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The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever! Beginning with helpful notes on how to use the book, how to choose the best voicings and how to construct chords, this extensive, 272-page source for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings of 44 chord qualities for each of the twelve musical keys - 2,640 chords in all! For each, there is a clearly illustrated chord frame, as well as an actual photo of the chord being played! Includes info on basic fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms, and more. Great for all guitarists!

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Guitar Effects Pedals - the practical handbook (Hunter Dave)

In time for his 80th birthday, stories on the world's most popular blues performer B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than four decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews, and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking Pepticon elixir and taking the moniker of the Beale Street Blues Boy; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style. He turns 80 in September so the book is timed to take advantage of the well-deserved attention. • Extensively revised second edition • Includes 18 interviews

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This handy reference tool helps you get the best sounds from your guitar by explaining the effects chain, individual sounds and setups, settings of the stars, and other tricks and tips.

An essential manual for getting the best sounds from electric guitars, amplifiers, effect pedals and digital processors! This book/CD pack features easy-to-follow instructions, with more than 75 photos, to teach the basics of guitar tones and effects. The accompanying CD provides audio examples. Readers will learn: anatomy of the electric guitar; controlling the electric guitar; getting a good clean tone; overdrive, distortion and fuzz; using equalizers; compressors and limiters; noise reduction; modulation effects; reverb and delay; special effects; multi-effect processors; getting a good tone through your PC; famous effected guitarists; and much more!

This book is comprised of reprints of the Guitar Questions columns that ran in Guitar magazine for over a decade. Written by luthier Barry Lipman, it offers clear, precise and simple explanations on how to make minor repairs and adjustments to your instrument. The column was aimed at players who were neither guitar builders nor repairmen. Sample questions addressed include: What are the advantages of big frets? • What is the best way to care for the fretboard? • What is meant by intonation and what is involved in adjusting it? • What does a truss rod do and how does it work? • How tight should the bridge pins be on a steel-string acoustic? Find the answers to these and many more relevant inquiries in Guitar Questions. 6 inch. x 9 inch.

A Guide To Tune Analysis and Chord//Scale Choices For Improvisation More than just another chord/scale publication, this book addresses how melody function and context play a major role in determining the best possible scale to be used in a given situation. Excellent summaries are also provided in this revolutionary, concise publication. A must for any jazz educator.

For unsigned musicians, it is vital to long-term success to sign a contract with a record label. However, preparing your music, targeting a label, and getting your demo into the hands of someone who will listen is challenging, if you don't know where to start. Getting Signed!, by record industry veteran George Howard, guides you through the maze of today's music industry, and will help you move your demo to the top of the stack. Even if you are not yet ready for a record deal, it will help you assemble a team that will make sure your music gets heard by as many people as possible. The next time an aspiring recording artist comes to us for advice, we'll advise them to read this book first. George Howard really knows what he's talking about. - Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth, members of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club

Go beyond learning simple rudiments or star-drummer solos and discover the spiritual side of becoming a great performer and musician. This unique and unusual book, written by master drummer and educator Billy Ward, is a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental skills that are required to be a truly great drummer. Ward shares his celebrated essays from Modern Drummer magazine to give you a fresh perspective on your attitude and approach as a performing musician. Discover what it really means to be part of a band, and how to shape your own drum playing to forge your own characteristic style. The topics are punctuated with anecdotes and examples from Ward's own extensive experience. Chapter topics include:

• How to get gigs
• Learning to groove
• Effective practicing
• Session drumming tips
• Auditioning
• Improving your mechanics

The AudioPro Home Recording Course was created to familiarise musicians with the fundamentals of studio recording using explanations and examples that are easy to understand.
The text is complemented by hundreds of illustrations and two CDs containing information and audio examples.
Volume three covers: MIDI (basic training, quantising, mixing with MIDI, notation software, controllers, setting up your system); MIDI sequencing (constructing MIDI drum parts, creating bass, guitar and keyboard parts, combining MIDI and live recording); digital effects (hardware vs. software plugins, details of using each type of effect); digital recording (analogue vs. digital, recording and playback formats, digital audio file formats, storage and backup, MDMs and computer-based hard disk systems, choosing the right software, common terms demystified, random access editing); synchronising (MIDI to audio sync, MIDI to MIDI sync, analogue to analogue sync).

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