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My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses

By: Steven Adler

It Books

No secret is too dark.
No revelation too sick. But you must have the appetite for it.

After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering untold truth in My Appetite for Destruction.

When Adler was eleven years old he told his two closest friends he was going to be a rock star in the world's greatest band. Along with four uniquely talented—but very complicated and demanding—musicians, Adler helped form Guns N' Roses. They rose from the streets—primal rockers who obliterated glam rock and its big hair to resurrect rock's truer blues roots.

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

By: Rob Sheffield

Dutton Adult

Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: Don't be fooled by the title: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran may sound like a dream come true to all the women who she-bopped through the 80s, but at heart it's the Feminine Mystique that every boy-next-door has been waiting for (and will actually read). It's something like a prequel to Rob Sheffield's first, fantastic memoir, Love Is a Mix Tape, taking its cue this time from a musical decade so addictive and eclectic that, as he notes, "every night in your town, you can find a bar somewhere hosting an Awesome 80s Prom Night." This hilarious and heartfelt collection of coming-of-age vignettes is arguably a much more satisfying way to spend an evening, though, particularly if you have even an ounce of the...

Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir

By: Dave Mustaine, Joe Layden

It Books

The fall and rise of a heavy metal icon

Dave Mustaine is the first to admit that he's bottomed out a few times in his dark and twisted speed metal version of a Dickensian life.

Impoverished, transient childhood? Check.

Abusive, alcoholic parent? Check.

Mind-fucking religious weirdness (in his case the extremes of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Satanism)? Check.

Alcoholism, drug addiction, homelessness? Check, check, check.

Soul-crushing professional and artistic setbacks? Check.

Rehab? Check (seventeen times, give or take).

Near-death experience? Check that one, too.

James Hetfield, with whom many years ago Mustaine founded ...

Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter

By: Randy L. Schmidt

Chicago Review Press

Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

By: Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Neil Strauss

It Books

Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mtley Cre, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable exploits are the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. They nailed the hottest chicks, started the bloodiest fights, partied with the biggest drug dealers, and got to know the inside of every jail cell from California to Japan. They have dedicated an entire career to living life to its extreme, from the greatest fantasies to the darkest tragedies. Tommy married two international sex symbols; Vince killed a man and lost a daughter to cancer; Nikki overdosed, rose from the dead, and then OD'd again the next day; and Wick shot a woman and tried to hang his ow...

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

By: Peter Doggett

Harper

The world stopped in 1970 when Paul McCartney announced that he was through with the Beatles. His statement not only marked the end of the band's remarkable career, but also seemed to signal the demise of an era of unprecedented optimism in social history. Though the Beatles' breakup was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy, one of the most fascinating phases of their story was just about to begin.

Now, for the first time, You Never Give Me Your Money tells the behind-the-scenes story of the personal rivalries and legal feuds that have dominated the Beatles' lives since 1969. Journalist Peter Doggett charts the Shakespearean battles between Lennon and McCartney, the conflict in George Harrison's life between spirituality and fame, and the struggle with alcoholism that...

Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis

By: Fred Goodman

Simon & Schuster

In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood storyand the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companiesis how the music industry has failed to remake itself. In Fortunes Fool, Fred Goodman, the author of The Mansion on the Hill, shows how this happened by presenting the singular history of Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., the controversial heir to Seagrams, who, after dismantling his familys empire and fortune, made a high-stakes gamble to remake both the music industry and his own reputation.

Napster had successfully blown the industry off its commercial foundations because all that the old school label heads knew how to do was r...

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

By: Rob Sheffield

Three Rivers Press

Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and youre instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die
in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. Youll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your headthe one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life.

The 50th Law

By: 50 Cent, Robert Greene

Harper

A hip hop icon joins forces with the best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power to write a bible for success in life and work living by one simple principle: fear nothing.

I Am Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne

Grand Central Publishing

"They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies . . .' Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the f**king things at home. I've killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night.

