A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey Lyttelton's last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes, and entertaining stories from his colourful life, from his childhood as the son of a famous Eton Housemaster, through to his role as the irrepressible chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. A Renaissance man musician, writer, cartoonist, .

Offers information that a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs to know. This book helps you learn how to: match yourself with the guitar and equipment that fits your needs and budget; select the right accessories - amps, picks, pedals, capos, cases, and other goodies; and, pick and strum to produce a clean, clear, buzz-free tone.

A reference source for guitarists, this volume covers all aspects of guitar playing. Chords, scales, riffs and tunings are all explained with easy to understand diagrams and photographs.

Have you always wanted to play piano? This edition explains in friendly, uncomplicated language all the basics of music theory and applies it to playing the piano. It features practice lessons, teaching techniques, and musical examples, as well as an audio CD with examples for all pieces presented in the book.

Offers an approach to learning the piano. This title takes you through the rudiments of piano technique and music theory. It is organized into structured progressive units with an array of music to get you playing straight away.

Includes topics such as: exploring the anatomy of a bass guitar; getting started: holding your bass, positioning your hands, and striking notes; reading bass notation and understanding chords, scales, and octaves; creating a groove and playing solos and fills; examining bass-playing styles; caring for your bass; and buying bass and accessories.

Teaches how to play the guitar the easy way, following simple, illustrated lessons. This book provides information, from choosing a guitar and reading tablature to learning picking patterns and playing power chords, and instructions to help start strumming in style. It features chord progressions and riffs that are illustrated using tab diagrams.

A kit for older children, teens and adults. It contains a fully-illustrated 64-page book all about the harmonica, a 10-hole blues harmonica in the key of C and a red felt pouch to keep your harmonica in. It shows you how to play the harmonica in a variety of styles and then gives you 20 well-known tunes to get started on right away.

Contains the various scales and broken chords required for the Grade 1 ABRSM piano exam. This title features: various scales and arpeggios for the revised syllabus from 2009; suggested fingering provided; helpful introduction including advice on preparing for the exam; and user-friendly format and clear page layout.

Contains over 130 acoustic classics from the great songs from the biggest names in pop. These are arranged for guitar in the same key as the original recordings, with complete lyrics, chord names and a reference sheet.

Provides information on rock, R&B, jazz, blues, funk, and Latin rhythms. This interactive book-and-CD package offers basics with information on contemporary rock styles and beats as well as rhythms from around the world. It helps in understanding fundamental drumming techniques; explore percussion instruments; find the perfect drum set; and more.

Shows how to play and produce professional keyboard sounds and rhythms from day one. This book explains the essentials with advice on those from fingering techniques and effective practice, to reading music and playing for an audience.

Reveals the incredible diversity of the bass guitar. This title includes chapters that cover particular styles or families of styles, gradually introducing players to techniques that allows them to get the most out of their instrument and easily increase their bass repertoire.

The saxophone is arguably the most iconic of all instruments, but with its graceful form and soulful tone it's easy to forget that it's still a machine. This manual explains how the mechanism functions and what can be done to maintain it, as well as to improve its performance with professional set-up techniques, with few or no specialist tools.

Explains how to perform the more common and desirable electric guitar modifications, specifically those that require no specialized tools or advanced repair techniques. This book emphasizes on choosing the right parts to fit existing instruments, their features, their differences, their applications and their effect on tone.

Try to imagine a world with no guitars. Neither blues, nor flamenco or rock. The guitar has always been a protagonist of extraordinary pages of jazz history, it was the queen of folk and blues, and in its electric embodiment, it was the basic stone of rock 'n' roll. This title intends to celebrate the electric guitar's myth and legend.

Celebrates the glory years of Hofner, the company made famous by the Beatles' bassist Paul McCartney's use of their left-handed 1962 500/1 model. Illustrated in color and black and white, this book offers information about classic Hofner guitars as well as interviews with Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, Ritchie Blackmore, and Albert Lee.