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Guitar International

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Guitar
ISBN : UCSD:31822025934662

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Suzuki guitar school

Author : Shinʼichi Suzuki,Frank Longay
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0874873894

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Suzuki guitar school by Shinʼichi Suzuki,Frank Longay Pdf

The Suzuki Method of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that man is the son of his environment. Students are taught using the "mother-tongue" approach. Suzuki Guitar School materials include: Guitar Part (Vol. 1-7) * Guitar Accompaniments (Vol. 1) * CD (Vol. 1-4). Suzuki Method Core Materials are available for piano, violin, viola, cello, string bass, flute, harp, guitar, and recorder.

The Classical Guitar

Author : Maurice J. Summerfield
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476851655

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The Classical Guitar by Maurice J. Summerfield Pdf

(Book). We proudly present the fifth edition of Maurice J. Summerfield's highly acclaimed ultimate reference book on the classical guitar. This brand new book features all the original biographical entries updated with new photographs where applicable, plus 100 new biographical entries in the players, composers and makers section for a total of over 485. This new edition gives the reader a full and clear picture of the classical guitar's development since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Also included are informative sections on composers, scholars, flamenco guitarists and guitar makers. The book's collection of several hundred photographs is the most complete to be published in one volume. There are extensive listings of the most important classical guitar recordings. The final section, Sources of Supply, guides readers to where they can obtain the books, recordings, music and magazines listed in the book. Without a doubt, this new edition will be the essential work of reference on the subject of classical guitar for years to come! "My sincere congratulations to Maurice Summerfield." Andres Segovia

The Complete Book of Shred Guitar

Author : Pablo Pescatore
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1513462628

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The Complete Book of Shred Guitar by Pablo Pescatore Pdf

The Complete Book of Shred Guitar focuses on the technical aspects of playing the electric guitar in the shred style. As the guitar plays such an important role in metal, neoclassical and hard rock, much is demanded of lead guitarists. Having precise and effective technique is paramount, and usually the result of disciplined practice and critical listening over a period of years. With this method, however, you will achieve noticeable results within a relatively short period.Includes: alternate and sweep picking, tapping and pedal point technique, scales and chord progressions, bending, vibrato and legato techniques, all types of harmonics, the volume swell technique, use of the whammy bar and effects pedals, 120 downloadable examples plus a bonus track, and much more.This volume is a technical tour de force and clearly one of Mel Bay's most advanced rock guitar books. The author, Pablo Pescatore of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a virtuoso, conservatory-educated guitarist, well-versed in music theory and sight singing; he has written several books on learning styles, recorded numerous projects and taught electric and classical guitar technique for more than 20 years.The book's 120 online audio examples are recorded at two speeds: blazing, jaw-dropping fast and then slowly, at half speed for student play-along. Throughout, the author assures the reader that all things are possible with diligent practice.

Guitar Cultures

Author : Andy Bennett,Kevin Dawe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000180855

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Guitar Cultures by Andy Bennett,Kevin Dawe Pdf

The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, melancholy or manic, but it nearly always brings people together and creates a common ground even if this common ground is often the site of intense social, cultural, economic and political negotiation and contest.This book explores how people use guitars and guitar music in various nations across the world as a musical and symbolic basis for creating identities. In a world where place and space are challenged by the pace of globalization, the guitar provides images, sounds and styles that help define new cultural territories. Guitars play a crucial part in shaping the commercial music industry, educational music programmes, and local community atmosphere. Live or recorded, guitar music and performance, collecting and manufacture sustains a network of varied social exchanges that constitute a distinct cultural milieu.Representing the first sustained analysis of what the guitar means to artists and audiences world-wide, this book demonstrates that this seemingly simple material artefact resonates with meaning as well as music.

Crystal Harmonics for Guitar

Author : GOHAR VARDANYAN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619115842

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Crystal Harmonics for Guitar by GOHAR VARDANYAN Pdf

Crystal Harmonics for Guitar provides the guitarist with practical advice on playing harmonics and how to perform them with a crystal-clear tone. The material also covers various notation systems used by composers and publishers and includes examples of harmonics from regular guitar repertoire. Natural harmonic pitches and positions (by string and fret) are presented along with right-hand artificial harmonic techniques. In addition, you will learn how to tune the guitar with harmonics and how to practice passages which include them. This book can help guitarists interpret harmonics and provides composers with notational information to facilitate the reading process

Complete Warm-Up for Classical Guitar

Author : GOHAR VARDANYAN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619113985

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Complete Warm-Up for Classical Guitar by GOHAR VARDANYAN Pdf

