Carl Abbott

Family Tradition: Toneway Music Method & Song Reference: Mountain Music for Everyone! Carl Abbott

Publisher Marketing: 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... the playing by ear way applied to a handful of favorite mountain music song. Then you build on this as you learn an additional 32 beloved traditional songs in the Method section. Our ToneWay Picking Patterns, ToneWay Notation, and playing up-the-neck processes help launch you into a natural play-by-ear approach to music. This knowledge allows you to easily pick up and play any of the other string instruments as well. In short, the ToneWay Music Method reveals, in a practical way, how musicians intuitively play music it's a must-have for classroom or independent study. The Song Reference The Song Reference section offers a lifetime supply (365) of traditional songs. Their longevity is a testament to the joyful singing they arouse. Listen to short Song Clips of these at ToneWay.com. These teach melody and other qualities that give each song its 'soul'. Each song in the book 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, you will have mastered the essentials you need to play most anything! For more information, go to ToneWay.com Contributor Bio:  Abbott, Carl Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. His books include "The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West" and "The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities".