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A “generously illustrated and well-designed appreciation” of the Pulitzer Prize–winning illustrator, with an introduction by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik. ( The New York Times)   Cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, Rube Goldberg wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoon in his seventy-two-year career. Goldberg (1883–1970) was the most famous cartoonist of his time, best known for his comical inventions, which were syndicated in daily newspapers throughout the world. Author Jennifer George celebrates all aspects of her grandfather’s career, from his very first published drawings in his high school newspaper and college yearbook to his iconic inventions, his comic strips and advertising work, and his later sculpture and Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoons. Also included are essays from such writers and comic historians as Adam Gopnik, Al Jaffee, Carl Linich, Peter Meresca, Paul Tumey and Brian Walker, as well as rare photographs, letters, memorabilia, and patents, many reproduced here for the first time. Brilliantly designed and packaged to capture the inventiveness of Rube Goldberg’s work,  The Art of Rube Goldberg  is a coffee table book the whole family can enjoy.   “Goldberg’s cartoons touch the edge of modern art.” —Adam Gopnik   “There will likely never be another Rube Goldberg. Fortunately, his granddaughter’s wonderful book ensures that we’ll always remember this one-of-a-kind cartooning legend.” ― The Washington Times |
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Les secrets d'une idole fragile. Elle dit qu'elle est un " livre ouvert " et que ses fans savent tout de sa vie. Ce n'est pas complètement vrai... De Céline Dion, star hors norme aux 240 millions de disques vendus, on ignore encore bien des choses : sa détermination à avoir une carrière à la Michael Jackson, bien avant que sa route ne croise celle de René Angélil ; ses ruses pour le faire succomber ; la manière dont elle a réagi aux accusations de viol contre lui ; la façon dont elle pousse toujours plus loin son corps et sa voix, au risque de s'abîmer ; son immense solitude. Imperméable aux moqueries – elle y voit un hommage – et aux caricatures, elle est très intelligente, incroyablement cash, drôle et attachante. Ni prude ni soumise, Céline sait aussi être tranchante. Elle n'a vacillé que lorsqu'elle a perdu les deux piliers de sa vie : son mari en 2016 et sa mère Thérèse en 2020. Depuis, le monde entier s'inquiète pour sa santé mentale et physique. Pour l'écriture de cet ouvrage, Laurence Pieau et Hervé Tropéa sont partis de là où tout a commencé, à Charlemagne au Québec, puis ont suivi les traces du couple jusqu'à Las Vegas, où l'un jouait au poker l'argent que l'autre gagnait sur scène. Ils ont donné la parole à ceux qui ont accompagné la chanteuse lors de son formidable parcours et qui n'avaient jamais parlé jusqu'à présent : sa soeur, ses musiciens, ses producteurs... Sans parti pris, les auteurs percent le mystère de celle qui est devenue la recluse de Las Vegas, ce décor de carton-pâte où elle s'est petit à petit claquemurée, laissant le monde entier chuchoter à son sujet. |
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Complete beginners start here! 40 individually crafted lessons over 166 pages. Become the player you want to be! Covers open chords, extensive strumming, barre chords, theory, music and TAB reading, fingerstyle, arpeggio's and riffs + a number of pieces and songs to play. A course for a beginners to start learning, or if you know a few chords already use this as an opportunity to improve your skills! Some of the techniques you will learn: • Open Chords • Barre Chords • Music Reading • Strumming • Theory • Major scales • Basic song structure and analysis • Riffs • Scales • Arpeggios • Guitar TAB • Fingerstyle • Licks and more! The course has been designed to be the equivalent of Private Guitar Lessons but accessible at any time in your own home - like having your very own guitar teacher in the lounge with you. As you learn, consider signing up for the optional accompanying video lessons - enjoy a compete package of learning! Written by New Zealand Guitar Teacher Justin Moss, who has taught guitar for over 20 years as FINGERS OF FIRE GUITAR SCHOOL in Hamilton, NZ. Over 2500 copies of the LEARN GUITAR system have been sold. PREVIOUS FEEDBACK: "If you are thinking about it buy it now with confidence." bookdude "Am on my 4th lesson now and loving it!" tashlynian "I love the dvd's it's easy to learn from and understand." katcat2 "It's just like having a tutor beside you." rollyn2 "Learned more in 2 weeks from the book and DVD than in the last 5 years." bristolsteve "Well presented, easy to follow and gets straight into it, no messing about." elbino "Top Rate Tuition for a fraction of the price." johnjohn8 "Very impressed at the professional presentation and layout." rayurlich "Very clear and easy to follow!" agy321 |
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Learn the essential techniques for painting from photographs with this illustrated guide by the acclaimed artist and teacher. Many artists enjoy using photographic reference material, but while there are many advantages to this way of working, there are also unique challenges. One must learn to choose what to leave out, what to keep in, and how to adapt the scene to create a painting. In this book, Geoff Kersey introduces twenty-seven of his own paintings, explaining how they evolved from one or more photographs. Kersey includes photographs, sketches, diagrams, details, colour charts and a wealth of tips explaining his techniques and artistic process. This volume also includes a glossary of painting terms as well as photographs for readers to interpret for themselves. |
