Centerstream Publications

An introduction to the most commonly used scales and techniques for the modern blues player, complete with demonstration CD for several of the examples.

With an emphasis on the essentials of blues, instructor/host Dave Celentano provides clear and valuable insight for playing great blues guitar. This hour-long DVD teaches: the blues boxes for soloing;...

If you woke up this morning feeling blue about the state of your guitar playing, help is on the way without having to sell your soul to the devil at the crossroads. This book will have your hammers ho...

Concentrating on the melody or harmony of a piece is a great exercise for when you have to do both. For this book, author James Douglas Esmond has chosen a dozen pieces out of the classical domain whi...

During the first quarter of the 20th century, most of America's hit songs were produced on a two-block stretch of 28th Street in New York City known as Tin Pan Alley for the constant racket of beat-up...

This collection of fingerstyle guitar pieces is a voyage from 18th century country dance tunes to 19th century parlor or domestic guitar music, to music that found its way to traditional rural players...

Get ready to develop your performance skills and musicianship, and take your playing to the next level with Solos & Duets for Classical Guitar! This book has a little something for every guitarist, bu...

Ritchie Valens was the first nationally recognized Latino rock 'n' roll star. He had a meteoric rise to fame in a career that lasted barely eight months, before his tragic death along with Buddy Holly...

Ritchie Valens was the first nationally recognized Latino rock'n' roll star. He had a meteoric rise to fame in a career that lasted barely eight months, before his tragic death along with Buddy Holly,...

Dave Celentano teaches many new and innovative ways to use tapping with pentatonic and diatonic scales, sequences, and arpeggios. Features great tips and pointers, lessons on soloing over chord change...

Guitar instructor/host Dave Celentano teaches innovative and diverse ways of playing the pentatonic scale in rock and heavy metal. He covers: the five position patterns for the pentatonic scale; seque...

This complete guide to understanding and using triads for rhythm and lead guitar unlocks the mysteries of triads. It includes theory, practical advice, valuable tips, and tons of examples to get you p...

Ce livre ne se contente pas de fournir une collection de reels, jigs, valses, county-rags, etc. traditionnels. Dans ces pages, vous trouverez également des instructions sur les gammes, les modes et la...

Rosin up your bow and get ready to fiddle! This collection features 90 reels, 90 jigs, 93 hornpipes, 15 clogs and 15 strathspeys, plus a fascinating article on the history of old-time fiddling contest...

The Höfner Violin Bass Guitar is one of the most instantly recognizable musical instruments ever made. Its fame was assured when a certain young English guitarist walked into a shop in Hamburg in 1961...

Introduced in 1951, the Fender Precision Bass is the precursor of all modern electric basses. This book takes a look at the history of the slab body basses and the most famous players. In addition to...

The vintage guitar collecting market continues to grow. This book is the first of its kind to report on Washburn guitars, mandolins, banjos and ukuleles made before 1940. It contains detailed informat...

Many guitar players, famous and not so famous, began playing on Japanese electric guitars, yet the history of the people and factories that produced these instruments has remained largely ignored. For...

The Gibson Les Paul Standard 1958-1960 is one of the greatest designs to emerge from Gibson. Revered by the great players of our generation, the tone and quality of these instruments has never been su...

B. B. King was the acknowledged King of the Blues. In this second edition of the popular book, Eric E. Dahl picks up where the story left off. The new chapters cover the passing of B. B. King, his awa...

This complete reference guide takes you through StaffPad, the music notation and composition app available for Microsoft Surface and Apple iPad tablets. This phenoenal app allows you to write music no...

Here's a truly special collection of gospel favorites drawn from the traditions of many faiths and cultures. It brings a delightful mix of treasured worship songs - songs of praise and petition, hymns...

Familiar and treasured themes from operas, symphonies, concertos and keyboard compositions from works by Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and more are brought together in this collecti...

This unique collection features 37 selections with reference to many more from radio's golden age presented in standard notation and tablature. It includes a sampling of best-loved and well-remembered...