This book contains short and concise exercises for use in a warm-up before practice or performance, and for general technical advancement. The book isdivided into four sections: I Arpeggios, II Scales, III Tremolo, and IV Slurs. Each section contains a description of the exercises and general instructions on how to play them. The exercises are intended for guitarists who are looking for a simple warm-up that does not require learning many complicated etudes, exercises or routines. In this book, only one etude is used for a variety of arpeggio and tremolo patterns. The scale warm-ups are based on a two-octave, one-position scale that is shifted up and down the fretboard, and a simple one-position chromatic scale.The pull-off and hammer-on slurs are combined into one exercise to save time. This same routine, when practiced with the metronome gradually increasing the tempo, can also double for technical work. With the exception of one chromatic scale exercise, the rest are on closed strings. Besides being able to move the scale up and down the fretboard, the first finger can be barred. This will increase the left hand difficulty and improve the left hand position and strength. There is close to an hour's worth of material if all the exercises are played with all of their variations at different tempos. Not everything needs to be played everyday, so the warm-up session can be as long as desired or as short as time allows.

A Concise History of the Classic Guitar

Author : GRAHAM WADE
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609742805

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A Concise History of the Classic Guitar by Graham Wade, one of the foremost international writers on the guitar, explores the history of the instrument from the 16th century to the present day. This compact assessment of five centuries of fretted instruments cover the vihuela in Spain, the history of four-course and five-course guitars, the evolution of tablature, and developments in the six-string guitar in the 19th century. the work also charts the contribution of leading composers, performers and luthiers of the 20th century, and evaluates the influence of Segovia, Llobet, Pujol, Presti, Bream, Williams, etc., among the world's famous guitarists. This book, intended for the general public and guitar students of all ages, is the first interpretative history of the classic guitar to be published in the 21st century, and will be eagerly welcomed by all lovers of the instrument.

First Lessons Flamenco Guitar

Author : GOHAR VARDANYAN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619114456

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First Lessons Flamenco Guitar by GOHAR VARDANYAN Pdf

First Lessons Flamenco Guitar introduces the absolute basics of flamenco guitar.The book covers the fundamentals of reading music, including note and rest values, reading guitar tablature, finger names for the left and right hands, thenames of guitar parts, and basic flamenco techniques and rhythms. This bookand accompanying audio are meant for beginners who would like to familiarize themselves with the world of flamenco. Each lesson is accompanied by an audio track so students can hear what they are learning. Some online audio examples include different tempos for the same technique. First Lessonsr Flamenco Guitar will provide the base from which students can advance in their flamenco studies.

The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians

Author : Lorene Ruymar
Publisher : Centerstream Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574240218

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The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians by Lorene Ruymar Pdf

(Fretted). The term "steel guitar" can refer to instruments with multiple tunings, 6 to 14 strings, and even multiple fretboards. To add even more confusion, the term "Hawaiian guitar" refers to an instrument played flat on the lap with a steel bar outside of Hawaii, but in Hawaii, it is the early term for the slack key guitar. Lorene Ruymar clears up the confusion in her new book that takes a look at Hawaiian music; the origin of the steel guitar and its spread throughout the world; Hawaiian playing styles, techniques and tunings; and more. Includes hundreds of photos, a foreword by Jerry Byrd, and a bibliography and suggested reading list.

Anthology of Dimitri Fampas Music for Guitar

Author : EVA FAMPAS
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619110502

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Anthology of Dimitri Fampas Music for Guitar by EVA FAMPAS Pdf

This anthology features Dimitris Fampas' guitar music— one of Greece's most celebrated classical guitarists-composers and a professor. His artistry reached far beyond the borders of his country and for a long time he was considered one of the world's leading performers. Also acclaimed as a composer, he enriched the guitar repertoire with many wonderful and original works, full of beautiful melodies and lively, exciting rhythms, mainly influenced by his native country's musical tradition.Guitarists of all levels will discover and enjoy the originality and beauty of Fampas' works as well as the quality of the compositions which cover a variety of styles. from the first piece Triplet Memory (to Emilio Pujol) which is filled with Latin American influences to the last short, but very attractive tremolo the Windsong, his music stands as a very romantic, colorful being skillfully written for the guitar. Also includes two rhythmic and lively Greek dances Sirtos and Ballos, the very pleasing Waltz, Reverie and 3 Songs for Guitar, and the easily played Sentimental Preludes, Romanza and Variations for Evgenia. Enjoy the inspiring Heart-felt Conversation with A.Segovia and the Segovia's Portrait dedicated to Andrés Segovia as well as the romantic and exciting A Lafkos' Faire. This whole collection has been compiled, revised (since some of the works presented here were found unfinished or still in a preparation level) and fingered by guitarist–professor Eva Fampas, the composer's daughter.

