Music audiobooks

Mary Did You Know – fingerstyle solo

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this completely “all-audio” lesson you will learn a fingerstyle solo of “Mary Did You Know” without tab, music, or video. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by the detailed “by ear” lesson that lets you memorize the song as you learn it. Add this new Christmas standard to your repertoire today! This is a level... Read more

Shameless Blues

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn some great blues licks with some new phrasing in this Guitar by Ear lesson. The lesson begins with a full demonstration performed by Bill Brown followed by the detailed all-audio instruction that lets you learn songs quickly and easily. The entire song is broken down into individual phrases and there are three versions of backing tracks to... Read more

That's What the Blues is All About

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This UK superduo turns out some serious blues and you will want to learn every lick in this song. The lesson includes a full demonstration of the song as well as backing tracks to play along with. Both the rhythm and lead guitar parts are taught in this completely “by ear” lesson. This is a level two lesson. Read more

The Winner Takes It All

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This ABBA hit makes a great piano solo! The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson demonstrating and explaining every phrase and note of the song. This arrangement is rated at an intermediate level. Read more

It Is Well

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This is one of many enduring hymns that were penned from a heart of loss and sorrow. In this all-audio lesson you will learn an early-intermediate arrangement of this famous hymn without the use of music or video. This not only lets you learn the song faster but also develops your ability to pick out other songs “by ear.” This lesson is suitable... Read more

His Grace is Sufficient – fingerstyle solo

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lesson you will learn a fingerstyle solo arrangement of a great gospel favorite including an improvisation section! Included are backing tracks to practice and perform with. This lesson is rated at a level two difficulty. Read more

You Take My Breath Away

By: Bill Brown Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Brown Jr.

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This piano solo arrangement is based on the hit by Queen and is rated at an intermediate level of difficulty. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the piece and then teaches the entire song, note-by-note, completely “by ear.” Read more

Gullah Spirituals

By: Eric Sean Crawford

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and... Read more

Black Music Is

By: Marcus Amaker

Narrated by: Marcus Amaker

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Black Music Is" is a poetic love letter to Black music and history, through the ears of Bebop the cat. The book weaves poetry and pop-surrealist illustration, teaching readers about icons like Big Mama Thornton, BB King, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Max Roach, Prince and Alice Coltrane. It also mentions modern-day musicians Our Native Daughters,... Read more

SIMPLE METHODS SMARTER DECISIONS

By: Latoya Cooper

Narrated by: Susan Marlowe

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Breaking News! "Top Recording Artist Battles To Own Masters", "Popular Hit Maker Linked To Shocking Sex Scandal", "Number One Selling Performer File's Bankruptcy", "Beloved Pop Star's Crazed Lover Wrecks Her Career." We have seen the magazine headlines and heard the national news stories associated with some of the most famous recording artists... Read more

Öhrchen auf! Meine schönsten Schlaflieder

By: Rainer Bielfeldt

Narrated by: Rainer Bielfeldt

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn kleine Sternlein müde blinzeln, ist genau die richtige Zeit für ein schlummerschönes Gutenachtlied. Hier sind die beliebtesten Schlaflieder für ein liebevolles Abendritual vereint, traumhaft schön gesungen und gespielt von Rainer Bielfeldt. Damit schläft es sich garantiert sternchenschnell ein. Der Mond ist aufgegangen – Der Sandmann ist... Read more

The Beatles 100

By: John Borack

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Was John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney more significant than John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono? Rubber Soul or Revolver? Which Wings album was Paul McCartney's solo pinnacle?



In 100 brief chapters, John M. Borack discusses and ranks the greatest moments in Beatles history. An avid Fab Four fan since childhood and a music journalist for more than... Read more

Finding the Raga

By: Amit Chaudhuri

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely... Read more

Kristof Magnusson über Pet Shop Boys (Ungekürzt)

By: Kristof Magnusson

Narrated by: Kristof Magnusson

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Go West! Ein autobiografischer Blick auf eine Band, die mühelos und widerspruchsfrei ganz unterschiedliche Gruppen von Fans miteinander vereint: von Intellektuellen, die sie als ambitionierte Konzeptkünstler bewundern, über Familien bis hin zur schwulen Partyszene. Kristof Magnusson nahm zum ersten Mal Popmusik im späten Grundschulalter wahr -... Read more

Newton on the Christian Life

By: Tony Reinke

Narrated by: Graham Geisler

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

John Newton is famous for his legendary hymn "Amazing Grace." Many have celebrated his dramatic conversion from a life in the slave trade to his eventual work to end it. But often overlooked are Newton's forty years as a pastor ministering to parishioners and friends unsettled by the trials, doubts, and fears of life.

Newton is perhaps the... Read more

Der Klang des lebendigen Lichts

By: Antonia Braditsch

Narrated by: Antonia Braditsch

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) ist seit dem christlichen Mittelalter eine einzigartige und unerreicht dastehende Persönlichkeit. Sie gründete 2 Klöster, dichtete Hymnen, komponierte liturgische Gesänge und hinterläßt eine außergewöhnliche Naturheilkunde. Das Hörspiel erzählt das Leben und Wirken der Hildegard von Bingen mit Musik auf... Read more

Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life

By: Scala Radio

Narrated by: Charles Nove

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music.

Discussing pieces ranging from Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony to the scores for Avatar and Assassin's Creed, each entry puts the piece of music into context,... Read more

Shiny and New

By: Dylan Jones

Narrated by: Simon Slater

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the... Read more

Stories to Tell

By: Richard Marx

Narrated by: Richard Marx

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist

*National Bestseller* Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career.

Richard Marx is one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular music. His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him the first male solo artist (and second solo... Read more

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

By: Jessica Hopper

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò & Ella Turenne

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new material

Throughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist... Read more

Saved by a Song

By: Mary Gauthier

Narrated by: Mary Gauthier

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and includes original music and a bonus conversation with Amy Ray of Indigo Girls.

From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and the redemptive power of song

Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself... Read more

The Musical Child

By: Joan Koenig

Narrated by: Elsa Parent-Koenig

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wonderful.”—Herbie Hancock

A pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development—and how parents and educators can harness its power.Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children’s lives and minds with the transformative power... Read more

The Blues

By: Chris Thomas King

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 24 hours

Abridged: No

All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King presents facts to disprove such myths. For example, as early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated... Read more

EWS Wrestling Superstars Entrance Themes - Abridged

By: Abbas Schirmohammadi

Narrated by: Abbas Schirmohammadi

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wrestling Superstars Entrance Themes EWS ‒ Erding Wrestling Show. Ihr kennt mich sicher auch unter meinem Kampfnamen "Nobody". Als ich 2005 die EWS gründete, dachte ich nicht im Traum daran, dass wir heute zu den beliebtesten und bestbesuchten Wrestling-Ligen Deutschlands zählen. Wir veranstalten unsere Events in ganz Bayern. Unser Heimspiel... Read more