Greg Cooper: The Chord Scale Guide

Discover exciting new chords with linear harmonization! The Chord Scale Guide will open up new voicings for chords and heighten your awareness of linear harmonization. This will benefit jazz ensemble players, rock guitarists and songwriters looking to create new and unique original music, and understand the harmony behind chords. Each chord is presented with chord boxes, tablature and standard notation.

Joseph E. Spann: Spann's Guide To Gibson 1902-1941

Centerstream presents Spann's Guide To Gibson 1902-1941, a detailed look at the inner workings of the famous musical instrument manufacturer of Kalamazoo, Michigan before World War II. For the first time, Gibson fans can learn about the employees who built the instruments, exactly where the raw materials came from, the identity of parts vendors, and how the production was carried out. The book explains Gibson's pre-World War II factory order number and serial number systems, and corrects longstanding chronological errors. Previously unknown information about every aspect of the operation is covered in-depth. Noted historian Joe Spann gathered firsthand info from pre-war employees, and had access to major Gibson document collections around the world. Long time Gibson experts, as well as casual collectors, will find this volume an indispensable addition to their reference shelf.

Bart Robley: Drummer's Survival Guide

Pre-Prepped Charts for Writing, Teaching, Learning & Reference.Presenting the perfect study companion for all drummers! With four of the most common ride patterns already written, in both one- and two-bar phrases, this book cuts transcription time in half: all you do is fill in the bass and snare drum patterns.Perfect for teachers transcribing songs, or just for students to groove. Also includes the 40 essential rudiments, blank manuscript paper, and a lesson planner at the beginning of each session. Spiral bound.

C.F. Martin Guitars: A Repair Guide

Joel Rothman's Basic Drumming (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Revised and Expanded edition of Joel Rothman's Basic Drumming - a complete guide for beginner to intermediate drummers.

Dave Brewster: ASAP Guitarist Guide To String Bending & Vibrato

String bending and vibrato are two of the most popular Guitar techniques used in all musical styles, yet for most beginning and intermediate players, gaining control of them might seem overwhelming. This book outlines some of the most common bending and vibrato techniques and licks, teaching them in an easy-to-digest manner to help you see and hear how to use them with confidence in a musical context. All the examples in the book are demonstrated on the included audio CD.

Shape Shifting : The Guitarist's Guide to Mastering the Fretboard

Have you ever watched a guitarist travel around the fretboard and wonder how they know where their fingers are going? Do you find yourself confused with connecting different positions or areas of the fretboard or how to move around the neck effortlessly? This book reveals and targets a collection of visual concepts, fretboard connections, and position-shifting challenges that will help any guitarist learn how to completely move around the fretboard with authority and conviction. From basic visualization exercises and technique-boosting concepts to advanced phrases, licks and fretboard-expanding workouts. Shape Shifting will challenge your knowledge of the fretboard, expandyour range of motion on the neck, and alter how you view the arrangement and placement of notes on the guitar. Simply put, if you're looking for an instruction title that will help you break new ground, unlock the fretboard, and make strides of progress, this book is what you're looking for. Includes music example audio tracks online for download or streaming.

The Contemporary Percussionist

A full guide to the equipment and techniques required of the modern percussionist wishing to be successful in today's competitive musical world. Glen Caruba gives an in-depth tour of a host of popular percussion instruments including:CongasBongosTimbalesDjembeThe use of 'Toys' in modern musical settings Techniques and know-how are discussed using each instrument, including aspects of tuning, hand techniques, exercises and basic swing rhythms. A further section enters the recording studio as you are given a guide to the exciting process of creative over-dubbing. Finally, witness some hot Latin-Jazz playing and percussion magic from the group Orkesta Eme' Pe'.

Melodic Clawhammer Banjo

Today's foremost player of the melodic Clawhammer Banjo presents a comprehensive guide to the instrument, the style, its heritage and culture, complete with a supporting CD.Learn to play authentic versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes, string band tunes, New England hornpipes, Irish jigs, Scottish reels and much more. The arrangements showcase the unique styles of many important contemporary players, and are presented alongside chapters detailing basic and advanced playing techniques, as well as over 70 musical illustrations, historical notes and period photos.A truly wide-ranging guide to this wonderfully characterful and exciting genre of music, rich in historical detail, and with every technique and tune you'd ever need to know!

