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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This book presents the authentic stories of American DIY music, with step-by-step projects, photo studies of antique instruments, interviews with music legends, and historical accounts. Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box Guitar, shows how anyone can build amazing musical instruments from found items"--
6) The birth of loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the guitar-pioneering rivalry that shaped rock 'n' roll
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A riveting saga in the history of rock 'n' roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.
"In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock 'n' roll--and these louder styles...
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
All the pretty little horses - Amazing grace - Amazing grace (for two guitars) - Aura Lee - Bad man ballad - Barbara Allen - Beautiful dreamer - Billy Boy - Black-eyed Susie (for two guitars) - Black is the colour - Blood-stained Banders - Blow the man down - Blue tail fly - Brother John - Buffalo Gals - Campdown Races - Careless love - Charlie is my darling - Clementine - Cumberland Gap - Deep River - Down by the Riversde - Down in the valley - Go,...
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
This step-by-step book, which includes 2 audio CDs and a DVD, takes you from your first day of exercises to playing full songs with a backing track. Includes full-color photographs and video instruction, practical advice and tips, and the easel-back book enables the book to stand up on any flat surface.
17) The acoustic guitar handbook: how to buy, maintain, set up, troubleshoot, and repair your guitar
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Whether you have a Martin, Gibson, Fender, Taylor, or any other make of acoustic guitar, here are the expert tricks and tips of the pro techs that you need to make your guitar play like a dream: setup essentials, intonation, bridge and neck adjustment and alignment; easy repairs, fret fixes, string and pickup height fine-tuning; do-it-yourself maintenance, troubleshooting, cleaning, paint and lacquer repairs; backstage gig repairs; hard-learned advice...
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