Download or read book Born to Play Guitar written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Play Guitar by Ear written by Douglas Baldwin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). Thousands of great guitarists have learned to play without the aid of traditional methods and now you can, too! This first-of-its-kind book and CD package provides a real-world approach to playing guitar in the 21st century. Includes: tools for learning your favorite songs * chords and chord progressions * single-note riffs, licks and lead lines * advanced soloing techniques * rhythm development * lessons on song structure and form * tuning methods and alternate tunings * CD with audio examples and exercises * lots of extra music info and practical tips.
Download or read book Bert Weedon s Play In A Day written by Bert Weedon and published by Faber Music Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full eBook version of Bert Weedon's Play in a Day in fixed-layout format. Play in a Day remains the world's most successful guitar tutor. It is as much a legend as the stars who've learnt from it - Eric Clapton, Mike Oldfield, Paul McCartney, Steve Hillage, George Harrison, John Lennon, Sting, Brian May, Pete Townshend and dozens more. Play in a Day is easy to use, inexpensive and can help to turn you into a legendary performer too.
Download or read book Born to Play Guitar written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music written by Dean Alger and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonnie Johnson (1894–1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving brother moved to St. Louis, where he won a blues contest that included a recording contract. His career was launched. Johnson can be heard on many Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong records, including the latter’s famous “Savoy Blues” with the Hot Five. He is perhaps best known for his 12-string guitar solos and his ground-breaking recordings with the white guitarist Eddie Lang in the late 1920s. After World War II he began playing rhythm and blues and continued to record and tour until his death. This is the first full-length work on Johnson. Dean Alger answers many biographical mysteries, including how many members of Johnson’s large family were left after the epidemic. It also places Johnson and his musical contemporaries in the context of American race relations and argues for the importance of music in the fight for civil rights. Finally, Alger analyzes Johnson’s major recordings in terms of technique and style. Distribution of an accompanying music CD will be coordinated with the release of this book.
Download or read book When I Left Home written by Buddy Guy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues. Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties—the very moment when urban blues were electrifying our culture. He was a regular session player at Chess Records. Willie Dixon was his mentor. He was a sideman in the bands of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. He and Junior Wells formed a band of their own. In the sixties, he became a recording star in his own right. When I Left Home tells Guy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, that of a storyteller who remembers everything, including blues masters in their prime and the exploding, evolving culture of music that happened all around him.
Download or read book The Birth of Loud written by Ian S. Port and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock ’n’ roll—and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul—whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought—to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s—including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton—adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. In “an excellent dual portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering “spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars” (The Atlantic). “The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new” (The Washington Post).
Download or read book Copy Play and Learn written by Bryce Leader and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether they are learning to speak, write or perform a sporting activity, young children learn physical skills naturally by imitating those around them and they often learn to read words through repetition and association. These are the same approaches to learning that this book, 'Copy, Play and Learn Guitar the Easy, Fun Way for Young People' uses in teaching children how to learn to play the guitar and read and interpret music. Based on songs designed to engage and appeal to young people, this book aims to develop musicianship, note reading, fine motor skills and encourages children to recognise and play recurring rhythmic and melodic patterns in varying harmonic settings as they piece together an evolving story based on a boy, his friends and family. For the teacher, finger dexterity exercises of both hands are isolated and drilled and for the student, these are turned into real songs. By observing and imitating a visually logical pattern of notes as demonstrated by their teacher, a young person can confidently play the easy and fun pieces to a vibrant backing track. The child develops the ability to process and interpret pitch and rhythm as they play the guitar!
