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The first industry handbook for character performers and costumed party entertainers! Featuring in-depth overviews on auditions, contracts, event routines, costume maintenance, quick emergency fixes and customer relations...all in one book! M. Alice LeGrow is a party performer with years of experience in character entertaining and costuming. Featured in The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, on NPR and various other media, she now works to provide feedback and guidance to new performers who are looking to break into the character entertainment industry.

Discover The Secrets of Rockabilly GuitarDiscover 100 Licks to Supercharge your Rockabilly Guitar PlayingStruggling to master the authentic Rockabilly guitar sound?With its roots in early Rock 'n' Roll, Country and Rhythm & Blues, the Rockabilly revolution is still going strong… and there's no one more qualified to teach it than Rockabilly expert Darrel Higham, whose credits include Jeff Beck, Brian Setzer and Imelda May.In this book, you'll quickly master the iconic rockabilly guitar style through 100 lead licks and essential rhythms.Capture the Style of the Rockabilly PioneersDarrel Higham shares his encyclopaedic knowledge to teach you exactly how the pioneers of this music thought and played. Want to know how your favourite player created their iconic licks? Get unparalleled insight into the playing styles of the Rockabilly legends: Eddie Cochran Scotty Moore Cliff Gallup Joe Maphis Grady Martin Brian SetzerRockabilly Signature LicksYou'll begin by learning the essential vocabulary of Rockabilly and discover classic "building block" phrases to quickly build your chops, along with just enough theory to help you create your own authentic sounding lines.Next, you'll master the essential rhythm guitar playing skills of Rockabilly so you can groove with any band.Advanced Rockabilly Soloing TechniquesAs your Rockabilly guitar skills continue to develop, the language gets more advanced as you learn intricate licks based around Rockabilly techniques like: Fast hammer-on and pull-off licks Banjo roll techniques for rhythm and lead guitar Combining guitar techniques to build solosFull-Length Rockabilly SolosTo round off your Rockabilly masterclass, you'll learn to play no less than 12 full-length Rockabilly soloing studies that demonstrate how to combine each technique into exciting, attention grabbing and musical solos.It's all here, from aggressive Rock 'n' Roll to amazing Travis picked and banjo rolled performances.Bonus 1 - Not just a "100 licks" book, 100 Rockabilly Licks for Guitar contains over a dozen full-length 12-bar blues sequences that put the licks and language into musical focus.Bonus 2- Discover the perfect Rockabilly guitar gear in the bonus, Guitars, Amps & Effects sectionHear it!100 Licks for Rockabilly Guitar contains over 100 supporting audio examples to help you get inside the music and quickly hear exactly how each lick should be played.Buy it now!

Painterly Gel Prints offers 80 pages of Gel Plate printing fun! Step-by-step instructions for creating painterly prints that can be used in collage, gift cards, gift wrap, mobiles, and more. Updated second edition includes some new tips and tricks, updated photos, and more!

The complete Fleabag. Every Word. Every Side-eye. Every Fox. Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA winning series. 'Perfect' Guardian'Perfect' Daily Telegraph'Perfect' Stylist 'Perfect' Independent'Perfect' Evening Standard 'Perfect' Metro'Perfect' Irish Times 'Perfect' RTE'Perfect' Spectator'Perfect' Refinery29'Perfect' Catholic Herald'Perfection' Financial Times***HAIRDRESSERNO.(pointing to Claire)That is EXACTLY what she asked for.FLEABAGNo it's not. We want compensation.HAIRDRESSERClaire?CLAIREI've got two important meetings and I look like a pencil.HAIRDRESSERNO. Don't blame me for your bad choices. Hair isn't everything.FLEABAGWow.HAIRDRESSERWhat?FLEABAGHair. Is. Everything. We wish it wasn't so we could actually think about something else occasionally. But it is. It's the difference between a good day and a bad day. We're meant to think that it is a symbol of power, a symbol of fertility, some people are exploited for it and it pays your fucking bills. Hair is everything, Anthony.

'BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021' Guardian and Irish Times'Starts as a charming romantic comedy and turns into something tender and affecting about our need for connection. I loved this one. ' David Nicholls'Beautiful, bittersweet portrait of modern life . . . his tragicomedy will also make the heart swell.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Candice Carty-Williams'This is a miraculous book.' Joe DunthorneNick, a young illustrator, can't connect with people. Whether it's the barista down the street, his own family or Wren, an oncologist whose life becomes painfully tangled with his, Nick can't shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. He staggers through meaningless conversations and haunts lookalike, vacuous coffee shops in the hope that he will find it there. But it isn't until Nick learns to stop performing and speak about the things that really matter that the complex and colourful worlds of the people he meets are finally revealed to him.Illustrated in both colour and black-and-white in McPhail's instantly recognisable style, In is poignant, fresh and hilarious. McPhail transforms the graphic novel with a heart-wrenching compassion uncannily appropriate for our isolated times.

