Instruments Books

I don't own this book, but I wish I did. The movie is wonderful, and the soundtrack has a number of great songs that I really like. According to Amazon's product description of this book, it includes vocal, piano, and guitar sheet music for 11 of the 13 songs on the Ice Princess soundtrack. If you like any (or all) of the songs on the Ice Princess soundtrack and play piano (like me) or guitar, I think you'd really like this book. I expect it to be wonderful, and I really hope it lives up to that expectation if I (or you) ever get this book.

(The 13 songs on the Ice Princess soundtrack are "No One" - Aly & AJ; "Reach" - Caleigh Peters; "Reachin' For Heaven" - Diane DeGarmo; "If I Had it My Way" - Emma Roberts; "I Fly" - Hayden Panettiere; "Get Your Shine On" - Jesse McCartney; "Just a Dream" - Jump5; "It's Oh So Quiet" - Lucy Woodward; "You Set Me Free" - Michelle Branch; "Unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield; "Bump" - Raven-Symone; "Get Up" - Superchic; and "There is No Alternative" - Tina Sugandh. Samples of these songs can be heard on Amazon's Ice Princess soundtrack page or iTunes.)

I never read it before but i saw this movie. I like it much more so i want to find it to read but i think there is something mistake about its ISBN. I tried to key ISBN for checking but it cann't check. Can you send the correct ISBN to me. Thanks for your help.

This book rocks so much it makes me feel like a star.

This book is about a geeky girl who decides to do her science project about ice skating. To juice it up she does it herself. She doesn't know how to ice skate.She takes lessons for about a year.Before you know it,she becomes a perfessional ice skater!

Love this cd and wonderful with Celine Dion. I like all the different languages and "Si Tu Me Amas, and Dour Que Tu M'aimes Encore (and all the others too.) Tell me, re: Ancora...my daughter (who speaks French and Spanish fluently) and I are guessing that ancora means, again, encore, repeat....are we right?
My best to the four true divos! Stephanie, Newport Beach, CA. USA

i was very pleased with the item. It is worth it to buy as it has all the music sheet for the album ancora of Il Divo and the arrangements are true to the original

From the information provided on the Amazon web page I knew that this was a paperback book...contents unknown. It should be labelled as "music sheets for piano, vocal and guitar". I could not get further information from Amazon about the contents, so bought the book thinking it might be a discography or highlights of a recent tour. I cannot comment about the usefulness of the songbook as I am not musically inclined.

If you love Il Divo, you HAVE to have this book! Ancora is written for Piano/Vocal/Guitar and has the vocal harmonies written out. It is a great find! The group takes popular songs and sings them in a classical style. It's something fun and different! I love it!

First of all, you can't be a beginner with this book (and it says so). This is a book for the experienced guitarist/musician looking to raise their playing to greater heights. The exercises in it are often crazy, boggling the fingers and the mind - extremely challenging, but the cd is helpful. Dillard explains things in a very relaxed fashion often dispursed with a little humor. I will certainly be working out of this book for a while and totally appreciate the efforts of the author to explain that "shredding" does not have to be a mindless journey into speed and theory, but rather one of expressive tonal choice to match a song. I've been playing for over 20yrs and have finally found a book that will move my drudged playing in a new and fresh direction (even though I'm not a "shred head").

I started using this book about a week ago. I've played off and on for ~25 years and wanted to practice different techniques to break out of the "rut" I have dug myself into through moderate dedication to the guitar due to many other commitments. This book is one that is mostly removed from jamming riffs (there are some, I just haven't used them yet), but has a lot of excercises that work on picking, odd finger sequences, arpeggios and repeated sequences. It has some very good recommendations for practice routines (time scheduling for efficiency and focus) and applications to specific styles of music. Not for the beginner guitarist!! This book requires dedication to acheive the desired outcome of truly independent finger dexterity for all styles of lead guitar playing. It focuses on the technical aspects of finger coordination required for ultimate flexibility in lead guitar mastery. I know, there are lot of abstract concepts here, but if you understand what I'm implying, you will progress quite a bit if you really practice and dedicate yourself to learnig this material (very similiar to Steve Vai's 20hr? guitar workout routine).

This engaging book is full of helpful tips. The CD is great and you can tell this guy is qualified to write a guitar book. I've bought my fair share of music books over the last 15 years and never have I seen so much useful information packed into one text. For less than the cost of a lesson, you will not be disappointed in this extremely practical book!

