| Les Paul in His Own
Words: Reference Books:
Biography Backbeat Books
Centennial Edition-Les Paul In His Own Words celebrates the life of the legendar...(+)
Centennial Edition-Les Paul In His Own Words celebrates the life of the legendary guitarist Les Paul who passed away in 2009 at the age of 94. This book capturing Les Paul's own reflections on his remarkable inventions and Guitar playing was published as a high-end collector's edition. In 2015 Les Paul reached his centennial and Backbeat Books is pleased to celebrate the legend once more in the first-ever paperback edition of Les Paul In His Own Words making his fascinating story available to a wide range of readers. This book is the definitive work on the recording and Electric Guitar pioneer whose prodigious talents andrelentless work ethic single-handedly launched a new era in American popular music. This authentic account of Les Paul's life is packed with words of wisdom and experience from one of the most important contributors to modern music.
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| The Blues Guitar
Handbook: Reference
Books: Instrumental Tutor Backbeat Books
A Complete Course in Techniques and Styles-This latest entry in Backbeat's bests...(+)
A Complete Course in Techniques and Styles-This latest entry in Backbeat's bestselling handbook series starts by exploring the humble beginnings of blues guitar through the early decades of the 20th century including profiles of such players as Robert Johnson Charley Patton and Son House. As the story moves into the '40s and '50s and blues players migrate to major urban centers author Adam St. James follows the evolution of the music at the hands of such electric blues kingpins as Muddy Waters Howlin' Wolf and B. B. King. Then it's the blues-rockers of the '60s '70s and '80s (including Eric Clapton Jimmy Page Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan) before the story comes up to date with blues flame-keepers suchas Keb Mo' or Duke Robillard and some not-quite-traditionalists such as Robben Ford or Derek Trucks.A comprehensive section for mastering electric and acoustic blues follows this historic overview. Starting from the very basics it leads you into more advanced rhythm and lead techniques before examining four key styles: acoustic blues classic electric blues blues rock and jazz blues. The many exercises in the book are supported by specially recorded audio tracks on the accompanying CD.
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| The Ultimate Guide to
Vinyl and More: Reference
Books: Reference [Livre] Backbeat Books
All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to...(+)
All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes-An in-depth and comprehensive guide to - and history of - music collecting The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released - and some that are now almost completely forgotten. Based on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting this revamped colorful expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders 78s and Edison records on through 45s LPs 8-tracks cassettes bootlegs CDs MiniDiscs MP3s LPs and other formats. Landmark labels collectable artists specialist themes and more are explored across a series of essays while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.
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| Chuck Gunderson: Some Fun
Tonight! Collector's
Edition: Reference Books: Backbeat Books
The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America Hard Cover Edition Boxed ...(+)
The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America Hard Cover Edition Boxed Set-The Beatles North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964 after finally achieving a number-one hit in America the Fab Four came to the country with high hopes performing on the wildly popular Ed Sullivan Show in both New York City and Miami and playing concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum. In just fifteen short days the Beatles conquered America.The Beatles made music-entertainment history with their North American tours from 1964 to 1966. Some Fun Tonight! The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America: The Historic Tours of1964-1966 is a comprehensive two-volume set which gives you a city-by-city synopsis of the group's activities as they traveled the United States and Canada for their groundbreaking series of concerts. From San Franciscos Cow Palace show on August 19 1964 through their last-ever live performances at that city's famed Candlestick Park on August 29 1966 these books cover the music and the madness that characterized the Beatles three North American tours. With hundreds of photographs and images of rare memorabilia it is truly the definitive reference for what is arguably the most important period in the Beatles long and winding career. Youll read about the behind-the-scenes negotiations the mayhem at the airports and hotels and the cheeky quotes delivered at the press conferences. Youll also read about the opening acts the concerts and the stories behind the shows through the eyes of the Beatles their entourage the promoters the emcees and the fans.Never before have the Beatles North American concerts been covered in such depth. If you witnessed the mania firsthand youll relive the excitement in the pages of these books. If you were born too late to be a part of those halcyon days youll learn what it was like to be swept up and carried away by the phenomenon of the greatest musical act of all time. When all is said and done Some
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| The Ramones: If You Like
the Ramones...: Reference
Books Backbeat Books
“1-2-3-4!”With that quick count-off four hoppin' cretins from Queen...(+)
“1-2-3-4!”With that quick count-off four hoppin' cretins from Queens who called themselves the Ramones launched the 1970s musical revolution known as punk rock. And ever since popular music hasn't beenthe same. Perhaps the most imitated band of all time the Ramones stripped rock 'n' roll down to its bare bones and beating heart and handed it back to the people making it fun again and reminding everyone that hey they coulddo this too.But “da brudders” didn't just influence their key comrades in the original punk explosion. Their raw tough sound and divine gift of enduring melodic songcraft has power-drilled its way intomusical styles as divergent as college rock power pop hardcore punk thrash metal grunge and the avant-garde and continues to be felt in newer waves of young acts. And what about the music that influenced the Ramonesthemselves – early rock 'n' roll surf rock British Invasion sounds garage rock girl groups hard rock bubblegum proto-punk and glam rock? Or the nonmusical stuff that also warped the skulls beneath those trademarkbowl haircuts – weird movies cartoons trashy TV shows comic books and other cultural jetsam? It's all here just waiting for you to discover and dig. Hey Ho Let's Go!
