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A celebration of an American musical giant, B. B. King: There Is Always One More Time charts B. B. King's rise from abject poverty in the Mississippi Delta to his place as an internationally beloved and respected entertainer. Unlike traditional biographies, this volume maintains a hard focus on the music B. B. has made over the course of a 51-year recording career. Working from exclusive first-hand interviews as well as exhustive research, author David McGee dissects B. B.'s in - print albums and gets the untold stories behind their making.

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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

Written for the musician who is interested in acquiring a firm foundation for playing jazz, this unique book/CD pack examines the phrases of the masters! Over 800 licks are provided in the styles of Tal Farlow, Pat Martino, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Johnny Smith, and other jazz guitar greats! The book includes standard notation and tablature, and the CD contains note-for-note demonstrations of every lick.

This handy guide provides everything you need to know to go pro, including information about personal managers, music attorneys, business managers and booking agents, record companies, A&R, publishing, songwriting, demo tapes and press kits, self-promotion, and much more. A must for all musicians!

This pack gives essential instruction on open chords, barre chords, power chords, strumming; scales, rhythm playing, the blues, and moveable chord shapes. It includes inversions, 'color' chords, practice tips, chord charts, songs, and progressions.

This Centerstream book/CD pack is essential for anyone interested in expanding melodic concepts on the guitar. Author Greg Cooper covers: picking exercises; major, minor, dominant and altered lines; blues and jazz turn-arounds; and more.

This valuable resource by Tim Lautzenheiser and Brad White contains 32 letters focusing on music advocacy, the importance of the arts in our schools, and the benefits of music study in the development of the child as well as letters specific to choral music. These letters are included on the enclosed CD-ROM and may be exported to a word processing program for easy editing, customization, and mail merging to parents, administrators, and community members.

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Making Music Make Money will educate songwriters and aspiring music business entrepreneurs in the basics of becoming an effective independent music publisher. Eric Beall, creative director for Zomba Music Publishing, covers everything you need to know to get published, including: the role of a music publisher; copyright - how to get one, use one, and make money from one; building a business plan; identifying which songs to sell and to whom; and much more.

Walking Bass Lines for Jazz Guitar by Stephan Badreau is a step by step guide to harmonizing bass lines on the guitar.

The book will show the musician how to connect familiar chord shapes with the appropriate bass notes. It is full of ideas, examples, chord voicings and substitutions, as well as short chord progressions for you to try your new learned skills.

All examples are played on the accompanying CD at both slow and normal speed, as well as a drums-only version for play-along purposes.

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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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