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We Make Playing Drumset a No-Brainer! With this book, you'll discover that playing drumset is a no-brainer. You get a simple and direct approach that has you playing in just a few pages. Start with basics, like holding your sticks and setting up the drumset, and then move on to learning beats, fills, odd time signatures, and advanced techniques like polyrhythms, the stick shot, buzz strokes, brushes, accelerando, and more. Play beats and fills in...

A Revolutionary Method for Individual or Class Instruction By Aaron Stang and Bill Purse This revolutionary new method combines solid pedagogy with a focus on real-world guitar skills such as strumming and fingerpicking, pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and music theory. The included MP3 recordings demonstrate every example and song in the book, and specialized instructional tracks feature concise explanations and demonst...

Advice, Tips, Instruction, and 25 Great Songs The Complete Idiot's Guide to Open Mic Night will give you the musical and performance knowledge, technical skills, and, most importantly, the confidence you need to step up to the microphone and give it your all. This book contains information on how to sign up, preparing your set, venue etiquette, performance, the equipment you might need, networking, and promotion so friends and fans will come out ...

This is a perfect gift for any music maker who loves Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Though many fans first discover them via their well-known Christmas-themed albums and concerts, these rock opera masters also produce plenty of non-seasonal works. Night Castle is one such masterpiece: an ambitious, long form epic that tells an engaging fantasy tale amid a score that features TSO's signature neo-classical art rock at its very best. Instrumental virtuos...

Music by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat With the Harry Potter film series now complete, Alfred Music Publishing and Warner Bros. Entertainment are proud to present musical selections from the eight epic films together in one piano sheet music collectible volume. For the first time ever, 36 sheet music selections by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat are collected along with e...

Over 40 Essential Classics This book and CD kit is a one-stop library of over 40 of the most classic, signature acoustic riffs and intros! Each riff is accompanied by a brief lesson and a demonstration recording. And the exclusive TNT software provided on the CD allows you to slow the riffs down and loop them for easy learning. Titles: Classical Gas * Over the Hills and Far Away * Hotel California * Jessica * Patience * Stairway to Heaven * You C...

The Supreme Resource for Chords and How to Use Them Designed for beginning as well as advanced guitarists, Guitar Chord Resource is your one-stop source for exploring guitar chords. Find nearly every chord under the sun, then learn how to apply, interpret, strum, fingerpick, and transpose them. Included are ideas for embellishing and ornamenting open chords, plus tips for mastering and connecting chords, inversions, and string sets across the ent...

Jazz Tracks is the most effective learning tool you will ever use. There are over 30 tunes that range from simple to complex, all in the style of the seminal artists from the history of jazz. Every lead sheet includes tips and scales, and the accompaniment audio tracks are long enough to let you stretch out and experiment as your chops develop. The scales are shown in standard music notation, TAB, and guitar-neck diagrams. This book and MP3 CD is...

Classic Rock Tracks is the most effective learning tool you will ever use. There are over 30 tunes that range from simple to complex, all in the style of the seminal bands from the classic rock era including Cream, the Eagles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Santana, and more. Every lead sheet includes tips and scales, and the accompaniment audio tracks are long enough to let you stretch out and experiment as your chops develop. T...

Blues Tracks is the most effective learning tool you will ever use. There are over 30 tunes that range from simple to complex, all in the style of seminal blues artists like Big Bill Broonzy, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, and many others. Every lead sheet includes tips and scales, and the accompaniment audio tracks are long enough to let you stretch out and experiment as your chops develop. The scales shown in standard music notation, TAB...

If you admire guitarists who combine killer technique with exciting musical ideas, the Serious Shred series is for you. Each title features lessons from renowned shredders and educators, and includes licks and examples in both standard notation and TAB---all combined in a book and DVD package for a complete learning experience. Learn what you need to know to become the best player possible, straight from bona fide shred virtuosos. In this book, s...

If you admire guitarists who combine killer technique with exciting musical ideas, the Serious Shred series is for you. Each title features lessons from renowned shredders and educators, and includes licks and examples in both standard notation and TAB---all combined in a book and DVD package for a complete learning experience. Learn what you need to know to become the best player possible, straight from bona fide shred virtuosos. In this book, a...