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 A Perfectly Good Guitar written by Chuck Holley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask guitar players about their instruments, and you’re likely to get a story—where the guitar came from, or what makes it unique, or why the player will never part with it. Most guitarists have strong feelings about their primary tool, and some are downright passionate about their axes. Chuck Holley is a professional photographer and writer who loves music and listening to musicians talk about their trade. For several years, he has been photographing guitarists with their prized instruments and collecting their stories. This beautifully illustrated book presents these stories in revelatory photographs and words. The guitarists included in this book range from high-profile performers, including Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, Laurence Juber, Jorma Kaukonen, JD Souther, Bill Frisell, Dave Alvin, and Kelly Willis, to renowned studio musicians and band members. Holley’s beautifully composed photographs portray them with their favorite guitar, including detail shots of the instrument. Accompanying the photographs are the musicians’ stories about the Gibsons, Fenders, Martins, and others that have become the guitar in their lives, the one that has a special lineage or intangible qualities of sustain, tone, clarity, and comfort that make it irreplaceable. Several musicians talk about how the guitar chose them, while others recount stories of guitars lost or stolen and then serendipitously recovered. Together, these photographs and stories underscore the great pleasure of performing with an instrument that’s become a trusted friend with a personality all its own.
Download or read book Guitar Aerobics written by Troy Nelson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.
Download or read book Guitar Practice Journal written by EDventure Learning and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guitar Practice Journal: 12 Month Log for Musicians is designed to help guitarists make the most of their practice time. Reach the next level in your craft by setting goals, logging the time you spend practicing, and tracking your progress. This journal provides tools to help you stay focused and hone your skills. It includes space for yearly and monthly goal-setting and reflection, daily practice logs, a running repertoire list, and notes. It also provides a handy reference section that includes a glossary of musical terms, commonly-used chords, tips for effective practice, and more.
Download or read book Acoustic Masterclass written by Ed Gerhard and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guitar arrangements transcribed by the artists themselves, in standard notation and tab. Each edition includes a masterclass-style CD in which the artist walks you through the key aspects and techniques for each arrangement. Ten of Ed Gerhard's most beautiful solo guitar pieces transcribed in full notation and tablature. On the accompanying master class-style CD, Ed carefully describes and demonstrates all the key passages for each song. Titles are: Blue Highway * Crow * Duet * Farther Along * Homage * Promised Land * Shallow Brown * Si Bhig, Si Mhor * The Water Is Wide * Wild Mountain Thyme.
Download or read book Complete Warm Up for Classical Guitar written by Gohar Vardanyan and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains short and concise exercises for use in a warm-up before practice or performance, and for general technical advancement. The book is divided into four sections: I Arpeggios, II Scales, III Tremolo, and IV Slurs. Each section contains a description of the exercises and general instructions on how to play them. The exercises are intended for guitarists who are looking for a simple warm-up that does not require learning many complicated etudes, exercises or routines. In this book, only one etude is used for a variety of arpeggio and tremolo patterns. The scale warm-ups are based on a two-octave, one-position scale that is shifted up and down the fretboard, and a simple one-position chromatic scale. The pull-off and hammer-on slurs are combined into one exercise to save time. This same routine, when practiced with the metronome gradually increasing the tempo, can also double for technical work. With the exception of one chromatic scale exercise, the rest are on closed strings. Besides being able to move the scale up and down the fretboard, the first finger can be barred. This will increase the left hand difficulty and improve the left hand position and strength.There is close to an hour's worth of material if all the exercises are played with all of their variations at different tempos. Not everything needs to be played everyday, so the warm-up session can be as long as desired or as short as time allows.
Download or read book Pumping Nylon In TAB written by Scott Tennant and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Tennant, world-class classical guitarist and well-respected guitar eduactor, has brought together the most comprehensive technique handbook for the classical guitarist. It is presented here in both standard music notation and TAB. In addition to technical information not available elsewhere, he has compiled selections from Giuliani's 120 Right-Hand Studies; musical examples by Bach, Turina, Rodrigo and others; Tarrega arpeggio studies; and original compositions by Andrew York and Brian Head. Essential information and a great sense of humor are effectively combined in this best-selling book.
