How to Kazoo [With Kazzo]

by Barbara Stewart

Book Overview

Learn kazoo lore, history, tips, and technique in this complete usero_s guide and practitionero_s manual. The book covers practice exercises for dynamics and breath control, several methods of achieving fry tones and vibrato, a panopoly of noises, tunes, calls, and snorts, techniques for playing different musical styles on the kazoo, such as Jazz, Country & Western, 50s Rock, and Symphonic kazooing. And, of course, HOW TO KAZOO comes with a kazoo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089480605X
• ISBN13: 9780894806056
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Anyone can do it!

The biggest obstacle to playing the kazoo is to stop laughing as you read this thoroughly thought out and disarmingly funny book. Get into the vibrations of life and hum your way to a constant smile with Barbara Stewart's hilariously serious introduction to the kazoo, a too long overlooked instrument of delight. Got a singing voice that mimics chain saws or screeching brakes? Do you find an instrument with keys to be too complicated? Have you the rhythmic sophistication of a three legged race? Then rejoice! Your musical salvation is at hand! Get into making music with this very inexpensive and easy to master program. I can't recommend it more highly.

The kazoo levels the playing field

The kazoo is a wonderful antidote to the notion that all music requires either a life-time to learn to play, or the purchase of a CD to enjoy. The kazoo brings us back to what our childhood taught us--and years of music lessons and choir practices tried to make us forget--that music is a shared bit of fun, nearly as important as--and with no requirement that it be much more difficult than--breathing. Barbara Stewart's small book takes an appropriately light tone to make the point that playing a kazoo is a fun and worthwhile past-time. This is not one of those "heavy-reading" history of an instrument works. This is an intelligent but decidedly light-hearted reintroduction to music-as-fun, instead of music as something played on compact disks.Although I love the sound of a good piano being played, I wonder if life might not be a little more fun for kids if they had fewer piano lessons and more time with a kazoo. As for adults, this book will help you rediscover that you can be musical, and it only costs a dollar or two to rediscover your lost musicality.

Best Kazoo book ever.

This is the best of all the kazoo books I have ever read. Seriously, it is a work of delight from someone with the wit and talent to support her interest in music and humor. Timeless.

This is really great!

I don't remember seeing a kazoo in a Beale St. club, but it certainly would be appropriate! Nothing says "Blues" better than a droning kazoo. This book puts the kazoo within reach of everyone! Serious and funny at the same time.

Best kazoo book ever!!!

Great gift book for under $10. Genuinely funny, and has a kazoo attached for practice, allowing anyone who can talk, sing or hum to be in on the fun.