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The most intensive analysis of Sabbath's first 8 albums ever attempted. Also touches upon torrid troubles with money, management, drugs tour tales, album cover stories & production tips 'n' tricks. All told, it's everything needed to send the reader back to the catalogue, headphones on, for a second listen of this landmark run of records.

Spread the love! A fun twist on the classic conversation heart candies, this kit includes 20 heart-shaped magnets with sweet and sassy sentiments to let that special someone know how you feel.

Depeche Mode FAQ will appeal to both casual and diehard fans of the band. It's an enlightening and informative account of the forty-year history of the leading synth-pop act. The book provides the reader with a handy reference guide while digging deep into what has made Depeche Mode so enduring.

It contains love songs, work songs, songs about the pains and anxieties of existence, songs of consolation, songs about various kinds of spiritual quest and the realms of the mystical, and songs which deal with healing and reconciliation, both with the self and with others.

Music Manuscript BookWrite notes in staff/stave line with this music composition notebook, ideal for songwriting, notating music, piano, guitar, violin, and other musical instruments. Perfect for students, study, practice lessons, or transcribing music. Makes for a fantastic gift and a great teaching resource!

Archive photos with rare memorabilia & narrative by Nettie Baker. Includes images of Jack, Ginger & Eric before the formation of Cream and a snapshot of life after Cream, the brief 1993 reunion and the full 2005 reunion in London & New York. Foreword by Tony Palmer. Includes a set of 4 prints: One of the band & one each of Baker, Clapton and Bruce.

This book is part of a series that forms an expertly structured and comprehensive method of studying acoustic guitar. The book covers all the material needed for an LCM examination in Acoustic Guitar, enabling you to study for an internationally recognised qualification. However, even if you do not intend to take an exam, this book will help you achieve your full potential as a guitarist by developing all aspects of your playing in a structured way.

Music Manuscript BookWrite notes in staff/stave line with this music composition notebook, ideal for songwriting, notating music, piano, guitar, violin, and other musical instruments. Perfect for students, study, practice lessons, or transcribing music. Great for beginners and boys and girls alike. Makes for a fantastic gift and a great teaching resource!Features: IDEAL FOR STUDENTS, kids, teens, tweens, and adults MEASURES A4 - 8.27 x 11.69 inches (21 x 29.7 cm) 100 PAGES of 12 Stave (5 Lines) - Music Paper PERFECT MUSIC GIFT for those seeking a Music Notebook for school classes, music theory, to study music, or practice lessons BLANK SHEET MUSIC and lined paper interior with plenty of room to write in DURABLE matte finish cover

After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when the boundaries between rock and jazz had begun to blur, Brecker stood as a transcendent figure.

Sweep Picking Speed Strategies for 7-String Guitar takes Chris Brooks' highly successful book Sweep Picking Strategies for Guitar and applies it for the growing number of 7-string guitar players demanding a comprehensive and concise approach that will lead to mastery of the instrument. Many 7-string players are drawn to the creative possibilities the extended range provides, but have yet to tap the full potential of the instrument. Here you'll learn everything from pick grip and fundamental rudiments to the execution of perfect, large-scale arpeggio forms for every common chord type as you learn sweep picking on 7-string guitar. This book has been devised especially for players looking for a comprehensive sweep picking and arpeggio course dedicated to playing 7-string guitar in the style of Andy James, Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore, Jason Becker and John Petrucci.

Artists like Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and KT Tunstall use loopers as a key part of their live shows, and in this book Instagram guitar sensation Kristof Neyens shows you how to master looping with a wealth of creative ideas and cool licks and riffs. Though some musicians make it look easy, creating great loops is more challenging than it appears... but we've got you covered:

Advanced Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Technique is Now Accessible to All! The flamboyant and highly technical style of modern fingerstyle acoustic guitar has taken the Internet by storm. With its eclectic mix of picking techniques, fret tapping, percussive techniques and harmonics, this is a demanding guitar style to master - but help is at hand from an expert.

Learning how to play slide guitar is one of the few techniques can change your whole approach to the guitar, so much so that it becomes a whole new instrument. In this book, you will master the art and technique of modern electric slide guitar playing.

Walking Basslines for Jazz Guitar teaches you Martin Taylor's own secret method for building a rock solid walking bassline on any jazz standard. You'll become a one-instrument rhythm section and be perfectly placed to accompany singers and soloists in a duo setting.