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| The Piano Improvisation
Handbook: Reference
Books: Instrumental Tutor Piano seul Backbeat Books
The Piano Improvisation Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the practica...(+)
The Piano Improvisation Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the practical skills and theoretical issues involved in mastering all forms of Piano improvisation including classical jazz rock and blues.Whereas most books offer little more than models for imitation and exercises for practicing this one adopts an approach specifically designed to encourage and enable independent creative exploration. The book contains a series of graded tutorial sections with musical examples on CD as well as an appendix listing useful scales chords voicings and progressions across all keys a bibliography and a discography.In addition tosections outlining how melody harmony rhythm texture and form work in improvised Piano music giving distinctive emphasis to the interconnectedness of classical and jazz improvisation there are sections devoted to explaining how ideas can be developed into continuous music and to exploring the process of finding a personal style.
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| The SG Guitar Book:
Reference Books:
Reference Backbeat Books
50 Years of Gibson's Stylish Solid Guitar-To many vintage Guitar fans it seems ...(+)
50 Years of Gibson's Stylish Solid Guitar-To many vintage Guitar fans it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and during the following year introduced a completely new design the one that we know now as the SG (?solid Guitar?). At the time however it made good business sense. Sales of the Les Paul were faltering and Gibson decided to blow a breath of fresh air through its solidbody electric Guitar line. The company described the result as an ?ultra-thin hand-contoured double-cutaway body.? The modernistic amalgam of bevels and points and angles was a radical departure and this new book tells the story of all the SG models that followed: the Junior Special Standard Custom and more. There are interviews with and stories about Gibson personnel through the years and all the major SG players including Pete Townshend Frank Zappa Eric Clapton Angus Young George Harrison Gary Rossington Tony Iommi and Derek Trucks. In the tradition of Tony Bacon's bestselling series of Guitar books The SG Guitar Book is three great volumes in one package: a collection of drool-worthy pictures of the coolest Guitars; a gripping story from the earliest prototypes to the latest exploits; and a detailed collector's database of every production SG model ever made.
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| All Music Guide Required
Listening - Classic Rock:
Reference Books:
Reference Backbeat Books
From Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell and Bruce Springsteen to the Beatles the Who an...(+)
From Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell and Bruce Springsteen to the Beatles the Who and the Rolling Stones this is the ultimate guide to rock & roll's most enduring artists. It's all here: 1000 expert reviews of the most famous rock albums and the forgotten jewels from the classic rock vaults.Some timeless works featured include the Beatles' pivotal and infinitely influential Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Led Zeppelin's throbbing epic Physical Graffiti Heart's magic Dreamboat Annie and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's psychedelic electrifying debut Are You Experienced?This grab-and-go book is an experience in itself with iconicalbum art inspiring reviews and quick-reference artist song and album lists making it an indispensable tool for building a no-risk album collection.The All Music Guide Required Listening series is based on the larger industry-leading authoritative All Music Guide. Since its first edition in 1992 the All Music Guide has become the last word in music. These distinctive books are well-used buying tools and must-have additions to every music lover's library. With the new All Music Guide Required Listening series top music editors and journalists have worked hard to showcase the best of their recommendations -- essential for any music fan from the hardcore aficionado to the novice looking for some solid advice from the experts.
