Licks in every substyle of punk including the New York scene, the LA scene, the London scene, thrash and grunge, with detailed information about important artists and their contributions. All licks are shown in standard music notation and TAB and demonstrated on the CD.
A Concise History of the Electric Guitar by Adrian Ingram, one of the world’s leading jazz guitar experts, charts the exciting history of the electric guitar from the early decades of the 20th century to the present day.
The author covers the entire range of styles and personalities whose impact shaped the destiny of the guitar and made this varied and versatile instrument the predominant factor in so much popular music.
Intended for the general public, music students, and, of course, all guitar players, this book combines scholarly research and an intimate knowledge of the music business with a unique awareness of the history of the instrument, pickups, amplifiers and technical innovations of all kinds.
Thus the work provides not only a concise history of the electric guitar in all its aspects but also a clear statement of trends and developments of some of the most significant popular music of recent decades.
Learn the sound of modern chords and chord progressions. You will play all basic and extended chord forms, solos and chord substitutions. The chords are divided into six major categories of sounds—major, seventh, augmented, minor, diminished and minor-seventh flat fifth.
The purpose is to portray their sound in context of the category.
If you once played guitar and have always wanted to pick it up again, this is the book for you. Jody Fisher’s friendly, step-by-step method will reintroduce you to concepts and techniques you used to know and take you further down the road of guitar proficiency.
Part 1 will reacquaint you with the guitar itself and how to take care of it. All the basic chord forms and strumming patterns are covered in Part 2, including barre chords and other moveable chords. Part 3 will remind you how to read standard music notation in an easy, fun-to-use way.
Part 4 will remind you of all the ideas and tricks for improvising that you once knew and give you the tools you need to rise to a new level. By the time you finish this book, you’ll not only be up to your old guitar tricks, you’ll be better than ever!
This illustrated encyclopedia to acoustic guitars demonstrates their elegant beauty and which famous musicians favored which brands throughout the years.
I was given my first guitar when I was in my mid teens but I didn’t really start playing it properly until I was in my early thirties and that was when I first started to look at how guitars are made.
I got accepted to study Stringed Instrument Making at Anniesland College in Glasgow (Scotland). During those 2 years I was given the opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the history, science, and practice of making musical instruments.
These 3 project books (gathered together here in this one volume) were written in the evenings while I was at college to help me with remembering the various processes I was learning each day and also to take note of any mistakes I made along the way.
Hope you enjoy reading them.
The Early Grades. An invaluable aid in preparing for the Registry of Guitar Tutors electric guitar exams. Preliminary Grade to Grade 2. An innovative and helpful book for all modern guitar players who want to improve their rhythm guitar playing.
Following on from James Tyler’s The Early Guitar: A History and Handbook(OUP 1980) tthis collaboration with Paul Sparks (their previous book for OUP, The Early Mandolin, appeared in 1989), presents new ideas and research on the history and development of the guitar and its music from the Renaissance to the dawn of the Classical era.
Tyler’s systematic study of the two main guitar types found between about 1550 and 1750 focuses principally on what the sources of the music (published and manuscript) and the writings of contemporary theorists reveal about the nature of the instruments and their roles in the music making of the period.
The annotated lists of primary sources, previously published in The Early Guitar but now revised and expanded, constitute the most comprehensive bibliography of Baroque guitar music to date. His appendices of performance practice information should also prove indispensable to performers and scholars alike.
Paul Sparks also breaks new ground, offering an extensive study of a period in the guitar’s history—notably c.1759-c.1800—which the standard histories usually dismiss in a few short paragraphs. Far from being a dormant instrument at this time, the guitar is shown to have been central to music-making in France, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and South America.
Sparks provides a wealth of information about players, composers, instruments, and surviving compositions from this neglected but important period, and he examines how the five-course guitar gradually gave way to the six-string instrument, a process that occurred in very different ways (and at different times) in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Britain.
