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The Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello Collection combines the artist's
renowned performance repertoire with his own inspirational
compositions, all as performed by Sheku himself. Suitable for the
intermediate cellist and beyond, this dynamic volume is sure to
spark a desire to perform. With commentary from Sheku revealing the
stories behind the pieces and his own expert advice, this
collection is a must-have for all aspiring cellists.
(Play It Like It Is). Matching folio to Metallica's second album,
including: Creeping Death * Fade To Black * and more.
This is a pocket sized collection of Bob Marley hits presented in
chord songbook format. It includes lyrics and guitar chords.
A bare-bones, beginner's approach to music theory as applied to the
guitar. Discusses half and whole-tones, enharmonics, scales as
played across the strings or up the neck, the four types of triads,
inversions, chord voicings, arpeggios, diminished 7th chords,
intervals, and chord progressions. Contains blank chord grids and
neck diagrams for student annotations. This is a book to be read
and studied rather than played.
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
Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast - with
hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunesYou have a
ukulele, you know just enough to be dangerous, and now you're ready
to do something with it. You're in luck: "Ukulele Exercises For
Dummies" helps you become a better player. This practice-based book
focuses on the skills that entry-level players often find
challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises
that will have you creating music in no time that include: -
Creating rock-steady strumming patterns and rhythms- Becoming a
better fingerpicker with patterns, arpeggio exercises, and solo
fingerpicking pieces- Expanding your fretboard knowledge and
crafting your own rock, blues and jazz riffs and solos- Playing
actual songs on the ukulele - everything from the classic ukulele
tunes to the 12 bar blues - Downloadable audio files of the
exercises found in the book, providing you with a self-contained
practice packageNo matter if you're a beginning ukulele player or
you're wanting to stretch and improve your chops, "Ukulele
Exercises For Dummies" puts you on your way to becoming a ukulele
extraordinaire
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.
Music through the Ages Volume 1
This work contains over 130 acoustic classics from the great songs
from the biggest names in pop! They are arranged for guitar in the
same key as the original recordings, with complete lyrics, chord
names and a handy box reference sheet.
'Knowing Martin and Paul Kelly's perfectionism and attention to
detail it's no surprise that this is the ultimate and complete
story of all things Rickenbacker.' - Johnny Marr 'A wonderful
history of my favourite guitar. The attention to detail is
amazing!' - Roger McGuinn 'There are few things more satisfying
than the shimmer of an open chord played on a Rickenbacker through
a Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifier. Martin and Paul have given us the
definitive history of these magical instruments.' - Susanna Hoffs
Rickenbacker Guitars is the highly anticipated follow up to Fender:
The Golden Age, charting the story of one of the most important and
influential guitar makers of all time. From George Beauchamp's
invention of the world's first commercially viable electric guitar
in 1931, through the company's heyday during the 1960s - when their
instruments were favoured by The Beatles, The Byrds and The Who -
and up to the continuing legacy of Rickenbacker today. This
definitive collection features unprecedented access to the company
archives, 350 beautifully photographed original instruments -
including all 7 surviving Beatles owned Rickenbackers - and new
interviews with legendary Rickenbacker players such as Roger
McGuinn, Peter Buck, Susanna Hoffs, Johnny Marr, Mike Campbell,
Geddy Lee and Paul Weller. Rickenbacker Guitars is the most
comprehensive history of the brand to date and a must-have for all
guitar enthusiasts.
"A treasure trove for any fan of the four-stringed (and
occasionally more) instrument." - Billboard "It's not surprising
that sooner or later I'd dive down the proverbial rabbit hole into
the world of vintage bass guitars."-Geddy Lee From Rush frontman
Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage electric bass guitars,
dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, comes the definitive volume on
the subject. Geddy's love of the bass has been nurtured over a
lifetime spent in the limelight as one of the world's premier rock
bassists. For the past seven years, he's dedicated himself to
studying the history of the instrument that's been so essential to
his career, collecting hundreds of basses from around the globe.