"The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical Performance "

Author : Kevin Dawe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351541862

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"The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical Performance " by Kevin Dawe Pdf

In The New Guitarscape, Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument. The author considers that a detailed study of the guitar in both contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives is now absolutely essential and that such a study must also include discussion of a wide range of theoretical issues, literature, musical cultures and technologies as they come to bear upon the instrument. Dawe presents a synthesis of previous work on the guitar, but also expands the terms by which the guitar might be studied. Moreover, in order to understand the properties and potential of the guitar as an agent of music, culture and society, the author draws from studies in science and technology, design theory, material culture, cognition, sensual culture, gender and sexuality, power and agency, ethnography (real and virtual) and globalization. Dawe presents the guitar as an instrument of scientific investigation and part of the technology of globalization, created and disseminated through corporate culture and cottage industry, held close to the body but taken away from the body in cyberspace, and involved in an enormous variety of cultural interactions and political exchanges in many different contexts around the world. In an effort to understand the significance and meaning of the guitar in the lives of those who may be seen to be closest to it, as well as providing a critically-informed discussion of various approaches to guitar performance, technologies and techniques, the book includes discussion of the work of a wide range of guitarists, including Robert Fripp, Kamala Shankar, Newton Faulkner, Lionel Loueke, Sharon Isbin, Steve Vai, Bob Brozman, Kaki King, Fred Frith, John 5, Jennifer Batten, Guthrie Govan, Dominic Frasca, I Wayan Balawan, Vicki Genfan and Hasan Cihat ?ter.

Guitar Greats of Jacksonville

Author : Michael Ray FitzGerald
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467153416

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Guitar Greats of Jacksonville by Michael Ray FitzGerald Pdf

Melt your face off with the guitar greats of Jacksonville. In the 1960s, the electric guitar became for boys what Barbie was for girls. Legions of bands formed, composed of teens making a ruckus in the garage. But who could have guessed how many world-renowned greats would arise from the clangor? Guitar gods came forth from Los Angeles, London, Chicago, Nashville. But there is a southern city often overlooked, an unlikely incubator that produced more than a dozen greats. Legends such as Dickey Betts, Dave Hlubek, Duane Allman, Jeff Carlisi, Mike Campbell and Derek Trucks emerged from Jacksonville, a far-flung city detached from the music hubs. Why did Jacksonville give rise to so many greats? Author Michael Ray FitzGerald explores the origins of this rocking story while paying tribute to the youngsters from Jax who joined the ranks of the guitar gods.

Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers

Author : HANNU ANNALA
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609743536

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Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers by HANNU ANNALA Pdf

In compiling this landmark sourcebook, Finnish guitarists Hannu Annala and Heiki Matlik consulted more than 70 music texts as well as dozens of composer resumes acquired from the musical information centers of several countries. During the writing process, which lasted for more than three years, they received additional information from many modern composers, including Leo Brouwer and Reginald Smith Brindle among others. In addition, several internationally renowned performing guitarists provided valuable information; these include Magnus Andersson (Sweden), Remi Boucher (Canada), Margarita Escarpa (Spain), Aleksander Frauchi (Russia) and David Tanenbaum (USA) among others.The authors' aim was to write a well-structured book with separate chapters for each instrument, such as the Renaissance and Baroque guitar, the Renaissance and Baroque lute, the vihuela, etc. This unique structure enables the reader to easily discover which composers wrote for a certain instrument during any given period.In addition to the composers one would expect to find in such a comprehensive listing, the book documents several historical and modern composers for whom little previous information has been available. the book's list of more than 400 guitar and lute concertos dating from the Baroque era to the present day is a totally unprecedented.Short introductions regarding guitar and lute-like instruments as well as their basic histories are provided at the beginning of the book. the authors hope that the Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers will serve as a practical guide for both amateurs and professionals, encouraging further study of the history of these instruments and expanding the repertoire heard on today's concert stage.

Recording the Classical Guitar

Author : Mark Marrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351371407

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Recording the Classical Guitar by Mark Marrington Pdf

Recording the Classical Guitar charts the evolution of classical guitar recording practice from the early twentieth century to the present day, encompassing the careers of many of the instrument’s most influential practitioners from acoustic era to the advent of the CD. A key focus is on the ways in which guitarists’ recorded repertoire programmes have shaped the identity of the instrument, particularly where national allegiances and musical aesthetics are concerned. The book also considers the ways in which changing approaches to recording practice have conditioned guitarists’ conceptions of the instrument’s ideal representation in recorded form and situates these in relation to the development of classical music recording aesthetics more generally. An important addition to the growing body of literature in the field of phonomusicology, the book will be of interest to guitarists and producers as well as students of record production and historians of classical music recording.