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The Shakuhachi is an ancient flute that captivates many who cross its path. Hidden in its simplicity is profound possibility. The windy, resonant sound of the Shakuhachi brings deep serenity to sympathetic ears. For the devoted player, it is also a spiritual tool for training the mind and breath.

Most notably, Zen monks have using the Shakuhachi for centuries to train mind and breath through...

Making Music Fun Again

Long ago you mastered your native language intuitively. Now, you can master music in a similar way, and have fun doing it What's more, nothing is more simple or soul-satisfying than playing music with others, so come learn to play traditional mountain music - 'people music' - by ear, today

Grab a ukulele, guitar, banjo, bass, Dobro, mandolin or fiddle and take our Free 2 hour "Get Started" Workshop Series at ToneWay.com. The ToneWay Music Method

The ToneWay Music Method teaches you how to play string instruments in an easier and more musically fluent way......

Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.

The new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans....

I first give a poetic rendering of the chapter. This is followed by a word-for-word, line-by-line translation of the Chinese. Chinese characters can have many related synonym-like meaning. I give the main ones so that a reader can piece together something closer to the original. Normal translations, even my nearly literal poetic one, invariably lose some degree of the ancient 'original intention' due to the modern cultural context we bring to our language's words... our 'education'. This more literal approach also produces some results not possible through approaches commonly used to...

Making Music Fun Again

This is a two part book. The first part is a songbook containing big print versions of 100 core mountain music songs. That is one great song per page These songs are among the most commonly-played traditional songs. Their longevity is a testament to the joyful singing they arouse.

Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes (a.k.a. Nashville number system), 'jammability', and tonal information useful for playing melody by ear and for singing lead and harmony. By the time you cover a bunch of these songs, you will have mastered the essentials you...

This book offers 371 songs in BIG PRINT, easy to read, 20 point typeface. Here you'll have a lifetime supply of commonly-played, traditional 'people music'. Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes (a.k.a. Nashville number system), 'jammability', and tonal information useful for playing by ear and for singing lead and harmony. The 'people music' being played today, otherwise known as bluegrass or mountain music, evolved out of a unique blend of many styles of music, coalescing in 19th-century Appalachia. Vigorous Anglo-American mountain music, old English ballads,...

Making Music Fun Again

Long ago you mastered your native language intuitively. Now, you can master music in a similar way, and have fun doing it What's more, nothing is more simple or soul-satisfying than playing music with others, so come learn to play traditional mountain music - 'people music' - by ear, today

Begin right now ... Grab a ukulele and take our Free 2 hour "Get Started" Workshop Series at ToneWay.com. Note: The Workshop doesn't cover the guitalele yet. However, all you need to do is play your guitalele as a tenor ukulele. This means just playing the upper four strings....

This book offers 371 songs, a lifetime supply of commonly-played, traditional 'people music'. Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes (a.k.a. Nashville number system), 'jammability', and tonal information useful for playing by ear and for singing lead and harmony.
The 'people music' being played today, otherwise known as bluegrass or mountain music, evolved out of a unique blend of many styles of music, coalescing in 19th-century Appalachia. Vigorous Anglo-American mountain music, old English ballads, Afro-American gospel music, and many other traditions all contributed...

We live near the edge--whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, maps, and occasionally even performance art to explore these frontiers--the metropolitan frontier of suburban development, the classic continental frontier of American settlement, and...