(NOTE: This book, sold at a discount here, comes WITHOUT the companion CD. You can purchase this CD at http://bit.ly/abbottkunaki)
“Blowing Zen” guides you step-by-step from producing... More > sound to playing Buddhist Meditation music. Also included are detailed build-your-own shakuhachi instructions. 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 the practice of Sui Zen (blowing Zen) using Buddhist music composed specifically for the Shakuhachi.
Coming soon: free online video lessons and other resources to take you from absolute Zero to Honkyoku (Zen Buddhist meditation techniques).< Less
(NOTE: This book, sold at a discount here, comes WITHOUT the companion CD. You can purchase this CD at http://bit.ly/abbottkunaki)
“Blowing Zen” guides you step-by-step from producing... More > sound to playing Buddhist Meditation music. Also included are detailed build-your-own shakuhachi instructions.
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 the practice of Sui Zen (blowing Zen) using Buddhist music composed specifically for the Shakuhachi.
Coming soon: free online video lessons and other resources to take you from absolute Zero to Honkyoku (Zen Buddhist meditation techniques).< Less
Blowing Zen II contains 26 additional Hon Kyoku compositions (Zen Buddhist music), pitch graphs, more San Kyoku (Japanese Chamber music), and more Japanese folk music.
There is no companion CD for... More > Blowing Zen II, but there are free recordings online of some of these pieces, with more to come in the future.< Less
First, I 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... More > the main ones so that a reader can piece together something closer to the original. Normal translations invariably lose some degree of the ancient 'original intention' due to the modern cultural context we bring to our language's words… our 'education'.
The second half of the book includes commentary that relates each chapter to aspects of life. Using this, along with one's favorite English translation and cross checking with my Word for Word can noticeably deepen one's understanding.
This approach produces some interesting, even profound, results not possible through approaches commonly used to translate this ancient text (e.g., an over concern for poetic beauty which sacrifices meaning (mostly through embellishment), and over influence of humanist views which skews meaning away from the ancient).< Less
The ToneWay Music Method teaches you how to play string instruments the easier way… the playing by ear way applied to a handful of favorite mountain music song. Then you build on this as you... More > learn an additional 32 beloved traditional songs.
Begin right now!... Grab a ukulele, guitar, banjo, bass, Dobro, mandolin or fiddle and take our Free 2 hour “Get Started” Workshop Series at ToneWay.com.
This book is a comprehensive resource for folks who play a string instrument already, even if minimally, and wish to learn how to play it by ear. For those already playing by ear, the ToneWay Method deepens understanding—the “what, how, and why” of it all.< Less
This book offers a lifetime supply (350) of commonly-played traditional, 'people music' songs. Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes, ‘jammability’, and tonal... More > 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 to the growth of the music. Like its cousins, Native American and African music, it is rooted in a driving, primal rhythm, and it lives and breathes in its SOCIAL experience!< Less
This hatha yoga manual uses full page vector illustrations of the core yoga postures (138) to show you at a glance the essential dynamics to apply while you are in the postures. The yoga postures are... More > arranged in 8 programs to guide everyone from beginner through advanced levels.< Less
Family Tradition - ToneWay Music Method
Includes 350 traditional songs and the ToneWay Music Method that teaches you how to play string instruments intuitively.
Grab a ukulele, guitar, banjo, bass,... More > Dobro, mandolin or fiddle and take our Free 2 hour “Get Started” Workshop Series at ToneWay.com.
This book is a comprehensive resource for folks who play a string instrument, even if minimally, and wish to learn how to play it by ear. For those already playing by ear, the ToneWay Method deepens understanding—the “what, how, and why” of it all.
Briefly, the ToneWay Method demystifies music by showing how all the string instruments, and singing, share fundamental principles. The ToneWay Method reveals, in a practical way, how musicians intuitively play music.
Finally, the book offers a lifetime supply (350) of commonly-played traditional songs. Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes, ‘jammability’, and tonal information useful for playing by ear and for singing lead and harmony.< Less
