The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar.THWhen the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man they popularized a new sound in pop music: the electric 12-string guitar.THRickenbacker is the guit…
Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music…
(Book). This is the definitive source for composers, compositions, and genres. The book contains over 500 composer and 800 performer biographies. Each artist entry includes vital statistics and album recommendations. The book covers thousands of com…
This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side month by month a showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing reade…
(Book). With over 100 color photos and insightful essays written by world-class jazz authorities, this book illustrates the saxophone's role in jazz from its earliest 1920s roots through today. It describes how the sound of jazz has been shaped in t…
EDark MagusE is a warts-and-all look at the real Miles Davis. As told by his son this book strips away the public perception of Davis and gets down to the realities of his personality his relationships and his many quirks. EDark MagusE details this…
EKeyboard Presents: Classic RockE brings out the stories behind the hits on drive-time radio as told by the keyboard-playing artists and sidemen who created them. What was Billy Joel thinking when he wrote Piano Man ? Who played the pounding piano o…
Being the frontman of a popular band is a high-risk profession. Richard Barone former lead singer of indie rock pioneers the Bongos survived two decades in the spotlight to tell the tale. From dallying with the glitterati in the trendiest night spot…
Led Zeppelin were the biggest band of the 1970s and one of the key bands in the history of rock. Yet to date the printed word has been anything but kind to their incredible musical legacy until now. Keith Shadwick, author of the acclaimed Jimi Hendr…
Innovation. Disruption. Thought leadership. Today's hottest tech sector buzzwords would prove just as apt in describing the twentieth century crucible of guitar development. Imagine an electric guitar. Is it a Strat? A Les Paul? Some third party var…
Throughout the 1990s, Dave Thompson was the Seattle-based contributing editor to Alternative Press magazine-America's biggest-selling and most influential alternative rock monthly-and a regular contributor to other publications both nationally and i…
More than a player's manual this book portrays jazz bass as a vital element of 20th century American music. Citing examples from key recordings in the jazz canon the book defines the essence of the musical contributions made by more than 70 importan…
Paul Reed Smith began building custom guitars in the late 1970s for players ranging from Ted Nugent to Carlos Santana. In The PRS Guitar Book, an anecdotal narrative accompanies rich color photos showcasing the Smith-signed Signature models, exquisi…
The year 1979 was a seminal watershed moment in rock music. The year saw the release of Pink Floyd's The Wall, David Bowie's Lodger, Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door, Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Elvis Costello and the…
(Power Tools). The A-to-Z coverage of synthesizer features in Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming will turn any synth owner into a power user! This book fills an enormous gap in the market, and is destined to become the standard text on the topi…
(Book). Make your small home studio sound huge Guerrilla Home Recording is a revolutionary approach to getting great sound in a home or project studio. Author Karl Coryat breaks down the process by showing how to think in terms of three simple "dime…
A lively and engaging chronicle of the triumphant rise of Sharon Jones a one of the most authentic purveyors of American soul music since James Brown a ELong Slow Train: The Soul Music of Sharon Jones and the Dap-KingsE traces her roots from gospel…
A Complete History of Paul Reed Smith Guitars. Updated paperback edition.
Neil Young has had one of the most remarkable careers in the history of music. He hasn't just outlived many of his contemporaries a some of whom were great inspirations for him ( From Hank to Hendrix as one of his own songs says); his artistry lives…
EBilly Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young ManE is a look at the superstar's entire career including his troubled youth as a gang member; the controversy surrounding his first hit Captain Jack ; his legal problems; his storied marriage with C…
Was Abner Doubleday the architect of baseball? What exactly did it mean to be a professional baseball player in the 1870s? What goes on in the front office? What exactly is the Eephus pitch? What are the tools of ignorance ? Readers will find the an…
EBad ReputationE is the unexpurgated story of Joan Jett the single most exciting rocker of the American 1980s one of the biggest-selling acts of the age and one of punk rock's most valued elder statespeeps.THThrough its pages a welter of exclusive i…
Texas is the honorary home of roadhouse music and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan its uncrowned king. More than just a biography and musical exploration of Stevie Ray Vaughan ERoadhouse BluesE tells the stories of the great Texan musicians that came bef…
PrintMusic primer is a tried and true first step guide to using the world's number one music notation program. Road tested for more than eight years, the information found here will help readers create any style of music as a desktop masterpiece. Th…
EHow to Play Blues GuitarE gives you vital instruction in blues basics from top guitar teachers and reveals the screts of blues greats often in their own words. Revised and expanded with 32 pages of new lessons and packed with musical examples chart…
There's a huge amount of hype and mythology surrounding tube amplifiers in the guitar world. For years experts have argued over the tiny details of exactly how they do what they do and how their various components interact. What's undeniable is that…
This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments, such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes, whistles, mandolins and more. P…
(Book). Of all the paths available to today's musicians, the life of the singer-songwriter remains one of the most alluring and popular. This handbook is the ultimate guide for the modern singer-songwriter, full of real-world advice and encouragemen…
Everyone knows the legends a Hendrix Page Clapton Beck and all the other six-string giants a but the evolution of guitarcraft wasn't forged purely by dber-famous players with large cultural footprints. Scores of lesser-known pioneers such as Tommy B…
"The Fiddle Book" is a treasure trove of information spanning the whole range of fiddle playing, from the spike fiddles of Africa and Asia to the Chinese Erhu, the fabulous Indian Sarangi and the mysterious Norwegian Hardingfele. It looks in detail…
A portrait of folk rock cites its role as a vehicle for musical and social change, chronicling its evolution in the 1960s while profiling its major contributors and milestones, such as Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, the Newport Folk Fest…
First published in 2001 and now updated and expanded EHistory of the American GuitarE begins in New York City in the 1830s with the arrival of Christian Martin from Germany to set up the Martin company. From that historic moment the book takes reade…
First-ever look at the intertwining outrageous lives of three rock legends.THWhen Lou Reed and Iggy Pop first met David Bowie in the fall of 1971 Bowie was just another English musician passing through New York City. Lou was still recovering from th…
Led Zepplin, the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Rush, Pink Floyd, Peter Frampton, the Beatles, the Who, Elton John (but only the good stuff), the Rolling Stones these are the names that classic rock worships. But where are the values for which they fought, w…
Tone: it's the concept that gear-obsessed guitarists discuss more than any other and the ETone ManualE is the first book to take this hallowed concept seriously. In the course of breaking down the individual components of the electric guitar rig the…
EChord MasterE is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes a which are all there in the Chord Matrix a a large portion of the book explains how to use chords with information about the theory behind them and attempts…
(Book). We are proud to present this special 2002 "Love Me Do" Collector's Edition Featuring many previously unseen photographs, this limited run of 1,500 hardcover books has been issued to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' fi…
Here's the definitive guide to mastering music notation with Finale NotePad! This easy-to-use reference unravels the intricacies of NotePad the introductory yet powerful program that enables musicians to edit reformat and reorganize notation for any…
Revered and massively influential the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was only active for five years (1982 to 1987) the cult of the Manchester-reared foursome has ballooned in th…
This is a wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists. Here are 15 gothic music profiles guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat from the author of "Tales of Times Square".Legendary musicians and songwriters captured i…
EThe Greatest Music Never SoldE is a never-before-attempted look at the legendary lost recordings of the pop music world. It reveals the secrets of 20 albums a works by superstars and supergroups such as Mick Jagger Seal Chicago David Bowie Prince S…
Experienced player Dave Hunter offers insight from the top builders and tips on how to get the most from each pedal. The author also dissects chains used by top guitarists in creating memorable recordings. The accompanying CD features standard as we…
