Absolute Beginners

Omnibus Edition revised-This Omnibus Edition contains the complete Absolute Beginners Bass course in one complete and convenient package! The Absolute Beginners method has been designed to tellyou everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your Bass Guitar. This edition also features a unique download card with professional demonstration and accompaniment tracks allowing you to start playing musicright away.In one great book you'll get:A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanationsPractical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up playing and maintenanceAudio tracks on the accompanying download card show you how things should soundFull-length accompaniment tracks to play along with!This complete OmnibusEdition of Absolute Beginners Bass Guitar contains possibly all the information and practical guidance you'll need to learn the very basics of the Bass right up to playing your first tunes. Writtenby established bassist and teacher Phil Mulford you will be introduced to the parts of the Bass Guitar tuning and how to hold it before rapidly learning your first notes grooves bass lines and by the end of book 2 riffs slapping funk and a full song!If you are looking for an 'owner's manual' approach to learning to play the Bass Guitar that makes it easier than ever before look no further than this collated edition of AbsoluteBeginners now featuring a practical download card.

With Absolute Beginners Guitar Chords it's easy to learn to play chords on the Guitar whatever your level of experience. Simply look at the photographs then follow the diagrams and hear the chords played.Every time you come across a chord you don't know just look it up and listen. Absolute Beginners Guitar Chords is probably the only chord book you'll ever need. This comprehensive guidefeatures: Over 50 commonly used chords fully illustrated for fast learning. See the chords you want to play in pictures and diagrams. Hear what they should sound like using the accompanyingaudio. Includes sevenths power-chords suspended chords and barre/moveable chords. Using the chords in this book you'll soon be able to play hundreds of songs! About the series: TheAbsolute Beginners series makes learning musical instruments easy. With clear photos and diagrams you'll see exactly how to play. By listening to the audio you'll hear how things should sound. Learn faster than you everthought possible with Absolute Beginners.

The Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo book tells you everything you need to know about playing this unique instrument from the very first moment you pick it up. Featuring helpful and practical guides toeverything from holding your Tenor Banjo to playing your first tunes this book and accompanying download card will take you through your beginning stages and beyond. Beginning with a short history of theinstrument the book takes you through the anatomy of a Tenor Banjo how it's tuned and how to hold it before getting you playing and picking. The book continues by teaching you the D Major scale and basic rhythm then moves onto your first tunes. The inclusion of real songs (in notation and tablature) from the very beginning helps you to put what the theoretical concepts that you've learned into context developing your musicality as well as yourknowledge. As you are introduced to more strings more scales and more tunes you will see how Tenor Banjo players use ornamentation to embellish their playing and make it more musical and more fun. Withhelpful detailed explanations of each concept clear pictures throughout and short musical passages transcribed in standard notation and tablature the Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo tutorial book willteach you the basics and get you playing some really fun tunes at the same time. The unique download card that accompanies this book features over 60 demonstrations of each tune recorded by the author to help you pick and pluckyour way through every note. It's simple to use all you have to do is download each track to your computer and listen as you go through. If you have always wanted to learn Irish Tenor Banjobut have never been able to find a comprehensive method or you've just discovered its fantastically distinctive sound this edition of the Absolute Beginners series is for you. With authoritative

Absolute Beginners: Flute uses Step-by-step pictures to take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track! Absolute beginners has been designed to tell you everything youneed to know from the first time you play your Flute.In one great book you get:A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanationsPractical advice and tips covering everythingyou need to know to get you playing fast!CD audio tracks to show you how things should sound plus...Full-length accompaniment tracks to play along withAn 'owner's manual' approach to your Flutethat makes learning easier than ever before!

The Absolute Beginners: Guitar Songbook contains an impressive repertoire book of classic hits that continues seamlessly on from the Absolute Beginners Guitar Tutor and superbly supplements the pieces alreadyencountered in that book adding variety and interest whilst continuing the important lessons in technique. Make your chord skills come alive with these hit songs! Specially arranged using all ten chords you learned in theTutor book these uncomplicated arrangements mean you can be playing some of your favourite songs almost immediately! Includes massive hits by Chuck Berry Jimi Hendrix Bob Marley Oasis Coldplay and more! Also includedwith this book is a specially recorded CD of backing tracks to play along with giving you a chance to play these songs as part of a virtual band!

The Absolute Beginners award-winning method has been designed to make learning the Mandolin easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs.Absolute Beginners Mandolin gives you: An 'owner's manual' approach to the mandolin. Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up playing and maintenance. Alook-and-learn course that uses clear pictures to illustrate every step of learning. CD audio tracks to let you hear how things should sound plus full-length accompaniments so you can play along.

The Absolute Beginners approach has been designed to make learning to sing easier than ever before! Suitable for both male and female beginners this step-by-step guide takes you through the basics from how to stand andbreathe correctly to singing your first song.

Step-by-step pages take you through the essential intermediate Ukulele techniques.Absolute Beginners Ukulele Book 2 has been designed to tell you everything you need to know to add style and colour to your playing.In one great book you get:A look and learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations.Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know to progress as a Ukulele player.CDaudio tracks to show you how things sound.Full length accompaniment tracks for you to play along with.An 'owners manual' approach to your Ukulele that makes learning easier than ever before!

This remarkable Absolute Beginners tutorial pack contains books 1 and 2 from the series plus the songbook and fingering charts all in one volume, with 2 CDs to let you listen and learn with professional backing tracks. / Clavier

The complete keyboard method - both of the Absolute Beginners keyboard tutor books together in one volume. Practical advice clear layout and a playalong CD gives you all you need to know from the first time you sit at akeyboard.