Instruments category: 8353 books
Experience Fun-Filled Learning With Your Guitar
A Collection Of Beginner Guitar Lessons, Tips On How To Learn To Play Guitar Online, Beginner Guitar Lessons, How To Play Basic Guitar Chords And Many More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Music is something that most of us cannot live without. It has become such an integral part of our lives that we have become spoilt for choice when it comes to pleasing our ears. But amongst the endless cornucopia of sounds, melodies and instruments stands the Acoustic Guitar. The Guitar is probably...
by John Charles
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Here is your chance to discover the absolute joy and sense of fulfilment which you will get from learning to play one of the world's most popular instruments. This is not an academic course, it is primarily a course with one aim - to get you playing and enjoying this instrument as quickly as...
Musical Instrument Design
Practical Information for Instrument Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
This is an encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations. While not geared toward making conventional instruments, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion,...
Talking Guitar
Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering...
Chord Melody Method for Accordion
and Other Keyboard Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The Chord Melody Method for Accordion is a breakthrough course that will teach you to quickly learn all of the chords used in today's music and to apply their harmonic applications professionally to any lead sheet. Imagine possessing the ability to develop and compose a professional-sounding arrangement...
by David M. Guion
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet to its alterations in the 15th century; from its marginalized use in a particular Renaissance ensemble...
by Meg Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Gospel music is rooted in the folk tradition of America. It is music from the heart and soul and appears wherever people gather to express their spiritual joy. Folk instruments such as the guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and autoharp lend themselves to this kind of group singing. They can provide...
Between Air and Electricity
Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible†? technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century,...
60 Years of Fender
Six Decades of the Greatest Electric Guitars
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The latest addition to Tony Bacon's acclaimed series of guitar books, 60 Years of Fender gives a year-by-year history of the most successful electric guitar maker. In 1950, Leo Fender introduced to the world the solidbody electric guitar – the instrument known as the Telecaster. He soon added two...
The Electric Guitar Sourcebook
How to Find the Sounds You Like
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Why does an electric archtop sound so different from a solidbody guitar when they have the same strings and pickups? Why does Eric Clapton use a vibrato Stratocaster with the vibrato arm removed and the mechanism blocked off with a piece of wood? Why does a strings-through-body guitar sound brighter...
by David Barrett, Frank De Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues- Lesson Series, presents 46 bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and TAB. This book is accompanied by audio available for download online of all examples (played by author...
Saxophone Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Saxophone (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Teach yourself how to play saxophone with our easy saxophone lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free sax videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and saxophone animation for easy music learning.***"I...
by Andrew McAuley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
There is no better way to start your day than waking up and doing something you love, so when drummer and percussionist, Andrew McAuley presented himself with the task of creating a new drum groove every single morning, he soon found himself having a more positive outlook, both on and off of the drum...
by Bibs Ekkel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Russia today. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Foreword, the Tutor, A...