Burgess Speed Livres

Exploring Japan's rich culture through music, this book offers arrangements of classic folk tunes like "Sakura" and "Edo Komori-uta." It delves into Japanese scales, modes, tunings, and traditional instruments such as the shamisen, koto, and shakuhachi. Readers will learn guitar techniques to replicate these unique sounds and discover Kabuki music, including ozatsuma shamisen playing. Additionally, it covers the Bon odori dances associated with the summer festival of Bon. A CD is included to demonstrate the musical examples and compositions.

"Build your guitar strumming skills with this excellent book and video teaching system! Learning your first chords is easy with How to Strum Chords on Guitar because it walks you through simple chord fingerings on three strings first--then four strings, five strings, and finally all six strings. You will build up your right-hand strumming technique as your fretting hand forms increasingly challenging chords. You will learn various musical styles and techniques through short examples and familiar songs. Blues, rock, country, fund, and folk--it's all here and at your fingertipes. Plus every technique, topic, playing example, and song in the book is demonstrated for you on video!"--Provided by publisher