(Instructional). This comprehensive method for beginners is designed for anyone just learning to play the Mexican six-string bass guitar known as the guitarron. It serves as an introduction to the instrument, its techniques, reading music, and teaching you how to play with fun songs and video lessons available online for download or streaming. Topics covered include: tuning * left- and right-hand technique * notes on the fingerboard * open-string notes * stopped notes * scales * accompaniment styles * and more.

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has expanded into a library, including theory, chord study, play-alongs and more. This best-selling method teaches the basics in a logical sequence, with concise and complete information that is easily accessible to students. Numerous chord diagrams and fingering photos help students quickly learn how to read music and play chords. Exciting music arranged in pop, rock, blues, country and folk styles makes learning to play the guitar an enjoyable and life-long reward.

Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.

The use of this method book will provide the reader with a foundation in the fundamentals of music, to bridge the gap between playing by ear, which can often be the case with non-traditional western instruments, and playing by reading notated music. Additionally, there is a benefit to standardizing guitarrón performance technique, as it provides for improved performance in the areas of intonation, rhythmic accuracy, and note fingering, for example. Finally, the book can serve to expand the inclusion of the guitarrón's rich bass voice in other genres of music beyond the Mariachi, by increasing its access to a broader range of musicians.

(P/V/G Composer Collection). Juan Gabriel is known as "El Idolo de las Multitudes" (the Idol of the Multitudes) to millions of fans in the Americas and around the world. This popular composer and performer has been touring continually since his first hit in 1971 and has received numerous awards, including an induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame. This folio features 20 of his most popular songs in Spanish as well as a biography in English and Spanish. Songs include: Amor Eterno (El Mas Triste Recuerdo) * Asi Fue * Costumbres * El Destino * El Mexico Que Se Nos Fue * Esta Noche Voy a Verla * and more.

Over a decade since its publication, Ann Jaramillo's heartbreaking middle grade novel La Linea—about crossing the Mexican border into the US—is more timely than ever. Miguel has dreamed of joining his parents in California since the day they left him behind in Mexico six years, eleven months, and twelve days ago. On the morning of his fifteenth birthday, Miguel's wait is over. Or so he thinks. The trip north to the border—la línea—is fraught with dangers. Thieves. Border guards. And a grueling, two-day trek across the desert. It would be hard enough to survive alone. But it's almost impossible with his tagalong sister in tow. Their money gone and their hopes nearly dashed, Miguel and his sister have no choice but to hop the infamous mata gente as it races toward the border. As they cling to the roof of the speeding train, they hold onto each other, and to their dreams. But they quickly learn that you can't always count on dreams—even the ones that come true.