing extensively on these papers, this book
investigates the new light that they cast on Viotti's life and
career, as well as the context in which he lived and worked. Fresh
insights are given into the reception of Viotti's concertos in
London and the solo performances he gave while in England, together
with new information on his role as a music teacher in the Chinnery
household, and his relationship with Mme de StaA"l and the
Philharmonic Society.
(Guitar Reference). Until the launch of the Flying V and Explorer
in 1958, electric guitars were supposed to look like...guitars.
Suddenly, Gibson turned conventional design upside down, almost
literally, by using straight lines and angular body shapes,
changing the way electrics could look and, in the process, creating
a set of rare future collectables. Flying V, Explorer, Firebird
tells the story of those first peculiar instruments and goes on to
describe Gibson's second attempt at nonstandard designs with the
Firebird of the early '60s. The book shows how most of these were a
commercial failure at first and goes on to detail the influence of
the designs on guitar-makers such as Hamer, Jackson, Dean, Ibanez,
and BC Rich, all of whom embraced Gibson's original weird-is-good
design ethic. In parallel with the story of the makers is an
absorbing account of the players who discovered these odd-shaped
instruments, including Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society), Edge (U2),
and Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick). Interviews with players and makers
illuminate the story of this fascinating assortment of electric
guitar innovations, alongside specially commissioned images of
every key model and brand and an enviable collection of guitar
memorabilia, plus a gallery of leading guitarists photographed in
action with their instruments. If it's weird and has strings, it's
in Flying V, Explorer, Firebird .
Johann Peter Salomon, the celebrated violinist and impresario, made
his debut in England in March 1781. History has credited Salomon
with bringing Haydn to London, yet as Ian Woodfield reveals in this
monograph, Salomon's introduction of the composer to the London
musical scene owed as much to luck as to skilful planning. Haydn's
engagement in London proved to be a much-needed uplift to Salomon's
career which, as Woodfield illustrates, had been on the wane for a
number of years. In addition to its reassessment of Salomon's
uneven career in London during the 1780s, this book throws light on
the general relationship between public and private spheres of
professional music-making at the time, and on the relationship
between the social and professional attributes required of
musicians if they were to be successful. Nowhere are these tensions
better illustrated than in the letters and journals of the Burney
family, especially those of Susan Burney, which are drawn on in the
book to provide a vivid picture of the fiercely competitive musical
world of eighteenth-century London.
Intermediate-level solos based on 68 fiddling favorites of reels,
jigs, hornpipes and all styles of barn-dance tunes is not only
interesting and fascinating, it is also very beneficial for the
development of technique. As technique studies, in their respective
grades, these barn-dance tunes are in a class by themselves.
Excellent repertoire. Guitar chords included.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Cello syllabus
for 2020-2023, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C.
The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and
varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an
excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book
also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams,
useful syllabus information. Inspiring recordings of the nine
pieces featured in this book, plus piano accompaniment tracks, are
available. These can be purchased as part of the Cello Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing
of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical
progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal
conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was
neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara
Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during
this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by
composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn
and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the
relationships between the four instruments in different works.
Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns:
the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the
'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes
apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic
choices, location, intended performers and intended audience.
Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string
quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex
genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as
circumstances and their own creative impulses required.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Book 2 offers carefully sequenced
instruction in notereading, music theory and piano technique for
the adult student. Students explore pieces arranged in the keys of
D and F Major, as well as D and E Minor. Keyboard harmony is taught
using "lead sheets" with chord accompaniment patterns. Contents
include: Cathedral Chimes * 'O Sole Mio * Sloop John B * Brahms'
Lullaby * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Hava Nagila * Give My Regards
to Broadway * Scarborough Fair * Malaguena * Pachelbel's Canon *
and more.
A very popular beginner's text which presents a step-by-step method
of soprano (descant) recorder instruction supported by carefully
written studies, examples and songs. This book is designed to meet
the deamnd for a clear, easy-to-understand, and Pedagogically well
constructed method, in a form that is suitable for both classroom
teaching and individual instruction. It may be used in class with
the companion Fun with the Alto Recorder.
With newly revised packaging and pages, this notebook, featuring
musician's quotes and words of advice on manuscript pages, is sure
to inspire some beautiful music
Now there is one home for all your creative musings - all of the
songs you carry around in your head (or on random scraps of paper)
will fit nicely in this flexi-bound musician's journal, created by
a musican for a musician. Use it to bring clarity to your ideas and
substance to your vision. Fill your notebook with your greatest
licks, motifs, and completed songs. Track chords and riffs and draw
inspiration from a collection of quotes by artists who insipre. Now
there's a home for your creative thoughts.
This comprehensive collection for all guitarists includes 100 songs in genres from jazz standards, to pop/rock favorites, Motown masterpieces and movie music, to traditional tunes, country numbers and classical pieces. Notation styles include: note-for-note transcriptions (Blue on Black * Give Me One Reason * Sweet Child O' Mine * Wild Thing); Easy Guitar with Notes and TAB (Building a Mystery * Circle of Life * Day Tripper * Fur Elise * Misty * Torn * Walk This Way); Easy Guitar (Boot Scootin' Boogie * I Shot the Sheriff * My Favorite Things * Unchained Melody); Chord Melody Guitar (Alman * Bourree * Estudio); Fingerstyle Guitar (Amazing Grace * Greensleeves * My Heart Will Go On); and Guitar Riffs (Angie * Brown Eyed Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Layla * My Girl); and more! Essential for every player!
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