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.

ASAP Beginning Bluegrass Banjo : Learn How to Pick the Bluegrass Way

Here's a surefire way to get going and learn how to play the 5-string banjo bluegrass style! Detailed tips and explanations provide help and understanding of the fundamentals and how to apply them to make you a great banjo player. Topics covered include: tuning - reading tablature - basic rolls - intros, breaks, fills & tags - 30 bluegrass songs - and much more. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming. Here's a surefire way to get going and learn how to play the 5-string banjo bluegrass style! Detailed tips and explanations provide help and understanding of the fundamentals and how to apply them to make you a great banjo player. Topics covered include: tuning - reading tablature - basic rolls - intros, breaks, fills & tags - 30 bluegrass songs - and much more. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.

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

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.

ASAP Classical Guitar: Learn How to Play the Classical Way (Book And CD)

Teacher-friendly or for self-study, this book/CD pack for beginning to intermediate guitarists features classical pieces and exercises presented progressively in notes and tab, with each explained thoroughly and performed on the accompanying CD. A great way to learn to play ASAP!

Doug Cox: Backup Dobro - Exploring The Fretboard.

Doug Cox is one of the world's most acclaimed and sought after Dobro players and he brings his vast experience to this practical book for lap-style resophonic guitar. In Exploring The Fretboard Doug shows and teaches creative, fun techniques and ideas on playing effective 'backup'. Playing backup means responding in a sensitive manner with singers and other musicians. Doug Cox takes a serious look at what to do when you're not soloing. "To play, or not to play?"

Ron Middlebrook: ASAP Ukulele - Learn How To Play The Ukulele Way

This easy new method will teach you the ukulele ASAP! First, take a few moments to learn the parts of the instrument, the different types of ukes, the correct holding position, and how to tune up. Each exercise in the book has been designed to teach you the most popular key chord combinations and patterns that you'll see in hundreds of songs.The tunes taught here include: Auld Lang Syne; My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean; Oh! Susanna; Peg of My Heart; Red River Valley; Tiger Rag and many more. You can strum the chords for each, or play the easy-to-follow melody.

How to Yodel the Cowboy Way

This book/CD pack by Rudy Robbins, of the official Texan cowboy band Spirit of Texas, and Shirley Field, Canada's champion female yodeler, will teach you how to yodel in no time! Features basic instructions, simple songs, recorded demonstrations, and a special photo gallery & short bios of cowboy and cowgirl yodelers.

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.

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.

Thornton Cline: The Amazing Incredible Shrinking Clarinet

Jake joins the band at school to play Clarinet. He continually refuses to play the Clarinet correctly as demanded by his band director and private music teacher. Jake is stubborn. All Jake wants to do is play the Clarinet his own way until he receives a mysterious letter in the mail from the Clarinet Wizard. The Wizard warns Jake that if he doesn't play his Clarinet correctly and folllow his teacher's instructions, his Clarinet will shrink until he is unable to play it anymore. Jake discovers the secret to keeping his Clarinet from shrinking by changing his attitude. Jake begins to follow his teacher's instruction and becomes really good on the Clarinet. Includes ten songs written for the story. (Recommended for ages 4-9)

ASAP Beginning 4-String Bass Method : Learn How to Play the Right Way!

This book is designed to teach you correctly how to sight-read and at the same time acquire a musical vocabulary with the associated terms. The exercises contained in this book are presented in a progressive format: it starts out very easy and gets progressively harder, improving your bass playing skills as you work through the book. Topics covered include: 1st-4th string studies - the rhythm gallery - enharmonic studies - chords and arpeggios - blues progressions - chord charts - and more.

Eddie Collins: ASAP Bluegrass Mandolin - Learn How To Play The Bluegrass Way

This book/2-CD pack delivers the meat & potatoes of bluegrass Mandolin way beyond just teaching fiddle tunes! Players will discover how to find their way around the neck using common double stops, develop creative back-up skills, play solos to vocal tunes in the style of Bill Monroe, make up their own solos, and a whole lot more. For the average learner, this pack represents nearly two years' worth of lessons! Includes two instructional CDs: one plays every example in the book, and the second contains 32 songs performed by a bluegrass band with the Mandolin parts separated on the right channel.

