Here is a peek behind the curtains, revealing the secrets to writing successful orchestral instrumental music cues for the production music market. The reader is presented with several music cues to s...
The creation that would become Gibson's Les Paul guitar hit retail stores in 1952. This was Gibson's introduction to the solid body world of electric guitrs. In the early 1950s, demand for electric gu...
Pete Seeger took an interest in playing the 5-string banjo when he was 16 years old after he heard it played at the 1935 Asheville Folk Festival in North Carolina. It wasn't long after, when he was ab...
Guitar Dreams is a collection of interviews, articles and photographs that celebrate plucked string musicians and luthiers whose work delights, challenges, and inspires all of us who care passionately...
How to Play the Button Accordion & Song Book bietet Anleitungen für dieses einzigartige Volksinstrument. Zusätzlich zu einer großartigen Sammlung von Liedern erhalten Sie Einblicke in das Verständnis...
An introduction to the most commonly used scales and techniques for the modern blues player, complete with demonstration CD for several of the examples.
With an emphasis on the essentials of blues, instructor/host Dave Celentano provides clear and valuable insight for playing great blues guitar. This hour-long DVD teaches: the blues boxes for soloing;...
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 whi...
During the first quarter of the 20th century, most of America's hit songs were produced on a two-block stretch of 28th Street in New York City known as Tin Pan Alley for the constant racket of beat-up...
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...