Books with author William Barnes

Younger students will enjoy this creative approach to playing simple guitar chords. Chords are taught with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in many different keys. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with detailed illustrations showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. Open chords for folk music as well as power chords for rock music are presented clearly and easily in this text. A complete easy chord chart and capo chart is provided at the end of the book for easy reference. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation. Includes access to online video.

Younger students will enjoy this creative approach to playing simple guitar chords. Chords are taught with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in many different keys. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with detailed illustrations showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. Open chords for folk music as well as power chords for rock music are presented clearly and easily in this text. A complete easy chord chart and capo chart is provided at the end of the book for easy reference. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation. This book comes with an online 52-minute video tutorial.

The year is 1954. The setting is a small town in Southwestern Ontario. It is a different time; a more innocent time, a time when children played without fear and doors were never locked. Through the innocent voice of a young boy, suspense writer William Boynes delivers a touching story of how family, childhood and memories of war unexpectedly collide with violent crime to turn a once peaceful community upside down with fear.

This is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is the methododically and carefully introduced. The method features Ron Wheeler's colorful cartoon artwork.

Marine Corps Daze by William Barrons is a hilarious account of a young man who enlisted in the USMC on the day after his 17th Birthday of 1943 because his birthday was on a Sunday. He faced the hardships and glory of the War in the Pacific armed only with a manual typewriter and an incredible eye for details. His memoire of World War Two and the days after will jog your memory of locations such as San Diego, Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands and Chicago.In October of 2015 at the age of 89, Bill Barrons deployed with 80 veterans one last time to Washington, DC with Honor Flight, a national organization that flies World War II and Korean veterans back to our nation’s capital to visit the memorials that they fought so hard for. In honor of that experience Bill and his publisher, iCrewDigitalPublishing.com are donating all of the proceeds of Marine Corps Daze to the San Diego and Columbus Honor Flight Organizations. In addition, ICrewDigitalPublishing.com will provide copies of Bill’s book to any Veteran’s organization for the cost of printing and shipping for the purpose of fund-raising.

Thirteen-year-old Tom Knight, the only child of two loving parents, is dealing with typical teenage challenges such as a bully who lives across the street and balancing video game time with school time when his parents suddenly vanish from his home. Following instructions left by a shape shifting blob of Jell-O on the kitchen counter, Tom enters a nondescript doorway on the side of an antique store that miraculously transports him 26.2 light years away to the planet Chosroes. There a petulant and bored Prince holds Tom’s parents captive in a large cage, the eventual victims of an extremely slow moving, but carnivorous maggoricus—picture an elephant sized slug with big teeth—that shares the cage with them. The Prince explains to Tom that it will take a week for the beast to reach his parents and in that time, Tom must steal a vital piece of equipment, a hypertime stone, from the Prince’s enemies on the neighboring planet of Chatrang. Feeling overwhelmed, ill-equipped and terrified, Tom enlists the help of his two best friends, his math teacher and even the bully across the street to help him on his quest to steal the hypertime stone and save his parents. Pawns is a fun—and at times funny—read, but also addresses serious issues such as bullying, the impact of war on civilians and the importance of friendship. The story uses chess as its overarching theme with character and place names taken from the chess board and from historical figures who were known to be associated with the game.

Without a hint of condescension, this book/CD offers the young classic guitarist a thorough grounding in reading standard notation in first position. This book was written in the Mel Bay tradition of providing only enough music theory to understand what is required of the student at any given point in the book. Numerous studies and folksong melodies are presented with suggested chord changes for accompaniment by a teacher or a second student guitarist. Includes guides to purchasing a classic guitar, proper posture and hand positions, tuning the guitar, and much more. A companion CD is included. Written in standard notation only.

This is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced. Two subsequent volumes complete this course. The method features Ron Wheeler's colorful cartoon artwork. This package includes the companion instructional DVD video.

A Book ,Tales of cowboys and exciting adventures Name "Tales From The X-Bar Horse Camp,The Blue-Roan Outlaw and Other Stories"By Will C. Barnes Author of "Western Grazing Grounds" and Was Published in 1920.SUNRISE ON THE DESERTTowards the east, the God of day,Like some great red-eyed dragon, tops the rugged range.Before his golden beams, the grayOf dawn creeps slowly backward, till the magic changeSweeps night away.The desert stirs, and wakes.Strange-fashioned things come slipping into sight.High overhead a buzzard idly wings,A lonely raven robed in shades of night"Caws" hoarsely to its mates.Perched on a nearby stone,A lizard, swift as light, and clad in colors gay,Pumps slowly up and down.A horned toad, with crown of thorns, comes slithering by,And then is gone.Atop of yonder rocky hillA lone coyote, skulker of the desert wastes,Greets the first beams with shrillAnd piercing "yips," then hastesTo find his morning kill.A wandering honeybee,Drunk with nectar from a Palo Verde's yellow bloom,Goes stagg'ring by.The air is heavy with the desert's sweet perfumeFrom flower and tree.

A very basic text which will help anyone learn to play portable keyboard quickly and easily. It can be used with virtually any electronic keyboard automatic chord and rhythm effects, including Casio, Bontempi, and Yamaha. The music is written as big notes, labeled with their letter name. Keyboard diagrams are also included. The book covers many of the automatic features commonly found on keyboards.