Foreword by C.F. Martin IV. This comprehensive guide explains how to buy and maintain the guitar that matches your needs. From its beginning in European classical music, through American innovations like blues, jazz, country, and all the way to rock, pop and folk, the acoustic guitar's versatility is remarkable. This book covers all types of models with an emphasis placed on steel-string flattops, archtops and classical guitars. Topics covered include:...

For high school, college, and adult saxophone students learning to play flute, clarinet, and oboe.

This book will teach you how to play erhu, the Chinese violin, at the advanced level. Various fingering and bowing techniques, the uncommon key signatures, as well as the ways to maintain an erhu will be taught in this book with illustrations and external videos. Likewise, a number of sheet music will be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should know more about erhu and can play songs with greater difficulty by yourself.

The Easyway to Play Guitar is the only music book that teaches you how to read and play guitar at the same time. Many guitar books only instruct to the point that readers can imitate playing the guitar, without truly understanding what they're playing. Others are filled with confusing, poorly explained chord charts. Lastly, many avoid the task of teaching reading music. The Easyway to Play Guitar avoids these problems by laying a foundation for understanding...

Introduced in 1954 as one of Gretsch's "Guitars of the Future" the White Falcon was an overwhelmingly impressive instrument. The influence of this spectacular new guitar spread to other models and guitar manufacturers. It was the dawn of a half-century of awe-inspiring guitars which are now favored by widely popular artists including Pete Townshend, Tom Petty, Alanis Morisette, Sheryl Crow, John Frusciante, Bo Diddley, and more. This book compiles...

El maestro Juan Mario Monroy propone el Estudio Integral de las escalas en la guitarra clásica en el que explora distintas posibilidades para un sistema de aprendizaje ordenado y estimulante para cualquier estudioso, con ejercicios técnicos. Inicia con una breve aproximación a la escala y una retrospectiva histórica que confirman su importancia estética y función didáctica. Luego, presenta de manera detallada la técnica de la escala considerando...

Q.: What on earth would make someone want to build an electric guitar from scratch? Can't you just buy one cheaper? A.: Well sure, but with this definitive book on the subject as your guide, you can create your own axe masterpiece, with the precise finish, the exact pickups, and the custom hardware you've always wanted. Plus, you'll have the indescribable satisfaction of knowing you created something cool out of nothing. And that sure beats buying...

Learn how to make eight of the most unique and imaginative instruments found anywhere - from a one-string guitar made from a soup can, to a hubcap banjo. Author Mike Orr takes you inside the growing trend of handmade music and shows you how with a little creativity and some salvaged parts, you can create your own arsenal of instruments that look good, sound great, and deliver some foot stompin' fun!

Learning to play the Native American Style Flute? Did you buy a flute and found it came with inadequate instruction? Have you tried numerous other books, DVDs, or YouTube videos, but found them all confusing, limited or outdated? Are you looking for a product that brings it all together in a step-by-step way?Learn to play with Enchanted Journeys ePub – The Essential Guide for the Native American Style Flute: the world's most recent publication for...

This monograph is for all you guitar players and for people who would like to play guitar. If you would just like to play guitar, it would be best for you to pay a professional teacher. This manual is, intended to help you study guitar and learn about scales, chords, and the structure of songs. Diagrams are included to help you along. This work is just a basic pedagogy. It provides variety so you can really enjoy swinging guitar with enthusiasm.