This book is full of essays which Arnold Schoenberg wrote on style and idea. He talks about the relationship to the text, new and outmoded music, composition in twelve tones, entertaining through composing, the relationship of heart and mind in music, evaluation of music, and other essays. Arnold Schoenberg (13 September 1874 ΓÇô 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling Sch├╢nberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463), "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45). Schoenberg was known early in his career for successfully extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner, and later and more notably for his pioneering innovations in atonality. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside swing and jazz, as degenerate art. In the 1920s, he developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation, and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea. Schoenberg''s approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking and, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. Schoenberg was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition; his students included Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, and later John Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, Wayne Barlow, and many other prominent musicians. Many of Schoenberg''s practices, including the formalization of compositional method, and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically, are echoed in avant-garde musical thought throughout the 20th century. His often polemical views of music history and aesthetics were crucial to many of the 20th century''s significant musicologists and critics, including Theodor Adorno, Charles Rosen, and Carl Dahlhaus. Schoenberg''s archival legacy is collected at the Arnold Sch├╢nberg Center in Vienna.

Starting with getting reliably in tune (with online video bonus content), Simon takes you on a progressive journey through the art of DADGAD Guitar. You will learn open and movable chords, scales and arpeggios in the context of real music, and work your way up to advanced, beautiful techniques like cascading 'harp' open-string scales, finger-picking, harmonics, and even some funk picking!

100 Classic Blues Licks for Guitar is different to every other guitar lick book available. It's not simply a cold list of licks, it is a breakdown of the playing styles of the world's most important blues guitarists. You won't just copy lines verbatim, you'll internalize the language of the blues guitar masters and incorporate it into your everyday playing.

100 Classic Rock Licks for Guitar is different to every other guitar lick book available. It's not simply a cold list of licks, it is a breakdown of the playing styles of the world's most important rock guitarists. You won't just copy lines verbatim, you'll internalize the language of the rock guitar masters and incorporate it into your everyday playing.

The Beginner Lead Guitar Method isn't just a lick book; it's a guide for beginners that teaches you how to solo and build technique at the same time. From the most basic licks, right through to exciting techniques such as bends, slides, legato and vibrato, you are guided step by step towards lead guitar soloing greatness.

Open String Bow Workouts for Violin, Book OneOne great thing to add to the beginning of your violin practice (at any level of playing!) is a short study on open strings.Open-string studies on the violin can help you focus on your bow and how it interacts with the string. Good bow technique is essential for creating beautiful sound. This book of new and exciting bowing workouts for the violin gives you 97 exercises to train your bow on open strings before you begin the rest of your practice.Since there are no left-hand notes, you can focus entirely on improving the dexterity and control of the right (bow) hand.Useful also for students who are struggling with reading notes, this book gives violinists a tremendous resource for creating better tone.The exercises work on bow distribution, rests and retaking bows, slurs, triplets, dotted rhythms, double stops, string crossing and more.Note: The main focus of this book is achieving a steady, even, smooth tone. Dynamics, staccato, spiccato, and other articulated bowings are covered in Book Two.

Twelve Folk Songs for Guitar Ensemble features 12 well-known, much-loved folk tunes from around the British isles. Together they make up a satisfying performance repertoire that allow small groups of guitarist to play together. There are three folk songs from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Complete Technique for Modern Guitar destroys the notion that aspiring players must spend all their practice time accelerating through progressively more difficult and obscure exercises. This book focuses on only the exercises that most quickly develop the fundamental four areas of guitar technique: Picking, Legato, Playing in time, and expression.

In Advanced Jazz Guitar Techniques jazz guitar virtuoso Jens Larsen provides more deep insights into the techniques and theory of contemporary jazz guitar. You'll discover a practical, no-nonsense guide to jazz guitar topics that have mystified even experienced jazz musicians - such as effective soloing with triad pairs, applying quartal harmony, how and when to use altered scales, and much more! Master the advanced guitar techniques and melodic concepts you've heard in the music of everyone from Charlie Parker and Wes Montgomery, to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Michael Brecker and Mike Moreno. Jens Larsen gets to the heart of modern jazz guitar playing to focus on the techniques and theory that will set your playing apart from the crowd. His new jazz guitar book teaches how to create quartal arpeggio licks that combine the old-school cool jazz vocabulary of McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane with the modern sounds of Gilad Hekselman, Jonathan Kriesberg and Mike Moreno.

Chord Tone Soloing for Bass Guitar teaches you to how to use arpeggios, extensions, chromatic ideas and substitutions over each of the thirteen essential jazz sequences, and how to combine these building blocks into authentic, melodic solos. Each progression is approached both logically and methodically to build articulate bass solos from the fundamental principles of jazz. By applying arpeggio-based techniques, and learning to decorate your solos with chromatic ideas, you will quickly learn how to 'play the changes' in a musical and creative way.