Kevin has written an amazing guitar resource. I highly recommend this book. It explains complex ideas in a down to earth way. The CD is mind boggling-he can actually play what he talks about. Excellent resource!!!!

First off, Joe Diorio is a major, major talent and this book, like all his others, has loads to transmit. I was at a place in my playing where I knew I needed a new approach to soloing; I intuitively felt it'd be a help to start thinking more "intervallically," so when I found this book I thought Perfect! It definitely opened new approaches for me and certainly broadened my understanding of what it means to think in intervals rather than scales, scales, scales. I do think, though, that the sound of these lines aren't at all "ultramodern"; many of them, if used in a jamming situation actually come across sounding like exercises. The idea with this book is to absorb the core concepts and then apply the approach to what you're already using in your soloing. It broadens horizons, but shouldn't be looked upon as a book of soloing ideas as such.

The thing about this book that got to me is there's no stinkin metronome, and no stinkin chords, just 99 or so awesome licks. If you've ever wondered how guys like Eric Johnson got as good as they did, you don't have to look too much further than this book. If you can get these lines into your hands, you will improve your lead playing ability regardless of musical bent. It's a visceral book from a guy who's grown beyond convention. Suggested harmonies for the designs are given but the lines are powerful unto themselves. At the end Joe does two takes on a free form blues improvisation in B flat. This dude can play !

This book tries to break the average guitar player out of just playing scales and more towards playing intervals. It shows you how to take something like a minor pentatonic and play it intervallically, which really helps open up your ears to ideas you would never get from just practicing scales up and down. Very good to widen your vocabulary of lines. A++.

This one of the most unique guitar books EVER ...
Whatever style you play this book will teach you something ! it starts with very simple pentatonic intervalic designs and then gradually stretches to the outer limits ! it has a cool section which explains (via examples) how outside sounds are obtained over common chords, rather that just play the licks you'll finally understand how the "outside" sound is produced, with this book you'll also see where frank gambale, scott henderson, jennifer batten and even paul gilbert got a lot of their stuff :) I don't even play jazz but this book has REALLY helped me in many ways, Joe Diorio is a master player and the lines here will also help your technique, they're HARD !

I began learning to play guitar almost exactly two years ago with this book. Since that time, I have gone through all six books in this series, Introduction to Guitar 1 and 2, Intermediate Guitar 1 and 2, and Advanced Guitar 1 and 2. The genre of music that I concentrate on is Hot Blues but these books teach theory, practical application and technique that are applicable to any style with either electric or acoustic. Before I started, I had no idea how the world's great guitarists performed their improvisational solos. Now I am able to improvise solos myself and have learned how to integrate them into the structure of the song. This is only one example of many things I have learned to do with the help of these books. The format is easy to understand and laid out in a logical manner and should be easily understood by children as well. The spiral binding is good since the books can be laid flat for viewing while playing. I can't really think of anything negative to say. I highly recommend the Davison series. In fact, If you are serious, I think they are mandatory for learning to play.

My son has bought the first three books in this series during the past nine months, and he's made amazing progress. The books emphasize improvisational techniques, and are ideal for students who are really serious about learning how to play the guitar. Highly recommended.

Very well written and informative. I'm a guitar instructor myself and I teach from these books.

Very well written and informative. I'm a guitar instructor myself and I teach from these books.

This is one of the best chronicles of that 60s social phenomenon known as the Counterculture ever, and there are many. I'm so very glad that it is still available after all these years, and you can't beat the price. Amazing, considering what you are getting. If you have an interest in that period, by all means order this book! It's sure to delight. I got mine (several, in fact) back sometime soon after '87 as a cut out for about $1.99 or so. There were a lot of them then. The cover price was $9.95, so it was a deal. I guess they didn't sell so well, maybe.

It's a fine book, for those who wish to study and/or relive that time, and for collectors alike, and contains plenty of photos. It even has two sections in glorious color. I don't know if it was ever released in large, coffee table size, but it should have been.

But what I really want to know is---what happened to the companion VIDEO? It seemed to have been a one-time thing. About 1 hour 40 minutes in length, it was shown on PBS in 1987 and, to my knowledge never again on any other station, nor was it ever (again, so far as I know) offered commercially. Those who were lucky enough to know copied the broadcast on their primitive (probably monaural) video cassette recorders. Otherwise, it seems to have been lost to time.

