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This exceptional songbook presents Bill Evans' most beloved
melodies and songs arranged by noted jazz pianist/educator Andy
LaVerne, himself a student of Evans. Titles include: Bill's Hit
Tune * Children's Play Song * For Nenette (in both C and Db) *
Laurie * Letter to Evan * One for Helen * Only Child * Orbit *
Peace Piece * Show-Type Tune * Time Remembered * Turn Out the Stars
* Very Early * Walkin' Up * Waltz for Debby * Your Story * and
more. Features a reminiscence by LaVerne, with performance notes on
his adaptations.
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.
This book brings together, for the first time, nine pieces from
ABRSM's Grade 3 Guitar syllabus from 2019. The pieces - two solos
and one duet chosen from each of lists A, B and C - have been
carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of
styles, creating an excellent source of repertoire to suit every
performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those
preparing for exams, useful syllabus information. Recordings of all
30 pieces on the Grade 3 syllabus are available. These can be
purchased as part of the Guitar Exam Pieces with CD package or as
audio downloads (see www.abrsmdownloads.org for more details).
ABRSM also offers a range of apps to support musical learning,
available from www.abrsm.org/apps. Support material for ABRSM
Guitar exams [GEPs with CD] [Scales] [Specimen sight-reading]
[Specimen aural tests]
(Berklee Labs). Effective improvisation can add fun and
individuality to guitar performances. This book presents a unique
improvisation strategy based on ear training and a linear
interpretation of note/chord relationships. You'll learn how to:
develop an expectation of sound * master the relationships between
notes, modes and harmonies * improvise over jazz standards *
identify pitch tendencies within chord progressions * and more.
(String Letter Publishing). Learn the art of fingerstyle jazz
guitar with these 12 insightful lessons. With chapters aimed at
building chord vocabulary, separating bass and melody voices, and
improvisation in the style of jazz guitar greats like Wes
Montgomery and Joe Pass, this book is your guide to building and
playing great solo guitar arrangements of songs from the classic
jazz-standard repertoire. Complete with jazz interpretations of
traditional songs. Lessons include audio downloads, standard
notation and tablature for all examples and songs, and much more.
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.
This cool, full-color poster shows the 40 most commonly used guitar
chords - with an actual photo for each! No student or teaching
studio should be without it! Also available: Guitar Theory
(00695769) and Guitar Scales (00695768).
(Faber Piano Adventures ). This collection of 21 authentic keyboard
works represents the major periods of music from Baroque to
Contemporary and serves as an excellent introduction to classical
keyboard literature. Contents include: Canario, by Von der Hofe *
Adagio and Allegro, by J.C. Bach (and F.P. Ricci) * Tarantella, by
Frank Lynes * Melody for Left Hand, by Fritz Spindler * and more.
Everything you ever wanted to know about scales, but were afraid to
ask! This book fills you in on major and minor scales; the modes;
the blues scale; harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole
tone & diminished scales; other exotic and ethnic scales; and
more. Includes easy-to-read fretboard diagrams, and a bio of Troy
Stetina.
This book explains and shows in detail the various techniques used
by fiddle players in creating a traditional style of playing. All
the information is presented in the context of the music itself,
with numerous transcribed and recorded examples. It is aimed not
only at the beginner, but also the fiddle-player (and indeed
violinist) with some knowledge and experience who wishes to learn
more. For those unable to read music, a chapter on notation is
included. Particular emphasis is given to bowing and ornamentation,
with individual chapters devoted to jigs, slides, polkas,
hornpipes, airs and reels. The book also attempts to convey
something of the excitement felt in playing music which has a large
degree of improvisation, albeit within certain bounds. The
demonstration CD, which features a large selection of the
transcribed tunes and ornaments performed by Cranitch, is an
invaluable aid to learning as it allows the listener to hear how
the music and ornamentation should sound.
'All my life my Stradivarius had been waiting for me, as I had been
waiting for her . . .' At 7 years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the
youngest ever pupil at the Purcell School of Music. At 11 she won
her first international prize. She worked with many violins,
waiting for the day she would play 'the one'. At 21 she found it: a
rare 1696 Stradivarius, perfectly suited to her build and
temperament. Her career soared. She recorded the Brahms concerto
and a world tour was planned. Then, in a train station cafe, her
violin was stolen. In an instant her world collapsed. She descended
into a terrifying limbo land, unable to play another note. This is
Min's extraordinary story - of a young woman staring into the void,
wondering who she was, who she had been. It is a story of isolation
and dependence, of love, loss and betrayal, and the intense, almost
human bond that a musician has with their instrument. Above all
it's a story of hope through a journey back to music. 'The hours
fell away as I read this spellbinding tale of love, loss and above
all devotion to art' - Susan Cain, author of international
bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't
Stop Talking
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