Jazz Blues category: 910 books

Learn the most common scales and modes used on the major diatonic harmonica. The intention behind these extensive exercises is to develop agility and speed on the instrument. Single-note patterns are introduced without bends. After mastering these exercises the lesson then progresses to patterns with...

Find interesting and historical facts about artists, songs and their social surroundings while writing or singing their hit songs. Artists from the '50's - '70's are explored: Isley Brothers, Walker Brothers, Supertramp, Donna Summers, Fleetwood Mac, Dean Martin, Toto, and more.

La música constituye una actividad antiquísima en la vida y en la historia del hombre. Este libro es una sintética y a la vez muy completa historia de la música, que abarca desde sus orígenes más remotos hasta los últimos movimientos y corrientes de nuestro tiempo. Va dirigido a todo tipo de...

This collection presents the genius of Jimmy Wyble's solo guitar compositions. Presented in standard notation and tab, each written piece with an accompanying online audio track represents the guitar mastery of Jimmy Wyble. Lyrically written, eloquently harmonized and thoughtfully played, these pieces...

This songbook presents piano and vocal arrangements of all 14 tracks from **Norah Jones: Come Away With Me (PVG) album of jazzy acoustic pop by Ravi Shankar's daughter. Each piece is arranged for piano and voice, with full lyrics and guitar chord boxes. Song List: - Cold Cold...

This book covers the most common scales and modes used on the entire Lee Oskar Harmonica System. There are extensive exercises that help develop your agility and speed on the instrument. Includes access to online audio.

  AMAZING  FACTS, FUNNY AND INTERESTING THOUGHTS, A SCIFI ARTICLE, MY INTERESTING  LIFE AS A MUSICIAN,TEACHER,SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN,EAGLE SCOUT,WATER SAFETY INSTRUCTOR,NATIONAL GUARDSMAN,FATHER, HUSBAND, AND"AIRCHAIR RIDER" STILL IN HIS 70'S.,AND PHOTOS.

Friday Night Jam is an anecdotal, instructional how-to (and sometimes painful how-not-to) guide to group improvisation, based on the firsthand learning experiences of author and African drummer Nowick Gray in a weekly open jam in rural British Columbia, in the early 1990s. This chronicle conveys the...

The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space. They place the gendered, sexed,...

This book of twenty compositions spans an approximately 20-year period of writing. They can all be found on one or another of Ben's four solo releases: Flux, Dust, Excavation, and Oceana. It reflects a broad sample of work involving the exploration of various harmonic, technical, and textural elements...

Although his scorching fingerpicking was most impressive at first glance, a closer look at "Just Us" reveals that he is equally adept at what many musicians consider as a more difficult task: playing fewer notes... ones that mean more, and say more with less, as he does on album opener "A...

Amy Winehouse's debut album, Frank (2003), was a critical success in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her follow-up album, Back to Black (2006), led to five 2008 Grammy Awards, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made her the first British...

Happy Birthday To You sheet music for Violin & Piano arranged and produced by Viktor Dick. It's an instrumental duet. Happy Birthday to you sheet music for Violin & Piano arranged and produced by Viktor Dick. It's an instrumental duet.

Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s. Rooted in gospel and rhythm and blues music, with pounding “four-to-the floor” beats, it is often accompanied by swirling strings, vibraphone flourishes, and infectious clapping. Since the...