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Slow down, connect with your artistic side, and unleash your innate creativity with this unique guide that’s one part mindfulness practice and one part drawing instruction. “[Dean's] joyful approach to embracing imperfections throughout the process is a breath of fresh air… Thanks to her inclusive style, beginners and pros alike can feel confident in their creativity.” —Brit + Co Let beloved art teacher Peggy Dean (IG: @thepigeonletters) show you how powerful it is to create something! Discover the pleasure of expressing yourself through sketching—even if you think you can’t draw.  Peggy’s got tips on the materials you’ll need, easy techniques you can use right away, and methods for approaching any subject or location. She offers step-by-step exercises to help you relax into the drawing process, and gives you ways to tackle tricky beginner problems like “what should I sketch?”  Learn how to stay with the small moments as you work, draw what you see around you, and embrace the results. Grab your sketchbook and experience how relaxing, rewarding, and life-changing a drawing practice can be. |
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Instant New York Times bestseller The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans—and all movie lovers—could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.  |
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Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath “ Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .” In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic The Wife of Bath . The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a mixture of London slang and patois, Alvita recalls her five marriages in outrageous, bawdy detail, rewrites her mistakes as triumphs, and shares her beliefs on femininity, sexuality, and misogyny with anyone willing to listen. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, The Wife of Willesden shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today. |
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Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you’ll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve. |
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Understand the basics of the game! Rake in the chips with this savvy guide Whether you're looking to join a friendly weekly poker game or aiming for the championship in a local tournament, this guide gets you started so you can play your way to the top. Discover how to Understand poker rules Know when to hold and when to fold Play Texas Hold'em |
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From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, an inspirational book for the hip-hop fan. The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he’s learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he’s found it, he distills here the wisdom he’s acquired into seven “pillars,” each based on a formative event in his life—from the moment he first heard the call of hip-hop to the death of his cousin and Clan-mate, Russell Jones, aka ODB. Delivered in RZA’s unmistakable style, at once surprising, profound, and provocative, The Tao of Wu is a spiritual memoir the world has never seen before, and will never see again. A nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation from the author of The Wu-Tang Manual , it will enlighten, entertain, and inspire. |
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There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn't so mysterious and was actually achievable for anyone who wants to experience more magic and creativity in their life? That's something that anyone will be inspired to do after reading Jeff Tweedy's  How to Write One Song .    Why one song? Because the difference between one song and many songs isn't a cute semantic trick—it's an important distinction that can simplify a notoriously confusing art form. The idea of becoming a capital-S songwriter can seem daunting, but approached as a focused, self-contained event, the mystery and fear subsides, and songwriting becomes an exciting pursuit.   And then there is the energizing, nourishing creativity that can open up. How to Write One Song  brings readers into the intimate process of writing one song—lyrics, music, and putting it all together—and accesses the deep sense of wonder that remains at the heart of this curious, yet incredibly fulfilling, artistic act. But it’s equally about the importance of making creativity part of your life every day, and of experiencing the hope, inspiration, and joy available to anyone who’s willing to get started. |
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No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition. |
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THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM , CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM'S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES "A passionate look at the Detroit rapper's music . . . an expert and thoughtful assessment." - Booklist In 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit named Marshall Bruce Mathers III became the most controversial and polarizing musical artist in the world. He was an outlier, a white artist creating viable art in a black medium, telling stories with such verbal dexterity, nimble wit, and shocking honesty that his music and persona resonated universally. In short, Eminem changed the landscape of pop culture as we knew it. In 2006, at the height of his fame and one of the biggest-selling artists in music history, Eminem all but disappeared. Beset by nonstop controversy, bewildering international fame, a debilitating drug problem, and personal tragedy, he became reclusive, withdrawing to his Detroit-area compound. He struggled with weight gain and an addiction to prescription pills that nearly took his life. Over the next five years, Eminem got sober, relapsed, then finally got and stayed clean with the help of his unlikely friend and supporter, Elton John. He then triumphantly returned to a very different landscape, yet continued his streak of number one albums and multiplatinum singles. Not Afraid picks up where rock journalist Anthony Bozza's bestselling Whatever You Say I Am left off. Capturing Eminem's toughest years in his own words, as well the insights of his closest friends and creative collaborators, this book chronicles the musical, personal, and spiritual growth of one of hip-hop's most enduring and enigmatic figures. |
