The Boy With The Old Guitar

Author : John Loveday
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803133775
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy with the Old Guitar written by John Loveday and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John chose the title-poem for its simple, believable story. The rest accrued in the usual way. He found those now grouped in City of Flowers particularly moving to write.

Author : MJ Auch
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9780805091120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitar Boy written by MJ Auch and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travis Tacey doesn't have it easy: his mom's in the hospital suffering from brain trauma after a terrible car accident, and his father has lost his good sense in the aftermath and kicked him out. Homeless, penniless, and only fourteen years old, Travis tries to make money off of his singing and guitar playing skills. But when his beloved guitar—a family heirloom—is stolen, Travis grows desperate. By a stroke of luck, he gets a job helping a guitar maker. Through Travis's love of music, his devotion to his family, and the kindness of strangers, he begins to find his way in the world. But how will he keep his family together?

Author : David Weiser
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9780578799575
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Wanted to Rock written by David Weiser and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for the book came about while I was working abroad on a theater show, with a fair bit of downtime. Before leaving, I'd been helping our son, Arlen, as he made first contact with a few instruments: keyboards and synthesizers, guitar, and a variety of tuned percussion instruments. It did not always go well. His intense love of music was matched by an equally intense desire for immediate results. This combination often led to a considerable amount of frustration. To help Arlen cope with this frustration, I decided to write a short rhyming story that would be similar in many ways to those found in his favorite picture books. My initial vision was for the book to encourage practice and sticktoitiveness, enshrining the many virtues of delayed gratification. Mercifully, I came to my senses and abandoned that idea as utter nonsense. It dawned on me that our boy's innocence and earnestness fueled a kind of rock power, that unnamed spark of creative joy that many of us in the music industry have chased in practice spaces and recording studios for decades. It's the very thing that makes a kid, a kid. Our five-year-old boy is Thoreau's "childlike mirthfulness" come to life. He dances like there's no one watching; he doesn't know any other way. He sings with abandon, and sometimes, he roars. In the end, I thought that if he learns something from the book, wonderful, but above all else, I wanted this book to help ensure that he never forgets how to roar.

Author : Brad Paisley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145167435X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Player written by Brad Paisley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country music superstar shares what the guitar has meant to him as a means of finding his own voice, who inspired his love of music, and memorable stories about the great guitar players he has encountered over the years.

Author : Michael Dregni, Margret Aldrich, Charles Shaar Murray
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610605496
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Old Guitar written by Michael Dregni, Margret Aldrich, Charles Shaar Murray and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2003-09-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether theyre acoustic or electric; a Fender, Gibson, or Rickenbacker; whether theyre used to play rock or blues or country; guitars have revolutionized the music industry and have struck a chord with music fans everywhere. An anthology of memoirs, stories, and reminiscences about acoustic and electric guitars and their vital role in all styles of music, This Old Guitar is the supreme tribute to this popular instrument and pop culture icon. The stories in "This Old Guitar" cover such themes as first guitars, learning to play, guitar love and lust, oddball guitars, famous guitars that made (or didnt make) history, playing air guitar, the cliches of smashing and burning guitars, and more. The stories come from journalists and historians well-known in the music industry, including Dan Forte (former editor of Guitar Player and Guitar World magazines), Michael Wright (author of "Guitar Stories" vols. 1 and 2, and contributor to "Vintage Guitar" magazine), Ward Meeker (editor of "Vintage Guitar" magazine), and Charles Shaar Murray (Author of "Crosstown Traffic and Boogie Man"). Sidebars include quotes from such famous musicians as Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, and more.

Author : Kim Tomsic
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1452176035
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitar Genius written by Kim Tomsic and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Les Paul created the world's first solid- body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor? A few tools, a lot of curiosity, and an endless faith in what is possible. Featuring richly detailed, dynamic illustrations by Brett Helquist, this unforgettable biography will resonate with inventive readers young and old.

Author : Tony Bacon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493079263
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SG Guitar Book written by Tony Bacon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many vintage guitar fans, it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and, during the following year, introduced a completely new design, the one that we know now as the SG (“solid guitar”). At the time, however, it made good business sense. Sales of the Les Paul were faltering, and Gibson decided to blow a breath of fresh air through its solidbody electric guitar line. The company described the result as an “ultra-thin, hand-contoured, double-cutaway body.” The modernistic amalgam of bevels and points and angles was a radical departure, and this new book tells the story of all the SG models that followed: the Junior, Special, Standard, Custom, and more. There are interviews with and stories about Gibson personnel through the years, and all the major SG players, including Pete Townshend, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton, Angus Young, George Harrison, Gary Rossington, Tony Iommi, and Derek Trucks. In the tradition of Tony Bacon's bestselling series of guitar books, The SG Guitar Book is three great volumes in one package: a collection of drool-worthy pictures of the coolest guitars; a gripping story from the earliest prototypes to the latest exploits; and a detailed collector's database of every production SG model ever made.

Author : Robbin Gourley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544129881
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talkin' Guitar written by Robbin Gourley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Arthel "Doc" Watson, a blind country boy who found music in the sounds around him and learned to play that music on his guitar, eventually becoming a Grammy-winning musician.

Author : Mary Amato
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ™
ISBN 13 : 151240134X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guitar Notes written by Mary Amato and published by Carolrhoda Lab ™. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On odd days, Tripp uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters. On even days, Lyla Marks uses the same practice room. To Tripp, she's trying to become even more perfect—she's already a straight-A student and an award-winning cellist. But when Lyla begins leaving notes for him in between the strings of the guitar, his life intersects with hers in a way he never expected. What starts as a series of snippy notes quickly blossoms into the sharing of interests and secrets and dreams, and the forging of a very unlikely friendship. Challenging each other to write songs, they begin to connect, even though circumstances threaten to tear them apart. From beloved author Mary Amato comes a YA novel of wit and wisdom, both heartfelt and heart­breaking, about the power of music and the unexpected chords that draw us together.

Author : Keith Richards
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316320633
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gus & Me written by Keith Richards and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, acclaimed picture book about family and music that details the electric moment with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones first picked up a guitar, illustrated by his daughter, Theodora Richards. Long before there was a band, there was a boy: a young Keith Richards, who was introduced to the joy of music through his beloved granddad, Theodore Augustus Dupree, affectionately known as "Gus," who was in a jazz big band and is the namesake of Keith's daughter, Theodora Dupree Richards. Gus & Me offers a rare and intimate look into the childhood of the legendary Keith Richards through this poignant and inspiring story that is lovingly illustrated with Theodora Richards's exquisite pen-and-ink collages. This unique autobiographical picture book honors the special bond between a grandfather and grandson and celebrates the artistic talents of the Richards family through the generations. It also includes selected photographs from the Richards family collection.