This video by the same name as the book so much should be reissued and made available to the public. It contains many by now classic interviews with the movers and shakers, such as: George, Paul, Ringo & John, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Abbie Hoffman, etc.,---plus vintage be-in, rally and concert footage, more interviews, philosophizing, a fantastic animation and 3D zoom of the iconic images of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, not to mention song by song analysis of the lp, etc. It swirls with color and presents an intellectual side of the 60s counterculture not often covered. We've had The Beatles Anthology, and it was great. Why not this?

I bought this book in '87 when I was 20 years old living in L.A. What a great introduction to the Beatles and the impact of Sgt. Pepper's. The book mostly quoted other people; big names and people who where involved in the making of Sgt. Pepper's and other cultural wittness. D. Taylor never got bogged down in the quotes. Instead, you get quick little excerpts of people's thoughts. You can easily open to any page and read incredible happenings/thoughts - that was how I read the book the first time. As the years went by, I read it cover to cover. Every page is LOADED with pictures. If you got a teenagers or young adult who is getting into Sgt. Pepper's, I highly suggest this book. This will be required reading in my house as my children come of age.

There are countless books about the 60s, but only a few which really capture the feeling of limitless possibilities & potential as we experienced it then. This is one of those books, written by someone who was there on the inside, participating & observing in delight & wonder ... & perhaps a litle bit of bemused trepidation, too. For younger generations, the 60s are often just a flashy mass of superficial cliches, co-opted by commercial culture & stripped of any deeper meaning. Derek Taylor reminds us that it was a period of yearning, of searching, of exploration ... and yes, sometimes youthful folly. But that was part of the journey, for as William Blake told us nearly two centuries before, "If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise."

What's especially enjoyable about this book is that it covers a lot of ground that gets overlooked by the usual 30-second clips & sound bites of this era. The London poetry scene, the synergy in the arts -- it's all here, with tidbits of unexpected information. For example, the Beatles mulling the possibility of starring in a film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings," with Paul as Frodo, Ringo as Sam, George as Gandalf, and John as Gollum? Could there have been better casting? :)

Such was the colorful, absurdly wonderful reality of that brief moment in time, when it truly seemed possible to tear down the "dark, Satanic mills" & build a better world. It must seem utterly unreal & impossible to a younger generation, but yes, the everyday world wasn't always such a dark, cynical, despairing place ... and maybe it offers hope that we can outlive these current bleak times & eventually build something better one day.

Definitely recommended!

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Sure ya do.

Yer a kid, and you're surfing the net
and I've seen you, outside,
in your bell bottom pants.

Bell bottoms. Oh god. *grin*

But fashion isn't the point here; nor the drug culture,
nor the music, nor the being-in, nor the Be-ins. There were
truths being explored and exposed about this world
we lived in then--truths you have profited from--oh yes, you have.

And Derek Taylor let me in on a few. And he does it wonderfully,
as only a real insider can. With respect and concern and some
sadness, for a time that passed away too fast.

I grew up in that era--okay, I didn't; I was just a tad too young,
just a tad too scared, just a tad too unable to completely grasp
what was happening in places I never really knew the geography of--inner, or otherwise.

Though, to a degree, being eleven made it easier for me
to grasp some of the new ways--whether I realized it or
not. Being young is like that, lemma tell you

or you can tell me. *grin*

No past to climb on. Searching for clues. Listening to rock stars. Following your muse.

But the inner geography still exists--whether it died a slow,
external, corporate death, or not. And Derek was there. Just
like he was there, in the car with the Beatles being crushed
with the mobs of Beatlemania, in 1964.

He was there and it scared the hell of out him too. But in a
way, that it's okay to be scared; in a way, that makes you sit
up and think. And he did some and he did some drugs and he'll
tell you about it, so that you understand why, and he cleared
his mind and so did a lot of people..

during that view.

That view? The Summer of 1967. Or thereabouts.

This book is filled with quotes and facts and people and music
and people and ideologies and people and no one has a
franchise on what the 60's was selling. You dig?

So take a look and be amazed and learn where you're headed.

Cos this is where you came from.

Try this book. It's good.

I thank you.

This is a great sax jazz duets book. The compositions are interesting and there are separate rhythm sections to study the phrasing. I am using this with a friend and it has been very helpful. A great learning resource!

This is one of my favorite saxophone duet books -- very creative, musical duets, presented in a wonderful, progressively challenging format. The CD is easy to use, and the tempos are not too fast. Lots of fun!

