This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
This book is a collection of sixteen instrumentals arranged for acoustic lap steel guitar in D and G tuning. Lovely Hawaiian tunes such as Aloha Oe are included as well as more bluesy selections such as Whistlin' Blues and Careless Love.The book even includes an Irish ballad, Down by the Sally Gardens, arranged specifically to be played on a lap steel guitar. Special techniques such as barslants, natural harmonics, and behind-the-bar-bends are carefully explained.Includes access to online audio
Le 5 decembre 2001, nous lancions le projet de la publication d'une Festschrift destinee a honorer notre collegue et ami Wolf-Peter Funk. La parution de ce volume etait alors annoncee pour le 30 decembre 2003, date du 60e anniversaire du dedicataire. Mais diverses raisons, au premier rang desquelles figure la generosite avec laquelle on a repondu a notre invitation, ont fait que ces melanges paraissent avec deux annees de retard. Mais a quelque chose malheur est bon: les lecteurs apprecieront la richesse, la haute tenue scientifique et la diversite de ces quarante-sept contributions qui, redigees en francais, en anglais ou en allemand par cinquante auteurs provenant de treize pays, temoignent eloquemment de l'estime et de l'amitie dont jouit Wolf-Peter Funk. Les editeurs de ce volume ont voulu l'ouvrir aux domaines auxquels s'est particulierement consacre Wolf-Peter Funk: la philologie et la linguistique coptes, les etudes gnostiques et manicheennes. Les contributions qui composent cet hommage illustrent par ailleurs assez bien ce qu'a ete l'activite scientifique et universitaire de Wolf-Peter Funk depuis son arrivee a l'Universite Laval a l'ete 1986. S'il y a poursuivi des travaux entrepris a Berlin, il s'est de plus en plus engage, a partir de ce moment, dans l'edition et l'interpretation des textes de Nag Hammadi en meme temps qu'il ouvrait un vaste chantier manicheen en devenant l'editeur des manuscrits manicheens des Musees d'Etat de Berlin et en s'associant a l'equipe australienne chargee de la publication des fouilles de l'oasis de Dakhleh (Kellis).
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
For beginner funk pianists. Contains important information on creating piano parts, playing in major and minor keys and transposing, in the realm of funk piano.
For beginner funk and R&B keyboard players. A great introduction to the world of Funk, R&B, Soul and Gospel keyboard playing. Covers the basics of creating good keyboard parts by concentrating on rhythm, along with other essential elements.
Rick James played with Neil Young, self-produced his first album (later picked up by Motown), crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop stars of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex- and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on to record new music that was compared to the Beatles' White Album, and ended his life as a punch line for Dave Chappelle. James attempted to tell his own story—in two different books—but left out many incidents that reflected badly on his character. Now, based on court records, newspaper archives, and extensive interviews with dozens of family members, band members, friends, and lovers, here is the definitive biography of Motown's most controversial superstar.
Specifically designed for students who wish to play Funk piano, either in a group or solo. Contains important information on creating piano parts, playing in major and minor keys and transposing. The exercises sound great as well as teaching the necessary notes and techniques. Also including a CD matching the lessons and exercises in the book.
For beginner funk and R&B guitarists. Introduces new techniques such as percussive strumming and a range of exciting chord sounds essential to Funk and R&B guitar. A range of Funk styles are examined, as well as some great Soul and R&B sounds.
For beginner funk and R&B guitarists. This course uses both chords and single note riffs to help the student gain control of timing and rhythms, which are essential to good funk playing.
Combines linguistics and semantics with a new program of memory techniques to help the reader not only learn new words and their meanings, but also remember them.
Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy funk and R&B guitar lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.*** "Gelling is a natural teacher. [This book] feels so well paced for learning that I am enjoying the process. This is the best tutor book I have worked with. Happy playing!" - Edward [Amazon UK] Progressive Funk and R&B Guitar Method contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great funk and R&B guitar player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson funk and R&B guitar tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of guitars including electric guitars and hollow body electric guitars. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing the guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play guitar from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play electric guitar and hollow body electric guitar • How to make classic funk sounds, using both rhythm and lead playing • How to play funk guitar notes and R&B guitar scales used in funk lead guitar solos, riffs and licks • All the important chords and scales used in funk playing introduced in a framework that allows the student to play confidently over the entire fretboard • How to use phrasing and timing with imaginative use of rhythms • All the fundamental techniques of funk and R&B guitar playing including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, slight bends, release bends, vibrato, staccato, muting, trail-offs • How to tune a guitar • Funk and R&B guitar tips and guitar tricks that every player should know when learning guitar • Shortcuts for how to learn guitar fast by getting the most from guitar practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the guitar today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy guitar lessons written by a professional funk guitar teacher • An innovative approach to learning rhythms & applying them to riffs & grooves • Full color photos and diagrams • A well structured easy to read theory section which covers summaries of keys and key signatures • Easy-to-read funk guitar music for beginners, funk guitar chords and easy funk guitar tabs • Guitar chord diagrams for all important funk guitar chords • 149 funk and R&B guitar exercises, funk guitar chord progressions, funk guitar riffs, funk guitar licks, funk guitar solos and popular easy funk guitar music in funk and R&B styles Beginner guitar lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the guitar, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's funk and R&B guitar lessons for beginners are used by students and guitar teachers worldwide to learn how to play guitar. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted guitar lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.
Twenty-five years ago in his hit song, "Sir Duke," Stevie Wonder sings: "Music knows it is and always will be one of the things that life just won't quit. / Here are some of music's basic pioneers that time will not allow us to forget: / There's Basie, Miller, Satchmo, and the King of All, Sir Duke! / And with a voice like Ella's ringing out, there's no way the band can lose! / You can feel it all over!" To say that Ellington was a prominent jazz-band leader of the twentieth century would be like saying William Shakespeare was simply a prominent English playwright of the time. This book begins with personal reflections as well as the life before going on to consider--through anecdote, musical scholarship, and personal interviews--Ellington's profound and direct influence on an amazing range of pop artists: Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Miles Davis (who, in the ultimate tribute, had himself interred next to The Duke in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery), Sun Ra, James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Prince, Frank Zappa, Charles Mingus, and Ravi Shankar.
Demonstrates many classic Funk sounds, using both rhythm & lead playing. Chord forms are introduced in a framework that allows the student to play confidently over the entire fretboard. Features an innovative approach to learning rhythms & applying them to riffs & grooves.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2004, held in Madrid, Spain in August/September 2004. The 56 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. All current issues in case-based reasoning, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to advanced applications in various fields are addressed.
Meet April and Margo, two strong and intelligent young women who, never the less, were recently thrown out of work. April Lance lost her job after falling in love with her married boss; she then had the bad luck to be caught by the wife. Due to no fault of her own, Margo Twiggins is laid off because of companywide cutbacks triggered by criminal acts committed by one much higher up the food chain. Marcus and Stanley Cluster are brothers who enter the lives of these women as friend and rival. Marcus and April are competing for the same position, while Stanley and Margo join forces to get her revenge on the people who trashed her dreams. CLUSTER FUNK, a humorous new novel by Peter Rubenstein, tells the story of one year in their lives and the felonious endeavors attempted by too many in their small circle of friends and family. Played out against the backdrop of massive mortgage foreclosures and hidden off shore fortunes, April and Margo hold tightly to the real things they love. For one, it's writing a fantasy blog which bears more than a passing resemblance to her reality, for the other it's not giving up on her dream no matter how tiny the piece she's still holding might be. Who'll get the sought after job? And, will any of it matter or will it all just turn into one royal Cluster Funk?
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