Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

The Complete Guide to Keyboard and Piano Technique with over 140 ExercisesAt last - a method that addresses every aspect of piano technique and is clear and easy to follow This book lays the foundations for a lifetime of effortless piano playing. Do you...

Master Economy Picking For GuitarAre you struggling to play fast, economy picked passages on guitar?Do you need a methodical guide to economy picking that's packed with hundreds of exercises and powerful strategies? Economy Picking Guitar Technique is a complete roadmap of methodical steps that...

If you are looking to tap on guitar or you're looking to increase your knowledge, understanding and technique then Tapping Discovered by Honza Kourimsky and released by GMI - Guitar & Music Institute is the book for you.146 pages of pure tapping goodness takes...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with...

Viola Basics is a landmark method by two of the leading figures in music education. Includes a pupil's tutor book with online audio and downloadable teacher's accompaniments, Viola Basics, providing everything you need to get playing. This book starts at absolute beginner level and...

Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education. They determine the knowledge, understandings, skills, attitudes, and values deemed necessary for today's students. Beyond musical competencies, a curriculum is, therefore, the most important responsibility facing music educators--one that goes well beyond the skills of simply delivering...

"Piano Freedom is a great teaching aid for adults or children, and makes it fun, as music should be." - George Winston, pianist and composer Anyone can play piano Are you a frustrated pianist? Do you long for piano freedom? Do you exhibit any...

Training Soprano Voices provides a complete and reliable system for training each type of soprano voice. Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals, it couples historic vocal pedagogy with the latest research on the singing voice, emphasizing the special nature...

Recent years have seen a rise in interest, from a diversity of fields, in the musical ensemble as an exemplary form of creative group behavior. Musical ensembles can be understood and investigated as high functioning small group organizations that have coordinative structures in place...

Learn to read standard music notation on the guitar with this easy step-by-step book Great for beginners or more-experienced "by ear" players who want to start reading, it explains notation reading in detail, relating notes on the staff to guitar fingerboard diagrams and tablature....

There's nothing like the feeling you get when you add a new guitar lick to your musical vocabulary. An encyclopedia of hip lines, Guitar Lick Factory helps beginning and intermediate guitarists build their lick repertoires. In addition, it opens the door to jazz for...

(Music Sales America). Teach yourself authentic bluegrass banjo with this book and audio pack. The book contains clear instructions on the basics: right- and left-hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance, and much more, as well as a complete selection of the best...

Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret" soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/audio packages each contain over 60...

Cellists will enjoy this book of complete technical studies, offering scales, arpeggios, phrasing, tone production, and much more. A must for all advancing students.Author: Julius KlengelISBN-10: 075798231XISBN-13: 9780757982316Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.30d

The definitive text on Jazz Organ bass line walking and grooving by a master educator and performer. Eddie Landsberg, a protege of the late great Big John Patton and Shirley Scott, original Nord Electro factory demonstrator, and creator of "The Seven Secrets of Jazz...

(Guitar Educational). Small in size but loaded with valuable info, this 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 guide features: easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see color photos, basic chord theory and fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms and more. Over 1,600 glorious chords...

(Berklee Labs). Create more expressive solos with this book/audio pack, which presents a unique improvisation strategy based on ear training and a linear interpretation of note relationships. Comprehensive, step-by-step instruction will guide you as you: develop an expectation of sound; master the movement of...

(Percussion). Performing in a big band, and accurately interpreting a big band drum part, can present a challenge to beginning and experienced drummers alike. This book by the founder and publisher of Modern Drummer magazine has been written and designed specifically to help drummers...

(Guitar Educational). The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists & experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues in other words, lots of licks It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with...

Italian bassoonist Sergio Penazzi was the first instrumentalist to introduce multiphonics to Bruno Bartolozzi, which lead the latter to publish the revolutionary book New Sounds for Woodwind. Since then, however, bassoonists have fallen behind in the development of their contemporary sound. While researching materials...

This is the brand new edition of Paul Harris' very popular Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano series The covers now contain US levels Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the pianist's training, whether playing alone, as an...

A Quick Guitar Player's Guide to Simplified Practicing and Study Here's a book for all guitarists, in all styles packed with the best practices from years of playing, practicing, and more.Are you happy with your playing? Looking for ways to improve?Whether you're a musician...

Do you play a musical instrument? Here are the best ways to memorize music, explained step-by step. Build a repertoire of pieces that you can play without the score Though mainly for those who play the piano, or other keyboard instrument, these methods can...

(Guitar Book). The Fingerpower series delivers a proven and effective path to technical development. This guitar edition focuses on fingerstyle and classical guitar playing with short, progressive exercises that are easy to learn and fun to practice, developing strength in both hands.Author: Chad JohnsonISBN-10:...

(Musicians Institute Press). Renowned fusion guitarist Dean Brown explains and provides detailed demonstrations of his unique approach to: * Developing drummer-style two-hand rhythmic independence * Developing accurate, consistent rhythm patterns over a variety of grooves * Creating rhythmic variety and texture * Understanding harmonic...