Download or read book Beginner Guitar Bootcamp written by Vreny Van Elslande and published by ZOT Zin Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine picking up a guitar today for the first time ever, and impressing your friends and family with your ability to strum over 100 songs only 7 days from now. It’s not as crazy as it sounds! You also don’t have to practice all day to achieve this result. All it takes is about an hour a day of guitar playing for the next 7 days. Discover how you, too, can learn over 100 songs in a week or less on guitar even if you haven't touched a guitar yet. Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days, Even if You’ve Never Played Before, is a book for complete beginners on guitar. Warning: Be prepared to become the life of the party, at every party, with the vast song repertoire you will amass within 7 days of learning from Beginner Guitar Bootcamp. Even guitarists of intermediate level can use this book as a songbook resource to entertain by strumming songs for many hours on end at parties. The songs you will learn in the book, cover a wide array of musical styles, bands and artists, some of which include: Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Talking Heads, Pink, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Cream, The Police, Kendrick Lamar, Led Zeppelin, Beck, Radiohead, The Animals, The Beach Boys, Keith Urban, Tom Petty, Sade, Cardi B, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Eric Clapton, Lenny Kravitz, Neil Young, Santana, Sublime, Nirvana, Lily Allen, Steely Dan, and many more. Of course, as a complete beginner, you would not be able to play the guitar solos or riffs to these songs as on the album in only 1 week of playing, but you WILL be able to strum all these songs along with the record or by yourself to entertain your friends. Beginner Guitar Bootcamp teaches the chords and guitar strum rhythms that every beginning guitar student always starts with, then teaches how to play well over a hundred songs in a week. These fantastic results that “Beginner Guitar Bootcamp” guarantees are one of the reasons why the author, Vreny Van Elslande, is among the most sought-after guitar teachers in the greater Los Angeles area. His students progress incredibly quickly. He has helped students go from complete beginners to professional, full-income-earning musicians in three years or less. He organized and worded the learning material in "Beginner Guitar Bootcamp" using the same learning techniques, structure, and communication styles that guarantee all his students their outstanding results and progress. It is one of the reasons why he can count so many celebrities and famous musicians amongst his client roster. Some of the lessons include: * How to Practice for Top Results * How to Tune the Guitar * How to Hold the Guitar * How to Play with Great Technique * Rhythm & Strumming * How to Keep Time * All the Chords Everyone Starts With * How to Switch Between Chords * How to Transpose Songs to Easier Keys * Some Basic Music Theory * Bar Chords * I IV V * Blues * Well Over 100 Songs * . . . and more. If you want to see the same outstanding results and progress on guitar that all his students enjoy, this is the book for you. You're only one week away from impressing all your friends and family with your guitar playing even if you've never played before. As you will discover in the upcoming days: there is nothing as gratifying and satisfying as this amazing feeling you get when you see and hear yourself rock out song after song on guitar.
Download or read book Play It Loud written by Brad Tolinski and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies, advertising, and technological discovery." —Daniel Levitin, Wall Street Journal For generations the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play It Loud, veteran music journalists Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna bring the history of this iconic instrument to roaring life. It's a story of inventors and iconoclasts, of scam artists, prodigies, and mythologizers as varied and original as the instruments they spawned. Play It Loud uses twelve landmark guitars—each of them artistic milestones in their own right—to illustrate the conflict and passion the instruments have inspired. It introduces Leo Fender, a man who couldn't play a note but whose innovations helped transform the guitar into the explosive sound machine it is today. Some of the most significant social movements of the twentieth century are indebted to the guitar: It was an essential element in the fight for racial equality in the entertainment industry; a mirror to the rise of the teenager as social force; a linchpin of punk's sound and ethos. And today the guitar has come full circle, with contemporary titans such as Jack White of The White Stripes, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys bringing some of the earliest electric guitar forms back to the limelight. Featuring interviews with Les Paul, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and dozens more players and creators, Play It Loud is the story of how a band of innovators transformed an idea into a revolution.
Download or read book Diary of a Player written by Brad Paisley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country music superstar shares what the guitar has meant to him as a means of finding his own voice, who inspired his love of music, and memorable stories about the great guitar players he has encountered over the years.
