Backbeat imprint: 95 books
The Bass Handbook
A Complete Guide for Mastering the Bass Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better, more creative, and more varied bass lines. Divided into two sections – Playing Your Bass and Knowing Your Bass – it covers everything from tuning, reading music, scales and chords, and advanced techniques to tips on buying...
The Folk Handbook
Working with Songs from the English Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
by David Atkinson, Vic Gammon, Rikky Rooksby, Mark Brend, John Morrish, Martin Carthy, and Nigel Williamson. Words & melodies for 80+ traditional songs, plus detailed explorations of their history & meaning and their value to writers & performers. With audio tracks of 20 songs recorded in the field.
by Chris Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The Fiddle Handbook is a treasure trove of information spanning the whole range of fiddle playing. It looks in detail at the most commonly played styles among today's fiddlers. From America, there's old time, bluegrass, Cajun, Western swing, country, blues, rock, klezmer, and jazz, while from the...
If You Like Led Zeppelin...
Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
It was, and it remains, the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, a giant from the moment of its inception until long after its demise. Even today, more than 30 years after its final flight, Led Zeppelin offers the final word in rock innovation – the one band that so many try to emulate and...
Soccer FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Clubs, the Players, and the Rivalries
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Soccer FAQ is a fast, furious, and opinionated guide to the world's most popular game, an all-encompassing history that introduces readers to the biggest clubs, the greatest games, the finest players, and the fiercest rivalries. From Sunderland to Seattle, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Soccer FAQ delves...
Hearts of Darkness
James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens and the Unlikely Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Hearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars. James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and Cat Stevens could never have been considered your typical late-sixties songwriters – self-absorbed and self-composed, all three eschewed...
Dracula FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Count from Transylvania
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Dracula FAQ unearths little-known facts about both the historical and literary Dracula. The 15th-century warlord Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula (son of the Dragon), became a legendary figure in his native Wallachia. Four hundred years later, Irish author Bram Stoker appropriated Dracula's...
Reinventing Metal
The True Story of Pantera and the Tragically Short Life of Dimebag Darrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Pantera is widely regarded as one of the most influential and revered American metal bands of the past 20 years. Although its output was relatively short – from 1983 to 2000 it released only nine studio albums – its impact on the metal scene since the band split up in 2003 is still felt to this...
Reaching Out with No Hands
Reconsidering Yoko Ono
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
John Lennon once described her as “the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” Many people are aware of her art, and her music has always split crowds, from her caterwauling earliest work to her later dance numbers, but how many people have...
If You Like the Beatles...
Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era, when Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals, the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music – from...
This Bird Has Flown
The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul, Fifty Years On
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Beatles' sixth studio album, Rubber Soul, was a game changer. By December 1965, when the album was released, the Beatles had played the first arena rock show at Shea Stadium for 55 000 delirious fans, been awarded MBE (Member of British Empire) medals, and were indisputably the greatest musical...
Stranded in the Jungle
Jerry Nolan's Wild Ride: A Tale of Drugs, Fashion, the New York Dolls and Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Here is the story of an often overlooked, one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll musician and the historic times he lived in. In spite of numerous opportunities for success, he became a tragedy.
Jerry Nolan came out of New York in the 1970s as part of two of the most influential and infamous bands of...
Beer FAQ
All That's Left to Know About The World's Most Celebrated Adult Beverage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Here is a no-nonsense guide to the world of beer, answering many burning questions about the diverse array of styles, ingredients, and international brewing and drinking traditions that drive the world's most popular beverage.
Beer FAQ features insight not only on how it's made, but how it...
Slide Guitar
Know the Players, Play the Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Another entry in the Fretmaster series, this book teaches you both the history and technique of slide guitar's masters, such as Brian Jones, Lowell George, Bonnie Raitt, and Robert Johnson. While exploring their musical lives and legacy, Slide Guitar provides lessons that give you the skills and encouragement...