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The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar.
This book uses excerpts from real blues songs no corny arrangments of nursery rhymes here! (well, except "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but this is NOT the version you learned in kindergarten!) to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead blues guitar in the style of B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, and many others.
Lessons include: 12-bar blues; chords, scales and licks; vibrato and string bending; riffs, turnarounds, and boogie patterns; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; standard notation and tablature; and much more!
Song excerpts include: Boom Boom * Born Under a Bad Sign * Double Trouble * Killing Floor * Sweet Home Chicago * You Shook Me * and more.
The online audio access includes over 70 tracks for demo and play-along, and is available using the unique code printed inside each book.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Violin 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 Violin Exam Pieces
with CD package or as audio downloads (see
https://shop.abrsm.org/audiodownloads for more details).
In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art-a
cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its
life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and
resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United
States. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of
world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given
concerts around the world. In this delightful book, Mr. Prieto
recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto,"
tracing its history through each of its previous owners from
Stradivari in 1720 to himself. He then describes his noteworthy
experiences of playing the Piatti cello, with which he has
premiered some eighty compositions. In this part of their mutual
story, Prieto gives a concise summary of his own remarkable career
and his relationships with many illustrious personalities,
including Igor Stravinsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pablo Casals,
Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A new
epilogue, in which he describes recent concert tours in Moscow,
Siberia, and China and briefer visits to South Korea, Taiwan, and
Venezuela, as well as recent recitals with Yo-Yo Ma, brings the
story up to 2009. To make the story of his cello complete, Mr.
Prieto also provides a brief history of violin making and a
succinct review of cello music from Stradivari to the present. He
highlights the work of composers from Latin America, Spain, and
Portugal, for whose music he has long been an advocate and
principal performer. The print edition of this book includes a CD
of fourteen recordings by Carlos Prieto, including works by J. S.
Bach, Dmitry Shostakovich, Astor Piazzolla, and Eugenio Toussaint.
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