Written with arts journalist Daniel Richler, gorgeously
photographed in breathtaking detail by Richard Sibbald, and with
insight from Geddy's trusted bass tech and curator, John "Skully"
McIntosh, Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass profiles over 250
classic basses from Geddy's extensive collection. Representing
every tone in the bass palette, every nuance of the rock and roll
genre as well as blues, jazz, pop, and country, this one-of-a-kind
collection features so-called "beauty queens"-pristine instruments
never lifted from their cases-as well as "road warriors"-well-worn,
sweat-soaked basses that proudly show their age and use. Complete
with personal commentary from Geddy that showcases his knowledge
both as a musician and an aficionado, this luxuriously produced
volume is a revelatory look at the heavy hitters in the world of
bass-Fender, Gibson/Epiphone, Rickenbacker, Hoefner, Ampeg-and
lesser known but influential global luthiers such as Antonio Wandr
Pioli, Dan Armstrong, and Tony Zemaitis. The book also features
interviews with John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin); Adam Clayton (U2);
Robert Trujillo (Metallica); Jeff Tweedy (Wilco); Bill Wyman (The
Rolling Stones); Les Claypool (Primus); Bob Daisley (Rainbow);
Fender expert and owner of the legendary Gibson Explorer, Bass Ken
Collins; veteran guitar tech for The Who, Alan Rogan; plus comments
from many other great players across three decades of rock and
roll. Written in Geddy's singular voice, this book reveals the
stories, songs, and history behind the instruments of his
inimitable collection. Complete with an index and a graphically
designed timeline of the history of the bass, as well as an
up-close look at Geddy's basses on Rush's final R40 Tour, his stage
and recording gear from 1968 to 2017, and forewords by author and
respected vintage expert, Terry Foster, and Rush band member, Alex
Lifeson, Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass is the ultimate
compendium for the consummate collector, musician, Rush fan, and
anyone who loves the bass guitar.
Celebrate the world's most seductive instrument. An obsessive,
full-color book in the irresistible format of Shoes and
Handbags--which together have over 700,000 copies in print--guitarS
delivers a feast of 500 guitars in vibrant color, plus players,
makers, legends, myths, and more.
Here are guitars that made history, that changed the course of
music, that inspired new generations of players and listeners. Here
are milestones in the guitar's search for its true self--Torres's
classical, the amazing Gibson L-5--and experiments that ushered in
a new world of sound--Rickenbacker's "Frying Pan" and Les Paul's
"Log." Plus B. B. King's Lucille, Willie Nelson's Trigger, Eric
Clapton's Brownie, the J-160E that John Lennon played during his
1968 "bed-in" with Yoko, Jimi Hendrix's hand-painted Flying V in
full psychedelic regalia. And the far-out Gittler--no body, no
neck, no peghead, yet every inch a guitar.
Also here are profiles of famous builders, including C. F. Martin,
Orville Gibson, Leo Fender--the Henry Ford of guitars--and the mad
genius Lloyd Loar. And individual luthiers, like Linda Manzer (her
Pikasso II has 42 tunable strings), the maverick Ken Parker, and
old-world artisan John D'Angelico, staring at skyscrapers from his
Lower East Side shop and creating the ultimate art deco
masterpiece, "The New Yorker."
Marrying visual pleasure with layers of information, "Guitars"
captures the soul, the significance, history, magic, and the raw
mojo of this most beloved of instruments.
This comprehensive approach to basic guitar skills includes varied
repertoire, theory, detailed instruction about seating and hand
position, standard music notation, an introduction to tablature,
basic improvisation, and teaches both the pickstyle and fingerstyle
techniques. Great for college non-music majors, continuing
education classes, music dealer in-store programs, and group guitar
classes at the middle and high school levels.
Book 1 contains 16 units, each with a variety of repertoire,
exercises, and timed tests at the end. Unit 16 provides
instructions for playing 11 hit songs. Students can cut out
flashcards provided at the back of the book to use for home study.
The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study
and performance.
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) * Long, Long Ago
(T.H. Bayly) * Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki) * Andantino
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Bohemian Folk Song (Folk Song) * Etude
(Shinichi Suzuki) * Minuet No. 1, Minuet III from Suite in G Minor
for Klavier, BWV 822 (J.S. Bach) * Minuet No. 2, BWV Anh. 116 (J.S.
Bach) * Minuet No. 3, Anh. II 114/Anh. II 183 (J.S. Bach) * The
Happy Farmer from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R. Schumann)
* Gavotte (F.J. Gossec) * Practice Suggestions (Doris Preucil).
This title is available in SmartMusic.
Alfred's Teach Your Child To Play Guitar, Books 1 and 2, are
designed for parents who want to share the gift of music with their
children before they begin formal study with a professional
teacher. They are based on Alfred's Kid's Guitar Course, a fun
method that teaches students to play songs on the guitar right
away. Families who are part of the homeschool movement especially
will find the books useful.
Using the same music and fundamentals included in the original
editions, an easy and user-friendly Parent Guide precedes each
student page to aid with teaching the music to the child. The guide
suggests steps for introducing the concept or page to the student,
follow-up practice suggestions, and suggestions for reviewing the
material in subsequent lessons.
The enclosed CD contains a recording of every piece in the book.
Listening or playing along with the recording is fun, but more
importantly, it reinforces concepts such as rhythm and switching
smoothly between notes and chords. Using this book and CD, any
parent can teach their child the basics of guitar.
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