Embracing synth pop, an album with a darker edge to it. Commercially, a bold move but with memorable melodies & catchy rhythms, it paid off. All whilst making reference to psychologist Arthur Janov. An in-depth perspective on how the album came to be, how it was presented & received & what it means in terms of Tears For Fears' legacy today.

Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2020 lockdown, through 100 community photographs.

By making a daily drawing since Boris Johnson was elected prime minister in December 2019. Jolie Goodman has made a visual record of the pandemic. This selection are her Covid Drawings in 2020.

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES, LUPIN.

Title: Virgil Abloh. Nike. ICONS, Author: Virgil Abloh, Publication Year: 2020-11-15, Publisher: Taschen GmbH, Language: eng

Dr. Ray Smith is the saxophonists'' saxophonist, the teachers'' teacher. His 50+ years of saxophone playing and teaching have prepared him well to bring together perhaps the greatest breadth of practical saxophone information ever assembled under one book cover in The Science and Art of Saxophone Teaching. This book is valuable to saxophone teachers and serious saxophone students alike covering such topics as basic tone production (embouchure, oral cavity, breath support) and solving problems with tone, playing low notes, slurring down over intervals, solving reed issues, saxophone repair and adjustments, coordinating classical and jazz study and practice, warmup exercises and practice routines, articulation basics and articulation styles, development of technique and speed, choosing fingerings, solving vibrato issues, working on intonation problems, playing dynamics, rhythmic development, learning altissimo (may be worth the price of the book alone), phrasing musically, choosing good breathing places, working with ornamentation and cadenzas, dealing with differences between styles, becoming a multilingual musician, doubling other woodwind instruments and helpful information on clarinet, flute and double reeds, dealing with stage fright, and much more. This volume belongs in the library of every earnest saxophonist. There are also a series of video tutorials on a coordinated YouTube channel that bring all the concepts to life.Ray has been blessed to be a master pedagogue and is sharing in this book the concepts, insights, and approaches he has used to help countless young players become great saxophonists and musicians. His track record as a professor at Brigham Young University is enviable. His students teach at many of the nations'' universities, perform in the Broadway pits, play in the service bands of the Army, Navy, and Marines, and write for Hollywood movies. One is playing with the Dukes of Dixieland, and one is currently holding down the first tenor chair in the famed University of North Texas 1 O''Clock Lab Band. Ray, himself, a disciple of Eugene Rousseau, is a fine performer and well-recorded artist. He is equally at home in classical and jazz-related styles and adept at all five woodwind instruments. He has been heard frequently on the airwaves of this country (ESPN, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc.), on movies such as The Sandlot and The Swan Princess, and on Television series such as He-Man: Masters of the Universe, Xena, and Hercules.

Tells the essential truth of the death of Marilyn Monroe at the hand of Robert Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States

Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, Caravaggio is now considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This neat catalogue raisonne reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of dramatic details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five accompanying chapters trace Caravaggio's artistic daring and his equally...

Celebrating 30 years of Dazed s boundary-pushing storytelling at the forefront of youth culture, this book reveals the past, present, and future of Dazed through its bold cover designs and manifesto-like headlines.

A retrospective of one of Britain's most successful bands. Spanning the period 1970 to 1984, the creative peaks and troughs of all the songs recorded by 'The Frantic Four' are examined in detail by a fan who can play guitar a bit, and also knows his Bach from his byte.

A detailed and practical guide to experiment and discover the potential of linocut and the reduction printed method.

The COVID diaries of the alternative rock star and bestselling author of SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP

Explore the modern age of design in this Bibliotheca Universalis edition of the 20th century's key movements and trends. Featuring countless works from around the world, this is an essential compendium for design aficionados everywhere, with star turns including De Stijl, Dieter Rams, Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck.

The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist.

Bands including Dead, Euronymous, and Varg Vikernes--along with sociologists, police officers, theologians, and occultists--recount how the satanic Black Metal, a spin-off of the heavy metal underground, devolved into acts of church burning, murder, and suicide in Scandinavia.