Book 1 instructs beginners to play piano/keyboard through icons rather than reading notes. An included CD contains both piano and attractive orchestration for each song in the book. Beginning piano students are often discouraged by traditional method books and styles of teaching the piano. That is because those methods put music reading ahead of playing the instrument. The revolutionary Klav-Ear Method instructs beginners to play the piano, including complicated rhythms, before insisting they read music notation. Importantly, from the very beginning the Klav-Ear Method builds a strong fundamental foundation by emphasizing the proper technique for playing the piano. Consider that children learn toTalk fluently long before they learn the alphabet. The Klav-Ear Method recognizes that beginners of any age need to spend time exploring and playing the piano before being expected to read music notes. The Klav-Ear Method does this through a progressive and exciting learning proc (more…)

Review

Here we have, at last, an electronics book that caters to people who have ideas first, and electronics second…Collins offers a splendidly integrative look into the history of sound art, basic electronics, and junk revisioning. –Make MagazineNicolas Collins wants to tear apart your CD player… –Wired Magazine…a brilliant, hands-on guide to electronic music making….Collins never ceases to amaze me with his latest bit of music or techno-logical innovation. –TapeOp Magazine
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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making – as well as creatively cannibalizing – electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. At a time whenpersonal dominate m (more…)

The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs swiftly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac[ computerusers, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! 8 songs, including: Ballroom Blitz * Detroit Rock City * Don’t Fear the Reaper * Highway Star * Mississippi Queen * Should I Stay or Should I Go * Suffragette City * Train Kept A-Rollin’.

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Celebrate the world’s most seductive instrument. An obsessive, full-color book in the irresistible format of Shoes and Handbags—which together have over 700,000duplicates in print—guitarS delivers a feast of 500 guitars in vibrant color, plus players, makers, legends, myths, and more. Here are guitars that made history, that changed the course of music, that inspired new generations of players and listeners. Here are milestones in the guitar’s search for its true self—Torres’s classical, the breathtaking Gibson L-5—and experiments that ushered in a new world of sound—Rickenbacker’s “Frying Pan” and Les Paul’s “Log.” Plus B. B. King’s Lucille, Willie Nelson’s Trigger, Eric Clapton’s Brownie, the J-160E that John Lennon played during his 1968 “bed-in” with Yoko, Jimi Hendrix’s hand-painted Flying V in full psychedelic regalia. And the far-out Gittler—no body, no neck, no peghead, yet every inch a guitar. Also here are profiles of famous builders, including C. F. Marti (more…)