Download or read book Legends of Rock Guitar written by Pete Prown and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). This book is a virtual encyclopedia of great electric guitar players, with 35 chapters examining the major players in each important era of rock. The book begins with rock's birth from the blues, covering masters like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. It proceeds to cover rockabilly greats like Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly; through the mop tops and matching suits of the British Invasion; to the psychedelia of the Dead and Hendrix; glam rock's dresses and distortion; fusion virtuosos like Metheny, Gambale, and Henderson; metal masters; shred stars; grunge gods; grindcore; and much more. Legends of Rock Guitar is not only a great resource for guitar fans, but an interesting and well-researched chronology of the rock idiom.
Download or read book Born To Play Guitar Forced To Work Notebook written by Cadieco Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love jotting down your thoughts or drawing illustrations?Then this notebook is perfect for you! Buy it for yourself or as a gift for someone you like. We all love receiving a gift that is personal and even useful. At least it's more useful than a card. Notebook features: 119 blank and dotted pages 6" x 9" (15.24 cm x 22.86 cm) Cream paper
Download or read book Rhythm Is My Beat written by Alfred Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of the Count Basie Band. A quiet but key figure in big band jazz, Freddie Green took a distinct pride in his role as Basie’s rhythm guitarist, redefining the outer limits of acoustic rhythm guitar and morphing it into an art form. So distinct was Green’s style that it would eventually give birth to notations on guitar charts that read: “Play in the style of Freddie Green.” This American jazz icon, much like his inimitable sound, achieved stardom as a sideman, both in and out of Basie’s band. Green’s signature sound provided lift to soloists like Lester Young and vocalist Lil’ Jimmy Rushing, a reflection of Green’s sophisticated technique, that produced, in Green’s words, his “rhythm wave.” Billie Holiday, Ruby Braff, Benny Goodman, Gerry Mulligan, Teddy Wilson, Ray Charles, Judy Carmichael, Joe Williams and other recording artists all benefited from the relentless fours of the man who came to be known as Mr. Rhythm. The mystique surrounding Freddie Green’s technique is illuminated through generous commentary by insightful interviews with other musicians, guitar professionals and scholars, all of whom offer their ideas on Freddie Green’s sound. Alfred Green throughout demystifies the man behind the legend. This work will interest jazz fans, students, and scholars; guitar enthusiasts and professionals; music historians and anyone interested not only in the history of jazz but of the African American experience in jazz.
Download or read book Born To Play Guitar Forced To Work Notebook written by Cadieco Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love jotting down your thoughts and writing down ideas or lists?Then this notebook is perfect for you! Buy it for yourself or as a gift for someone you like. We all love receiving a gift that is personal and even useful. At least it's more useful than a card. Notebook features: 119 blank and lined pages 6" x 9" (15.24 cm x 22.86 cm) Cream paper
Download or read book A Hot bed of Musicians written by Paula Hathaway Anderson-Green and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson-Green (English, Kennesaw State U.) tells the stories of several legendary performers and instrument makers from the Upper New River Valley-Whitetop Mountain region. With a focus on performers from Alleghany and Ashe Counties in North Carolina and Carroll and Grayson Counties in Virginia, she reveals how they started to bring the music of Appalachia to a wider audience well before the emergence of Nashville as a country music center, and she relates the experiences and values behind the practice of this musical heritage. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Music of Bill Monroe written by Neil V. Rosenberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, The Music of Bill Monroe presents a complete chronological list of all of Bill Monroe’s commercially released sound and visual recordings. Each chapter begins with a narrative describing Monroe’s life and career at that point, bringing in producers, sidemen, and others as they become part of the story. The narratives read like a “who’s who” of bluegrass, connecting Monroe to the music’s larger history and containing many fascinating stories. The second part of each chapter presents the discography. Information here includes the session’s place, date, time, and producer; master/matrix numbers, song/tune titles, composer credits, personnel, instruments, and vocals; and catalog/release numbers and reissue data. The only complete bio-discography of this American musical icon, The Music of Bill Monroe is the starting point for any study of Monroe’s contributions as a composer, interpreter, and performer.
