the ultimate guide to making foot-stompin'-good instruments
Orr, Michael
2011
Discusses the history of handmade music and the new movement reviving this practice, with nine step-by-step projects to make guitars and accompaniments, like the washtub bass, soup can diddly bow, stomp box and washboard.
"Learn songs by The Beatles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nirvana, The Beach Boys, Van Halen, B.B. King, Guns N'Roses, The Who, James Taylor, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and more!" --Cover.
When a mysterious and valuable guitar is stolen from the shop belonging to old friends of her family, Monica determines to find out what really happened and to uncover the guitar's well-kept secret.
Provides step-by-step instructions for playing the guitar; covering buying equipment, playing the blues, using picks and fingers, playing in sixths, harmonics, and more.