With this kind of help you can't go wrong! Easy to read full colour photos and diagrams show you what to do with your hands! A hot DVD (included) uses split screen action so you won't miss anything! Acoustic and Electric guitar teaching. The size of this book is 30.6cm in height and 23cm wide with 48 pages.
Use this book to start playing straight away: no previous musical knowledge required. Teaches you the basics of acoustic and electric guitar technique. Includes valuable advice on buying an instrument and amplifier. Diagrams and photographs make it easy for you to find notes and chords, Explains the workings of song structures, and shows you how to play simple solos and accompaniments. Find out how to liven up practice sessions by using tape recorders and other electronics.
Have you ever watched a drummer in full flow and thought to yourself 'That looks like a lot of fun ï ½ I want to do that!' It's a common ambition but all too often people fail to realize that dream because they just don't know where to begin. Well, the good news is, that you've found an expert teacher and you are about to take the first step on a fascinating and exciting journey.
Learn To Play The Drums is an essential primer for anyone wishing to learn the art of drumming. It is designed with the beginner specifically in mind and it takes the reader from the very basics to playing more advanced pieces in a well-planned and structured way. All the most important aspects of drumming are covered in this easy to use, step-by-step guide. Don't worry if you have no musical experience ï ½ this book shows you how to read drum notation, understand the theory behind the beats and play great drum grooves in many styles by using clear, informative instructions accompanied by more than 120 full colour photographs.
You will also find great advice on buying your first drumset, what to look out for and details of all the best accessories that will help to get you started. It covers the history of the drums, highlights some of the most famous and influential players and looks in depth at how to set up and tune your drums. There is also clear advice on the different types of kit available including electronic options, types of cymbals, sticks and other hardware.
In addition to the groove lessons, you will also get a solid grounding in the rudiments ï ½ essential for any student of the drums ï ½ as well as help with posture, sticking grips and foot techniques. With the help of experienced drummer Simon Bridgestock, and a little dedication and solid practice, it won't be long before you are laying down grooves with the best of them!
When news filtered through the media that Stuart Cable, the drummer with a larger than life personality - and an even larger head of curly hair - had been unceremoniously sacked from one of the biggest rock bands in the UK, the music world was stunned. Stuart Cable has been a fun-loving rocker since he was a young lad, and growing up in the same village in south Wales as his Stereophonics band mates, Kelly and Richard, it was never going to be long before he began jamming for real. By his early twenties they were performing in local working men's clubs and by the mid-1990s they were signed up by Richard Branson. The rest, as they say, is history, and in this laugh-out-loud autobiography Stuart spills the truth on the unbelievable journey he had with one of the greatest British rock bands of all times. Life hasn't all been a party, though - there were dark and difficult times for Stuart. But now he is launching his quest for superstardom once again, drumming for another band, Killing for Company, and hosting his own radio show. Packed full of witty anecdotes, with no detail spared, this book is a must-read for all Stereophonics and Killing for Company fans, and for everyone who loves a good old rags-to-riches story.Â
This best selling instruction course, using the SFX letter-note music system, is the easiest and quickest way to learn to play electronic keyboard. Part 1 of the book shows you how to read and play 28 popular tunes. You will rapidly learn all about keyboard technique in a way that is easy and fun, playing great songs that include: I left my heart in San Francisco Sailing Georgia on my mind Love me tender Part 2 introduces the
A bass guitar is an important addition to any band, lending depth and laying down the beat to almost any style of music. Whether new to the instrument or already a practised musician, How to Play Bass Guitar is the ideal book for anyone who has an interest in playing guitar music.
How to Play Bass Guitar takes aspiring bass guitar players through all the steps needed to perfect their guitar playing skills. Written by composer Alan Brown and professional bassist Graeme Aymer, How to Play Bass Guitar is a knowledgeable and all-encompassing book covering all that is needed to learn guitar.
How to Play Bass Guitar uses a step-by-step technique, employing photos and practical instructions to take aspiring guitarists through the 12 steps to success. It covers all the basics, from how to hold and pluck, all the way up to how to play music and percussive rhythms. Whatever the style of music, whether rock or jazz and blues, this guide is the perfect resource for anyone learning to play guitar.
For more than five decades Cliff Richard has sustained an unrivalled career in show business, spanning the cultural universe of rock and pop music, in film, on television and on the stage. But this book is his story and his history, in an indelible collection of memorable photographs that comprises an incomparable and compelling archive, devotees will treasure.
