Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

(Musicians Institute Press). This book/audio package is for the singer, songwriter, or musician who wants to create a lead sheet or chord chart that is easy to follow. The audio includes over 70 demo tracks. The instruction covers: song form, transposition, considering the instrumentation,...

This celebration of the art of drumming is a must-have for all drummers, beginning to advanced. With essential tips on techniques and tongue-in-cheek anecdotes, The Drummer's Almanac is informative and fun. Features lots of photos, interviews, quotes, jokes, tuning tips from the pros, maintenance...

(Guitar Collection). Considered the father of modern classical guitar, Francisco Tarrega revolutionized guitar technique and composed a wealth of music that will be a cornerstone of classical guitar repertoire for centuries to come. This unique book with online audio features 14 of his most...

(Piano Method). A preliminary book that can be used to introduce young beginners to Piano Course Book 1, "Teach Me" covers approximately the first half of the first year.Author: Howard KasschauISBN-10: 079355294XISBN-13: 9780793552948Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.74h x 9.10w...

(Instructional). 12 of his best for the beginning player, including: Forever In Love * Silhouette * Songbird * The Wedding Song * and more.Author: G. KennyISBN-10: 0793539056ISBN-13: 9780793539055Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1995Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.40d

Key signatures and chord symbols are doors to facility at the keyboard - doors too often locked by insufficient understanding. This guide unlocks them with clear, simple explanations. Features: major and minor scales - guidelines for scale fingering - chord charts which include major,...

In this new book, Aaron Stang guides guitar players through all the basic chords they need to begin playing their favorite songs. Plus, he unlocks the keys to simple music theory secrets that allow players to understand how chords and chord progressions function, getting...

Jazz Chords is not just a great reference source. It is a dynamic jazz guitar chord book that focuses on major, minor, and dominant chord voicings and how they function in jazz progressions such as ii-V7-I progressions, turnarounds, and blues progressions. Not only do...

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...

Shows how to embellish and enhance any chord or chord progression to achieve new and more interesting sounds.Author: Don LatarskiISBN-10: 0769209599ISBN-13: 9780769209593Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1991Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

This method features transcriptions from the video Gene Krupa: Jazz Legend. The first section of the book presents Krupa's drum method which combines individual snare drum techniques with basic drumset applications. The second section contains transcriptions of Krupa's performances from the video.Author: Gene KrupaISBN-10:...

A truly exceptional package allowing the beginner to intermediate drummer to practice with a pre-recorded band. The seven tracks cover a wide range of styles such as straight eighths, sixteenth feel, rock shuffle, rock ballad, Latin, straight-ahead jazz, and rock & roll. Includes a...

Expertly arranged Viola Solo by Henry Schradieck from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the 20th Century and Romantic eras.Author: Henry SchradieckISBN-10: 0757923860ISBN-13: 9780757923869Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 11.87h x 8.79w x 0.26d

This easy-to-use book is the best guitar chord reference book available. It contains thousands of chords in an easy-to-use dictionary style and offers the best fingerings along with music theory, clear up-close photos, and easy-to-view diagrams.Author: Don LatarskiISBN-10: 0757923410ISBN-13: 9780757923418Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2004Pages:...

Scales are one of the foundations of good playing and Essential Scales for Electric Bass is a quick and simple guide for music students of all levels, specifically tackling this important topic. It is designed to help the bass player acquaint himself with using...

The Belwin Student Instrumental Course is a course for individual instruction and class instruction of like instruments, at three levels, for all band instruments. Each book is complete in itself, but all books are correlated with each other. Although each book can be used...

When it comes to right-hand picking technique, serious guitarists have waited patiently for a comprehensive book to address these specialized skills. Until now, rock, blues, and jazz players have not had a book devoted entirely to right-hand picking. The Serious Guitarist: Right Hand Picking...

In this multimedia package, Dom Famularo and Rob Hirons show you the path to creating a complete vocabulary of funky and effective contemporary drumset grooves. By using one-beat components arranged in different orders, this book will have you playing modern-sounding grooves right away. What...

Hanon for Students, Book 3, contains exercises 14--20 from The Virtuoso Pianist, Book 1. The exercises are notated in eighth notes for one octave so that students may begin to use them effectively at the intermediate level. Each exercise appears five times to be...

A follow-up to the popular first volume, Open-Handed Playing, Vol. 2: A Step Beyond gives you a groundbreaking step-by-step approach to incorporating this cutting-edge style into your playing. By using linear and rudimental approaches, this book will even help a drummer who has always...

Renowned educators Dom Famularo and Joe Bergamini have teamed up to bring you a complete method for improving the ability of your feet on the drumset. Unlike many other books, Pedal Control contains extensive information about the actual pedal strokes and techniques used by...

The book features chord and scale choices, trill exercises, a full transcription and analysis of Waltz for Little Stellaria," and more. The recording contains classic Brian Auger tracks that demonstrate his drawbar settings in context. "Author: Brian AugerISBN-10: 0739065882ISBN-13: 9780739065884Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages:...

Technique 4 continues and expands on the technical and artistic tools learned in Technique books 1A - 3. The five new Technique Tools introduced are: staccato against legato, playing in and out of black keys, speed links, open the hand, and rock the Alberti...

Recreational Music Making is a new and exciting movement in piano pedagogy. The core concepts are that the piano is for everyone---not just professionally minded students---and that lessons should be fun and relaxing for both student and teacher. This handbook from industry veterans Brian...