Dave Celentano: ASAP Two Hand Tapping - Learn How To Tap The Celentano Way

Dave Celentano teaches many new and innovative ways to use tapping with pentatonic and diatonic scales, sequences, and arpeggios.Features great tips and pointers, lessons on soloing over chord changes, and an intense two-hand tapping arrangement of the "toccata" section from J.S. Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor.All examples are in standard notation and tab on a printable PDF file on the DVD.

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.

Profile of a Hit Songwriter

What characteristics, qualities and traits make a hit songwriter? What roles do hard work, talent, early musical development and environment play in becoming successful in an industry that changes daily? Nashville's award-winning fiddler, singer-songwriter, author and performer, Lacie Carpenter, and Grammy and Dove-nominated, platinum award-winning songwriter/author, Thornton Cline - have interviewed over 25 hit songwriters, producers, artists, psychologists, pediatricians, and songwriting coaches to determine what makes a hit songwriter. This must-have book offers valuable insight into the necessary factors needed to become a hit songwriter. This book is recommended forthe beginner as well as the intermediate and advanced songwriter in achieving ultimate success.

ASAP Classical Guitar Duets

Concentrating on the melody or harmony of a piece is a great exercise for when you have to do both. For this book, author James Douglas Esmond has chosen a dozen pieces out of the classical domain which are not found in the standard guitar repertoire. The pieces in this book start off fairly easy and progress to more challenging ones for intermediate guitarists. One guitar is great, but two is twice as nice ? and working with other musicians is great fun. So get together with another guitarist and have a wonderful time discovering these guitar duet pieces! The accompanying CD features 24 tracks.

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.

2000 Blues Licks That Rock!

The 2,000 licks in this book are organized into 36 chapters. These chapters explore the different pitches, rhythms, techniques, and methods of phrasing found in blues and blues-influenced guitar solos and fills. Use these licks to deliver heavy, yet ear-catching riffs. These can be played along with the 43 backing tracks included on the 3 CDs that come with this book. They are all written in the key of a C blues, while the backing tracks are played in the keys of E, A, D, G, C, F, and Bb. A handy table is included that shows how to transpose up or down from C to other blues keys. The backing tracks (performed by a live band in a studio) are all in the 12-bar blues form, but the licks do not necessarily have to be played over specific chords in the progression.

How to Play the Button Accordion & Song Book

Speed Metal

In an attempt to teach the aspiring rock guitarist how to pick faster and play more melodically, Dave Celentano uses heavy metal neo-classical styles from Paganini and Bach to rock in this great new book/CD pack. The book is structured to take the player through the examples in order of difficulty, from easiest to most challenging. Now with CD!

Parlors, Porches & Islands : A Personal Collection of Fingerstyle Guitar Music

This collection of fingerstyle guitar pieces is a voyage from 18th century country dance tunes to 19th century parlor or domestic guitar music, to music that found its way to traditional rural players in the U.S., to slack keyplayers in Hawaii, and from there to Doc Rossi's own music. Along the way, you'll explore some of the most important contemporary guitar tunings.

Beginning Rock Lead Guitar

A comprehensive and easy-to-follow DVD that introduces you to the scales and techniques required by the Rock Guitar player. Dave Celentano demonstrates all you need to get you fingers around:Alternate pickingSweep pickingHammer-ons and Pull-offsSlides and vibratoTappingString bendingPinched harmonicsAt the end of the lesson you will have the chance to put it all into practice with a complete solo to learn and perform over the rhythm track.

Kid's Uke: Ukulele Activity Fun Book

This fun activity book is a great way to get your children excited about playing the Ukulele. Suitable for beginners, this method by Kevin Rones has been carefully designed to introduce children to the Ukulele and some of the basic principles of playing music, such as note reading and chords, while encouraging them to have fun with lots of enjoyable exercises, including colouring, puzzles and games.

Brian Emmel: 5-String Bass Method

Learn to lay down phat and funky grooves or the deepest-darkest thunder only the low B tuning can deliver! The 5-string bass is being employed far more than ever, in wider ranging styles and Brian Emmel's 5-String Bass Method helps you make the step to 5-string. Besides discussing how to adapt to the differences in the 5-string versus the 4-string, this book explores the various ways of using the 5-string, practice tips, different techniques, and practical applications to various genres demonstrated through songs on the accompanying CD.