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First published in Britain in 1911, this handy little book has excellent references to how to make varnish, especially as it pertains to the stringed instrument family. Covers both the oil and spirit finishes with some nice examples of formulas you may want to...

(Ukulele). 7 selections featuring melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A tuning from Disney's big 2016 release featuring songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Songs include: How Far I'll Go * I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors) * Know Who You Are * Shiny...

Jack Batts was a violin maker in Southern Illinois, who, until his death in 1988, made fine quality instruments for members of some major American symphony orchestras. He is believed to have made up to 150 fine violins and 5 violas. He was very...

(Mandolin Play-Along). The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music, listen to the audio to hear how the mandolin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and...

Alfred's Easy Pop & Rock Hits Instrumental Solos series offers a versatile selection of pop & rock music for flute, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, horn in F, trombone, violin, viola, and cello. Each book contains carefully edited arrangements appropriate to each instrument,...

(Violin Play-Along). The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the online audio to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody...

Teach cello with the popular Suzuki Cello School. The Suzuki Method(R) of Talent Education is based on Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Shinichi Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and...

These easy-to-read, progressive exercises by Joanne Martin develop a student's reading skills one stage at a time, with many repetitions at each stage. I Can Read Music is designed as a first note-reading book for students of string instruments who have learned to play...

The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible, with its 2,880 chords (in standard and Irish tuning) offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more...

This is the definitive guide to the ukulele: learn how to play, the history of the uke, chords to learn, songs to strum, beginner and advanced techniques, famous pluckers and much, much more... This all-encompassing guide is written by Will Grove-White, a member of...

The Swan Study Book for Cello helps you learn and perfect every measure of the famous piece. The Swan is broken down into short sections and taught through carefully graded exercises. Skills that would otherwise be difficult, such as shifts and fast scale patterns,...

A distinguished instructor shares his "ingenious and logical" approach to playing and teaching the violin in this accessible, indispensable book. Ivan Galamian's distinctive and immensely successful pedagogy is built on general principles that can be applied broadly, making his methods applicable to students of...

The word sensei in Japanese literally means "one who came before," but that's not what Janet Pocorobba's teacher wanted to be called. She used her first name, Western-style. She wore a velour Beatles cap and leather jacket, and she taught foreigners, in English, the...

This series contains all of the pieces from Volumes 1 and 2 of the Suzuki Violin School arranged for three violins. Suzuki Violin Volume 1 serves as the violin 1 part. The pieces can be played with or without piano accompaniment, which expands their...

This major work covers almost all that has been learned about the acoustics of stringed instruments from Helmholtz's 19th-century theoretical elaborations to recent electroacoustic and holographic measurements. Many of the results presented here were uncovered by the author himself (and by his associates and...

Experience the magic and beauty of the Christmas season with these exquisite arrangements of solo, unaccompanied Christmas carols for viola! Weaving melodies with lyrical supporting notes that embellish and imply harmony, these arrangements enhance and expand on the well-known carol tunes to make a...

The Goltermann Cello Concerto No. 4 Study Book, Volume One helps you learn and perfect every measure of this important intermediate cello concerto.The Concerto is broken down into short sections and taught through carefully graded exercises. Skills that would otherwise be difficult, such as...

The ukulele is a musical instrument that produces wonderful songs and is fun to play. We provide you with simple guidelines on how to learn to play, starting with basic finger positions, which are essential to the ukulele. Here are some things you will...

Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the...

(Strum Together). 70 songs with lyrics, melody lines, and chord frames for standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. Enjoy strumming and singing these Beatles classics with all your buddies A great resource for beginning stringed instrument players who are ready to experience...

From the blockbuster film Zack Snyder's Justice League comes this intense arrangement of themes that are both dramatic and ominous. Featuring dark sonorities and driving rhythms, this work brings all the thrilling action to life. This stunning arrangement by Patrick Roszell features a reduced...

Continue your study of double stops on the violin!Double Stop Etudes for the Violin, Book One continues where Double Stop Beginnings for the Violin, Book Two leaves off and helps you play double stops more in tune and with better tone. By giving you...

This narrative of how stringed instruments evolved in Western Europe focuses on names, playing styles, sizes, tunings, stringings and construction basics, within a chronological framework. The influences of previous instruments and technological developments are outlined. New insights are offered into the early development of...

Struggling to Build Perfect Bass Technique?Complete Fingerstyle Bass Technique will teach you step-by-step, how to fret and pluck your way to electric bass mastery. It's packed full of musical exercises and expert advice that will help you develop flawless fingerstyle technique, quickly and easily.In...

(Ukulele). Strum, sing and pick along with 32 hits from the great state that made the ukulele famous Includes: Aloha Oe * Bali Ha'i * Beyond the Rainbow * Hanalei Moon * The Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au) * Ka-lu-a * Lovely...