Ideal for beginners, aspiring songwriters and established guitarists alike, Guitar Chords includes a carefully chosen selection of over 400 chords presented as easy-to-read tab diagrams. Author Paul Roland shows how a few standard chord sequences can be made to go a long way, and reveals the secrets of the most successful songwriters. Throughout the chord directory the character of each major chord group is described plus there are examples of where to hear certain chords in well known songs.
The total drumming course!
Over 100 drumming exercises!
This Kit Contains:
Simply Drums Book
Featuring full-colour photographs and clear, detailed instructions, this 64-page book guides you through the basics of drumming. Simply Drums includes over 100 practice exercises to develop skills and reinforce learning.
Simply Drums DVD
In this interactive, multi-angle DVD, Cameron Skews guides you through a comprehensive, 76-minute drum class. From the essential basics through to advanced rock beats, Simply Drums features over 100 exercises at different tempos and includes the musical notation to follow along with.
Sniffin' Glue may have been the closest thing to perfection ever achieved by a magazine. Untroubled by the demands of owners, publishers, designers and production editors, it was a one-man enterprise that perfectly mirrored the spirit and manners of its subject matter - punk rock 0 by being intentionally amateurish, passionate and crude.
Mark Perry's first issue (1 of 12) set the tone for an exercise in kitchen-table publishing that did not even have a kitchen table. Boldly scrawled in his bedroom Sniffin' Glue started out as a fan's rallying cry, went on as just long as it needed to (one year) and then stopped, as good punk enterprises should.
And here it is in its entirety, a potent slice of 1976/77 Brutalist punk culture, complete with fascinating new insights from its creator Mark Perry. So look inside, wake up and smell THE GLUE once more...
Michael Jackson left a legacy of extraordinary showmanship and endlessly influential music. Michael Jackson Treasures pairs a compelling exploration of his story with photographs and memorabilia that illuminate his fascinating, complicate life. Featuring a number of rare pieces, including selected pages from the Jackson children
Record industry executive Dennis Munday's frank account reveals the trials and triumphs of Paul Weller's career, from The Jam's first single in 1977 to the break-up of the Style Council in 1989. He also writes about Weller's post-Style Council solo career with a unique insight.
This new edition of Shout To The Top has been updated to include details of Paul's new album 22 Dreams, ongoing changes in the line-up to his band and the emergence of From The Jam, the group featuring Paul's former colleagues Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler which is touring the world performing a set of Jam songs to great acclaim.
This book is an unforgettable celebration of the songs that changed pop music history. From the origins of rock in the 1950s to the music of contemporary bands, the book presents some of the greatest songs in rock, assessing their musical value, their deeper impact on generations of fans and also revealing the often fascinating stories behind their writing and recording. With intriguing anecdotes and unpublished facts, evocative rare images as well as many of the original single cover artworks, this collection casts new light on some of the best known songs in musical history. It charts an entertaining and colourful journey through the evolution of rock and pop music from the early pioneers to the stars of today.
This book discusses the musicla influences of each member, as they were discovering them, and ilustrates how these were infused collectively to create a sound so astonishing and unique that in every generation huge numbers still find Led Zeppelin's music somehow seperate and above everything else that has ever happened, before or since.
More than 150 stunning images from the film and theater productions worldwide- many never seen before. Complete lyrics to favourite songs from the musical. A complete guide to the film locations and a map of Salzburg, and unseen storyboards from the film.
The Beatles caused revolution after revolution. Not content with changing the face of the youth and pop culture, they also transformed the face of popular music, launching it into their own, original stratosphere, using electronica, Eastern influences, and some darn fine rock 'n' roll. The Story of the Beatles tells the story of the Fab Four as never before. It shows in beautiful photographs and rare facsimile documents the group's journey from the backstreets of Liverpool and Hamburg to their sell-out concerts in Shea Stadium and their quest for musical perfection. In 1964 half the population of the USA watched the boys play live on The Ed Sullivan Show and 400 million TV viewers saw them record ï ½All You Need Is Love in 1967. They were awarded MBEs by Queen Elizabeth II; they jammed with Elvis and sold millions of records all over the world.
The Story of The Beatles takes you as close as you can get to that wild ride that defined a decade and changed the world...
John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers and his Radio 4 show, Home Truths, became required listening for millions. But all the while, John was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter, creating copy for an array of patient editors. He wrote articles, columns and
reviews for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Listener, Oz, Gandalf's Garden, Sounds, the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times.