School of Hard Rocks: A Working Drummer?s Guide to Real-World Drumming

Drummer, session man, teacher and Classic Drummer columnist Bart Robley has compiled the most essential rudiments that form the basis for all of his work. These exercises are not only great for beginners who need a solid foundation, but also perfect refreshers for intermediate to advanced players. By the time drummers are done with this book, their playing will come together into rhythms that can be used in a wide variety of playing situations.

Bass Guitar Chords

Eighty-four of the most useful chords for bass guitar in one booklet, also includes: finger placement, note construction, chromatic charts and most commonly used bass scales. In Ron Middlebrook's indispensable guide there is a more detailed explanation of common 2-5-1 progression and chords in all keys.

Scales and Modes for the 5-String Bass

The most comprehensive and complete scale book written especially for the 5-string-bass. Divided into 4 main sections: 1) Scale Terminology 2) Scales 3) Fingerboard chart and diatonic triads 4) Scale to Chord Guide - tying it all together and showing what scale to use over various chords.

Irish and American Fiddle Tunes for Harmonica (Harmonica)

A complete guide to playing fiddle tunes! Covers: tips on hand positions; playing instructions and techniques; rhythmic patterns for the reel, jig, hornpipe and waltz; and more. Features over 100 songs, along with a CD that demonstrates several of the tunes. Ability to read music is not necessary.

Dave Celentano: Essential Blues Guitar

Dave Celentano brings you a handy guide to playing blues guitars and takes care to emphasise the essentials of this emotive style. He includes sections on chord changes, scales, rhythms, turn arounds, phrasing, soloing and more. With a large reserve of examples and diagrams, plus 10 rhythm tracks for soloing and improvising.

Mastering StaffPad : Digital Music Notation for the Modern Composer

This complete reference guide takes you through StaffPad, the music notation and composition app available for Microsoft Surface and Apple iPad tablets. This phenoenal app allows you to write music notation naturally - as if it were pencil and paper! - and hear back your compositions in all its glory with professional music sound libraries.

Ken Perlman: Fingerstyle Guitar

Ken Perlman teaches beginning or advanced guitarists how to master the basic musical skills of fingerpicking techniques needed to play folk, blues, fiddle tunes or ragtime on guitar. With the music for more than forty songs, diagrams, illustrations and photographs - this easy to understand guide will develop these new skills and help you apply them in your playing.

Ultimate Litl'l Ukulele Chords, Plus

This handy 9? x 6? guide in C tuning provides all the ukulele chords you'll ever need. The diagrams are easy to use and follow, with principal chords in major and minor keys, in all the different chord positions. Also features sections on: How to Begin, Scales on All Strings, Note Studies, and Chord Modulations (great for intros & endings!). Happy strumming. Mahalo!

Hutton's Guide to Martin Guitars: 1833-1969 : Forewords by Dick Boak, George Gruhn, and Joe Spann

Advanced Fingerstyle Guitar

This easy-to-understand guide to advanced-and professional-level Fingerpicking features 33 highly playable tunes arranged or composed by Leading Guitarists, in both clear tablature and standard notation. Includes: Tablature and Standard Guitar Notation Fingerstyles Techniques Alternating Bass Pieces The Country Blues Melodic Guitar: Fiddle Tunes and Related Forms From Ragtime to Roches: The Frontiers of Fingerstyle Appendices Discography and Bibliography All tunes illustrated on enclosed CD.

Dave Celentano: Triads For The Rock Guitarist (Book/Online Audio)

Triads For The Rock Guitarist by Dave Celentano is a complete guide to understanding and using triads for rhythm and lead Guitar. This book unlocks the mysteries of triads. It includes theory, practical advice, valuable tips and tons of examples to get you playing rhythm and lead Guitar with triads. Many styles are covered – rock, classical, reggae, metal, blues and more! Triads For The Rock Guitarist includes online access to audio examples for download or streaming.