I really enjoyed playing the songs from this book especially it allows me to practice without partner with the help of the CD. They are all new fresh songs written by Bruze Eskovitz and Ernie Watts. The CD covers all the songs in this book and helps you to hear how they play. To allow the CD accompany your part, you can mute the part that you want to play by sliding the balance slider to the left (mute second part) or to the right (mute first part) on your stereo.
It's really great for intermediate level student, not recommended for beginner. If you love playing jazz, it will help you to master the improvisation and give the idea on applying the improvisation to any songs you play.
I wish they sell the full band accompaniment CD or the piano accompaniment book.

Good intermediate level.Well written and playable. I use it with my private students.

Years ago I had bought this course when it was all on cassette and cost $75 a pop. I had bought the blues course and liked it, then got this thinking that it might help. Unfortunately I didn't appreciate jazz as much back then and decide to exchange it for a more "practical" country hot licks, as that was what I was playing more of back then and mistakenly didn't see a need to persue a study of jazz, which seemed complicated to me then.
Now years later I have developed more of an interest in jazz and have tried a few differnt book/cd courses, without a great deal of results. I remembered that course and how the other prolick courses had helped me, so I decided to look for the jazz course on the internet only to find that it didn't exist in that format, but rather in a more affordable book and cd.
I had remembered the old courses were a great deal of talk and explaination, and a little booklet with notes and tabs. Now the cd contains the solos played through once, then just the rhythm track so you can practice along with it, with a lot of explaination written in the book. It has tab and notation(what guitar player reads notes when they have tabs?) It seems to have a lot of info on different techniques used in jazz. I've not gotten all the way through it yet, but I'm enjoying what I've done so far.
If you're a guitar player that's played other types of music over the years and are looking to get into jazz, or just looking to grab a few licks and concepts that will enhance your own style of playing, I think you'll like this one.

I bought this book last week, influenced by a friend who owns it.

Actually the book is very self explained, with step-by-step tips of the tecnique involved in the licks of each song, wich has its own versions without the guitars, in order to improve the skills obtained by the student throughout practicing.

I've been playing guitar for 24 years and I found this book to be extremely informative and helpful. The book is very detailed in the deconstruction of the solos, which is the greatest way to learn to take a solo, learn it, then make it your own by adding your own ideas! The information in this book is enough to keep you practicing for a VERY long time. There's so much on substitutions and on using different scales over changes that seem intimidating, but, with this book, you'll never be confused again! I highly recommend this book. This book is worth ten times the price.

Like one of the other reviewers, I had purchased this instructional tape series but only two parts: Arpeggio Substitutions and Tension & Resolution. To say that I purchased those tapes about 15 years ago and I STILL USE THE SUBSTITUTIONS THAT I LEARNED IN THIS BOOK TODAY. Listen, just get this book... You won't regret it...

PS- There's a typo in the book description. The book is actually 72 pages long...

Here's what you get in this book: Six substantial solos, recorded and written out (tab and music notation...), each with specific and easy to understand discussion, phrase by phrase, of how the notes were chosen. The solos and chord progressions are great...right in the bop/post bop zone, and, the phrase by phrase disection provides an immediately applicable resource. The analysis of the solos gets you playing those elusive jazz sounds right away, and lots of sensible narrative means you will understand the theory. For me, this is the one book I wish I had thirty years ago. Great value.

Sherry Shahan's 'The Jazzy Alphabet' is the hippest A-B-C ever to hit the streets. This alphabet is really cookin' hot or cool. It's the only boogie-boppin', singin' and rompin' family of letters around. The text is rhythmic and with it in the blues jargon. Parents you may have to tell your little ones what some of those jazzy words are, like: cuttin' the rug, jazzy jingle, juba and jive and mad-dog tooter. Each page has items that the children can identify by the matching letter. The muscially-inclined orchestra will get your toes tapping in no time.

Here's a sample:

Abazaba alley cat
and boogie-woogie bebop a boogaloo.
Bim-bam blues!

Cool cats cuttin' the rug with
a clip-clop clappin' happenin'.
D's on the drums,
down and dirty.
"Dig it! Dig it!"

This may sound racy to some for a little child. Someone has to explain to me what down and dirty means? Just to give some parents a clear judgement of the lingo in the book. Other than that it's a cool book. A nice collection for folks like me who loves musically-inclined alphabet books. The illustrations done by Mary Thelen are lively and whimiscal collages made with silk-screen Color-Aid papers and gouache-painted textures. The illustrations react with the music text as they dance across the page with that little Razzmatazz! It's the cat's MEOW!

