The Mountain and Tidewater Songs are a set of six pieces for baritone, cello, piano, and violin. The songs are drawn from a series of poems by Daniel Mark Epstein, which appear in "No Vacancies in Hell". A deep sense of place, as well as the sweep, lyricism, and warmth of nineteenth-century American life inform both the poetry and music. The cycle charts the journey and reflections of an exile as he leaves behind the towns, countryside, and people he has known. These places and characters, like the apparitions of memory, become an interior landscape, where romance, adventure, duels, buffoonery, loss, villainy, and kindness all play out in ever-swirling reverie and drama. The violin and cello parts are included. Praise for Damon Ferrante's music: Tim Smith of "The Baltimore Sun" calls Ferrante's music "focused and colorful...with an unexpected, decidedly poetic touch." "If the tune has the elegance of traditional opera, the harmonization is very modern as the vocal lines climb and descend the melodic staircases that Ferrante has constructed for them." Geoffrey Himes, "The Baltimore City Paper" Mary MacCauley of "The Baltimore Sun" describes Ferrante's music as "ebullient and full of shifts of direction." See a video for "The Mountain & Tidewater Songs" on Damon Ferrante's author page at Amazon (just click on his name here for the link).
A 120-Lesson, One-Lick-Per-Day, Step-by-Step Guide to Guitar Arpeggios, Music Theory, and Technique-Building Exercises, Beginner to Advanced Levels (Book and Videos) (Steeplechase Guitar Instruction)
A 120-Lesson, One-Lick-Per-Day, Step-by-Step Guide to Guitar Arpeggios, Music Theory, and Technique-Building Exercises, Beginner to Advanced Levels (Book and Videos) (Steeplechase Guitar Instruction)
Guitar Arpeggio Handbook" is a 120-Lesson Guide to Arpeggios. Arpeggios are one of the most exciting, great sounding, and fun elements of music. If you have ever played or listened to the beginning of "Stairway to Heaven", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Cliffs of Dover", or "Wanted Dead or Alive", you have some experience and understanding of arpeggios. Put simply, arpeggios are chords where the notes sound one at a time, rather than simultaneously.
Inspired by Louis Simpson's poem, "The Troika," this fiery and lyrical piano sonata blends the Classical and Romantic styles of Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Schumann with modern, highly colorful melodies, polyphony, and rhythms. See a video for "Snow Moon" on Damon Ferrante's author page at Amazon (just click on his name here for the link).
Dreaming Cities is piano trio (violin, cello, piano) inspired by Italo Calvino's, "Invisible Cities". Its five, dynamic movements evoke the novel's floating, mirror, mechanical, and whimsical architecture. The sweep, pyrotechnics, fantasy, and lyricism of the trio's ideas glide, leap, and dance through the musical palindromes, catwalks, and microcosms of the score. The violin and cello parts are included. Reviews for Damon Ferrante's music: Tim Smith of "The Baltimore Sun" calls Ferrante's music "focused and colorful...with an unexpected, decidedly poetic touch." "If the tune has the elegance of traditional opera, the harmonization is very modern as the vocal lines climb and descend the melodic staircases that Ferrante has constructed for them." Geoffrey Himes, "The Baltimore City Paper" Mary MacCauley of "The Baltimore Sun" describes Ferrante's music as "ebullient and full of shifts of direction." See a video for "Dreaming Cities" on Damon Ferrante's author page at Amazon (just click on his name here for the link).
Guitar Instruction Guide to Learn How to Play Licks, Chords, Scales, Techniques, Lead and Rhythm Guitar, Basic Music Theory, and Exercises - Teach Yourself Or Work with an Instructor (Book, Videos and TAB)
Guitar Instruction Guide to Learn How to Play Licks, Chords, Scales, Techniques, Lead and Rhythm Guitar, Basic Music Theory, and Exercises - Teach Yourself Or Work with an Instructor (Book, Videos and TAB)
This interactive book and video course is all that you will ever need to get started playing Rock guitar! Guitar Instructor and Music Professor, Damon Ferrante guides you through step-by-step, easy-to-follow lessons (from beginner to intermediate levels) and 32 streaming video lessons that will will greatly improve your guitar technique, creativity, and understanding of music. This guitar method, used by thousands of guitar students, is designed to be interactive, engaging and fun! Whether you are teaching yourself guitar or learning with a music instructor, this book and video course will take your guitar playing to a whole new level! No Music Experience or Music Reading is Required!
This book and video course, by music professor Damon Ferrante, is a fun and easy-to-follow method for young people (ages 5-8) to get started rocking and rolling on guitar! It guides students from a beginner level to make them play better than ever. Learn guitar by playing songs! Designed in a lesson format, this beautifully illustrated, full-color book and video course has been proven to reduce the effort, time, and expense of guitar learning. No music reading or music experience is required! "Guitar Adventures for Kids, Level 1" is a book and video course that follows a step-by-step lesson format for learning how to play the guitar. It is designed for beginners and no music experience is necessary to use the book. Each lesson builds on the previous one in a fun, clear, and easy-to-understand manner. It is the first volume in a multi-level piano book and video series. At the end of the book, you will be able to play the following songs and pieces in easy-guitar arrangements: "Jingle Bells," "Skip to My Lou," "Ode to Joy," "Amazing Grace," "When the Saints Go Marching In," "Yankee Doodle," "Old MacDonald," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore," "Peace Like a River," "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," and many more songs. There are 10 Free, Streaming Video Lessons that coincide with the material presented in "Guitar Adventures for Kids, Level 1." The Lesson Videos cover playing songs and pieces, guitar technique, tuning the guitar, the parts of the guitar, strumming guitar chords, basic music elements and fundamentals, and how to develop good practice habits.
Guitar Scales Handbook is a 130-Page Book and Video Course for learning scales, music theory, and fretboard theory. The book is organized in a 100-lesson format that takes you step by step through scales, the notes on the guitar neck, intervals, and music theory. Each lesson builds on the next and the book is designed for beginners through advanced / virtuoso guitarists. The following scales (in 1, 2, and 3 Octaves) are covered in the book: Major Scale and Modes Minor Scales The Blues Scales Pentatonic Minor and Modes Chromatic Scale Pentatonic Major and Modes Harmonic Minor and Modes Whole-Tone Scale Octatonic Scale These are the Play-Along Jam Track Videos: Rockabilly Rock Blues Jam Progressive Rock Pop Ballad Funk
A collection of the most shocking, horrifying accounts of true crime ever. Evil knows no boundaries. In 1614, Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory died, sealed in a tiny closet in her castle. Her crimes? She was rumored to have bathed in the blood of her victims, which may have numbered in the hundreds. More recently, Russia’s Andrei Chikatilo, the United States’ Ted Bundy, and Great Britain’s Peter Sutcliffe added to the horrors humans inflict upon their fellow man. Featuring maps, callouts, and facts that follow these criminals’ trails of crime, Evil is a groundbreaking volume. It explores some of the most famous crime cases of real-life murder and mayhem. In this epic account of history’s most infamous murder cases, leading true-crime researcher and writer Colin Wilson teams up with his son Damon Wilson to masterfully recount the shocking details of more than sixty cases of murder and mayhem. Illustrated with hundreds of color and black-and-white photos, Evil features images of criminals, forensic evidence, and key personalities and places that put each crime in historical context. In a continuing search for the meaning in murder, the Wilsons create one of the definitive books in the field of criminology.
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