The fresh and appealing music contained in Performance Book 5 expands the rhythmic development of students by using sixteenth notes in compound meters. An eclectic mix of popular styles---from ballads to blues to lively showstoppers---is balanced with favorite repertoire from the Baroque and Classical...

Consummate musician and bassist Steve Bailey presents one of the most comprehensive fretless bass technique methods available. Having performed and recorded with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Kitaro, Victor Wooten and Metallica, Steve is a true master of the fretless bass. This book will...

Book 3 includes attractive musical etudes by Carl Czerny, Johann F. Burgmuller and Stephen Heller and select exercises by Charles-Louis Hanon. The studies are organized into four units, each focusing on mastering a particular skill. Performance suggestions for each study are included, along with...

(Music Sales America). Six of their greatest hits in easy-to-follow tab with chord symbols and full lyrics. Matching CD allows you to play guitar or sing along with the backing tracks or full performance demos. Songs include: America * The Boxer * Homeward Bound...

(Music Sales America). Pick up your acoustic guitar and strum along with the backing tracks to six classic Dylan songs: Visions of Johanna * Tangled Up in Blue * Just Like a Woman * Lay Lady Lay * Things Have Changed * You're a...

Author: Arthur Tillman MerrittISBN-10: 0674180887ISBN-13: 9780674180888Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1939Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

(Play Today Instructional Series). Learn to play the alto saxophone at your own pace This book/CD pack walks you through the basics, and teaches you to play 5 songs: Chariots of Fire * Forrest Gump Main Title (Feather Theme) * The Man from Snowy...

(Bass Instruction). Peter Murray's book, which scored an "A+" rating from Bass Player magazine, provides bassists with everything they need to know to play effectively, helping them master the basics, and then explore what's beyond. Essential to any bass player "Once in a while,...

(Musicians Institute Press). Learn the essential lines and techniques of the world's greatest guitarists with this super cool book/CD pack from Musicians Institute Set up like a dictionary, it provides clear, concise instruction and application tips in standard notation and tab for licks in...

(Musicians Institute Press). Go one on one with MI instructor Ross Bolton to get that funk groove with your guitar! This book/audio pack covers: movable 7th, 9th, 13th and sus4 chords; 16th-note scratching; straight vs. swing; slides; single-note "skank" and palm muting; songs and...

(Instructional). This comprehensive, 562-page method, called "Solid, readable and relevant" by Keyboard magazine and "The major work for today's pianists" by International Musician, is divided into four sections. The first, "A Philosophy of Music," deals with communication, cause-effect principles and practice disciplines. The second...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 14 favorites from one of the founders of outlaw country, including: The Best of All Possible Worlds * For the Good Times * Help Me Make It Through the Night * Just the Other Side of Nowhere * Loving Her Was...

Many early blues songs from players such as Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake and others were played using the basic "Cowboy" chords (chords played between the first three frets) that most beginning students have learned. Combining those chords with fingerstyle methods such...

Lucien Capet was born in Paris in 1873 and became a renowned violinist in the Capet Quartet. He was a student of Maurin and the pure tradition of French violin technique through Baillot. He was invited to teach chamber music at the Paris Conservatory...

A Piece a Week Piano, Grade 3 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....

Improve Your Sight-Reading Teacher's Book (Piano Grades 1-5) provides teachers with a range of meticulously graded, progressive sight-reading tests to use in lessons. Specifically written to work alongside the best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading graded series for pupils, it mirrors the introduction of key concepts...

Join the super hero world of Lang Lang and come on a piano adventure with The Lang Lang Piano Method, Level 2. Level 2 builds on the first book by introducing eighth notes (quavers), simple hands together, and thumb-under technique. The five progressive books...

Mastering the piano is the first series of books to be launched in the Lang Lang Piano Academy, a major new piano program encompassing a range of materials for pianists of all levels. Comprising five progressive books, mastering the piano captures Lang Lang's passion,...

Over the years, many examination pieces have captured the imagination of teachers and students, but the stars of past syllabuses are often forgotten. This collection brings together best-loved grade 2 pieces, including Kalinka, Got Those 3rd Position Blues? (Huws Jones) and Waltz from Sleeping...

The best-selling Improve Your Sight-Reading series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. This collection of duets for pre-grade 1 to grade 1 gives players a chance to practice...

Cool syncopation, funky riffs and smooth, stylish tunes - from dynamic to nostalgic, Pam Wedgwood's series has it all. Really Easy Jazzin' About is a vibrant collection of original pieces in a range of contemporary styles, tailor-made for the absolute beginner (Grade 0-2). So...

This collection of 12 original, imaginative studies for solo viola continues the technical progression of Superstudies Book 1. Aimed at young players of Elementary - Early Intermediate (Grades 2-4) standard, it introduces a wide range of musical styles, while consolidating all the finger patterns...

This collection of 19 original, imaginative studies for solo viola has been specially designed for young players. Each piece concentrates one or two aspects of technique, and the whole set covers a wide range of left and right hand skills, including spicatto bowing, string-crossing,...

This collection of nineteen original, imaginative studies for solo violin has been specially designed for young players. Each piece concentrates on one or two aspects of technique, and the whole set covers a wide range of left and right hand skills, including spiccato bowing,...

This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically...

A solid grounding in musical techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. As scholar Denis Stevens says in his introduction to this work, Full enjoyment will come only when the soloist learns the gentle art...