Isometrics for Guitarists: The Howard Roberts Guitar Manuals - for Students & Professionals

Isometrics for Guitarists by Milton Raskin The Howard Roberts Guitar Manuals - for Students & Professionals ISBN-13: 9780899150017 ISBN-10: 0899150012 Publisher: Playback Music Publishing copyright 1971 Paperback 9 x 11.9 inches Milt Raskin ; Real name: Milton Raskin ; Born: January 27, 1916 ; Died: October 16, 1977. He was an American swing jazz pianist. Born in Boston, Mass., Raskin played saxophone as a child before switching to piano at age 11. In the 1930s he attended the New England Conservatory of Music. He worked on local Boston-area radio before moving to New York City, where he played with Wingy Manone in 1937 at the Famous Door and Gene Krupa in 1938-39. He then played with Teddy Powell and Alvino Rey before joining Krupa again for a short time, then joined the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey from 1942 to 1944, replacing Joe Bushkin. He moved to Los Angeles in 1944, where he occasionally worked in jazz (including on recordings by Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, and Georgie Auld), but concentrated on work as a studio musician and musical director. Much of his studio work from the 1940s on was uncredited, and he never led his own jazz recording session ---------------------------- An unweighted isometrics the exerciser uses only themselves for resistance. For example, holding a crouched position, or pressing the palms of the hands against each other. Where by the self presses against itself, this is also referred to as self-resistance or Dynamic Tension training.