It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I've been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump o...

The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians (Instructional)

By: Jim Fleser

Hal Leonard Corporation

Master chord theory ... in minutes! The Chord Wheel is a revolutionary device that puts the most essential and practical applications of chord theory into your hands. This tool will help you improvise and solo, comprehend key structure like never before; instantly transpose any progression into each and every key; compose your own music, watch your songwriting blossom! No music reading is necessary to gain from this chord finder from Hal Leonard. "This is the kind of device that players of any instrument can use to enhance their musical understanding. Chord and key relationships are inseparable, and learning these relationships is a must in becoming a successful musician," Alan Remington, Orange Coast College Music Dept.

Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

Basic Books

Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gdel. It also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a standard for thinking about the future of computers and their relation to the way we think.

Hofstadter's great achievement in Gdel, Escher, Bach was making abstruse mathematical topics (like undecidability, recursion, and 'stra...

Music: An Appreciation, 6th Brief Edition

By: Roger Kamien

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music.

This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students att...

Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask (Guitar Me...

By: Tom Kolb

Hal Leonard

Guitarists of all levels will find a wealth of practical music knowledge in this special book and CD package. Veteran guitarist and author Tom Kolb dispels the mysteries of music theory using plain and simple terms and diagrams. The accompanying CD provides 94 tracks of music examples, scales, modes, chords, ear training, and much more!

Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson Book, Level One

By: Willard A. Palmer

Alfred Publishing Company

A beginning course for adults who prefer a chord approach. It teaches chords for both hands so that the student can play more than single note melodies. This course is most effective when used under the direction of a piano teacher or experienced musician. Titles: Alouette Alpine Melody Amazing Grace At Last Au Claire de la Lune Aura Lee The Ballad of Gilligans Island Beautiful Brown Eyes Blow the Man Down! Brother John CafT Vienna The Can-Can Chiapanecas Cockles and Mussels The Cuckoo The Donkey The Entertainer A Friend Like You The Gift to Be Simple Go Down, Moses Good King Wenceslas Good Morning to You! Got Those Blues Greensleeves Happy Birthday to You! Harp Song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Heres a Happy Song! Hes Got the Whole World in His Han...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

By: Nikki Sixx

VH1

In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, M?tley Cr?e's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.

When M?tley Cr?e was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.

Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some sca...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

By: Sherman Alexie

Grove Press

When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban...

The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824

By: Harvey Sachs

Random House

“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”

The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to squelch populist rumblings in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s wars. Ironically, the premiere of this hymn to universal brotherhood took place in Vienna, the capital of a nation that Metternich was turning into the first modern police state.

The Ninth’s unveiling, on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year, and the work remains one of the most precedent-shatt...

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Plume/Penguin

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musicits performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy itand the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals:
How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world
Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre
That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise
How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in...

Teaching Little Fingers to Play: A Book for the Earliest Beginner (John Thompsons Modern Course f...

By: John Thompson

Willis Music

A series for the early beginner combining rote and note approach. The melodies are written with careful thought and are kept as simple as possible, yet they are refreshingly delightful. All the music lies within the grasp of the child's small hands.

Life

By: Keith Richards

Little, Brown and Company

The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentleman: Keith Richards.

With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.

Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. ...

Guitar For Dummies

By: Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell

For Dummies

Have you always wanted to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about itguitars are cool.

Guitar For Dummies 2nd Edition tells you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs to know: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it alland you don't even need to know how to read music. Full of photo-illustrated exercises and songs you can play to practice the techniques discussed in each section, this step-by-step guide will take you through the basics and beyond before you can say "Eric Clapton." You'll learn how to:

• Ma...

The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook (Guitar Chord Songbook)

By: The Beatles

Hal Leonard Corporation

This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by The Beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Also features a helpful playing guide and a full discography.

The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios and Cadences: Includes All the Major, Minor (Natu...