Solos for Young Violinists is a graded series of works ranging from elementary to advanced levels representing an exciting variety of styles and techniques for violinists -- a valuable resource for teachers and students of all ages. Many of the works in this collection...

(Music Sales America). This useful chord book, developed for mandolin players, features clear, readable chord diagrams. The diagrams are grouped by key for easy reference. No page flipping neededAuthor: James MajorISBN-10: 0825622964ISBN-13: 9780825622960Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 11.97h x 4.52w x...

(Music Sales America). Teach yourself authentic bluegrass fiddle with this book and audio pack. The book contains clear instructions on the basics: bowing and left-hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance, and much more, as well as a complete selection of the best...

Learn from the master of bluegrass mandolin - Jethro Burns! This bluegrass bonanza includes more than 70 tunes and two dozen exercises. Mel Bay'sComplete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book and its audio compliment offer an incomparable resource of bluegrass mandolin repertoire - all in standard...

This book for left-handed ukulele players contains photos/diagrams of chords forevery key in C tuning. A special section on moveable chords is also included. The chords are grouped by type, including major, minor, seventh, diminished, augmented, and more. A summary of where the chords...

Presents 140 of the most frequently played tunes in old time fiddle contests as well as the most popular bluegrass, square dance and country tunes heard throughout the United States.Author: Craig DuncanISBN-10: 0786633875ISBN-13: 9780786633876Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/1999Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 11.86h x...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This songbook matches Diamond Dave's first full-length album featuring Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, and Gregg Bissonette as his back-up band. 10 songs, including: Big Trouble * Elephant Gun * Goin' Crazy * Ladies' Nite in Buffalo? * Shy Boy * Tobacco...

Walking Bass for Jazz and Blues is a complete method to help beginners master each element of Blues and Jazz walking bass. It is designed to develop strong harmonic skills, rhythm, phrasing and note choice.Author: Nick ClarkISBN-10: 1911267965ISBN-13: 9781911267966Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2016Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The Renaissance Lute Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many...

The Greek Bouzouki Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many...

(Ukulele). The Ukulele from the Beginning Pop Songs The Blue Book is a great collection of 15 favorite pop songs, specially chosen and arranged for primary school-age and early secondary school-age children. The songs are simplified, and annotated with easy chord symbols, strumming and...

(Play Today Instructional Series). Named one of the Best Mandolin Books of All Time by BookAuthority.org! Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of mandolin music with this beginner's book/CD/DVD instruction pack! Play Today! is the ULTIMATE self-teaching method,...

(Violin Play-Along). The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the demonstration tracks to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The purchase price...

In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art-a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States....

This book is aimed at beginners hoping to learn how to play the ukelele quite quickly, but it might also be useful for intermediate players to review their basic knowledge. The main purpose of this book is to help the absolute beginner play some...

Scales for the Double Bass: Second Edition is a scale technique book that contains clear and logical fingering choices for all major and minor scales performed on the double bass. This book is a revised and expanded version and includes: One, two and three...

Although he composed in many musical genres, Vivaldi truly redefined the concerto and made it distinctly his own. And although adept at writing for a variety of instruments, the violin remained his primary instrument. The composer's 12 concertos known as "L'estro armonico" [Harmonic Innovation]...

Australian singer Tones & I's breakout single reached number one on the charts in thirty countries. This arrangement of Dance Monkey by Michael Kamuf is the perfect vehicle to reinforce syncopation while having fun! The infectious groove will make this a favorite of students...

For musicians, by musicians, the latest guide by the best-selling music learning author Jake Jackson. For those who prefer a compact book here's a solution from the bestselling music learning author Jake Jackson. 20 chords per key, organised as a chord per page, this...

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi's rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in that volume and Harry Bolick...

(Ukulele). Learn notes, chords, songs, and playing techniques from the master of modern ukulele! In this unique book with online video, Jake Shimabukuro will get you started on playing the ukulele. The book includes full transcriptions of every example, the video features Jake teaching...

(Easy Piano Play-Along). Each volume in the Easy Piano Play-Along series comes with audio tracks of orchestrated arrangements, and includes matching custom arrangements in easy piano format with lyrics. These packs can be used in a variety of ways: play the arrangements along with...

When large numbers of students from Spain arrived in New York in 1880, they introduced the American public to a new instrument - the mandolin. Spanning more than a century, this book chronicles the national mandolin craze that swept across the nation and the...

This is a vintage guide to learning how to play the banjo and ukulele. It is aimed at players with little to no previous experience with the instruments, initially walking them through the very basics from holding the instrument to strumming and picking out...

This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II, Edvard Grieg, Johann Pachelbel, Giuseppe Verdi, Edward Elgar, Richard...