Instruments Instruction category: 8118 books

Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists brings together information from biomechanics, ergonomics, physics, anatomy, medicine, and piano pedagogy to focus on the subject of small-handedness. The first comprehensive study of its kind, the book opens with an overview of historical, anatomical,...

For beginner: 25 exercises to practice power chord with essentials forms. Chord diagrams, tablature and audio.

25 rhythm patterns with power chords and notes. Tabs, pick stroke, fingering, chord diagrams. 25 audio tracks (+ 25 slow tempo) on web site (direct link under each tab).

25 exercises for playing essential bass chords. Tabs and chord diagrams with fingering. Audio tracks on website (link under each tab).

Banjo scales in C tuning on four strings : Major Scale, Natural Minor, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Major Blues, Minor Blues all in twelve keys. For each scale and key : diagrams with fingering, note names, intervals, formulas, relation scale to chords and backing tracks.

Major Pentatonic scale in 12 keys. By key : five patterns with fingering, five patterns with notes name, five patterns with intervals. All in 12 keys. Tabs and audio in key of C. 12 backing tracks (slow blues, blues rock, funk).

Arpeggios dim7, maj7, maj7+5, maj7#11, maj9, maj9#11, maj13, maj13#11. Five shapes (diagrams represented vertically) with note names, intervals and fingering. Shapes in all keys with the CAGED System. 40 tabs in the key of C (with fingering and pick stroke for sweeping). 40 audio-tracks plus drum loops and backing tracks online (direct link under each tab).

Learn the basic rhythm patterns, with this guide. 25 rhythms with chord diagrams, tabs (with pick stroke). 25 audio tracks (audio tracks: web link under each tab) and 25 rhythms of drums

25 hard rock grooves with tabs, staff notation, pick stroke, fingering, 25 audio tracks normal tempo, 25 audio tracks slow tempo (link under each tab) and 25 drum tracks.

25 blues licks with staff notation and note names. Audio tracks with two tempos (normal and slow). Licks in the Key of C, D, E, F, G, A, F#, Ab, Bb.

Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor Scale) with diagrams, fingering, note names, intervals, theory, all in 12 keys. Plus tabs, audio tracks and backing tracks, in the key of C (link under tab).

Mixolydian Mode with diagrams, fingering, note names, intervals, theory, all in 12 keys. Plus tabs, audio tracks and backing tracks, in the key of C (link under tab).  

This book and accompanying audio give you the tools necessary to create powerful and compelling grooves on the ukulele. Rhythmic strumming techniques are presented in simple and easy to understand steps. The techniques are then combined in musical examples that are both instructive and fun to play....

The sitar has been popular since the 1960s. Since that time it has always had a considerable mystique among musicians. It also has an undeserved reputation for being difficult to play. This book/online audio set cuts though the mystique and misapprehensions and presents the material in a simple fashion...