Knack Drums for Everyone

Knack Drums for Everyone

Author: Carmine Appice

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1493011936

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Knack Drums for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises in musical notation.


Knack Guitar for Everyone

Knack Guitar for Everyone

Author: Dick Weissman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0762766360

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Knack Guitar for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises and songs in musical notation. By Dick Weismann, who is the author of numerous successful music books and has performed on the Today Show, it covers everything one needs to know about the instrument itself—the parts, different kinds of guitars, care for guitars—and provides the basics of reading guitar music and playing. Lessons are geared toward achievable results, and sidebars address various styles and techniques. Plus, there are a book's worth of play-along audio tracks available for free at knackbooks.com/guitar.


The Making of a Drum Company

The Making of a Drum Company

Author: William Frederick Ludwig

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781888408058

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(Book). The Ludwig Drum Company was the world's largest drum company in the 1920s under founder William F. Ludwig, and again in the 1960s under his son. This fascinating autobiography by William F. Ludwig II begins with his childhood recollections of home life and his father's drum factory. As a teenager, Mr. Ludwig became the national rudimental champion and member of the famous International Marimba Symphony Orchestra. Taking time out for distinguished wartime military service, the author helped his father start a second drum company, W.F.L. Restoration of the family name to the business, Total Percussion, The Beatles, N.A.R.D., selling the company to Selmer, and his active lecture career since all these topics are addressed here in captivating detail, in the words of William F. Ludwig II.


All Music Guide to Rock

All Music Guide to Rock

Author: Vladimir Bogdanov

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1430

ISBN-13: 9780879306533

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This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.


All Music Guide to the Blues

All Music Guide to the Blues

Author: Vladimir Bogdanov

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9780879307363

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Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.


Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties

Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties

Author: Bob Cianci

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780634099250

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Update to popular book on legends of rock's golden era Now in its long-awaited second printing, Bob Cianci's Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties, the universally acclaimed history of Sixties rock drummers and drumming, has been reissued in its original form with a revised section that thoroughly updates information on the drummers featured within. This group of rock drummers are arguably the most revered and copied musicians to ever sit behind the kit. All the prominent drummers of the era are spotlighted, including Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, Keith Moon, Mitch Mitchell, Hal Blaine, and other legends. Long out of print, the original first edition of Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties was published in 1989 and went on to become a collectors' item. This in-demand book is back and better than ever, with a new cover, improved layout, and much more information for anyone interested in the Sixties, its music, and rock drummers.