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She Bop is the definitive in-depth study of women in popular music. Drawing on more than 250 firsthand interviews, it covers nine decades of musical history, from ragtime and vaudeville to punk and hi...

This is the second installment in the Modern Drummer Legends series. It includes Alex's 1983, 1993, and 2008 Modern Drummer cover stories along with transcriptions of classic Van Halen tracks, beats,...

Chad Smith's career has been well documented, and his five Modern Drummer cover features have provided a detailed commentary and an array of unique photos. All of this is collected in Chad Smith Legen...

This latest entry in Backbeat's bestselling handbook series starts by exploring the humble beginnings of blues guitar through the early decades of the 20th century, including profiles of such players...

The Jazz Guitar Handbook is a step-by-step guide to jazz guitar playing. It takes you from the basics through to advanced harmony and soloing concepts, and teaches you the music theory a jazz guitaris...

Play lead guitar today! Copyrighted photo charts show you how to play fantastic lead guitar. The finger positions have been number-coded. Follow the numbers on the photo charts and play lead guitar ef...

Rock's magic chords exposed. Learn the rock chord progressions that have created the vast majority of rock's greatest hits. Learn to compose your own music. Easy to follow flow charts show you how to...

By following the series of progressive exercises laid out here, drummers who already possess a substantial level of solo skills, but who want to add a greater degree of rhythmic and visual interest to...

Jake joins the band at school to play clarinet. He continually refuses to play the clarinet correctly as demanded by his band director and private music teacher. Jake is stubborn. All Jake wants to do...

This spiral-bound collection features arrangements for oboe and piano of four pieces by Chip Davis: Bittersweet - Christmas Lullaby - Nepenthe - Sun in the Rain. With a separate pull-out part for oboe...

Play by ear! Write your own songs! With four basic forms play all the chords you'll ever need! Written by the creator of the Guitar Chord Pickin'Tionary, Playing Bar Chords will introduce you to a wor...

This method book features easy to follow strumming diagrams. Follow the photos with frets and fingers that are numbered. learn to coordinate chord movements with strumming. Create your own strums and...

The electric bass guitar is central to modern music, playing a key role in melody, harmony, and rhythm. This new, revised edition of The Bass Handbook will help you master the instrument and make it y...

In California in the early '50s, the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then, but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the so...

Bass Secrets brings together 48 columns highlighting specific topics - ranging from the technical to the philosophical - from masters such as Stu Hamm, Randy Coven, Tony Franklin and Billy Sheehan. Th...

This owner's guide for electric guitarists and bassists features numerous tips on auditioning and buying a (bass) guitar, choosing new strings, maintenance and tuning, and other aspects that are uniqu...

With a world full of many conflicting voices, it's not always easy to find your own. When you do, you might feel that it is regularly lost in the din of the world. But this is not true. You do have a...

Welcome to The Fender Archives - part history, part archive, part scrapbook, and part treasure chest. You are invited along on a research expedition, a sort of archeological dig through several sites:...

PRS guitars today appeal to a growing number of musicians, from Carlos Santana to Al Di Meola, from Zach Myers to Mark Tremonti. This book examines every part of PRS history, with an in-depth story, b...

Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own - a glitzy, wacky, retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all kinds of popular music, from timeless stars to unknown teens. The Beat...

To many vintage guitar fans, it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and, during the following year, introduced a completely new design, the one that we know now as the...

Armed with a macro lens, an incredible eye for detail, and a truly groundbreaking vision, Lisa Johnson's guitar art is taking the world of fine art photography on a rock-and-roll ride. A compilation o...

The Guitar Amp Handbook: Understanding Tube Amplifiers and Getting Great Sounds, Updated Edition brings fresh information to the table to help guitarists understand everything about what makes their a...

Chord Master is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes - which are all there in the Chord Matrix - a large portion of the book explains how to use chords, with inform...

Tom Wheeler, author of the landmark Stratocaster Chronicles (9780634056789), a book that covered the first 50 years of the Strat, now has delivered the perfect companion book to any guitar player's bo...