Christine Guillebaud, a social anthropologist and an ethnomusicologist, is a Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She belongs to the Research Centre for...
Essential Sweep Picking Shapes Sweep picking can be one of the most daunting techniques to learn and play, and speaking from experience I understand the frustrations of not knowing what shapes are...
Starting from the most basic triad arpeggios to the more advanced extended arpeggios such as ninths, elevenths and thirteenths, this book uses the CAGED system to help you play all the possible...
A Must Have For Every Guitar Player! This book can be used as a learning, reference or practice tool to explore new scales and shapes to help improve your improvisational skills or practice routine....
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism—the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European...
Developed by the superstar pianist Lang Lang and channelling his passion for piano and music education, The Lang Lang Piano Method reflects the way he would like kids today to learn piano. This is a...
Ubiquitous in the music world, Fender® guitars and amplifiers are also icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable. Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated,...
This essential and highly acclaimed guide, now updated and revised in its eighth edition, explains the business of the British music industry. Drawing on her extensive experience as a media lawyer,...
“Perfectly evoking small-town 90s culture, this is a moving exploration of mental health, enduring music myths and why love can help us through.” Stylist It’s 1994. The music industry is mourning...
Mixerman is a recording engineer working with a famous producer on the debut album of an unknown band with a giant recording budget. Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniques, but...
The Jazz Standards is an essential comprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than...
Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and...
At a time when Acid Rock and Heavy Metal dominated popular music, The Band rebelled against the rebellion with a masterful mix of tight ensemble arrangements, great vocals, highly literate lyricism,...
This book examines the stylistic development of English cathedral music during a period of liturgical upheaval, looking at the attitudes of cathedral clergy, liturgists, composers, leading church...
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800"1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as...