Guitar Girl

Guitar Girl
Author: Sarra Manning
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781417676347

As her band, The Hormones, becomes an international sensation, seventeen-year-old Molly begins to question the high cost of fame.

Guitar for Girls

Guitar for Girls
Author: Ali Handal
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781458408457

(Guitar Educational). Finally, a guitar method designed specifically for girls that teaches how to play using real songs by the world's most popular female artists and songwriters! This fun and easy-to-use book/CD pack will get you strumming chords and singing your favorite songs in no time, without even having to read music. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a budding songwriter, you'll gain many valuable tools as you progress through the book, which is loaded with inspirational quotes and words of encouragement. Topics covered include: guitar basics, tuning, basic chords, strumming techniques, chord alternatives, power chords, tab, single-string picking, palm muting, using a capo, creative songwriting ideas, and more! Songs include: Angel * Back on the Chain Gang * Beautiful * Come to My Window * Girls with Guitars * I Love Rock 'N Roll * Landslide * Mean * We Got the Beat * You Oughta Know * and more.

Girl's Guitar Method Complete

Girl's Guitar Method Complete
Author: Tish Ciravolo
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739045565

Combining the best-selling Girl's Guitar Method, Books 1 and 2 with the new Girl's Guitar Method DVD, the Girl's Guitar Method Complete Book & DVD package has everything a girl needs to learn to play guitar! Written by Tish Ciravolo, the Girl's Guitar Method is the first guitar method written especially for girls. Thousands of girls all over the world are raving about this revolutionary method's fresh and energetic approach, with a style and design that addresses the interests of young women today. Teaching from a girl's perspective, this solid method promises a sure start down a lifelong path of musical enjoyment and all the heightened self-esteem that comes with learning to play an instrument. This package also includes the new Girl's Guitar Method DVD, hosted by internationally-renowned guitarist and Daisy Rock clinician Janet Robin. The Girl's Guitar Method DVD gives girls the chance to teach themselves how to play guitar by watching and learning from one of the finest guitarists in the world. This DVD will take you from the basics of guitar-playing, like tuning and proper posture, to advanced concepts like bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides. Based on a method made especially for girls, and hosted by a successful guitarist who's played with Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac), Ann & Nancy Wilson (Heart), Meredith Brooks and Michelle Shocked, girls will feel inspired to learn how to play guitar and to keep playing!

Guitar Notes

Guitar Notes
Author: Mary Amato
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ™
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 151240134X

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.

Kicking & Dreaming

Kicking & Dreaming
Author: Ann Wilson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062101692

The story of Heart is a story of heart and soul and rock ’n’ roll. Since finding their love of music and performing as teenagers in Seattle, Washington, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, have been part of the American rock music landscape. From 70s classics like “Magic Man” and “Barracuda” to chart- topping 80s ballads like “Alone,” and all the way up to 2012, when they will release their latest studio album, Fanatic, Heart has been thrilling their fans and producing hit after hit. In Kicking and Dreaming, the Wilsons recount their story as two sisters who have a shared over three decades on the stage, as songwriters, as musicians, and as the leaders of one of our most beloved rock bands. An intimate, honest, and a uniquely female take on the rock and roll life, readers of bestselling music memoirs like Life by Keith Richards and Steven Tyler’s Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? will love this quintessential music story finally told from a female perspective.

The Silver Guitar

The Silver Guitar
Author: Kathryn Reiss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Fund raising
ISBN: 9781448756667

While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.

Let's Get Lost

Let's Get Lost
Author: Sarra Manning
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780142411858

As she acts out the role of "Mean Girl"--at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend--sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother's death.

Poster Girl

Poster Girl
Author: Beccy Cole
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0733632734

Beccy Cole's inspirational memoir from the heart of Australian country music. Beccy Cole has country music in her blood. Daughter of a country music star, Carole Sturtzel, she is one of the most popular country singer-songwriters in Australia today. This is the story of her life - in her own words. At fourteen, Beccy was performing in her mother's group, Wild Oats. By her late teens, Beccy had teamed up with the Dead Ringer Band - Kasey Chambers' family band - and had attracted the attention of the country music world by winning the Star Maker quest: the same award that started the careers of Keith Urban, Lee Kernaghan, James Blundell and Gina Jeffreys. It was just the first of many awards and accolades for this multitalented woman with a big heart. With refreshing candour, Beccy shares her story: leaving everything she knew to pursue her dream, making a name for herself with her own band; her marriage and motherhood; her subsequent divorce, becoming a single mother and maintaining the nurturing love of family. Performing for the Australian troops in Afghanistan. Coming out, and what it has meant for her and her fans. Taking control of her own life - and finding love. Heartfelt and honest, Poster Girl is the inspirational memoir of a strong woman who epitomises the authentic spirit of country music, and of Australia.

Flesh Guitar

Flesh Guitar
Author: Geoff Nicholson
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2000-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468305395

Into the Havoc Bar and Grill, an end-of-the-world watering hole on the outer fringes of the metropolis, walks the entertainment, Jenny Slade. She has the look down: beat-up leather jacket, motorcycle boots, cheekbones, and wild hair. But she’s no ordinary guitar heroine. Her guitar is like none her audience has ever seen, part deadly weapon, part creature from some alien lagoon. Is that hair? Are those nipples? Is it flesh? Where does Jenny Slade come from? Where does she go? Geoff Nicholson fans know that wherever that is, the ride will be like no other.

Bert Weedon's Play In A Day

Bert Weedon's Play In A Day
Author: Bert Weedon
Publisher: Faber Music Ltd
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0571591744

The full eBook version of Bert Weedon's Play in a Day in fixed-layout format. Play in a Day remains the world's most successful guitar tutor. It is as much a legend as the stars who've learnt from it - Eric Clapton, Mike Oldfield, Paul McCartney, Steve Hillage, George Harrison, John Lennon, Sting, Brian May, Pete Townshend and dozens more. Play in a Day is easy to use, inexpensive and can help to turn you into a legendary performer too.