Ron Middlebrook: Scales And Modes In The Beginning

Ron Middlebrook's Scales And Modes In The Beginning is one of the most comprehensive and complete scale books written especially for the guitar. It is divided into four main sections: 1) Fretboard Visualization, the breaking down of the whole into parts 2) Scale Terminology - a thorough understanding of whole and half steps, scale degrees, intervals, etc. 3) Scales And Modes - the rear of the book covers every scale you will ever need with exercises and applications 4) Scale To Chord Guide - ties it all together, showing what scale to use over various chords. Ideal for guitarists of all levels, whether learning how to play scales or exploring modal improvisation.

Intermediate Clawhammer Banjo

Celebrated folk music tutor Ken Perlman introduces this DVD that explores the heritage and techniques of the Clawhammer Banjo tradition. Beginning with a look at the brush-thumb technique, Perlman uses his expert knowledge and experience to guide you through:Drop thumbingDouble thumbingDrop thumb anticipationSkipSingle-string brush-thumbingChords in double 'C' tuning.During the course of the tutorial, all lessons are illustrated with authentic examples of traditional folk songs and Clawhammer favourites, including The Meeting Of The Waters and Little Billy Wilson. By the end of the disc you will not only be fluent in a host of Clawhammer techniques, but also have a repertoire of songs through which to master your Banjo chops, all courtesy of one of the most acclaimed players of the style.

Max Palermo: Pentatonic Scales For Electric Bass

Pentatonic scales are probably the most used scales in music. They are widely employed in jazz, rock, blues, fusion, pop, and practically in all kinds of music around the world. This fact makes the pentatonic scale a very important part of learning to play.This book focuses on the most frequently used pentatonic sales, including the ethnic and the exotic scales.Each scale in this reference guide is introduced by a brief summary showing the scale structure and construction, the main chord over which the scale works well and a list of relevant scales that, with their colour and flavour affinities, give rise to a similar melodic effect with the same sound characteristics. The development over one and two octaves follows, together with fingerings and tablature for four and five-string basses.

Doc Rossi: ASAP Irish Guitar - Learn How To Play The Irish Way

This quick guide to flatpicking Irish traditional music was written by Doc Rossi, a well-known citternist and guitarist in both traditional and early music. He's created this book for intermediate to advanced players who want to improve their technique, develop ideas and learn new repertoire.Starting with the basics of technique and ornamentation in traditional music, Doc then goes directly into the tunes, in standard notation and tab. Focusing on traditional music from Ireland, Doc has also chosen tunes from England, France, Flanders, North America and Corsica to reflect the guitar's broad range. Right- and left-hand techniques, ornamentation, arranging and other topics are taught through the tunes themselves. Doc has developed his own tuning for playing traditional music, and this book shows you how to use it. His tuning makes it easy to play tunes in all the important traditional keys without moving a capo around or having to negotiate difficult position shifts, while at the same time providing a number of open strings and other possibilities for playing your own accompaniment. An audio CD with all of the tunes played at medium tempo is included.

Tom Harrison: How To Become A Film Composer (Book/Online Audio)

Tom Harrison's book  How to Become a Film Composer  gives up-and-coming composers the inspiration, information and the tools necessary to succeed in today's music for media industry. Harrison has spent years working on the front line in Hollywood, where he has held key positions on music teams for some of the world's most successful television shows. His own music can be heard all over television on projects ranging from  Dateline NBC  and  The Voice  to NBC Golf tournaments,  WWW Monday Night Raw  and beyond. How to Become a Film Composer  begins with breaking down how to approach music in a dramatic context and how to cultivate your own unique sound. Next, Harrison covers the technical computer skills needed to work in this digital era of music production and finally provides a thorough guide to building a successful career. Whether you are a young student or a seasoned musician, if you want to learn more about what it takes to become a film composer, this is the book for you. “ Tom's book is an excellent introduction to the complex art and challenging career of film composing .” – Sheldon Mirowitz, three-time Emmy-nominated composer and Professor of Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music