Instruments category: 8353 books

I'm always amazed at how little people know about purchasing the right instrument for themselves or their children.Worldwide research has shown that playing a musical instrument has real benefits.For example, children who play music have improved vocal, vocabulary and memory skills by the time...

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Guitar Guide Presents Basic How to Lessons for Beginners The How to Guide for Playing the Guitar – Basic Guitar Lessons for Beginners by Greg Mason is now available, and provides 25 chapters of tips, instructions, lessons, and advice. A new guitar playing guide, The How to Guide for...

A Piano Lessons Beginners Guide for Children & Adults.This Kindle book is suitable for children and adults who are about to start piano, keyboard or organ lessons.This book is aimed specifically at beginners who want to learn to play a keyboard instrument, this can be piano, electronic keyboard...

"Learn to Play Drumset WITHOUT a Drumset! For KIDS who want to play drums and the ADULTS who always wished they had. Here is your chance! Master drummer percussionist Reid DeFever shares his joy of drumming in this new instructional book. Learn: How to make a make-shift drumset how...

Yes, you can turn those great melodies and smokin’ grooves in your head into stunning digital music! And you don’t have to be a musical genius or a computer geek to do it! Composing Digital Music For Dummies shows you everything you need to know to compose great tunes using the hottest digital...

"Acoustic Guitar Styles" introduces the most popular traditional styles for the acoustic guitar. The step-by-step approach, using a small repertoire of well-known songs, enables the student to explore various styles that can be adapted to play personal favorites. Although a basic knowledge of the guitar is assumed, even the beginner will benefit from this progressive approach.

Ricardo Iznaola's long-awaited Summa Kitharologica (vol. 1) is the culmination of three decades of deep exploration of the guitarist's playing mechanism and is the most comprehensive presentation of his thinking about these matters to date. Structured in three chapters, Chapter 1 surveys basic anatomy...

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working...

This ebook is a good way to learn the essential modes. A complete system for learning patterns in all keys with fingering, note names, intervals, CAGED system, theory, formula, characteristic note, chord to use and to improvise use backing tracks with free access on the website.

The guitar lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in didactic guitar literature. This book, which includes the first three volumes of the original six-volume series, is an ideal introduction to classical guitar playing as...

Quiero Tocar El Piano, by Victor M. Barba is a wonderful book for piano. With basic music theory such as the staff and the treble clef, and more advanced piano studies, this book is excellent for anybody who wishes to learn how to play the piano or keyboard. The only book that has the music notes...

Learning to play the 5-string Banjo is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing - fast! Full colour pictures, clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice...

These tunes were inspired by the great "first generation" acoustic blues guitarists: Huddie Ledbetter, Mance Lipscomb, Gary Davis, Jesse Fuller, Blind Blake, and others. Author Fred Sokolow's tunes convey some of the same feelings as these early blues artists and are fun to play. Several...