Eric Richards: Music Factory: Bass Guitar Workbook 1: Bass Guitar: Instrumental

This is part of a series of inter-related instrumental workbooks for keyboard guitar bass guitar and percussion. Planned so that concepts are carefully introduced consolidated and extended this is the last of the three workbooks containing twenty-five units. They support and complement the teacher’s resource through an innovative approach that encourages a creative attitude towards learning an instrument. Many sections contain work on improvisation and sight-reading and alternate units provide an ensemble piece arranged for all the instruments covered by this project. Each book covers the same curriculum requirements regardless of instrument however thisbook acts both as a classroom resource and as an introduction to the art of percussion technique.

A Scrapbook of Artifacts Treasures and Inside Information-Welcome to The Fender Archives part history part archive part scrapbook and part treasure chest. You are invited along on a research expedition a sort of archeological dig through several sites: file folders in Fender's offices; the family archives of Don Randall; author/curator Richard Smith's collections; the photo galleries of John Peden and Fretted Americana; jammed metal cabinets in a sweltering warehouse near the Corona factory; and the home of the late Bob Perine in Cardiff-by-the-Sea just blocks from the beach where he and Ned Jacoby took now-iconic photos of high school kids surfboards palm trees and chrome-clad rocket-ship guitars in Shoreline Gold andDaphne Blue and Candy Apple Red.The Fender Archives looks at the company from the inside. Handwritten letters production totals personal logbooks in-house memos Leo Fender's drawing-board sketches financial reports-such documents are freed here from long confinement in cardboard boxes and filing cabinets dusted off and promoted from background to spotlight.The Fender Archives sheds new light on the inspirations for revolutionary instruments and amplifiers their sometimes difficult births and growing pains the environment into which they were unleashed upon the world and the motivations and personalities of key players.Includes rare and previously unseen photographs and documents from Fender's decades-long rich history.Over 30 reproduced facsimile items of historical documents posters and other items of interest.