Piano para Dummies

(Fast Track Music Instruction). You don't even need drums for this method just two hands and an attitude! You'll learn music notation, beats and fills, syncopation and improvisation, and rock, blues and funk styles. Includes over 75 songs and examples. The online audio includes every music example so you can hear how it sounds and play along when you're ready. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and includes PLAYBACK+ features such as tempo adjustment and looping capabilities.

Durante más de cinco años, Juan Carlos Diez compartió incontables horas con el Flaco. El fruto de esos encuentros es esta hoja de ruta arbitraria que nos permite asomarnos al universo de este artista singular.

The study of musical composition has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. This book presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.

El presente trabajo ha pretendido hacer una reflexión sobre la necesidad de desarrollar formas alternativas para el estudio filológico de las obras para órgano de José de Torres, que permita analizar con detalle sus aspectos o rasgos paleográficos, sus procedimientos constructivos y las técnicas de composición empleadas en su conformación. El valor documental del Libro de Torres es de gran importancia, y confirma la tesis de que esta colección es un libro de trabajo y práctica de composición, utilísimo de cara a estudiar cual era la "técnica de la composición” y de su...

Bachata—a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s—is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata’s history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth...