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Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar

An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, demonstrating how its design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument and reveals how it developed through the experiments of amateur makers and part-time tinkerers. It digs deep into archives and features new interviews with makers and players.

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25 Blues Scale Licks for Blues Guitar

This book contains 25 new and original minor blues guitar licks. There are 5 licks for each of the 5 blues scale shapes shown below. Also in this book there is a great section on how to practice these lines so they naturally incorporate into your playing.

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Musical Motives: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Shape in Music

All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the briefest snippet of any of these is enough to transport listeners into the piece's sonic and emotional world. But what makes musical motives so powerful? In Musical Motives, author Brent Auerbach looks at the ways that motives the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes that are ever-present in music unify musical compositions and shape our experiences of them.

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John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (Studies in Musical Genesis Structure and Interpretation)

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra is one of the seminal works of the second half of the twentieth century, and the centerpiece of the middle period of Cage's output. It is a culmination of Cage's work up to that point, incorporating notation techniques he had spent the past decade

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New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux. Engaging with thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, and Timothy Morton, the author considers music's relationship with changing material conditions, from the rise of neo-liberalisms and information technologies to new concepts of the natural world.

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Song Starters: 365 Lyric Melody & Chord Ideas to Kickstart Your Songwriting

With Song Starters, you'll spend more time creating and less time struggling to come up with ideas. Discover an endless supply of exciting, creative concepts that will launch song after song. Use the Starters to spark a brainstorm or set a series of notes in motion, get your feet dancing or fill your head with music. Listen to hit song examples as you work. All of the Starters are based on time-tested concepts used by hit songwriters, but you make them your own.

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Musical Notation in the West (Cambridge Introductions to Music)

Musical notation is a powerful system of communication between musicians, using sophisticated symbolic, primarily non-verbal means to express musical events in visual symbols. Many musicians take the system for granted, having internalized it and their strategies for reading it and translating it into sound over long years of study and practice. This book traces the development of that system by combining chronological and thematic approaches to show the historical and musical context in which these developments took place. Simultaneously, the book considers the way in which this symbolic language communicates to those literate in it, discussing how its features facilitate or hinder fluent comprehension in the real-time environment of performance. Moreover, the topic of musical as opposed to notational innovation forms another thread of the treatment, as the author investigates instances where musical developments stimulated notational attributes, or notational innovations made practicable advances in musical style.

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Rock Drumming for Beginners: How to Play Rock Drums for Beginners. Beats Grooves and Rudiments (Learn to Play Drums)

Master Essential Rhythms, Ride Patterns and Rudiments as you Learn to Play Drums Master Every Essential Rock Drum RhythmDevelop Speed, Control Power and TimingEffortlessly Combine Rudiments and Essential TechniquesLearn the Most Important Rock Drum Styles for BeginnersDiscover Ride Patterns, Beats, Fills and More…Learn Rolls, Paradiddles, Dynamics, Double Bass Drum Technique and Odd TimesLearn with clear notation and hundreds of audio examples Rock Drumming for Beginners

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Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and inspired myriad scholarly studies. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations. With chapters that consider how music shapes the relationship of audiences and fans to the story, the importance of sound design, and the symbolism embedded in the score, this book provides a range of perspectives for scholars of music and film studies, while giving fans new insight into an iconic television show.

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The Guitar : Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood’s unique effect on the instrument’s sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren follow that fascination around the globe as they trace guitars all the way back to the tree. The authors take us to guitar factories, port cities, log booms, remote sawmills, Indigenous lands, and distant rainforests, on a quest for behind-the-scenes stories and insights into how guitars are made, where the much-cherished guitar timbers ultimately come from, and the people and skills that craft those timbers along the way.

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Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community

This handbook provides an evidence-based account of psychological perspectives on issues in music education and music in the community through the life course, exploring our understanding of music learning and participation across contexts.

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The Sound of the Unconscious

In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more than lexical meaning.

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The Complete Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book: 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Chords in GDG Tuning

The Complete Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book is the most extensive library of chords ever assembled for the 3-string cigar box guitar. Incredibly, there are hundreds of possible chords with only three strings in GDG tuning. Of course, there are many “possible” chords with some more practical and easier to play, but this extensive library will cover most chords required to perform all styles of music.

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Physics and Music: Essential Connections and Illuminating Excursions

This book explores the fascinating and intimate relationship between music and physics. Over millennia, the playing of, and listening to music have stimulated creativity and curiosity in people all around the globe. Beginning with the basics, the authors first address the tonal systems of European-type music, comparing them with those of other, distant cultures. They analyze the physical principles of common musical instruments with emphasis on sound creation and particularly charisma. Modern research on the psychology of musical perception – the field known as psychoacoustics – is also described. The sound of orchestras in concert halls is discussed, and its psychoacoustic effects are explained. Finally, the authors touch upon the role of music for our mind and society. Throughout the book, interesting stories and anecdotes give insights into the musical activities of physicists and their interaction with composers and musicians.

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Mandolin Blues Book: 101 Blues Riffs and Solos for Mandolin

Master the blues on your mandolin. Take your blues mandolin playing to the next level with the Mandolin Blues Book. A collection of 101 blues riffs and solos ideal for all mandolinists looking to get a good grasp of jamming the blues.

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Improve Your Guitar Chord Playing: Chord Switching Tips Tricks & Exercises

In Improve Your Guitar Chord Playing - Chord Switching Tips, Tricks & Exercises, you'll learn the essential skills required to master the most frequently used guitar chords.

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Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

How do musical analysis and performance relate? In a unique collaborative approach to this question, theorist-pianist Daphne Leong partners with internationally renowned performers to interpret twentieth-century repertoire. Imaginative explorations of music by Ravel, Schoenberg, Bartók, Schnittke, Milhaud, Messiaen, Babbitt, Carter, and Morris illuminate focal issues such as the role of embodiment, the affordances of a score, the cultural understanding of notation, the use of metaphor, and--to round out the viewpoints of theorist and performers with those of composer and listeners--the role of structure in audience reception.

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101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open D Guitar Tuning: Essential Lessons for Open D (DADF#AD) Guitar Tuning

Master the Blues in Open D Guitar Tuning Take your Open D guitar playing to the next level with 101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open D Guitar Tuning. The most complete instructional book ever written exclusively for DADF#AD tuning. This book is great for beginners and excellent for intermediate and advanced guitarists looking to enrich their creative, open tuning knowledge.

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101 Riffs and Solos for Four-String Cigar Box Guitar: Essential Lessons for 4 String Slide Cigar Box Guitar

"101 Riffs and Solos" is arranged for the four-string fretted or fretless cigar box guitar tuned to GDGB. An excellent resource for beginners and a good review of useful techniques for players of all levels and styles, including blues, rock, country, popular and more. The riffs cover all the main slide techniques needed to improve your playing. Lesson tips and playing instructions are included for each of the 101 riffs and solos.

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The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before In and Beyond Higher Education

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills. The volume regards aural training as a lifelong skill that is engaged with before, during, and after university or conservatoire studies in music, central to the holistic training of the contemporary musician. With an international array of contributors, the volume captures diverse perspectives on aural-skills pedagogy, and enables conversation between different regions. It addresses key new developments such as the use of technology for aural training and the use of popular music. This book will be an essential resource and reference for all university and conservatoire instructors in aural skills, as well as students preparing for teaching careers in music.

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