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| John Kruth: Rhapsody in
Black: Reference Books:
Biography Biographie [Livre] Backbeat Books
The Life and Music of Roy Orbison. Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside hi...(+)
The Life and Music of Roy Orbison. Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of Elvis Presley or the everyman toughness of Johnny Cash, nor did he conduct wild-child stage antics like Jerry Lee Lewis. But he did possess a magnetic
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| The Musician's Guide to
Reading & Writing Music
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| The Taylor Guitar Book:
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Instrumental Reference [Livre] Backbeat Books
The Taylor Guitar Book. Growing from a small custom shop in the early 1970s to t...(+)
The Taylor Guitar Book. Growing from a small custom shop in the early 1970s to the only new brand to have challenged the traditional Big Three of American acoustic Guitars (Gibson, Guild, and Martin), Taylor has effectively changed the marketplace for acoustic steel-string Guitars and influenced every other maker of acoustic stringed instruments.
But Taylor's influence in the Guitar market goes far beyond the Guitars themselves. Having pioneered the use of modern building techniques ? such as utilizing CNC machines, UV-finishing, etc. ? the company has been an undisputed leader when it comes to innovation. Taylor's latest efforts are concentrated on wood conservation, and again, the company is setting the example that the industry is following.
The Taylor Guitar Book combines a historical storyline with useful hands-on information about model changes over the years ? to help readers learn how to identify and date a Taylor ? and features shop and factory photos (both historical and current) as well as full-color images of Guitars.
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| Solos: Creating The Right
Solo For Every Song:
Reference Books Backbeat Books
This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will...(+)
This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will really help their material stand out. Based on the study of nearly 900 songs from six decades of great music it explains the musical role played bysolos illustrates which notes work over any chord sequence and offers a comprehensive range of hints and tips for creating instrumental breaks that will enhance any song. An accompanying CD includes no fewer than 42 sample solosin a range of styles and moods. Separate backing tracks are provided for the reader to work with and play over. For songwriting guitarists the book goes beyond mere instrumental technique to demonstrate how lead guitar can bemade to serve a song rather than simply decorating it. It also explores the wide range of other instruments that can be used to create really stunning solos.
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| Flying V Explorer
Firebird: Reference
Books: Instrumental
Reference Backbeat Books
Until the launch of the Flying V and Explorer in 1958 electric guitars were sup...(+)
Until the launch of the Flying V and Explorer in 1958 electric guitars were supposed to look like...guitars. Suddenly Gibson turned conventional design upside down almost literally by using straight lines and angular body shapes changing the way electrics could look and in the process creating a set of rare future collectables.Flying V Explorer Firebird tells the story of those first peculiar instruments and goes on to describe Gibson's second attempt at nonstandard designs with the Firebird of the early '60s. The book shows how most of these were a commercial failure at first and goes on to detail the influence of the designs on Guitar-makerssuch as Hamer Jackson Dean Ibanez and BC Rich all of whom embraced Gibson's original weird-is-good design ethic. In parallel with the story of the makers is an absorbing account of the players who discovered these odd-shaped instruments including Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society) Edge (U2) and Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick).Interviews with players and makers illuminate the story of this fascinating assortment of Electric Guitar innovations alongside specially commissioned images of every key model and brand and an enviable collection of Guitar memorabilia plus a gallery of leading guitarists photographed in action with their instruments. If it's weird and has strings it's in Flying V Explorer Firebird.
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| The Savvy Studio Owner:
Reference Books Backbeat Books
This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound record...(+)
This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound recording studio from smaller project-style facilities to million dollar majors. For the first time here is one guide that combines serious businessplanning studio design and audio engineering as interconnected aspects of starting and running a studio. Numerous practical examples and applications throw light on the daily workings of a recording studio including recording marketing sales employees and taxes. Readers with no business or sound recording experience will find what they need to start and succeed in creating a sound recording studio.