With a doctorate in five woodwind instruments and decades as both a performer and a teacher, Dr. Mark Watkins has long been interested in the production of sound. What differentiates his book From the Inside Out: An In-depth Resource for the Development of Saxophone...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Discover Blues Improvisation offers the piano student of any age a chance to explore the blues. It also provides an essential foundation for learning to improvise in other styles such as popular music and jazz. A pianist starting this book...

(Fretted). This terrific collection for beginning to advanced ukulele players features easy arrangements of 50 great songs, in standard notation and uke tablature. This great resource also teaches popular strum patterns and how to tune the uke.Author: Ron MiddlebrookISBN-10: 1574240722ISBN-13: 9781574240726Publisher: Centerstream PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Dominant Seventh is possibly the most substituted, colored, and altered sound in modern music. Its flexibility and distinctive nature made it a favorite of composers throughout the 20th century and allowed it to dominate blues and rock-and-roll. This unique play-along explores the very...

For all musicians wishing to learn fantastic bass lines. While reading from the book, play along with the bassist on the recording (CD included) until you feel you've mastered his feel and nuances. Then, using the special stereo separation on all of our play-along...

All the arpeggios for the Jazz Trumpet Player Complete with Extensions and their alterations. 7ths through 13ths. Plus soloing examples on how to improvise using Jazz arpeggiosAuthor: Richard J. Sojka, Jeff BrentISBN-10: 1548166936ISBN-13: 9781548166939Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2017Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 11.00h...

This vintage book contains a selection of effective exercises that can be done on a daily basis to improve piano playing, by seminal English pianist Tobias Matthay. Coupled with simple instructions and expert tips, these daily repetitions will prove invaluable to both beginner and...

At a time of unprecedented interest in improvisation across the arts, The Art of Becoming boldly asserts that everyone can and should improvise. Drawing on emerging psychological literature as well as their own research with musicians, authors Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson - both...

Comprehensive Aural Skills is a complete suite of material for both performance and dictation, covering the wide range of sight singing and ear training skills required for undergraduate courses of study. It provides a series of instructional modules on rhythm, melody, and harmony, and...

Thirty-Six Jazz Practice Ideas to Get the Most from Your Real BookYou already know about the REAL BOOK, but what you probably don't know is how much MUSICAL PROGRESS can be accomplished with only a single fake book Don't know what to practice? Don't...

First Steps in Classical Piano is the beginning of your journey to playing beautiful classical piano pieces. Either as a stand-alone guide, or as a resource to support lessons with your piano teacher, First Steps in Classical Piano will dramatically speed up how you...

Instantly understand how to use LFOs and fully master your synthesizer, even if you're a complete beginnerNEW: The ultimate 4-part series for sensational sound designLearning how to do synthesis (the fundamental part of sound design), can be quite overwhelming, especially when you're a beginner....

Instantly understand how to use envelopes and fully master your synthesizer, even if you're a complete beginnerNEW: The ultimate 4-part series for sensational sound designLearning how to do synthesis (the fundamental part of sound design), can be quite overwhelming, especially when you're a beginner....

Instantly understand how to use filters and fully master your synthesizer, even if you're a complete beginnerNEW: The ultimate 4-part series for sensational sound designLearning how to do synthesis (the fundamental part of sound design), can be quite overwhelming, especially when you're a beginner....

What are our musical sins? Are they obvious or subtle? When do we unwittingly commit such transgressions? And above all, how can we avoid them?Richard Floyd identifies The Seven Deadly Sins of Music Making as the following: Articulation Dynamics Rhythms Tempo Line Silence Proportion...

Learn 29 great swing standards in the style of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Download and jam along with recordings of a great Gypsy Swing band, learn mandolin chords, comping, melodies, then let the band back...

If You Want to Be Playing Your Favorite Songs in as Little as 7 Days (Even If You're a Complete Beginner) Then Keep Reading...Do you want to learn to play Guitar? Do you want to learn by actually PLAYING instead of reading boring and...

This text and audio package teaches timbales as played by the master percussionist Changuito. Topics include set-up, tuning, the clave, fills, independence exercises, listening recommendations, and a glossary of terms. Various styles are studied such as Danzon, Abanico, Cha-Cha-Cha, Mambo, Pilon, Mozambique, Merengsongo, Conga,...

Gong Therapy: Sound Healing and Yoga is a comprehensive book on using the gong and the practices of yoga to create a therapeutic environment and transformational experience for physical, mental and spiritual excellence. Written for sound healers, yoga teachers, gong players, and therapists, this...

Technology is an increasingly popular part of music education in schools that attracts students to school music who might not otherwise be involved. In many teacher preparation programs, music technology is an afterthought that does not receive the same extensive treatment as do traditional...

(Guitar Educational). The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever Beginning with helpful notes on how to use the book, how to choose the best voicings and how to construct chords, this extensive, 272-page source for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings...

(Guitar). Over 22,000 chords Easy to use with the new and revolutionary Guitar Chord Wheel With the use of the wheel, you will be able to learn 12 times as many chords - fast. All music styles are covered, including rock, blues, jazz, metal...

(Berklee Labs). Learn the art of creating a solid slap bass groove. Whether you're an aspiring or seasoned bassist, this workshop will teach you many of the slap bass lines and styles found in your favorite rock, funk and jazz tunes, and inspire you...

A Piece a Week Piano, Grade 2 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve Your Sight-Reading graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learned one per week....