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Sheet and TAB for Cantata 156, "Ich Steh Mit Einem Fuss Im Grabe", BWV 156: Sinfonia, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from "Cantata Herz Und Mund Tat Und Leben" in E Major, BMW 147, Invention No. 10, BWV 781, Invention No. 1, BWV 772 arranged for two guitars by Dennis McCorkle. Includes reference audio tracks for Cantata 156, "Ich Steh Mit Einem Fuss Im Grabe", BWV 156: Sinfonia and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from "Cantata Herz Und Mund Tat Und Leben" in E Major, BMW 147. |
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Learn to create your own beautiful watercolor botanical art with more than 30 projects, as well as information on materials and basic techniques. The graceful, contemporary style of these flowers and foliage is attractive and accessible to all no matter your skill level. Also published in the UK as NEW BOTANICAL PAINTING. |
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Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 1 is a remarkable collection of timeless hits and popular favorites arranged at just the right level for adult beginners and for those who are returning to the keyboard. The book is organized into three sections: Section 1 has minimal hand position changes, and many songs include an optional duet part. Section 2 introduces the I, IV and V7 chords in the key of C. Section 3 presents the I, IV and V7 chords in the key of G. Enjoy 34 popular melodies from across the decades, including: My Heart Will Go On * Edelweiss * Let It Be * Downton Abbey Theme * Tomorrow * Climb Ev'ry Mountain * Someone Like You * Yesterday * Pachelbel Canon * Thinking Out Loud * Beauty and the Beast * What a Wonderful World * and more. |
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Discover the perfection of The CAGED System on Guitar Would you like to have complete freedom to visualize and play in any key, in any position on guitar? Are you struggling to make music all over the neck?  Are some parts of the guitar neck a dusty mystery to you?  The CAGED system is the Rosetta stone of understanding the way every scale, arpeggio and lick is laid out on the guitar.  But often it's taught in a cold, confusing way that doesn't relate to actual music.  The CAGED System and 100 Licks for Blues Guitar is different. You'll learn The CAGED system in conjunction with 100 useful blues licks based around the most useful scales on guitar. Here's what you get: 100 top quality blues licks A complete method to learn the guitar neck Hundreds of live audio examples to download for free A hands on, direct method to understand and make music on the whole guitar neck The definitive guide to mastering The CAGED System on Guitar Bonus  Over an hour of free audio to download for free Whether you want a complete method to learn the guitar, or just a set of 100 excellent blues licks, this book is for you. This book helps you spread your playing all over the guitar neck and spurs creativity by teaching you an incredibly strong, visual method to ‘hang’ scales and licks off 5 simple chord shapes. Learn the most important scales with the CAGED system - and make music now.  The CAGED System for Blues Guitar covers both Major, Minor and Blues Pentatonic Scales and The Mixolydian Mode. With 25 licks for each scale covering all 5 positions, you’ll never be short of excellent blues lines to spur your creativity. Contained within are the tricks and secrets that professional guitarists use to unlock the neck. Master the guitar fretboard now The CAGED system helps you to see the fretboard like the back of your hand and to easily play in any key in any position. This is one of the best-selling guitar books on Amazon and will improve the way you play the guitar forever. Buy it now |
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The Dozen a Day books are universally recognized as one of the most remarkable technique series on the market for all ages] Each book in this series contains short warm-up exercises to be played at the beginning of each practice session, providing excellent day-to-day training for the student. |
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"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic is almost impossible to make from scratch. In the end, Thwaites's homemade toaster—a haunting and strangely beautiful object—cost 250 times more than the toaster he bought at the store and involved close to two thousand miles of travel to some of Britain's remotest locations. The Toaster Project may seem foolish, even insane. Yet, Thwaites's quixotic tale, told with self-deprecating wit, helps us reflect on the costs and perils of our cheap consumer culture, and in so doing reveals much about the organization of the modern world. |
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Easy piano arrangements of more than two dozen tunes featured in the hit Disney Channel animated series whose music has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards. Includes: Ain't Got Rhythm * Backyard Beach * Busted * Chains on Me * Gitchee Gitchee Goo * He's a Bully * I Love You Mom * My Nemesis * Perry the Platypus Theme * Queen of Mars * S.I.M.P. (Squirrels in My Pants) * Today Is Gonna Be a Great Day * Truck Drivin' Girl * and more] Features a special section of full-color art from the show] |
