Musik

Get down with rock, R&B, jazz, blues, funk, and Latin rhythms! Groove to the beat in no time with this ultimate rockin' guide! Whether you're dreaming of starting a band, striking the snares, or simply playing a hand drum, this interactive book-and-CD package makes it easy to pick up the basics.

The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be modern, ecstatic and playful as well as serious and intelligent, winning them legions of devoted fans throughout the world. In 1989, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe invited journalist Chris Heath and photographer Lawrence Watson to shadow them around Hong Kong, Japan and the UK as they embarked on their first-ever tour. This book is the result: an immersive portrait giving access into the duo‿s inner sanctum, showing them in brilliantly observed detail as they work, relax, gossip, argue and occasionally try to make sense of what they do. ‿As clear a picture as could be wished for of the seething mass of elegant contradictions that is the Pet Shop Boys‿ on-the-road experience.‿ Independent on Sunday‿This superbly reported book transcends tired rock journalism cliché. It‿s about what it means to be a pop star, what it means to be a Pet Shop Boy‿ how to love pop, hold it to a higher standard and subvert its expectations.‿ Laura Snapes

No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. it is an unusually intimate portrait of two maverick British musicians always reluctant to compromise. 'There was a time when the Pet Shop Boys seemed to exist entirely on radio, television and in magazines.

Me and My Piano is the best-selling series by the distinguished authors Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood, that has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Designed especially for the needs of the younger beginner and delightfully illustrated throughout, the series makes learning the piano an enjoyable experience for both pupil and teacher.This Complete Edition combines Parts 1 and 2 in one book. Part 1 takes the young pianist step by step through the earliest stages of piano technique, leading to very easy pieces for hands together using a constant five-finger hand position in C major. Part 2 builds on these foundations by extending the compass of notes, introducing new rhythms, note values, chords and changes of hand position. Games and puzzles throughout give elementary theory a new lease of life, and children will love the rhymes, songs and Monkey Puzzles pages.

During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in his iconic work for such classics as Casablanca, King Kong,Gone with the Wind, The Searchers, Now, Voyager, the Astaire-Rogers musicals, and over 200 other titles. And Steiner''s private life was a drama all its own. Born into a legendary Austrian theatrical dynasty, he became one of Hollywood''s top-paid composers. But he was also constantly in debtΓÇöthe inevitable result ofgambling, financial mismanagement, four marriages, and the actions of his emotionally troubled son. Throughout his chaotic life, Steiner was buoyed by an innate optimism, a quick wit, and an instinctive gift for melody, all of which would come to the fore as he met and worked with luminaries like Richard Strauss, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, the Warner Bros., David O. Selznick, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, and Frank Capra. In Music by Max Steiner, the first full biography of Steiner, author Steven C. Smith interweaves the dramatic incidents of Steiner''s personal life with anaccessible exploration of his composing methods and experiences, bringing to life the previously untold story of a musical pioneer and master dramatist who helped create a vital new art with some of the greatest film scores in cinema history.

Walking Bass for Jazz and Blues is a complete method to help beginners master each element of Blues and Jazz walking bass. It is designed to develop strong harmonic skills, rhythm, phrasing and note choice.

This perfect resource for any country guitar player contains three bestselling country guitar books in one complete volume. You'll go from absolute basics to playing astonishing country guitar solos. Contains Country Guitar for Beginners - Country Guitar Soloing Techniques - 100 Licks for Country Guitar

This 3-book compilation is filled with over 360 musical examples. Every concept and technique is demonstrated with stylistic licks and riffs - No mindless exercises! Throughout, creativity and understanding is prioritized to you with the knowledge and confidence to get playing immediately Audio is included for all the 360+ examples, including nine extended solo studies and backing tracks. The first two books provide an easy-to follow-method for learning heavy metal guitar from the ground up. For the beginner, with the fundamentals in place, each book starts from the classic rock influences of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, before charting a course through metal's varied development.

Da Nirvana og grungebølgen skyllede ind over Danmark trak kidsene i Dr. Martens og skovmandsskjorter for at stagedive sig igennem energiudladninger med de hjemlige åndsfæller i den "grønne bølge": Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, Kashmir, Pysched Up Janis og Inside The Whale. Det blev raketbrændstof for drengedrømmene for Lars, Troels, Peter og Marcus, der med ét blev skudt af sted på en uforudsigelig rutsjebanetur. For 25 år siden tog jeg på en vild og livsforandrende rejse med 3 af mine bedste venner. Tag med fra de første øvere i parcelhuset i Lind, med en enkel cockerspaniel som publikum, til sejrsrunder på landets største scener - fra undergrunden til "Ugens Uundgåelige" - i medgang og modgang igennem årtiet, der gav os grunge, firdelt fipskæg, britpop, Friends og samlede en generation i musikken. "Tiden Der Tog Os" er en ærlig, humoristisk og aldeles subjektiv biografi fortalt fra den inderste kreds af 90’ernes danske musikscene - backstage, onstage, i studiet, i bandbussen og medierne. Det er også historien om at gå efter drømmene og at definere sig selv uden for de sædvanlige rammer.

'A cheerful and illuminating read, full of delicious anecdotes and valuable nuggets. It does what Krueger did best - brings economics to life, and life to economics.' The TimesHow the music industry explains the workings of our economy, changes in markets and prepares us the future - from one of the modern era's foremost economists

A young woman leaves Appalachia for a life as a classical musician in New York-or so she thinks.

