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Covering every aspect of learning how to play the guitar, from choosing an instrument and using a pick for the first time to starting a band and writing your own music, The Complete Guitar Manual is a complete course of professional lessons that works both as a personal tutor and a comprehensive textbook. The Complete Guitar Manual is the ultimate self improvement guide for all aspiring guitar players great for aspiring guitarists and professionals alike, the book includes techniques and step by step photographic instructions that help you build new skills or hone existing ones. Includes a DVD with video sequences showing how to play and how it should sound.

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.

This volume of the best-selling Teaching Music through Performances in Band series sets new standards as a comprehensive and indispensable resource for band directors. Containing current perspectives on the wind band world from internationally respected leaders, together with analyses of 100 significant works for band from grades 2 through 6, this book gives band directors essential tools for success in the profession.--[book jacket].

A lesson book for the piano which guides the late beginner musician through the key of D minor, the G major scale, moving up and down the keyboard with harmonic sixths, and more, and includes exercises and songs.

"When a young boy begins to play on his family's piano, reveling in the fun of plunking the keys, his father signs him up for lessons so that he can learn to play properly. With his father's encouragement, Raj learns notes, then scales, then songs, and finally classical pieces that his father can recognize and be proud of. But the more Raj practices and the more skilled he becomes, the less he enjoys playing, until he grows up and stops playing altogether. But when his father becomes ill and asks Raj to play for him, will Raj remember how to play from the heart?"--Provided by publisher.

Presents step-by-step, diagrammed instructions for playing acoustic and electric guitar; discusses guitar history, several genres, and how to practice, play with friends, and select a teacher to continue one's learning; includes information on software amplifiers, USB guitars, and online guitar instruction sites; and provides examples and interactive exercises on an audio CD.