Instruments tell stories through their appearance as much as through their sound.Pat Graham's photographs capture the intimate relationship between musician and instrument told by the signs of wear of fingers on frets or keys, chips, scratches, and modifications by the artists who have played, beaten on, bled over, and made them their own.For more than ten years, Graham has been documenting these amazing instruments and collecting stories about them from musicians on the ro...

Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast! - with hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunesYou have a ukulele, you know just enough to be dangerous, and now you're ready to do something with it. You're in luck: Ukulele Exercises For Dummies helps you become a better player. This practice-based book focuses on the skills that entry-level players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you creating musi...

Teach yourself how to play harmonica with our easy harmonica lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free harmonica videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played, then play along. Also includes an animated harmonica, music score and harmonica tabs for easy music learning.***"A great book for any beginner! Teaches you how to play some great sounding folk and blues music. Also includes theory needed to play ...

Teach yourself how to play harmonica with our easy harmonica lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"An excellent introduction to the chromatic harp. Each song is a little more complex and involves new techniques. This book is a great buy if you are serious about learning the chromatic harmonica.” - William A. Graham Jr. [Amazon]

A creative/hands-on program using music concepts proven successful! Popular with students, incorporating an amount of outlining, notetaking, and portfolio building, also. An approach to listening which will be popular with middle school teachers! Teaching suggestions and ideas to fill a trimester or semester of general music. This program opens an original world of music for the classroom teacher to build on Written by Mr. Lynn Howard, Taught 50 years with 30 of those years in rebuilding m...

The Chord Melody Method for Accordion is a breakthrough course that will teach you to quickly learn all of the chords used in today's music and to apply their harmonic applications professionally to any lead sheet. Imagine possessing the ability to develop and compose a professional-sounding arrangement on the spot while improvising confidently as needed! The average dedicated student will become proficient in 6 to 12 months and will experience a dramatic improvement in all areas ...

What does a conductor actually do? How much effect does he or she have? Can the orchestra manage without one? Why don't the players look at the conductor more? Is it necessary for the conductor to play every instrument? What about interpretation? What happens at rehearsals? Why do some conductors "thrash around" more than others? Who's the boss in a concerto: the soloist or the conductor?These are some of the questions that receive lively andinformative answers in this book...

In the past few years the market for electric guitar kits and parts has exploded.For every two enthusiasts, there are four opinions on how properly to fill woodgrain. In this book, Will Kelly cuts through all that noise and shows how, with a little patience and some inexpensive tools, the average person can turn a modest investment into a gig-worthy instrument and perhaps even a lifelong hobby.Kelly presents guitar-building in a pro...

Autistic people and musical individuals often have perfect pitch, a gift they were born with. The musical gift may be accompanied with learning differences such as reading comprehension problems, trouble with mathematics, and significant difficulties in learning how to read music. This book was written by a music therapist and an autistic researcher, and is endorsed by leading experts in the field of autism and special-needs education. The Rancer Method is presented as page-by-page instruc...

French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900–65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early 1960s, exhibited a distinct affinity with French musical impressionism. However, despite a general, if contested, interest in the cultural interplay of classical music and jazz, few write...

This book represents breakthrough arranging for Cajun accordion styles and can be performed on both piano and diatonic button accordions. The grade level is intermediate and follows the original 15 Louisiana Cajun Classics recording from Arhoolie accurately with added variations and fiddle solos. If you want to learn Cajun stylings or start your own Cajun band, this is the book you need!

People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices...