Hal Leonard

Why do pegs continuously slip or stick making it difficult to tune? Or endpins become stuck or keep sliding down? What about fine tuners that malfunction; strings that break, become false or fray; bow...

Learn to engage, excite, captivate and expand your audience! These practical techniques will help you to communicate with your listeners on a deeper, more interactive level. As you do, the concert exp...

The Complete Singer-Songwriter is the ultimate guide for the modern performer, chock-full of tips, tools, and inspiration for both aspiring troubadours and those looking to take their craft and career...

A choice selection of Foster's most famous and enduring songs arranged specifically for the uke, but suitable for all chord instruments. Songs include: Oh! Susanna - Beautiful Dreamer - Jeanie with th...

Despite Steely Dan's popularity, their ability to cultivate an ever-growing base of avid and loyal fans, and their chart positions, relatively little has been written about the group. The band has sol...

In 2009, the legendary Les Paul passed away at the age of 94. In celebration of his life, this book, capturing Paul's own reflections on his remarkable inventions and guitar playing, was published as...

Born in Texas and raised in Arizona, Buck Owens eventually found his way to Bakersfield, California. Unlike the vast majority of country singers, songwriters, and musicians who made their fortunes wor...

Composing music is a joy and a gift, but making it pay can be a real challenge. The competition is fierce, and talent alone is not enough to make you stand out - you also have to know what works and h...

Confessions of a Serial Songwriter is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peiken's journey from young girl falling under the spell of magical songs to working professional songwrite...

To be a great singer, talent and technique are obviously important, as are having excellent songs and being able to move an audience. But there's more to it than that, including two critical skills th...

Introduce students to jazz through great literature combined with learn by doing! The first of ten volumes, Jazz for Young People includes step-by-step lessons that combine content and audio/video rec...

Designed for the intermediate ukulele player, this book will guide you to a new level of musicianship on the instrument. By learning to arrange songs for solo performance on the uke, you'll gain inval...

Of all the knowledge that a good luthier - one who makes stringed musical instruments - can possess, knowledge of proper setup is far and away the most important. Proper setup can change a clunker int...

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one...

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one...

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one...

Today, musical composition for films is more popular than ever. In professional and academic spheres, media music study and practice are growing; undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scori...

Take your baritone uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard;...

Expand your banjo knowledge with the Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this volume includes detailed instruction with playing ex...

Learn fun and interesting Exersongs(TM) specifically created to help you develop fingerstyle techniques. Learn techniques used in classical, folk, Spanish, and contemporary fingerstyle arrangements wh...

Today, music video is as necessary as recording the music in the first place. If you can't see it on YouTube, it didn't happen. -Stephen Webber, Executive Director, BerkleeNYC If music is your passion...

Crowdfund your music career! Use Kickstarter, Patreon, Indiegogo, and other crowdfunding tools to connect to your fan base and run a successful fundraising campaign. Mobilize your fans to support your...

The focus of this book is on American mandolin music that was published circa 1900 during the Golden Age of the Mandolin in the United States (1885-1920), referred to by Mark Twain as The Gilded Age....

Tom Harrison's book How to Become a Film Composer gives up-and-coming composers the inspiration, information and the tools necessary to succeed in today's music for media industry. Harrison has spent...

Look into the lives of 40 authors, composers and translators of our favorite pre-20th century traditional Christmas songs heard around the world in this book by Dale V. Nobbman. Many of these individu...