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| How to Make Your Electric
Guitar Play Great!:
Reference Books:
Instrumental Backbeat Books
This do-it-yourself guide to owning and maintaining an Electric Guitar explains ...(+)
This do-it-yourself guide to owning and maintaining an Electric Guitar explains the ins and outs of choosing the right Guitar; cleaning tools and basic maintenance; personalizing and improving on a ?factory setup;? troubleshooting; basic Guitar electronics; choosing and installing replacement pickups pots switches and capacitors; setups of the pros and much more. This second edition is overhauled from top to bottom and re-organised to make it easy for the reader to make their electric Guitar sound and play great. This edition also covers Bass Guitars and includes online video where Dan Erlewine shows you how easy it is to set up yourStrat Les Paul Bass or Floyd Rose-equipped Guitar so it plays in tune and feels great. Also includes cutout tool sheet with specialised Guitar gauges at the back of the book.
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| The PRS Electric Guitar
Book: Reference Books:
History Backbeat Books
A Complete History Of Paul Reed Smith Electrics-PRS guitars today appeal to a gr...(+)
A Complete History Of Paul Reed Smith Electrics-PRS guitars today appeal to a growing number of musicians from Carlos Santana to Al Di Meola from Zach Myers to Mark Tremonti. This book examines every part of PRS history with an in-depth story beautiful photographs and detailed collector's info. Paul Reed Smith set up his first PRS factory in 1985 in Maryland and has devised guitars from the regular Custom and McCarty models through the outrageously decorated Dragon specials and the controversial Singlecut and on to recent achievements such as the Mira Dave Grissom DGT JA-15 and the S2 models. Dozens of guitars are pictured inside along with players ads catalogs and rare memorabilia. A detailedreference section helps musicians and collectors identify and date PRS instruments making this revised and updated edition of The PRS Electric Guitar Book a must for all Guitar fans.
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| Million Dolar Mistakes:
Reference Books Backbeat Books
Everyone knows the success stories of the music industry – how Michael Jac...(+)
Everyone knows the success stories of the music industry – how Michael Jackson's Thriller blew the roof off and how Clive Davis helped orchestrate Carlos Santana's stunning comeback. But now you'll find out aboutpeople who were dead wrong. This book details some of the most expensive blunders ever made by artists and by record executives managers and producers who've worked with stars such as Michael Jackson Christina Aguilera TheBeatles Madonna Nickelback Bob Dylan Dido The Rolling Stones and dozens more. From contract and copyright screw-ups to sheer arrogance and lying this book includes eye-opening revelations on: the pitfalls of employing afamily member • the marketability of suicide • the industry's accepted levels of lies and thievery • and much much more.
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| The Miles Davis Reader:
Reference Books:
Biography Biographie [Livre] Backbeat Books
Updated Edition-If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair ...(+)
Updated Edition-If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician you're holding it in your hands. For DownBeat the preeminent publication of the jazz world Miles Dewey Davis was one of its most cherished subjects. Since it began covering the jazz scene in 1939 no other artist has been more diligently chronicled in its pages than Davis.The beauty of this collection is seeing the development of an artist over time. The reviews of his music go from quietly introducing a new talent to revering perhaps the greatest jazz artist of his generation. The feature articles begin with a very young very polite Davis lamenting I've worked so little. Icould probably tell you where I was playing any night in the last three years. As he develops the interviews show Davis gaining confidence and stature showing swagger and becoming the over-the-top say-it-like-it-is showman that made every interview an event.The Miles Davis Reader compiles more than 200 news stories feature articles and reviews by some of the greatest writers in jazz into one volume. It delivers a patchwork of his words and music - in the moment as they happened. With several lengthy features added along with a dozen new photographs this new edition is a beautiful series of snapshots a year-by-year ride through the many phases of Davis as an artist and as a man.
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| The Bass Handbook:
Reference Books:
Instrumental Tutor Backbeat Books
This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better more cre...(+)
This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better more creative and more varied bass lines. Divided into two sections – Playing Your Bass and Knowing Your Bass – it covers everything from tuning reading music scales and chords and advanced techniques to tips on buying and upgrading a budget bass and troubleshooting. Along with a list of suggested listening and a reference guide this book provides an unrivaled digest ofbass information that might otherwise take an entire career to amass.