Download or read book Rock Discipline written by John Petrucci and published by Warner Bros. Publications. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the cornerstone for the innovative band Dream Theater, John Petrucci has rapidly become one of the most respected and talked about guitarists of the '90's. He has been featured in virtually every major guitar publication worldwide and was voted "Best Guitarist for 1994" in "Guitar" magazine and "Break Through Guitarist of the Year (1993)" in "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" magazine. This powerful and all encompassing book starts with a valuable segment on warm-ups followed by up-to-date practice concepts that address dealing with today's information explosion. John has provided detailed lessons concerning speed and accuracy using rhythmic subdivisions, chromatic exercises, dynamics and scale fragments. Other topics include picking through arpeggios, string skipping, sweep picking, legato technique and how to expand the color and texture of basic "power chords." Also included are detailed transcriptions and demonstrations of dozens of exercises, examples and special etudes ranging from easy-to-master to very challenging. All music examples are contained on the included recording and written in both standard notation and tablature. Book jacket.
Download or read book You Your Guitar written by Charlotte Adams and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You & Your Guitar provides a complete guide to learning without limits.
Download or read book Guitar Cultures written by Andy Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.
Download or read book Guitar King written by David Dann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the world’s great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield (1943–1981) remains beloved by fans forty years after his untimely death. Taking readers backstage, onstage, and into the recording studio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting stories behind Bloomfield’s work in the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the mesmerizing Electric Flag, as well as on the Super Session album with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills, Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, and soundtrack work with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson. In vivid chapters drawn from meticulous research, including more than seventy interviews with the musician’s friends, relatives, and band members, music historian David Dann brings to life Bloomfield’s worlds, from his comfortable upbringing in a Jewish family on Chicago’s North Shore to the gritty taverns and raucous nightclubs where this self-taught guitarist helped transform the sound of contemporary blues and rock music. With scenes that are as electrifying as Bloomfield’s solos, this is the story of a life lived at full volume.
Download or read book Play It Loud written by Jayson Kerr Dobney and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound. Seven engrossing essays by veteran music journalists and scholars discuss the technical developments that fostered rock’s seductive riffs and driving rhythms; the evolution of the classic lineup of two guitars, bass, and drums; the thrilling innovations and expanded instrumentation musicians have explored to achieve unique effects; the powerful visual impact instruments have had; and the essential role they have played in the most memorable moments of rock and roll history. Abundant photographs depict rock’s most iconic instruments—including Jerry Lee Lewis’s baby grand piano, Chuck Berry’s Gibson ES-350T guitar, John Lennon’s twelve-string Rickenbacker 325, Keith Moon’s drum set, and the white Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock—both in performance and as works of art in their own right. Produced in collaboration with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this astounding book goes behind the music to offer a rare, in-depth look at the instruments that inspired the musicians and made possible the songs we know and love.
Download or read book Martin Guitars written by Richard Johnston and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Part of a two book set, this book provides information on guitar bodies, necks, headstocks, bridges, woods, as well as other chapters covering Models by Style, the Custom Shop and limited editions. All the lesser known instruments like archtops, electrics, mandolins and ukuleles are included as well, all very collectible. The book ends with exhaustive appendices covering production numbers, retail prices, and instrument specifications. Since Martin guitars are the world's most collectible acoustic guitar line, this book will undoubtedly be the most sought after reference book by any collector or owner of a Martin. If you own a Martin, you own a piece of history and this book will help you discover when it was made and how. This authorized book will finally answer any questions on the stories behind some of the rarest instruments.
Download or read book Guitar Player Repair Guide written by Dan Erlewine and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers set-up, maintenance, tuners, acoustic adjustments, nut replacement, fret dressing, refretting, guitar electronics, finish application and repair, and useful tools.
Download or read book How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great written by Dan Erlewine and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in this edition: --
Download or read book Tommy Emmanuel s Fingerstyle Guitar Milestones written by Tommy Emmanuel and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fingerstyle Guitar Milestones, Tommy breaks down his guitar technique and teaches it to you, pick by pick! It is perfect for anyone who wants to develop thumb and finger independence for ultimate fingerstyle guitar technique.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar written by David Hodge and published by Alpha Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instruction for playing rock guitar including reading music, playing chords, scales, and improvising.