"Abazaba alley cat A, Bebop a boogaloo, bim bam blues..." I wrote that last line from memory, so excuse any mispellings. My son loves this book so much I can do the whole thing from beginning to end in my sleep... the pictures are wonderful, bright and full of detail. Lots of animals to name, objects that begin with the appropriate letter are incorporated into each page, and the people depicted are multicultural. The text is alliterative and rhythmic (NOT rhyming,as one of the print reviews says), and really captures the movement of jazz.

The recommended age is 5-9, but my son has been in love with this book since he was 12 months old. He's 15 months now, and still demands it upwards of 10 times a day. He loves to find the kitty cat and the little boy that are found on every page of the book (except one) and will clap his hands with the rythym.
I just pray our copy will last for more than a year... this book is really getting a workout in our house.

Read it in your best "blues man" voice, and you've got a winner for any preschooler! Va-va-varoom!

"Abazaba alley cat A, Bebop a boogaloo, bim bam blues..." I wrote that last line from memory, so excuse any mispellings. My son loves this book so much I can do the whole thing from beginning to end in my sleep... the pictures are wonderful, bright and full of detail. Lots of animals to name, objects that begin with the appropriate letter are incorporated into each page, and the people depicted are multicultural. The text is alliterative and rhythmic (NOT rhyming,as one of the print reviews says), and really captures the movement of jazz.

The recommended age is 5-9, but my son has been in love with this book since he was 12 months old. He's 15 months now, and still demands it upwards of 10 times a day. He loves to find the kitty cat and the little boy that are found on every page of the book (except one) and will clap his hands with the rythym.
I just pray our copy will last for more than a year... this book is really getting a workout in our house.

Read it in your best "blues man" voice, and you've got a winner for any preschooler! Va-va-varoom!

Sherry Shahan swings through the alphabet, jazz style, and every toe will be tapping on this raucus, fun-filled journey from A to Z. Listen to the boogie-woogie, bim-bam blues. Watch the cool cats cuttin' the rug, and fat cats shuffle to a fine funky beat. Hear that jazzy jam session, or the organ all oozy and bluesy. The piano pitter-patters, plink, the saxophone is swinging, so shimmy and shake, and the woodwinds wibble-wabble woo woo wee. So zip up that zoot suit and get ready to jive..... Ms Shahans clever text is lively and captivating, and filled with energy, rhythm, alliteration, and motion that's contagious. Little ones will be on their feet and moving to the beat. Mary Thelen's bold, bright, and busy illustrations dazzle with vibrant colors and intensity, and youngsters will never tire of exploring each intriguing page. The Jazzy Alphabet is an engaging manic romp, best read aloud and shared, and a definite preschool crowd pleaser. "The jazzy alphabet boogies and sings, hot jazz, cool jazz, pizzazzy street-jammin' jazz. Razzmatazz! It is the cat's pajamas. MEOW!

Lets not beat around the bush's, this book is tough. This is like looking into Jimi's bag of tricks and you will be tested!!! All in all the one books that blues guitarist who love Jimi have to spend some time with, ok a lot of time with but.....you will get something out of it.

In my opinion, the best collection of Jimi's songs. This tablature is top notch, and should take you a while to get through even one song. :)

Jimi Hendrix's guitar style is established based on a dozen of preceding blues masters such as Muddy Waters. "Blues" shows Jimi's rendition of the blues standards performed by the masters. Learning this transcription carefully is the shortest way to master the techniques and licks used by the blues masters. "Radio One" and "Woodstock" transcriptions are also essential for blues guitar students.

This is Jimi's quintessential blues album, with covers of great standards and true-to-form originals. His rendition of 'Born Under a Bad Sign' is quite satisfying, with its string scratching, chordal rolls, and tasty wah-wah treatment.

Then there's the climactic highlight of 'Here My Train A Comin' (electric)' from his 5/70 Berkley concert - a performance thought by many, to be Jimi's most comprehensive expoundment upon the genre; and I would concur.

'Red House' is a great jam and not too difficult to get under the fingers. The key to learning other player's stuff, is to listen very closely to identify the elements and structure, then seek to apply them to your own voice.

This book would be a good place for even a beginner to learn the blues. Because after all, the blues isn't complicated. And Jimi's masterful expression of it didn't come from a place of technical prowess, but rather from a place of deep-rooted and heart-felt meaning.