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Title: Complete Balalaika Book

ISBN: 9780786690237

Publication Year: 2015

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Complete Balalaika Book

Author: Bibs Ekkel

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated

Genre: Music

Topic: Instruction & Study / General, Musical Instruments / Strings

Number of Pages: 182 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher

Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-10

0786690232

ISBN-13

9780786690237

eBay Product ID (ePID)

223754609

Product Key Features

Publication Year

2015

Topic

Instruction & Study / General, Musical Instruments / Strings

Book Title

Complete Balalaika Book

Number of Pages

182 Pages

Language

English

Genre

Music

Author

Bibs Ekkel

Format

Trade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience

Trade

Synopsis

The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Russia today. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Foreword, the Tutor, A Brief History of the Balalaika, and a Repertoire Section. Unlike many Mel Bay books, the Complete Balalaika Book does not begin with the rudiments of music notation. Rather, the 20-page Foreword offer insights on the tunings of all the instruments in the balalaika family, hand positions, string sources and height adjustment, and chord shapes. The author even describes how to make a bass balalaika pick from shoe leather. The Tutor or instruction segment is written for the 'prima balalaika' which is correctly played with the fingers only rather than with a pick. The Tutor jumps right in with exercises and tunes in quarter, eighth, and sixteenth-note values with occasional dotted notes and syncopation. Perhaps half of the music in this section is shown in both standard notation and tablature. A glossary of musical signs and Russian musical terns is included. A Brief History of the Balalaika is well written and nicely illustrated. Very few Mel Bay books contain such a comprehensive historical overview of the subject instrument. The Repertoire Section offers a valuable resource of Eastern European folk tunes. All but two selections in this section are written in both notation and tab with suggested guitar chords, the exceptions being an arrangement for balalaika and piano, and a balalaika orchestra score. More than simple melody chord leadsheets, these are the author's own arrangements of tunes for solo balalaika and balalaika orchestra. Includes access to online audio with selections performed by the author that complete this highly effective instructional book.