A Practical Approach to Acting, Singing, and Living Inside the Stories W
Noted director and educator William Wesbrooks provides an exciting and eminently practical approach for singers and actors who want to think about their work in a way that brings them a greater sense of vitality, freedom, and empowerment.
Improve Your Skills, Improve Your Choir - A Brief Guide for the New or U
Choirs are an important component of leadership for congregational worship. In some communities, persons are recruited to be choir directors, but they have not been prepared for the job. This modest handbook is designed to help new or untrained choir directors improve both themselves and their choir and also increase the personal satisfaction of ......
Get a better understanding of music's origins and how it has morphed throughout the centuries with this jam-packed, 6 page study guide. Within each page, you'll find detailed information on the elements of music, noteworthy composersaalong with their most famous piecesafrom both past and present, musical instruments, different music genres, and ......
Riffs - How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs (Revised and Updated E
Explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2, and the White Stripes. This book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals the stories behind their creation. It shows how to construct great riffs and why they work.
Silver plating, solid silver, or gold? Open-hole or closed-hole keys, a B-foot or a C-foot, split-E or donut, inline or offset G? This book answers these questions. It offers information on how workmanship, materials, and other elements make for different instruments with vastly different prices.
Trumpet and Trombone, Flugelhorn and Cornet - The Complete Guide
Focuses on the smaller horns in the brass family, explaining the jargon you're likely to come across when you're out to buy or rent an instrument, from bell and leadpipe material to the shape of the bore, the valves and valve slides, and of the other elements that make up the sound and the playability of your horn.
Offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert worldwide. This book presents his intimate understanding of these works with listeners and players alike.
A course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a source of fresh ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have already achieved professional standing. It contains advice on how to write the always-popular genres - the country song, the ballad, and the love song - as well as examples of hard rock, heavy metal, and hip-hop.
