Vida de Debussy

This book approaches bongo playing in a very user-friendly way. It is a must for all students who wish to learn the basic styles, patterns, and techniques from world-renowned artist/teacher Richie Gajate-Garcia. This package contains two CDs with Richie performing all the exercises and includes play-along tracks to practice with. Styles include Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, pop/rock, funk, and R&B, along with a section on school jazz band use. This is a complete study of the bongo drum and should be fun for all who use it. Also includes an in-depth study of all basic hand percussion...

(Music Sales America). A comprehensive Spanish-language guitar chord directory in a convenient slim-line format that fits in your guitar case. Far more than just a simple chord book, Manual De Acordes Para Guitarra also features countless inversions, mobile chords, details of the cycle of fifths and much more.

Although influenced by the impressionism of Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) remained distinctively Spanish, with roots that drew upon both Andalusian folk music and his country's classical traditions. With these two popular ballets, El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) and El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), he brought the world's attention to the music of Spain. In El Amor Brujo, a gypsy lass is haunted by the ghost of a former swain until her new lover devises a plan to entice the spirit away. Each of the ballet's scenes evokes a different mood that is ...

"Cuando Nito me dijo 'hagamos una banda', yo le respondí 'estás loco' [...]. Mi vieja nos decía: 'Pero... ¿qué van a hacer?'. Y el Francés, vestido con un sombrero de Indiana Jones, un reloj colgante y pantalones Oxford, le contestaba: 'Vamos a tener éxito, vamos a vivir de esto'." Así relata Gustavo Parisi, "Cucho", cantante principal de Los Auténticos Decadentes, los comienzos del grupo que, a treinta años de aquella conversación, se convirtió en el emblema de la diversión asociada al rock y a la música popular. En Titanes en el hit: una biografía oral, sus compañeros de...