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A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen’s  Born in the U.S.A.  would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years.   In  There Was Nothing You Could Do,  veteran rock critic Steven Hyden shows exactly how this record became such a pivotal part of the American tapestry. Alternating between insightful criticism, meticulous journalism, and personal anecdotes, Hyden delves into the songs that made—and didn’t make—the final cut, including the tracks that wound up on its sister album, 1982’s Nebraska. He also investigates the myriad reasons why Springsteen ran from and then embraced the success of his most popular (and most misunderstood) LP, as he carefully toed the line between balancing his commercial ambitions and being co-opted by the machine. But the book doesn’t stop there. Beyond Springsteen’s own career, Hyden explores the role the album played in a greater historical context, documenting not just where the country was in the tumultuous aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, but offering a dream of what it might become—and a perceptive forecast of what it turned into decades later. As Springsteen himself reluctantly conceded, many of the working-class middle American progressives Springsteen wrote about in 1984 had turned into resentful and scorned Trump voters by the 2010s. And though it wasn’t the future he dreamed of, the cautionary warnings tucked within Springsteen’s heartfelt lyrics prove that the chaotic turmoil of our current moment has been a long time coming. How did we lose Springsteen’s heartland? And what can listening to this prescient album teach us about the decline of our country? In  There Was Nothing You Could Do,  Hyden takes readers on a journey to find out.   |
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Create beautiful botanical artworks, engage with the natural world around you, and take pleasure in the changing seasons with A Year of Watercolour . Award-winning and bestselling artist and tutor Harriet de Winton takes you through more than 30 step-by-step botanical paintings that span the seasons. Learn to paint cherry blossoms and lambs in the spring, honeybees and wildflowers for summer, oak leaves and harvest mice in autumn, and pine trees and snowdrops in winter. Plus, enjoy charming bonus features like a recipe for wild garlic pesto in springtime, or guidance on how to paint a festive wreath with winter berries and foliage. The perfect primer for creating seasonal cards, personalized stationery and stunning artworks to decorate your home or give to friends and family. |
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No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and has received widespread critical acclaim. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York; he became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic, and his book has been hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan, i t is the only one that has been written with Dylan's active cooperation . Shelton witnessed Dylan’s crowning moment at Newport in 1963. He was in the audience for the celebrated Philharmonic Hall concert on Halloween 1964. He was in the Newport crowd when Dylan alienated the folk fraternity with his electric guitar. Dylan gave Sheldon access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman – whom no other journalist has ever interviewed in depth; his brother, David; childhood friends from Hibbing; fellow students and friends from Minneapolis; and Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalised on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan . Adorned with rare and revealing images from throughout Dylan’s whirlwind first decade of music, this a unique and honest insight into a man, who, as his sixth decade of music approaches, is ever harder to separate from the myths he has woven. “I can’t be hurt, man, if the book is honest. No kidding, I can’t be hurt. I want you to write an honest book, Bob, I don’t want you to write a b******t book. Hey, I’m trusting you. The only reason that I am here with you now is that I know that you are the man... I’ll do it with you.” Bob Dylan to Robert Shelton |
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The Ardennes, 1944. Driven back by the Allies since D-Day, Germany launches a surprise offensive on the Western Front. This assault against the unprepared Allied lines is the opening move in one of the largest battles of World War II. This new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to take command of both armies in this desperate battle, fighting it as they believe it should have been fought. New, linked scenarios, rules, troop types and Theatre Selectors provide plenty of options for novice and veteran players alike. |
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Apprenez à jouer à la guitare avec les nuls ! Apprendre à jouer, c'est difficile ? Plus maintenant, grâce à la Guitare pour les Nuls vous pourrez vous initier aux techniques de base de la guitare et progresser de manière étonnante et à votre rythme. De la guitare classique à la guitare folk, en passant par le blues et le rock, vous travaillerez les accords, des plus simples aux plus compliqués, et améliorerez votre dextérité. Grâce aux tablatures et aux exemples musicaux de tous les exercices fournis sur le CD accompagnant l'ouvrage, vous pourrez jouez de nombreuses mélodies sans solfège. Vous découvrirez également comment choisir votre guitare et votre matériel (ampli, tuner, malette...), comment l'entretenir et effectuer vous-même quelques réparations. Quelles que soient vos ambitions et vos aptitudes musicales, cet ouvrage de référence vous accompagnera tout au long de votre initiation et sera votre prof perso ! Et dans cette nouvelle édition : un chapitre supplémentaire consacré au jazz, un chapitre revu et augmenté sur les joueurs d'anthologie, un CD d'exemples musicaux encore plus fourni et plus pratique. |