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| All Music Guide - Old
School Rap And Hip-Hop:
Reference Books Backbeat Books
With more than 500 reviews plus artist bios and the true tales of the birth of t...(+)
With more than 500 reviews plus artist bios and the true tales of the birth of the art form this is without a doubt the one book every hip-hop fan and would-be rapper needs.
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| The Eagles FAQ: Reference
Books: Biography Backbeat Books
If the Beatles wrote the soundtrack of the swinging '60s then the Eagles did th...(+)
If the Beatles wrote the soundtrack of the swinging '60s then the Eagles did the same for the cynical '70s. The story of the Eagles is also the story of most artists of their time the drugs the music the excesses and the piles of cash. But the Eagles took it to the limit. And in Don Henley and Glenn Frey they had two songwriters who intuitively understood and accurately portrayed the changing America they lived in. They perfected the California sound shifted power from record company to artist and pioneered album-oriented rock. Eagles songs of the period are as memorable as any ever written and their most popular album Hotel California became a timeless record of'70s decadence.In The Eagles FAQ music critic Andrew Vaughan brings an insider's view into the various chapters of the group's fascinating history. He shows how they blended the best folk rock and country sounds of the '60s into a worldwide soundtrack of the '70s while challenging the industry status quo with a new business model. The story of their rise fall and rebirth is all here their mega-selling smashes their tensions and breakups the band members' solo work and their triumphant reunion and continued place at the top of the rock-and-roll tree.
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| Diccionario Illustrado de
M£sica Electr¢nica:
Reference Books Backbeat Books
This unique book provides English-to-Spanish translations and definitions for te...(+)
This unique book provides English-to-Spanish translations and definitions for terms used in the electronic music and computer world. It includes the varying terminology used in various countries throughout Latin America and Spain.Also features many photographs and diagrams to illustrate the terms.
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| Turn! Turn! Turn! - The
'60s Folk-Rock
Revolution: Reference
Books Backbeat Books
Setting the scene with America's traditional folk of the early '60s this book d...(+)
Setting the scene with America's traditional folk of the early '60s this book describes the sea of change that began in 1964 when the social consciousness of folk met the energy of rock. It concentrates on 1964-66 when the best most popular and most controversial folk-rock was created. The book explores the dizzyingly fast cross-fertilization of such giants as The Beatles The Byrds and Dylan; the passionate conflicts between folk devotees andfolk-rockers; the sudden frenzy of the media; and the unforgettable music that was born. Turn! Turn! Turn! also examines how folk-rock continued to influence late '60s psychedelic rock country-rock and the British scene as well as its gradual partial transformation into the singer-songwriter movement. Based on first-hand interviews with such visionaries as Roger McGuinn Judy Collins Donovan John Sebastian Arlo Guthrie Janis Ian and dozensof others.
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| Backstage Passes &
Backstabbing Bastards:
Reference Books:
Biography Backbeat Books
Kooper-A rock 'n roll classic back in print updated and revised.One of the fun...(+)
Kooper-A rock 'n roll classic back in print updated and revised.One of the funniest rock memoirs ever Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is available again! Al's quirkly life from would'be teenage rocker to crashing Bob Dylan's recording session and playing the organ on Highway 61 to forming Blood Sweat and Tears and masterminding the Super Sessions it's all here... Plus in this updated version Al rides with us all the way back to the end of the 20th century. There has never been a more wickedly humorous and honest book by a man who has made such rock history.
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| The Guitar Amp Handbook:
Reference Books Backbeat Books
There's a huge amount of hype and mythology surrounding tube amplifiers in the g...(+)
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 far more than being just a “loudness booster ” the unique combination of tubes capacitors resistors and transformers in these amps can contribute enormously to the quality of sound derivedfrom any electric guitar. In this thorough and authoritative book Dave Hunter cuts through the marketing hyperbole and the blind faith and supplies all the information you need to choose the right amp and get the best from it.The book also features exclusively conducted in-depth interviews with leading figures in the tube amp-building world – including Ken Fischer Mark Sampson and Michael Zaite – and even provides full instructions onhow to construct your own high-quality tube guitar amp from scratch.