Now for the first time, the best of these writings have been brought together
The A-Z of Classic FM Music is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of classical music. Selected and compiled by the experts at the world's biggest classical music radio station and brought to you by Reader's Digest, it's packed full of colourful, informative, entertaining information that no-one should be without. Includes 4 CD music collection.
Country by country, genre by genre, act by act, hit by hit, MTV Pop and Rock World Records surprises and informs on a huge number of wonderful and weird music subjects, from the biggest selling albums and singles of all time to the first ever video played on MTV, from the most successful R&B artist to the most sampled song ever, from top-grossing tours to all-time Grammy and BRIT Award winners, and from best-selling downloads and ringtones to iconic music festivals. This book has everything that today's music fans
Distilling a lifetime's passion and study, leading Dylan Author, Clinton Heylin, charts the development and first moments of genius of this unique artist whose songs changed the world. Heylin recounts the story of each song as it is written, giving full appreciation of the songs themselves as well as Dylan the emerging artist. This is an essential book for anyone interested in Dylan - informative, opinionated, an instant classic.
Take That changed the world, and for five years the faces of Gary, Mark, Howard, Jason and Robbie were the best thing ever for a huge portion of the population. Between 1991 and 1995 they won award after ward, topped the single and album charts again and again, and played to packed audiences of screaming fans. But by 1995 it seemed that the dream was over and they went their separate ways
Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators. In a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape that takes in the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp; the pastoral classicism of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock; the industrial folk revival of Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd; the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Shirley Collins, John Martyn and Pentangle; the bucolic psychedelia of The Incredible String Band, The Beatles and Pink Floyd; the acid folk of Comus, Forest, Mr Fox and Trees; The Wicker Man and occult folklore; the early Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals; and the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk, Electric Eden maps out a native British musical voice that reflects the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism. An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time-travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity - Electric Eden will be treasured by anyone interested in the tangled story of Britain's folk music and Arcadian dreams. This book has 664 pages and is 19.7cm x 12.6cm x 4.1cm
Fear of music so a great read that Garry Mulholland set out as a one-man mission to reclaim music criticism. A sexy book to look at and brilliantly written it will capture your imagination and make you re-live your music heydays. Pages 372, 18.3cm x 18.3cm x 2.4.
This book documents Metallica in a way no other tome on the group has ever attempted. Presented as an A-Z cataloguing of subjects surrounding the band - songs, albums, members past and present, events, gigs, personnel, influences, and just about everything in between, the authors - both stalwarts of the British rock press for many years - have compiled here the ultimate reference on the ultimate band. Finished with numerous photographs this book will remain the standard work on Metallica for many years to come.
This book is an A-Z listing of subjects surrounding the Guns N' Roses theme - members past and present, songs, albums, bootlegs, concerts, festivals, events, friends, enemies, associated bands etc., etc. - and in completion provides the most detailed account of the group yet published. The book is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, records, memorabilia and other artefacts, to provide a tome that every one of the band's millions of fans will want to own.
Queen: one of the biggest bands ever. Sell-out tours, chart-topping records and stunning success for 40 years. Hundreds of millions of albums, singles and videos sold all over the world. They have broken records constantly: biggest ever paying crowd, longest number of weeks in the charts, headliners at the biggest festival ever and more. They have received accolades too numerous to list in full, but suffice to say
The world's most celebrated band has been the subject of countless books and articles over the years. But The Beatles Phenomenon is a unique new Beatles chronicle that brings their astonishing legend to vivid life using sheet music, rare photographs and a detailed chronology of their gigs, venues, public"es and most memorable moments. Based on the exhaustive research of the legendary Miles, intimate member of the Beatles' Sixties circle, The Beatles Phenomenon weaves together the whole spectacular Beatles' story, the full top line music of their most important songs in chronological order, and 240 rarely-seen colour and black-and-white photographs.
The result is a truly amazing personal history of The Beatles, a collectable book that will become a treasured and evocative keepsake for those who grew up with their music, and an essential reference tool for anyone seriously interested in rock's most influential phenomenon.
With insights from colleagues and band members themselves, The Beatles Phenomenon stands apart from all other Beatles books.
Each of the 100 songs featured in this prestigious collection is printed with melody line, guitar chord boxes and full lyrics. The result is a magnificent musical, visual and textual commentary on the life, times and music of the most phenomenal rock 'n' roll band the world has ever seen.
Whether you're an expert musician or an appreciative novice, The Guitar & Amp Sourcebook has everything you've ever wanted to know about guitars and amps. Loaded with photos and descriptions, you'll get the skinny on the most popular models, the vintage pieces, and the favourites of popular musicians.