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Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time...

Jazz 101 is a fascinating entry into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than 50 years.

This beautiful and well-known prelude by Bach has not only been played as it is but also eventually became the musical setting for Charles Gounod’s “Ave Maria”, which he composed in 1853. This piece is taught completely by ear in two to four measure sections using no print, music, or video. This allows the student to memorize the song while learning it and to bypass any difficulty or challenge in music reading. A full demonstration of the piece is included at the beginning of the lesson.

This Matt Redman worship song makes a wonderful fingerstyle guitar solo! This arrangement starts off simply with plenty of add-2 chords to give it an open feeling. Then verse two brings in the complexity and movement of arpeggios with a syncopated melody to really take this song up a notch. Bill Brown plays through the entire arrangement for you and then breaks it down into two- to four-measure sections completely “by ear”.

From Old England to Charlie Brown, there is a little bit of everything in this Piano by Ear Christmas box set. This set includes hours of professional piano instruction teaching late beginner to intermediate level solos of some of the most-performed Christmas carols of our time. There are also three Vince Guaraldi arrangements in this box set to add a little jazz to your holiday playing!

By Chopin. This arrangement was taken from the International Library of Piano Music so it is the original advanced version of this passionate Chopin nocturne. A full demonstration of the nocturne is provided followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson in two- to four-measure increments. Learning this piece has never been easier than this.

"'Boy, do I have a lot to learn!'" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind - from the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shop - has thought that. I know I did. I'd been trying for years to break in to the music scene, to show everyone my chops, to make my mark. And I was good. But I wasn't great. I knew that there was something wrong. Then the teacher showed up...."

An Economist Best Book of the Year An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. “Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.” ―Economist In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar...

Following in the tradition of best-selling Amazon books on the topic, such as "Piano Bar: Playing the Room" and "The Piano Man's Guide to Survival," Dan Ruskin's "TIPS" offers a fresh and insightful perspective on the piano bar business. In "TIPS," legendary piano player Dan Ruskin pulls back the curtain on the piano bar business, offering an entertaining and insightful guide for aspiring musicians.

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In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers, including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Dvoxak, and Mahler. He describes all the musical instruments in the orchestra, defines major musical terms, and makes music theory comprehensible for the uninitiated. There are also conversations with important musicians who offer fascinating insights about their art.

In this lesson you will learn a late beginner level solo of “Spanish Eyes.” The song is demonstrated and then taught in small sections completely “by ear.” At the end of the lesson you are given backing tracks to the song to play along with. What a wonderful value for such a small investment!

One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the 18th century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-19th century; and Siblin's infatuation with the suites in the present day.

For Bass Guitar: In this “by ear” lesson, you will learn the bass riffs for the entire song without music, tab, or video. The lesson is based on the studio version of the song, and you learn the basic patterns and all of their variations used in the song. The lesson includes a full demonstration of the bass part with drums and vocal cues, as well as backing tracks to play along with once you have learned the bass part.

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology...

This upbeat and highly-recognizable classical piece is fast to learn and memorize because it is taught completely “by ear.” The arrangement is demonstrated completely and then taught in two to four measure sections using no music or print. Learn by ear, play by ear!

In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction title, Philip Bohlman considers questions of meaning and technology in world music and responds to the dramatically changing political world in which people produce and listen to world music. He also addresses the different ways in which world music is created, disseminated, and consumed, as the full reach of the internet and technologies that store and spread music through the exchange of data files spark a revolution in the production and availability of world music.  

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career—even in the face of deafness—Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.

Language and the way that people communicate has evolved over time, now you can learn how to effectively use your voice in the most effective way possible in order to get your message across. Every time we open our mouths, we have an effect on ourselves and the way others perceive us. The...

Brought to you by Penguin. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the...