Music-Instruction & Study -Exercises

Put away studies by Czerny. Put him and the others into a closet and turn the key. Instead, use these passages from music you intend to play-music by master composers-as building blocks for technique and musicianship. Suppose for a moment that we don't accept...

This is the economic (perfect binding) version of this book. For spiral bound version go to lulu.com/shop. Most books written on violin scales do not go into depth on individual scale studies. They merely show a scale and its fingering and move on to...

If a student is only able to play 2-3 "easy to read" scales and gets confused by flats and sharps in more advanced keys, he or she is not getting the full benefit of this aspect of practice. Because every note on the piano...

"The Fiddler's Nurser" is a classic guide to playing the violin written for beginners an young players. It contains a collection of simple music compositions for violin, presented as clear sheet music perfect for annotations and notes. Each piece has some helpful information including...

This is a classic guide to playing the violin, being an illustrated book of practical suggestions and advice from a master of this instrument. It offers simple, clear instructions and tips for learning how to play or improve current proficiency, making it ideal for...

Second Edition Includes: * All of the original content* Three new performance pieces* Giuliani's Left-Hand Etudes, Op. 1* New lessons and exercises* Improved music engravings* A brand new, high-definition DVD containing lessons and performances of the pieces is also available. Upon its first publication...

Melody Bober's arrangements of both secular and sacred Christmas favorites are sure to delight students of all ages. Book 6 contains 8 arrangements for late intermediate pianists. Students continue to progress musically and technically while enjoying songs of the season. Titles: Angels We Have...

Melody Bober's arrangements of both secular and sacred Christmas favorites are sure to delight students of all ages. Book 1 contains 8 arrangements for early elementary pianists, each with an optional duet accompaniment for parent, teacher, or an older student or sibling. Students continue...

In the world of Latin Jazz/Latin American music, John Ben tez is considered to be one of the greatest bassists alive today. With five GRAMMY awards to his name and performance credits ranging from Tito Puente to Chick Corea, his impact on the music...

The focus of this book and associated practice media is to learn and enhance yourjazz improvisation skills over a standard minor 2-5-1 in any key. This is important becausemany jazz favorites make heavy use of this chord progression and its variations.We are going to...

The focus of this book and associated practice media is to learn and enhance yourjazz improvisation skills over a standard 2-5-1 in Major keys, followed by a Major submediantin the form of a Dominant 7th. This represents another standard progression you should knowbecause it...

The focus of this book and associated practice media is to learn and enhance your jazz improvisation skills over a standard modal 2-5-1 preceded by a minor submediant chord in Major keys. This is arguably the most popular progression encountered in jazz music. You...

SIGHT-SINGING is a modern ear training system, which makes use of solf ge - undeniably the oldest and most recognized sight-reading method. By using this system, you will learn to hear and sing a melody line, simply by reading the notes. The SIGHT-SINGING (vol....

SIGHT-SINGING is a modern ear training system, which makes use of solf ge - undeniably the oldest and most recognized sight-reading method. By using this system, you will learn to hear and sing a melody line, simply by reading the notes. The SIGHT-SINGING (vol....

Are you as good of a piano player as you would like to become? Have you ever wished that you knew how to practice the piano effectively? That you knew the exercises to practice that could help you to learn songs faster, and to...

So You Want to Sing Barbershop offers a close look at barbershop quartets and choruses and explores the techniques required to sing in the style. It also surveys the history and current popularity of barbershop societies. Guest authors offer chapters on vocal science and...

(Instructional). New edition with spiral binding For well over a century, students all over the world have learned to play the bassoon using Julius Weissenborn's Practical Bassoon Method . At long last, The New Weissenborn Method for Bassoon presents the complete 1887 publication in...

For guitarist looking to learn jazz guitar, the Fastlines Jazz Guitar Method Primer edition gives you the musical ideas to create improvisations that sound authentic. Learn the Fastlines, understand how they are created and use over the audio backing tracks. Full solo and projects...

Author: Paul SheftelISBN-10: 0982401256ISBN-13: 9780982401255Publisher: YBK PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2010Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

The Prep 2 Music Theory Rudiments Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the Prep 2 Rudiments Music Theory Workbook.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Rudiments Answer Book features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music Theory's time-saving accelerated learning...

The Prep 2 Rudiments Workbook by Ultimate Music Theory is an impressive workbook with 12 Lessons, Review Tests, Guide & Chart plus 80 Downloadable Flashcards.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Rudiments Workbook (124 pages) features these concepts and more PITCH - Grand Staff, Landmarks,...

Stretching Exercises for Guitarists is a compact guide that can be used as part of a healthy and productive practise regime suited for guitarists and other musicians alike. - Stretching Like the importance of stretching for sport, stretching for musicians is important, yet an...

Contains microtonal ear training and compositional exercises, and analysis. The process of ear training, understanding, and beginning to compose is broken down into manageable steps. Numerous audio examples are provided - the composition exercises beautifully performed by violist Mat Maneri, and the simple ear...

(Music Sales America). This teaching book for students and teachers contains over 70 pieces for class activity, trios, quartets, scales and arpeggios. With easy piano parts.Author: Trevor WyeISBN-10: 0853601879ISBN-13: 9780853601876Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

In Violin Secrets: 101 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Violinist, author and violinist Jo Nardolillo surveys the cutting edges of current violin technique, combining in one volume tradition with innovationAuthor: Jo NardolilloISBN-10: 0810886243ISBN-13: 9780810886247Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2015Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.90h...

In Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player, Jacqueline Leclair tackles the oboe's reputation as an especially difficult instrument and illustrates how oboists and English horn players can overcome common challenges. Leclair draws on her experience as a...

An innovative approach that teaches musicians how to prevent and manage injuries, presented in a unique format that combines sound medical protocol with a musician's point of view.Author: Barbara Paull, Christine HarrisonISBN-10: 0810833565ISBN-13: 9780810833562Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/1999Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.94h x 7.00w...

(Easy Guitar). 19 songs, including: Blue Angel * Blue Bayou * Candy Man * Crying * Dream Baby * Falling * I'm Hurtin' * It's Over * Oh, Pretty Woman * Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) * Running Scared * You...

(I want to play the trumpet) If you ever want to play the trumpet, and you think it's hard or difficult to learn, and you're looking for an easy book, look no more, the Victor M. Barba's book Quiero Tocar La Trompeta is here....

Scales Plus! is the first all-inclusive study of scales, keys, intonation, positions, and shifts in one volume. It is designed for nearly" beginners to advanced students. Teachers will be delighted with the concepts underlying the development of excellent intonation, great facility in reading and...

This unique book is a state-of-the-art resource for developing total control of the 40 Percussive Arts Society rudiments with immediate results---and in a musical context. Each rudiment includes a collection of short exercises and solos, allowing the player to understand how each rudiment is...

This book addresses the common problem of proportionally unequal abilities between a drummer's dominant and weaker muscle sets in drumming technique. The strategic exercises are designed to develop the under-used muscles to cultivate a more balanced ability for controlled movement and a fluid and...

Originally published in 1913. A concise and comprehensive step by step instruction book on all aspects of piano playing. Many of the earliest books on music, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Books...

Teaching Kids Recorder offers a hands-on, innovative and engaging approach to teaching recorder to elementary and middle-school students. The approach bridges rote learning and literacy while building the physical skills needed for success in playing the recorder. Learn techniques on readiness for recorder, choosing...

Having a good ear is vital to becoming a successful musician, and Improve Your Aural is here to help develop your musicianship in easy progressive stages. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in, and practice exercises, this interactive workbook and two CDs focus...

These practical methods for piano playing, written by a world-famous expert, have been used by teachers and students for well over 100 years. Featuring basic studies that help pianists acquire the necessities for a strong piano education, this volume distills Carl Czerny's exercises into...

Wind Talk for Brass provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for brass instruments found in school instrumental programs. With thorough coverage of the most common brass instruments - trumpet, horn, trombone, baritone/euphonium, and tuba/sousaphone - the book...

Designed for non-music majors who want to learn piano "for the fun of it," Learning Piano: Piece by Piece is also ideal for courses in class piano and for individual instruction. This concise and user-friendly book presents materials in an engaging manner and in...

Providing essential tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers, Courtney Crappell's Teaching Piano Pedagogy helps teachers develop pedagogy course curricula, design and facilitate practicum-teaching experiences, and guide research projects in piano pedagogy.Author: Courtney CrappellISBN-10: 0190670533ISBN-13: 9780190670535Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Winding it Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings is a collaborative effort written by practicing music educators, teacher educators, pedagogy experts, researchers, and inclusion enthusiasts with a combined one hundred plus years in the field of music education. The...

About this series: These are great piano exercises designed and arranged for the beginning pianist. These songs should be practiced by following the song order as they are arranged from the easiest to the more difficult. Each song provides a good practice for specific...

About this series: These are great piano exercises designed and arranged for the beginning pianist. These songs should be practiced by following the song order as they are arranged from the easiest to the more difficult. Each song provides a good practice for specific...

About this series: These are great piano exercises designed and arranged for the beginning pianist. These songs should be practiced by following the song order as they are arranged from the easiest to the more difficult. Each song provides a good practice for specific...

Eighth Note Madness is a GROUP sight reading series designed for band and orchestra! It also works well independently by increasing the speed of note recognition! Since all of the rhythmic values are the same, the student can easily focus on identifying the letter...

Alenka Zupan's Exercises for Flute are one of very few methods properly adapted to flute students. (more on Alenka Zupan: www.alenkazupan.com) Exercises for Flute I - beginners level (1st and 2nd year flute students) Exercises for Flute II - intermediate level (3rd and 4th...

Alenka Zupan's Exercises for Flute are one of very few methods properly adapted to flute students. (more on Alenka Zupan: www.alenkazupan.com) Exercises for Flute I - beginners level (1st and 2nd year flute students) Exercises for Flute II - intermediate level (3rd and 4th...

Alenka Zupan's Exercises for Flute are one of very few methods properly adapted to flute students. (more on Alenka Zupan: www.alenkazupan.com) Exercises for Flute I - beginners level (1st and 2nd year flute students) Exercises for Flute II - intermediate level (3rd and 4th...

Welcome to the Total Drummer practice planner. If this makes drum practice feel like school homework then I would say.....GET OVER IT! Because using this planner properly will mean you get infinitely better results from your practice and you will become a better drummer....

Quickly and Easily Memorize the Electric Bass FretboardWant to quickly and easily learn the location of any note on the neck of the bass guitar?This simple, practical method will unlock the fretboard, so you'll instantly know the notes anywhere on the electric bass.Electric Bass:...

Daily Dexter-Flexers provides a series of graded technical exercises for beginning keyboard students using music educator Margaret Brandman's simplified interval approach combined with scale topography. Novice pianists will be able to develop both speed music reading concepts and solid technical foundations in one book...