Countless great songs are based on riffsΓÇöcatchy guitar phrases that repeat until theyΓÇÖre seared into your brain foreverΓÇöor snappy chord sequences as memorable as any melody. Riffs get people excited, whether they are musicians or listeners. Advertising agencies use riffs on television, internet videos, and cinema trailers. Riffs sell concert tickets, guitars, and downloads. Youtube is full of guitarists playing riffs.This book now in its third and updated edition digs deep into the world of the guitar riff, identifying 30 distinct types and illustrating them with reference to 150 examples: from Howlin Wolf to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chuck Berry to Limp Bizkit, the Kinks to the Strokes, Black Sabbath to the White Stripes, Coldplay and Kings of Leon. The book includes 56 tracks of audio, illustrating all types of riffs covered, plus notation and TAB for 40 original example riffs composed by the author. In the book you cantrace the connections between riff types and the scales, modes, or chords from which theyΓÇÖre drawnlearn the guitar tips and arranging techniques to get the best from your riffsread an exclusive interview with Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures bassist John Paul Jones, a multi-instrumentalist, writer, and arranger with 50 years experience in riff-based music.
The Hal Leonard DJ Method is designed for anyone interested in learning how to successfully host recorded music for an audience at events, parties, clubs, and beyond. This easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to the gear, skills, and must-know info required of today's DJ, from turntables to DJ controllers. Features many photos and diagrams, plus nearly two hours of video lessons with full demonstrations by author DJ Bizzon!
Does Anybody Remember Laughter? Fifty Years of Stairway to Heaven celebrates the golden anniversary of "Stairway to Heaven" and its history, impact, and legacy.
You Are Ketchup is a career resource for musicians and other creatives, fusing narrative and advice from Grammy-nominated musician Kokayi.
The book presents a series of delightful vignettes-amazing stories, anecdotes, articles, original songs-stitched together with a collection of images.
A fusion of history, culture, and song in a practical travel guide for music lovers who want to understand more of what helped shape what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as they tour the cradle of the blues in Mississippi and beyond. By appreciating the roots of this most American style of music, readers will have a richer experience listening to songs and visiting blues' holy and sacred sites.
TURN TURN TURN - THE '60S FOLKROCK REVOLUTION
This new edition is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments ä and their unique analog growls and screams ä that paved the way over the last four decades for today''s fast-paced electronic music world. Explores the development of the modern synthesizer from 1962 on with in-depth interviews with pioneering designers Bob Moog and Alan R. Pearlman of Moog Music and ARP Instruments fame. These and other designers reveal their initial ideas reflect on their hits and misses and discuss how star performers have used their creations. Histories of groundbreaking instruments examine modular analog & digital synths and samplers plus more unusual instruments like the Mellotron. Noted synthesist Keith Emerson and composer Wendy Carlos ( Switched-On Bach ) offer musical insights and performance techniques. Includes fully updated pricing and production info and more than 200 photos and a stunning color section.
CD includes 60 tracks for demonstration and play-along.
A vigorous inquiry into the art of acting focusing on playing action, this book teaches actors how to do the "doing of acting." Hugh O'Gorman provides special insight into the acting methods of Earle Gister and Lloyd Richards.
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood MacΓÇÖs epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time. Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didnΓÇÖt get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the bandΓÇÖs Grammy-winning sound. Hernan RojasΓÇÖs story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General PinochetΓÇÖs coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved.Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today.
In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he "merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head " and, indeed, these recreated conversations have a neurotic, sarcastic, and vulnerable air of aunthenticity. The actress and writer become fast friends on the SNL set and segue into personal revelation.
Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in varied theatrical styles representing an amazing gamut of lesbian politics from all over America. ÞIncludes: The Quintessential Image (Jane Chambers) Û The Postcard (Gloria Joyce Dickler) Û A Lady and a Woman (Shirlene Holmes) Û Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks (Susan Miller) Û Desdemona (Paula Vogel) Û and more!
Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, whose creative genius continues to energize American stage and screen today. Say his name, and images of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anastasia, The Turning Point, and The Way We Were appear. Laurents'' highly praised memoir is a dazzling portrait of his life - as he recounts the great moments, the trials and the joys of his incredible career. He takes us into his world, peopled with the creative artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after WWII. Later, back in New York, he writes about jump-starting Barbra Streisand''s career by casting her in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. He writes about the creation of Gypsy with Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim. And he writes about coming together in a complex, fraught collaboration with his three old pals, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim for West Side Story. Throughout, Laurents is funny, fierce, and frank - a life recounted as richly as it was lived. "This is a historic work. A ''must'' for show biz mavens." - LIZ SMITH, Newsday & Syndicated
Noted writer Leon Katz, the champion of the present day commmedia dell''arte, has written a brand-new stage adaptation for children''s theatre. Included are the costume sketches, the stage cues and even a few of the stage tricks used to bring not just Pinocchio but all of the play to real life in its acclaimed original American Children''s Theatre production.
JIM MARSHALL THE FATHER OF LOUD THE STORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS AMP
GREATEST MUSIC NEVER SOLD: SECRETS OF LEGENDARY LOST ALBUMS
BLACK SABBATH FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ON THE FIRST NAME IN METAL
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Here''s the script to the winner of "Best Off-Broadway Play of 1989" as voted by the Outer Critics Circle. "Funny, serious, suspenseful, involving, disturbing, and above all, expertly crafted...It concerns the intended hostile takeover of a deserving but obsolescent Rhode Island family business, New England Wire and Cable, honorably and not unprofitably run, that provides jobs for an entire small town''s population...Epic grandeur and intimate titillation combined. It is the most stimulating kind of entertainment." - John Simon, New York magazine
ALL MUSIC GUIDE: REQUIRED LISTENING SERIES - CLASSIC ROCK
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