By: Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco

Alfred Publishing Company

Piano Music. Includes all the major, minor (natural, harmonic, melodic)&chromatic scales -- plus additional instrucitons on music fundamentals.

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Oliver Sacks

Vintage

Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer's patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a "musical species." --Dave Callanan

All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Seventh Edition

By: Donald S. Passman

Free Press

Since the advent of file-sharing technology in the late 1990s, the music industry has been challenged to reinvent itself. What has it done? How have the record labels repositioned themselves to cope with these massive changes? How does all this affect creative artists?

No one understands the music industry -- from the technology, to the legalities, to the new industry practices -- better than veteran music lawyer Donald Passman. In this completely revised and updated seventh edition of All You Need to Know About the Music Business, which the Los Angeles Times called "the industry bible" and which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies over the last eighteen years, Passman offers executives and artists, experts and novices alike the essential information they need not o...

How to Play Guitar: Everything You Need to Know to Play the Guitar

By: Roger Evans

St. Martin's Griffin

In How to Play Guitar guitar players of all levels will find a wealth of instruction and inspiration. Whether you want to play pop, folk, country, rock, blues, jazz, classical, or any other style of music, you will pick up the basic techniques without tedious drills and exercises. Using real music and a step-by-step approach, How to Play Guitar will teach you about:

Choosing and buying a guitar

Tuning your instrument correctly

Reading sheet music, guitar music, and tablature

Playing melodies with chords

Fingerpicking

Mastering left-hand techniques, including sliding and bending notes

Transposing melodies from one key to another and much more.

Slash

By: Slash, Anthony Bozza

It Books

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.

For the first time ever, Slash tells the tale that has yet to be told from the inside: how the legendary band Guns N' Roses came together, how they wrote the music that defined an era, how they survived insane, never-ending tours, how they survived themselves, and, ultimately, how it all fell apart. Slash is a window into the world of the notoriously private guitarist and a front seat on the roller-coaster ride that was one of history's greatest rock 'n' roll machines, always on the edge of self-destruction, even at the pinnacle of its success. Slash is everything Slash is: funny, honest, ingenious, inspiring, jaw-dropping . ...

Scar Tissue

By: Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman

Hyperion

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2nd Edition

By: Michael Miller

Alpha

A music theory book that hits the high note

This updated and expanded edition of The Complete Idiots Guide to Music Theory breaks down a difficult subject in a simple wayeven for those who think they have no rhythm or consider themselves tone deaf. With clear, concise language, it explains everything from bass-clef basics to confusing codas. This new edition includes:

-A brand-new CD
-A comprehensive ear-training section
-Musical examples of intervals, scales, chords, and rhythms
-Aural exercises so readers can test their ear training and transcription skills

BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

By: Mara Shalhoup

St. Martin's Press

Guitar Fretboard Workbook

Musicians Institute Press

Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easy-to-use book! Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A hands-on guide to theory, it will help you learn to build any scale or chord on your own and unleash creativity. No music reading is required.

Alfred's Group Piano for Adults Student Book 1 (Second Edition): An Innovative Method Enhanced Wi...

By: Lancaster, E. L., Renfrow, Kenon D.

Alfred Publishing

The Second Edition of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1, includes updates inspired by numerous recommendations from group piano teachers and students. This book includes a CD-ROM containing both Audio and General MIDI Files of the 500+ accompaniments included in the text, each with an interesting and engaging arrangement coupled with the piano part. Designed for collegiate non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience, the easy-to-use text contains 26 units, each intended to be covered in one week, thus fulfilling two semesters or three quarters of study. Theory, technique, sight-reading, repertoire, harmonization, improvisation and ensemble activities are taught thoroughly and consistently throughout the text. Book 1 is 360 pages.