An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s.Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spectrum of alternative music, from psychedelia, prog, and punk, through industrial, electronica, and stoner rock. Hawkwind has been variously, if erroneously, positioned as the heir to both Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground, and as Britain's answer to the Grateful Dead and Krautrock. It has defined a genre—space rock—while operating on a frequency that's uniquely its own.Hawkwind offered a form of radical escapism and an alternative account of a strange new world for a generation of young people growing up on a planet that seemed to be teetering on the brink of destruction, under threat from economic meltdown, industrial unrest, and political polarization. While other commentators confidently asserted that the countercultural experiment of the 1960s was over, Hawkwind took the underground to the provinces and beyond. In Days of the Underground, Joe Banks repositions Hawkwind as one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. It's not an easy task. As with many bands of this era, a lazy narrative has built up around Hawkwind that doesn't do justice to the breadth of its ambition and achievements. Banks gives the lie to the popular perception of Hawkwind as one long lysergic soap opera; with Days of the Underground, he shows us just how revolutionary Hawkwind was.

Dark Days is a memoir centreing around one of the more extraordinary stories in heavy metal in recent years, that of the arrest, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter-in the Czech Republic-of D. Randall Blythe, lead singer of the hugely successful metal band Lamb of God.

From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster  town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the  famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he  called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand,  guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He  rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and  Hollywood''s biggest stars. He was one of America''s  favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him.  Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the  image--the dark side of the American dream. It''s a  wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex,  ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast,  and without  apologies.

James Newell Osterberg Jr., better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter and musician, widely acknowledged as the "The Godfather of Punk". From Raw Power to Lust for Life, he has written a number of influential albums and iconic singles both as the vocalist of The Stooges and as a solo artist who collaborated with David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Alice Cooper and many more.

Title: Glastonbury 50, Author: Emily Eavis, Publication Year: 2019-10-31, Publisher: Orion Publishing Co, Language: eng

The book offers readers a deeper understanding of Ambisonic technologies, and will especially benefit scientists, audio-system and audio-recording engineers. In the advanced sections of the book, fundamentals and modern techniques as higher-order Ambisonic decoding, 3D audio effects, and higher-order recording are explained.

A great companion for both guitar and piano players, this book places the most popular chords in context. Includes clear diagrams and concise information on what chords are, how they can be used, and what they can be used alongside, with guidance on chord progressions.

Featuring a foreword by Suggs and jam-packed with iconic images, this is the definitive visual history of the Suedehead way of life.

Frank Zappa was an unremitting musical innovator and experimenter always looking for ways to exploit the latest advances in technology. His working life coincided with the explosive development of music technology that ran from the 1960s through the following three decades. Without such inventions as the Marshall amplifier the Gibson SG the wah-wah pedal and the Synclavier¿much of it modified to his requirements and used in ways for which they had never been designed¿Zappa's air sculptures as his music has been described would have had a significantly different shape and texture. Lavishly illustrated¿including over 180 unique photographs of Frank Zappa's guitars and equipment taken by the author at his UMRK studio in LA and featuring a foreword by Dweezil ZappäZappa's Gear offers an unprecedented inside look at the machinery behind the legendary music. In addition to a detailed presentation of the equipment Zappa's Gear also introduces some of the pioneering inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs without whom the instruments would not exist. Zappa's Gear is an official Frank Zappa book produced and written with the full cooperation and endorsement of Gail Zappa and the Zappa Family Trust.

From one of the greatest rappers of all time, comes a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's Golden Era.

Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Robert Johnson.

Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous-and most English-rock band.

MR. TAMBOURINE MAN THE STORY OF THE BYRDS GENE CLARK

Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) var en ener. Han blev uddannet som klassisk pianist i 1941 og komponerede sidenhen sine egne værker. Endda i stor stil. I sine mest produktive perioder skrev han 15-20 af slagsen om året. Han var heller ikke ræd for at kaste sig ud i nye genrer eller eksperimenter. Bentzons værkliste rummer alt fra klavermusik, kammermusik, operaer, symfonier til happenings, hvor han smed kålhoveder i hovedet på publikum eller delte chokolade ud.I Bentzon tegner Toke Lund Christiansen for første gang et mangefacetteret billede af den farverige og fandenivoldske Bentzon. Gennem sit virke som solofløjtenist i DR SymfoniOrkestret var Lund Christiansen med til at opføre en lang række af Bentzons værker og fik også lejlighed til at opbygge et nært venskab med ham. Dette unikke kendskab giver en sjælden indsigt i drivkraften bag en af Danmarks vigtigste komponister i det 20. århundrede. For Bentzons liv var ikke bare fyldt med stor musik og kunstneriske opture, men også med store nedture og alvorlige psykiske lidelser.Biografien henvender sig både til den musikkyndige og den alment kulturelt interesserede læser. Og selv om nogle af os muligvis ikke har hørt om Niels Viggo Bentzon før nu, har vi alle sammen nok spidset ører til mindst et af hans værker. I 1984 komponerede Bentzon nemlig DSB’s velkendte lydsignal ud fra tonerne D-Es-B.

Denne bog er en indgående og praktisk vejledning i, hvordan man bygger en klassisk guitar.Bogens tekst er ledsaget af mere end 300 illustrationer: udførlige arbejdstegninger og fotografier, der anskueliggør hvert enkelt arbejdstrin klart og tydeligt - ned til mindste detalje."Guitaren er det smukkeste instrument, mennesket har skabt". Andrés Segovia