Format : Score and Parts
SKU: HL.50562669
9.5x12.5x0.025 inches.
SKU: LM.C05618
SKU: HL.49042077
SKU: HL.48186644
Aria I (for 2 guitars); Invention (for 3 guitars); Aria II (for 4 guitars).
SKU: HL.333271
ISBN 9781458405760. UPC: 884088578350. 10.75x11.0x1.067 inches. Edited by Robert Shaw & Peter Szego.
Inventing the American Guitar is the first book to describe the early history of American guitar design in detail. It tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar. This transformation happened within a mere 20 years, a remarkably brief period. The person who dominates this history is C. F. Martin Sr., America's first major guitar maker and the founder of the Martin Guitar Company, which continues to produce outstanding flat-top guitars today. After emigrating from his native Saxony to New York in 1833, Martin quickly established a guitar making business, producing instruments modeled after those of his mentor, Johann Stauffer of Vienna. By the time he moved his family and business to rural Pennsylvania in 1839, Martin had absorbed and integrated the influence of Spanish guitars he had seen and heard in New York. In Pennsylvania, he evolved further, inventing a uniquely American guitar that was fully developed before the outbreak of the Civil War. Inventing the American Guitar traces Martin's evolution as a craftsman and entrepreneur and explores the influences and experiments that led to his creation of the American guitar that is recognized and played around the world today. To learn more about the history of the Martin guitar, click here to view the video and article from BBC, How Martin Guitars Became an 'American Stratavarius'.
SKU: PR.ZM24790
UPC: 680160651566.
SKU: LM.C05571
SKU: HL.138966
ISBN 9781495004551. UPC: 888680034283. 10.0x10.0x0.276 inches. Tom Wheeler Foreword by Eric Johnson.
Tom Wheeler, author of the landmark Stratocaster Chronicles (9780634056789), a book that covered the first 50 years of the Strat, now has delivered the perfect companion book to any guitar player's book collection. Stratocaster Continues features the same award-winning layout, and high-production aspects of Stratocaster Chronicles, creating a beautiful and inspiring journey covering the past 10 years of the Strat. Featuring stunning color photography throughout, Wheeler uses his industry insider connections to bring the words and insights from Fender executives, famous luthiers, and world-renowned guitarists to the millions of Strat fans worldwide. Topics include the 60th Anniversary guitars, Eric Johnson models, Pure Vintage, the re-creation of Clapton's Brownie, the American Standard re-do, and more. These models are pictured and explained in great detail, as well as stories are told on how this guitar continues to rank as one of the most important inventions of modern times, continuing to inspire players and fans everywhere.
SKU: HL.50149380
8.25x11.75x0.08 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-8746
ISBN 9790004181584. 12 x 9 inches.
Whether for "Clementine," "Amazing Grace," the "Drunken Sailor" or Spanish folklore - in "Four for One," Felice Deho has created four stimulating guitar accompaniments for each of the eight traditional and three original melodies. The four different accompaniments to each song are clearly arranged on one (double) page so that the player can easily shift between the different versions while playing. An experienced guitarist and teacher, Deho subtly increases the level of difficulty in each of his suggested patterns. The book can thus be used in a number of ways: for beginners and more advanced players, as well as for teaching single students or groups. In addition to being fun to play with others, "Four for One" is intended to provide performers with models that will stimulate them to invent their own accompaniments.