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| The Tube Amp Book:
Reference Books:
Reference Backbeat Books
Deluxe Revised Edition. Already known as the bible of tubes and tube amps The T...(+)
Deluxe Revised Edition. Already known as the bible of tubes and tube amps The Tube Amp Book is now even better! This deluxe revised edition contains 40% new material with a comprehensive A-Z section covering all the great tube amp manufacturers with histories photos and information. Brands include Ampeg Dr. Z Fender Gibson Hiwatt Marshall Matchless Mesa/Boogie Orange Vox Watkins and many others. Features a CD-ROM with 800 available schmatic and layout diagrams from Ampeg to Western Electric plus dramatically improved design and page layout. The book's technical tips in-depth electronic specs and explanations over 350 schematic diagrams and full-color plates makeit a must-have for the legions of tube-tone fanatics. Hardcover with convenient enclosed spiral binding.
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| Rock Hardware: Reference
Books Backbeat Books
In the 1950s rock and roll was played on simple instruments with simple audio e...(+)
In the 1950s rock and roll was played on simple instruments with simple audio equipment. But today rock music can be as technically complex as any Hollywood blockbuster. Rock Hardware uncovers how the instruments and technologyof rock have evolved giving new insight into the mechanics of rock music's most famous moments on stage and in the studio. The book explores the range of instrumental and technical choices including acoustic guitars electricguitars basses amps drums and percussion keyboards electronic music brass woodwinds live sound systems and recording technology. An absorbing narrative and 200 striking color photos depict the design intricacies ofclassic and contemporary landmarks in rock's fascinating instrumental history. Rock Hardware gives today's musician an understanding of how to choose from the vast array of old and new instruments and how to combine the tools andtechnology to create their own new milestones in rock history.
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| Vintage Synthesizers -
2nd Edition: Reference
Books: Reference Backbeat Books
Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesi...(+)
Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesizers. This new edition is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments - and their unique analog growls and screams - that paved the way over the last four decades for today's fast-paced electronic music world. Explores the development of the modern synthesizer from 1962 on with in-depth interviews with pioneering designers Bob Moog and Alan R. Pearlman of Moog Music and ARP Instruments fame. These and other designers reveal their initial ideas reflect on their hits and misses and discuss how star performers have used their creations. Histories of groundbreaking instruments examine modular analog & digital synths and samplers plus more unusual instruments like the Mellotron. Noted synthesist Keith Emerson and composer Wendy Carlos (Switched-On Bach) offer musical insights and performance techniques. Includes fully updated pricing and production info and more than 200 photos and a stunning color section.
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| The Bass Book: Reference
Books Backbeat Books
A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars Updated Edition-In California in ...(+)
A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars Updated Edition-In California in the early '50s the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the sound of popular music. This book explains how that revolution happened and how its reverberations are still felt today. The two-guitars-bass-and-drums lineup that would define pop music found its heart with the Fender bass. In the coming decades the bass guitar provided the solid foundation upon which much modern music is still built. The Bass Book is the first to study its story with the full lowdown of the most important bass players and bass makers. Brands featured in the bookinclude Alembic Danelectro Epiphone Fender Fodera Gibson Hofner Ibanez Lakland Line 6 Music Man Peavey Rickenbacker Sadowsky Spector Squier Steinberger Wal Warwick and Yamaha. Original interviews with makers of bass guitars from the past and present illuminate the book with the popular establishment of the bass during the '60s and '70s examined in detail along with more recent developments such as the popularity of the five-string bass. There is an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney and other bassists who feature in the story including Stanley Clarke Flea James Jamerson Jaco Pastorius and Robert Trujillo. Dozens of unusual desirable and rarely seen basses are presented in high-quality photos. A reference section provides a wealth of information on the key makers. The Bass Book has all you need to know about the story of the bass guitar in one stylish readable volume and this revised and refreshed third edition brings the story right up to date.
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| Bass Grooves: Reference
Books: Instrumental Tutor Backbeat Books
Develop Your Groove & Play Like the Pros in Any Style. This invaluable guide and...(+)
Develop Your Groove & Play Like the Pros in Any Style. This invaluable guide and accompanying CD give bass players both the musical background and training needed to get on with their grooving.With lessons guided by a metronome and presented in various musical styles and rhythmic applications bassists increase their ability to internalize rhythm. The book also breaks down classic styles and grooves from rock blues R&B jazz Afro-Caribbean and other traditions.Each example includes a notated version of the drum part and details how to program it into a drum machine.
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