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Sheet Music and Scores, Open Access
Musopen
Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free. Featured Composers Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Borodin, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, and Mozart.
Recordings and Media
Association for Cultural Equity Online Archive
The ACE Archive comprises over 17,000 streaming audio recordings organized into 30 collections and totaling over 800 hours of music, stories and interviews," recorded mostly from 1946 through the 1990s in the southern US.
eBooks (sheet music available online, with a Shasta College Library card)
Socialist and Labor Songs by Elizabeth Morgan (Editor); U. Utah Phillips (Preface by)
Features 77 songs - including lyrics and sheet music - of solidarity, revolt, humour and revolution. Compiled over several generations from American and around the world, these powerful songs were originally written in English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Yiddish. From IWW anthems such as 'The Preacher and the Slave' to Lenin's favourite 1905 revolutionary anthem 'Whirlwinds of Danger', many works by the world's greatest radical songwriters are anthologised herein.
Learning to play guitar
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar [electronic resource] by Charles Kim
Everything beginners need to know to start playing guitar Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up a guitar and start strumming! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar shows you the basics--step by step and note by note. You begin with basic chords and techniques and progress through suspensions, bass runs, hammer-ons, and barre chords. As you learn to read tablature and lead sheets, you can play any number of songs and styles of music, from rock to folk to country. The chord chart and scale appendices are ready references for use long after you master the basics. Plus, this new edition includes an audio CD so you can hear what each note, chord, and technique should sound like, along with a new chapter on reading music. This new edition includes substantial improvements to get readers playing the guitar faster A photo-intensive, step-by-step approach to playing acoustic and electric guitar The bonus CD includes more than 100 audio tracks Whether you've never picked up a guitar or want to brush up on the basics, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar will get you strumming in no time.