Tonal Harmony

By: Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

For nearly two decades Tonal Harmony has been the leading text for the two-year theory curriculum for music majors. Used at nearly 800 schools, Tonal Harmony has been consistently praised for its practicality and ease of use for student and instructor alike. The straightforward approach is supported by well-chosen examples and thoughtful exercises, and the total presentation is compatible with differing teaching styles and theoretical points of view. In addition, a set outstanding ancillaries, which include a collection of audio examples on CD (for both the text and workbook) and an extensive Instructor's Manual, round out the comprehensive teaching package.

Harmonica For Dummies

By: Winslow Yerxa

For Dummies

Are you hankering to play the harmonica? Harmonica For Dummies is an easy-to-read practice guide that gives you step-by-step instructions and gets you making music in no time! Even if youre an experienced harmonica player, this jump-in-anywhere reference is packed with tips and playing techniques that will take your skills to the next level.

This fast, fun, hands-on guide helps you choose your first harmonica and shows you how to hold it, make your first sounds, and keep it clean and working well. Helpful diagrams show you how to shape sounds using your tongue, throat, and hands. Before you know it youll be playing melodies, chugging out rhythms, and bending notes with ease. Youll also pick up some basics of music theory and learn how to read the notation and tablature ...

Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Mainta...

By: NELSON TROY

HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

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Wicked - Piano/Vocal Arrangement

By: Stephen Schwartz

Hal Leonard

Nominated for a whopping 10 Tony Awards and grossing more than $1 million each week, Wicked is this year's Broadway smash! A prequel to the all-American classic The Wizard of Oz, this new musical is a character study of Elphaba and Glinda, school roommates who grow up to become the Wicked Witch and the Good Witch, respectively. Feature a special section of color photos from the production, a note from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, and these fantastic tunes: As Long as You're Mine ? Dancing Through Life ? Defying Gravity ? For Good ? I Couldn't Be Happier ? I'm Not That Girl ? No Good Deed ? No One Mourns the Wicked ? One Short Day ? Popular ? What Is This Feeling? ? The Wizard and I ? Wonderful.

Play Ukulele Today!: A Complete Guide to the Basics Level 1 (Play Today Instructional Series)

By: Barrett Tagliarino

Hal Leonard Corporation

This is the ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional quality CD with 61 full-demo tracks. It can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CD. This book includes over 60 great songs and covers: songs, chords and melodies; picking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and more.

699638 00699638 073999759358 0634078615 9780634078613 PLAY TODAY INSTRUCTIONAL SERIES SOFTCOVER WITH CD UKULELE TODAY! A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BASICS LEVEL 1 BARRETT TAGLIARINO

The Way I Am

By: Eminem

Plume

Chart topping-and headline-making-rap artist Eminem shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs in his New York Times bestseller The Way I Am

Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted, Eminem is known as much for his enigmatic persona as for being the fastest-selling rap artist and the first rapper to ever win an Oscar. Everyone wants to know what Eminem is really like-after the curtains go down. In The Way I Am, Eminem writes candidly, about how he sees the world. About family and friends; about hip-hop and rap battles and his searing rhymes; about the conflicts and challenges that have made him who he is today.

Illustrated with more than 200 full-color and black-and-white pho...

Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Lesson Book Level 1A

By: Willard Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco

Alfred Publishing Company

7 + and Beginners.

John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course Part 1

By: John Thompson

Willis Music

A comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of all children beginning the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations writing exercises sight reading drills review work accompaniments and more. Contains worksheets, reading-aloud exercises and accompaniments for teacher or parent.

The Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart

By: Various

Hal Leonard Corporation

The Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart Book is a handy booklet that includes 120 of the most commonly used guitar chords, as well as information on chord theory and easy-reference diagrams.

Piano Adventures Lesson Book, Level 1 (Faber Piano Adventures)

By: Nancy and Randall Faber

Faber Piano Adventures

Level 1 introduces all the notes of the grand staff, elementary chord playing, and the concept of tonic and dominant notes. Students play in varied positions, reinforcing reading skills and recognizing intervals through the 5th. Musicianship is built with the introduction of legato and staccato touches. This level continues the interval orientation to reading across the full range of the Grand Staff. The 5-finger approach is presented here in a fresh, musically appealing way.

Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells

By: Tommy James

Scribner

Everyone knows the hits -- "Mony Mony," "I Think We're Alone Now," "Crimson and Clover," "Crystal Blue Persuasion." They are nuggets of rock and pop history. However, few know the unlikely story of how these hits came to be. Tommy James had been performing locally, in Michigan, in rock bands since the age of 12. Prompted to record a few songs by a local DJ in 1964, Tommy chose an obscurity titled "Hanky Panky," which became a minor local hit that came and went.

Then, in 1966, the record was re-discovered by a Pittsburgh DJ who started playing it on heavy rotation, prompting a tremendous response. Soon, every record mogul in New York was pursuing Tommy and the band. And then an even odder thing happened: every offer but one disappeared, and James found himself in the office of Morri...

All-in-One Course for Children: Lesson, Theory, Solo, Book 1 (Alfred's Basic Piano Library)

By: Morton Manus, Willard A. Palmer

Alfred Publishing Company

The "All-in-One Course for Children" takes all of the pages from "Alfred's Basic Piano Library," Lesson Books 1A and 1B, plus selected pages from Theory, Recital and Fun Solo Books and combines them into part of a sequential five-book series. At the completion of Book 5, the student will be ready to continue into Level 3 of "Alfred's Basic Piano Library" or "Alfred's Premier Piano Course." This course is most effective when used under the direction of a piano teacher or experienced musician.

Hal Leonard Bass Method - Complete Edition: Books 1, 2 and 3 Bound Together in One Easy-to-Use Vo...

By: Ed Friedland

Hal Leonard Corporation

The critically acclaimed Hal Leonard Electric Bass Method in a handy composite edition! Contains 3 books and 3 CDs for Levels 1, 2, and 3. Tab. 144 pages.

The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Shorter Tenth Edition)

By: Kristine Forney, Joseph Machlis

W. W. Norton & Company

Used by more than 3.5 million students, The Enjoyment of Music has been the most trusted introduction to music for over five decades. The Tenth Edition reaffirms this status in a thoughtful revision offering a more diverse repertory and a stronger emphasis on the cultural significance of musical styles and periods.

Responding directly to the needs of todays students, Professor Forney has completely rewritten the chapters on musical elements for accessibility and integrated the textbook material with powerful new multimedia learning tools. These resourcesthe Student Resource DVD, StudySpace, and the Online Listening Labreinforce important concepts from the text through interactive, hands-on learning.

Essential Elements 2000 for Strings Plus DVD: Violin Book 1

Hal Leonard Corporation

Essential Elements 2000 for Strings by Michael Allen, Robert Gillespie, and Pamela Tellejohn-Hayes.

Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away

By: Martin Popoff

Ecw Press

Celebrating Rushs 30th anniversary, this retrospective of Canadas most successful music group examines each of the band's approximately 20 lauded records and sold-out tours, eliciting fresh insights into the marriage of Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lees classic, fearless art rock sound with Neil Peart's celebrated literary prowess. The product of extensive interviews with all three members and corroborating evidence from key insiders and press, this unprecedented examination features previously unpublished candid photographs by official band photographer Andrew MacNaughtan. Musings on playing live and the grind of touring are presented, revealing the trios evolution over the past three decades. A critical eye is focused on the bands vast catalog, resulting in a comprehensive, forward-moving c...

Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory: A Comprehensive and Convenient Source for All Musicians (Book)

By: Keith Wyatt, Carl Schroeder

Hal Leonard

Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary, this handy pocket-sized book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market! A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician, it includes thorough, yet to easy-to-understand analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures, transposition, chord inversion, key centers, harmonizing the major and minor scales, extended chords, modulation and much more. Packed with info from the Harmony & Theory course at Musicians Institute!