Instruments Instruction category: 8118 books

This informative volume provides a chord reference for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz. Starting with the most basic intervals, the text explains how chords are built and how they are used in different performance settings. After covering the basics, advanced chord types such as 9ths, 11ths,...

Mel Bay's Modern Piano Method is designed to introduce the student to the world of piano playing from a contemporary perspective. The book will teach basic music theory concepts as well as general piano skills and techniques needed for developing a solid pianistic foundation. Several different styles...

The Absolute Beginners: Guitar Songbook contains an impressive repertoire of classic hits, specially arranged using just ten chords. These uncomplicated arrangements mean you can be playing some of your favourite songs almost immediately! Including massive hits by Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley,...

The Deluxe Encyclopedia of Piano Chords is a thorough analysis of chords and how to use them as applied to the piano keyboard. Virtually every conceivable chord in all inversions is shown in bass and treble clef notation as well as in keyboard graphics. This study does not only list chord types; it...

This book teaches the improvisation of classical piano music through a step-by-step method including the use of chord tone approaches, scales, arpeggios, non-chord tones, motivic development, ornamentation, modulation, stylistic variation, and more. By practicing simple tasks the pianist escapes the...

Learn how to play melody and chords simultaneously and make your own fingerpicking arrangements. This book will give you some useful guidelines on how to choose the right key and where to place your melody and chords. It will show you how to vary your arrangements in terms of picking patterns, time...

Fingerstyle guitar is extremely popular today. This is because it lends itself to very personal and lyrical solo and accompaniment styles. This method is one of the very best at teaching the basics of fingerpicking. Written by Nashville's fine guitarist, Tommy Flint, you will learn chording, Travis...

This book is written from a composer's point of view and is intended to be a reference book for the analysis of arranging techniques. Its aim is to help composers and arrangers improve their compositional skills as well as their understanding of various musical styles. Through a study and analysis...

Up until a few years ago, finding guitar players who could sight read melodic lines was about as rare as sighting a whooping crane. Today, because of widespread study and the use and popularity of the guitar, melodic sight reading has become an essential part of guitar playing. It is now important...

This book is designed for ukulele players who wish to expand their sound. Featuring twenty-eight different tunings, the material offers an incredibly wide range of approaches to the instrument. Each chapter focuses on a particular tuning and explains how to retune the instrument. Useful scales and...

This comprehensive method includes every conceivable aspect of jazz bass performance. It begins with the teaching of the basics using illustrations of hand positions, basic theory, the first position, how to read music, fingering, accelerated fingerboard studies, a fingerboard note location chart...

The most in-depth, revolutionary of the harmonic framework of music as applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the guitar.

Setting up and taking care of your electric guitar has never been easier. This FAQ books shows you how to properly clean and care for your guitar. Also covered are adjusting the action and intonation as well as working with bridges, saddles and nuts. Many photographs, diagrams and illustrations are used to help you keep your guitar in top condition.

A hands-on guide to bass guitar repair. With photographs, diagrams, and sketches made by the author, John LeVan and some provided by manufacturers. It even includes a forward written by Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars.Learn how to: • Clean & condition a guitar. • The restringing techniques...