Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar


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(Book). Every guitarist dreams of owning a handmade instrument, but for most, the cost is likely to be prohibitive. The alternative building your own fine guitar is not as difficult as you might imagine, given some skill, patience, and the expert guidance of a master luthier. Every step of construction is fully covered, from choice, selection, and preparation of woods, to consideration of size, bracing, and tonal qualities. Each step of the building sequence is clearly photographed in color, with variations to the standard design shown to enable you to personalize your instrument as you make it. Briston, England-based Jonathan Kinkead has been building guitars for nearly 30 years. His craft is born out of experience and intuition rather than a strict following of technical detail. The resulting beauty of form and distinctive tone have earned him his reputation as one of the world's most respected independent luthiers.




Complete Acoustic Guitar Method


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Being unplugged doesn't mean you're without power. Develop the agility and strength that will give your performances power by making them appear effortless. All music in each 96-page book is shown in TAB and standard notation and recorded on the accompanying CD and/or DVD for demonstration and playing along.




Acoustic Steps


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Acoustic Steps is a book for intermediate-advanced acoustic guitar players. This book will help to improve improve your fingerstyle, chords, rhythm, creativity and composing skills. This book is organized in 14 stages. Each has a warm up and a basic exercise based on three different levels: Beginner, intermediate and advanced. When you practice the beginner level, you will learn the chords position and the basic rhythm of the exercise. Then, you will move on to the intermediate level where rhythm and a more articulated fingerstyle pattern occur. Once you master the intermediate level, you will be able to start the advanced level. Here, techniques like chord melody and percussive approach will help you improve your fingerstyle skills as well as creative skills. Acoustic Steps is not a book for complete beginners. Get this book only if you have been playing for at least six months. This book is complemented by the online videos at www.blitzguitar.com. Take your playing further with Acoustic Steps. Improve your skills and creativity. Learn new techniques like Tapping and Cascading scales on guitar. Acoustic Steps is one of the most practical book for acoustic guitar! Check out the video support at http: //www.blitzguitar.com/buy-stuff/ click the video button and check the content




An Introduction to Power Plant Acoustics


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Introductory technical guidance for mechanical engineers and others interested in the acoustic environment in power plants. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SOUND ANALYSIS PROCEDURE 3. NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL FOR ENGINE INSTALLATIONS.




Complete Acoustic Blues Method


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The conclusion of this power-packed acoustic blues guitar method begins with a review of transposition and immediately proceeds to great acoustic blues music. It provides an in-depth and exciting exploration of fingerstyle blues---with lots of pieces in standard, open and alternate tunings. Slide guitar technique is also covered, with examples in standard and open tunings. The book takes a much closer look at pentatonic and blues scale theory and application. Modal theory is introduced, with special attention given to the Mixolydian and Dorian modes. Jazz blues, walking bass lines, popping the bass and advanced muting techniques are all covered as well. Any player, no matter how advanced, can improve their playing and learn lots of great music with this book.




Acoustic Territories


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Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives - it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an "acoustic politics of space" by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and related ideologies. Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself. This structure follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. Acoustic Territories uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.




Basic of sound and hearing: Part 3 Acoustic Theory


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acoustics thoary is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries. Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture. Accordingly, the science of acoustics spreads across many facets of human society—music, medicine, architecture, industrial production, warfare and more. Likewise, animal species such as songbirds and frogs use sound and hearing as a key element of mating rituals or marking territories. Art, craft, science and technology have provoked one another to advance the whole, as in many other fields of knowledge




Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology


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A complete reference for the design and construction of the steel-string folk guitar and the classical guitar.




DIY Acoustic Panels


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DIY Acoustic Panels will guide the reader through the building process of a variety of acoustic panels and diffusers, allowing the reader to treat a studio, rehearsal space or recording room effectively.DIY Acoustic Panels is split into three levels of ability and budget, enabling any reader to use the information to treat a room:Advanced - For readers with experience and access to certain tools and materialsIntermediate - For readers who have DIY experience but have limited tools and a moderate budgetBasic - For readers with no tools and a limited budgetThis book will show the reader how to build:Broadband AbsorbersBass TrapsGrid Diffusers2D QRD DiffusersSkyline DiffusersFor each ability level, DIY Acoustic Panels will show the reader how they can best treat their space based on the limitations they face and provide examples of each.




The Musician's Guide to Recording Acoustic Guitar


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(Musicians Institute Press). Learn the tools of the trade for recording acoustic guitar parts in your home studio! Topics covered in this one-on-one lesson with MI faculty instructor Dallan Beck include miking techniques, direct recording, EQ, compression, recording techniques, and effects such as chorus, reverb and delay. The accompanying CD features 48 demo tracks.