General Instruments category: 2949 books
Acoustic Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy acoustic guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"Acoustic guitar for someone who knows nothing - that is me. I...
Oboe Unbound
Contemporary Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
After decades of experimentation, musicians have begun to utilize a strikingly colorful palette of sounds on woodwind instruments. Flute, clarinet, and saxophone players, in many different musical settings, regularly use sounds that were unheard of in the middle of the twentieth century. Oboists,...
Progressive Rhythm Guitar Method
Teach Yourself How to Play Rhythm Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Teach yourself how to play rhythm guitar with our easy-to-follow guitar lessons for beginners.
*** Features free online video and audio for every example. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes score animations for easy music learning....
Rock Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons
Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy rock fingerstyle guitar lessons.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"This book is very good. It helped me learn not only fingerpicking guitar, but also made me...
Slap Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Bass Guitar (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy slap bass guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free bass guitar videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation...
Hotter Than That
The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century
The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture. Before that moment, the trumpet had been a regimental staple in marching bands, a ceremonial...
Monarch of the Flute
The Life of Georges Barrère
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 1999
The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone, first published in 1999, tells the story of the saxophone, its history and technical development from Adolphe Sax (who invented it c. 1840) to the end of the twentieth century. It includes extensive accounts of the instrument's history in jazz, rock and classical...
Blues Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy blues guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"This is a great book for beginners and intermediates. It explains...
Led Zeppelin Gear
All the Gear from Led Zeppelin and the Solo Careers
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Led Zeppelin Gear is the first book to historically document all of the musical equipment of the members of Led Zeppelin. It is also the story of the members, but with a twist: their history as told through the gear they used. This book covers not only the member's personal backgrounds, but also live...
Jazz Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Bass (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy jazz bass lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"I think it is excellent. [...] it presents Bass theory in a method that I subscribe...
Popular Classics for Classical Guitar Volume 1
Teach Yourself How to Play Classical Guitar Sheet Music (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Teach yourself how to play classical guitar sheet music by the world’s greatest classical composers, carefully arranged for the classical guitar player.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"As a fairly new...
Shpil
The Art of Playing Klezmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is both a history of this popular form of traditional Jewish music and an instructional book for professional and amateur musicians. Since the revival of klezmer music in the United States in the mid-1970s, Yiddish songs and klezmer dance melodies have served as the...
by Richard Jones-Bamman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman...