The Definitive Guitar Handbook (2017 Updated) by Rusty Cutchin

$26.00 NZD

Category: Music

This best-selling one-stop resource is packed with practical advice on how to tackle the basics, such as simple chords and finger-picking, right through to more complex power chords, slurs, bends and slides. It also includes tips on stagecraft and performing live, and step-by-step guitar maintenance. Th e galleries of guitars and guitarists, and the chord dictionary have been comprehensively updated for this edition. ...Show more

Ultimate Rock Riffs: 100 Heart-Stopping Opening Riffs from the Greatest Songs of Rock by Joel McIver

$11.99 NZD

Category: Music

Featuring QR code connections to video links for every entry, Ultimate Rock Riffs offers quick access to 100 carefully selcted Youtube videos. The ultimate rock riffs are the ones that you recognize from the first chord or bar - they have immediate impact and always bring a smile to the face, they are t he identity and the backbone of a rock song. Everyone has their opinions on the best-ever riffs, and there will never be a consensus - but we can have a go! This great little giftbook is the ideal stimulus to lively and impassioned debate about whether Deep Purple's instantly familiar 'Smoke On The Water' should take the crown or perhaps it seems obvious to you that it should be Cream's 'Sunshine Of Your Love'; you may value something a little more eclectic in Rush's 'Spirit Of Radio' or feel the need to champion more contemporary whiz kids Muse with their 'Hysteria' - with entries on over a hundred of the best-loved riffs, as well as our suggestions for a Top 100 list and a Top Riffing Guitarists list, from Hendrix to Page, and absorbing text alongside iconic images for each entry, you may not reach a conclusion but you'll enjoy the musing. ...Show more

Iron Maiden by Chris Welch

$17.99 NZD

Category: Music

Celebrate the pioneering band that redefined heavy metal: Iron Maiden. "We've always been bombastic and done what we've wanted to do." --Steve Harris Go straight to the heart and soul of the Mighty Maiden, the group that was at the forefront of the New Wave of British heavy metal in the '80s . . . and is still going strong. Here is their full story in glorious detail, complete with photographs of posters, flyers, and backstage passes, and rare images of the band's most high-profile gigs and iconic moments. In addition to an album-by-album account of all their studio recordings, it includes biographies of the most notable members and a decade-by-decade history of the band. Written by a leading music journalist who has interviewed the band many times, Iron Maiden is a fantastic tribute to the iconic band and a fan must-have. ...Show more

How to Play the Ukulele by Terry Burrows

$14.99 NZD

Category: Music

Easy to understand and use, this excellent guide to playing the ukulele has everything you need to get started. Beginning with a brief introduction describing what the ukulele is and how it evolved, the book takes you through the basics of understanding the instrument, how to create chords and play simp le melodies, how to learn different styles of ukulele music from around the globe and how to maintain a ukulele (which includes items such as mending broken strings). By the end of the book, readers should have begun to master the ukulele and will be prepared to venture into playing more complicated tunes and pieces. Beautifully designed, bright and colourful, this is a fun way to bring music into your life and entertain your family and friends ...Show more

Metallica by EWING JERRY

$17.99 NZD

Category: Music

Metallica grew from the fledgling thrash metal scene of the early 1980s to become one of the biggest metal acts in the history of music. They still play sell out concerts around the globe and their music is critically acclaimed. Their story is one of excess, success and very heavy metal. Their music has been constantly innovative, breaking the boundaries of what constitutes heavy metal and skilfully appealing to a huge global audience. As early as 1986, Master of Puppets was seen as the album that broke thrash to the wider audience, and by the time Metallica ("the black album") came out in 1991, it cemented their reputation as metallers who remained faithful to the core, but were able to adapt and make themselves hugely popular. ...Show more

Drum Course For Beginners

$14.99 NZD

Category: Music

Bowie by O'Neill - The Definitive Collection with Unseen Images by Terry O'Neill

$79.99 NZD

Category: Music

This book is the breathtaking result of iconic photographer Terry O'Neill's creative partnership with David Bowie that spanned over a number of years, including images published here for the first time. Containing rare and never-before-seen photographs, their work together includes images from the last Ziggy Stardust performance, recording sessions for Young Americans and the renowned studio portraits for Diamond Dogs - plus live shows, film shoots, backstage moments and more. With more than 500 photographs, this is the ultimate portrait of an inspiring, challenging and ever-changing artist. ...Show more

Glastonbury - Music and Mud at the Ultimate Festival by Malcolm Croft; Ray Davies (Foreword by); Tom Ravenscroft (Introduction by)

$55.00 NZD

Category: Music

50 Years of Glastonbury celebrates the mud and mayhem that makes the festival one of the most popular musical events in the world, for fans and for artists, alike. Packed with incredible photographs and stories of the acts and attendees who have made Glastonbury a phenomenon, this is a visual feast show ing line-ups from each festival and outstanding photographs of headliners and cult acts from the festival's extraordinary history. ...Show more

Malcolm Young: The Man Who Made AC/DC by Jeff Apter

$36.99 NZD

Category: Music

The first in-depth biography of Malcolm Young, from the author of High Voltage

The Beatles Book by Hunter Davies

$38.00 NZD

Category: Music

THE BEATLES BOOK is the ultimate authority on the fab four.Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, brings together three eminent Beatles experts to compile an invaluable and essential guide. Divided into four sections - People, Songs, Places and Broadcast & Cinema - The Beatles Bookcovers every element of the band?s history and vividly brings to life every influence that shaped the incredible Beatles phenomenon. Hunter and his team have also rated entries to show how important, influential or meaningful that characteristic was in the history of the Beatles' lives and creations.Illustrated with material from Hunter's remarkable private collection of personal artefacts and memorabilia, this compendium is a beautiful, insightful and entertaining treasure for any Beatles fan. ...Show more

The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape by Richard King

$36.99 NZD

Category: Music

The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'pastoral romance for orchestra' was premiered on 14 June, 1921. Over the course of the twentieth century this piece of music, perhaps more than any other, worked its way into the collective consciousness to seemingly define a mythical concept of the English c ountryside: babbling brooks, skylarks, hayricks. But the birth and legacy of the composition are much more complex than this simplified pastoral vision suggests. The landscape we celebrate as unsullied and ripe with mystique is a living, working, and occasionally rancorous environment - not an unaffected idyll - that forged a nation's musical personality, and its dissenting traditions. On a chronological journey that takes him from postwar poets and artists to the late twentieth century and the free party scene which emerged from acid house and travelling communities, Richard King explores how Britain's history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between music and nature. From the far west of Wales to the Thames Estuary and the Suffolk shoreline, taking in Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Bryars, Greenham Common and The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, The Lark Ascending listens to the land and the music that emerged from it, to chart a new and surprising course through a familiar landscape. ...Show more

Heavy Metal - Its Story in Pictures by Michael Heatley

$39.99 NZD

Category: Music

Heavy Metal: The Story in Pictures is a colorful guide to this complex but enormously popular subject, including a look at festivals, fans, and the heavy metal lifestyle. Over 350 photographs feature heavy metal's cutting-edge bands on stage--with some candid behind-the-scenes shots, too. Each chapter s tarts with a detailed chronological timeline of major events--band formations and fold-ups; seminal album releases; important tours and gigs--followed by a photographic coverage of the decade. Heavy metal developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues, progressive, and psychedelic rock, heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. It did not take long before the first heavy metal bands--the blues-based Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple being the leaders--attracted large audiences and significant album sales. Often critically and publicly reviled--something that is true to this day--few of these hard rock pioneers would continue on into the heavy metal genre. By the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. Mot rhead introduced a punk-rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and Saxon followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the 1970s, heavy metal had attracted a huge following of headbanging fans. Behind the music ran a vein of anti-authoritarianism and--more insinuated than real--Satanism and black magic that really got the pundits talking, as did the aggression and violence implied by so many band names and song titles.Heavy Metal: The Story in Pictureslooks carefully at the ancient history--the 1960s through to the start of the 1980s--but the bulk of the book concentrates on the last 30 years that saw the splintering of the genre into a myriad forms: from the great thrash metal bands--Exodus, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeath, Slayer and then Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction, and Brazil's Sepultura--to metalcore, that combines various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, by way of death metal, black metal, power metal, doom metal, gothic metal, glam metal, alternative metal, nu metal, folk metal, Viking metal, drone metal, sludge metal, extreme metal, and even retro-metal. From Donington to Ozzfest, Hard Rock Hell to Sonisphere, festival-going has become a rite of passage in the metal world. With Heavy Metal: The Story in Pictures, get an up-close look at Hellfest, FortaRock, Zwergenaufstand Open Air, Eisenwahn, Wacken, and Jalometalli and take a stunning visual tour through the evolution of heavy metal. ...Show more