Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.

Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast! - with hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunes You have a ukulele, you know just enough to be dangerous, and now you're ready to do something with it. You're in luck: Ukulele Exercises For Dummies helps you become a better player. This practice-based book focuses on the skills that entry-level players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you creating music in no time that include: • Creating rock-steady strumming patterns and rhythms • Becoming a better fingerpicker with patterns, arpeggio exercises, and solo fingerpicking pieces • Expanding your fretboard knowledge and crafting your own rock, blues and jazz riffs and solos • Playing actual songs on the ukulele - everything from the classic ukulele tunes to the 12 bar blues! • Downloadable audio files of the exercises found in the book, providing you with a self-contained practice package No matter if you're a beginning ukulele player or you're wanting to stretch and improve your chops, Ukulele Exercises For Dummies puts you on your way to becoming a ukulele extraordinaire!

The Beginning Baritone Bootcamp book by Terry Carter is perfect of the beginning ukulele or guitar player who is ready to master the songs and essential fundamentals necessary to become the best baritone ukulele player that you can be.Do you know how the baritone ukulele is different from the soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles? Have you struggled finding instructional material for the baritone ukulele? If you have asked yourself these questions, then the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book by Terry Carter is going to be perfect for you. Terry Carter and Uke Like The Pros has some great online ukulele courses out there but what will the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book do for me?The Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book will provide you with a step-by-step baritone ukulele tutorial instruction that will give you the necessary tools to learn to play your favorite songs.Give you a full understanding of the tuning and the chords used on the baritone ukulele so that you can not only follow youtube videos but also properly play with other ukulele players using soprano, concert, or tenor ukuleles. Baritone ukuleles are tuned D - G - B - E (low to high), while soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles are tuned G - C - E - A (low to high).Since the baritone ukulele is different not only in size, sound, and strings as the soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles you'll get a solid foundation to master this awesome instruments.With over 30 years as an educator, master instructor Terry Carter will bring his proven teaching method that has helped thousands of people learn the ukulele, many just like you.Discover the chords necessary to play the songs you always wanted to play.Develop amazing right hand technique. The strumming hand is the most important hand when playing the ukulele. I will show you techniques that will help you develop speed, strength, and dexterity.Develop a strong sense of rhythm and time with the downloadable backing tracks. You'll get a logical and methodical system for learning the baritone ukulele.Grow confidence in your playing and you are learning the right things.The Beginning Baritone Ukulele book is broken up into 4 categories.PART ONE: The Essentials - Everything you need to know to properly play the baritone, understand music (even if your a beginner), and build your confidence as a musician.PART TWO: Songs - Songs are one of the most important things to start because they teach you how to play and memorize chords, how to strum, how to smoothing transition from chord to chord, and have fun as you are learning parts from your favorite songs.PART THREE: Next Level Songs - It's great to learn the easy songs, but at some point you have to break out of your comfort zone and start challenging yourself. This section is perfect at push your playing to new levels as you and others hear a difference in the way you sound on the baritone ukulele.PART FOUR: Scales - Scales are essential to know because they build your technique and speed as you get comfortable going up and down the strings and the baritone neck. Once you get your scales down you can start creating your own melodies that will for sure turn the heads of those listening. Weather your a beginner baritone ukulele or guitar player the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book will help you become the best baritone ukulele player that you can be.

America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully, but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front. Of course, there's a happy ending.

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(Do It Yourself). Do-It-Yourself Banjo is a fun way to get started playing on your own. Using well-known bluegrass tunes, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started and sounding like a pro in no time. Includes audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video instruction by banjo teacher Mike Schmidt. Includes: banjo fundamentals; reading banjo tablature; right-hand rolls; left-hand techniques; chords & playing backup; melodic banjo; using a capo; tag licks and endings; banjo maintenance; demonstration and play-along audio tracks; video instruction and demonstration; and more. The price of this book includes access to audio and video online, for downloador streaming, using the unique code found inside. Includes PLAYBACK+, amulti-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, setloop points, change keys, and pan left or right available exclusively from Hal Leonard.

Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students.