Music-Instruction & Study

If you are only going to get one guitar chord book, make it this one! Thousands of chord forms are presented. Chords are presented in each key and numerous forms are shown for each type of chord. Chords are classified into melody forms, inside...

(Keyboard Instruction). The jazz idiom can often appear mysterious and difficult for musicians who were trained to play other types of music. Long-time performer and educator Rob Mullins helps players enter the jazz world by providing voicings that will help the player develop skills...

For musicians and scholars alike, this comprehensive guide to braille music notation is an essential resource. Learn to transcribe Western music in braille in accordance with the decisions reached at the International Conference on Braille Music in Paris in 1954.This work has been selected...

This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in reading and playing Braille music. It provides a comprehensive guide to Braille music signs, including their meanings and how to read them. Musicians who are blind or visually impaired, as well as educators and...

Matthay's comprehensive study of pianoforte tone-production is a must-read for music students and piano enthusiasts alike. With clear explanations and helpful illustrations, he illuminates the many nuances of touch that distinguish a lackluster performance from a truly great one.This work has been selected by...

This practical guide offers tips and suggestions for writing opera librettos. Drawing on his own experiences as a librettist, Edward Istel provides insights into the creative process and offers advice on structure, character development, and collaboration with composers. Co-author Theodore Baker is a well-known...

The field of music education research is often concerned with studies and measurements that highlight the deficits rather than inquire about the developmental and dispositional strengths exhibited in children's musical behaviors. Before We Teach Music puts forth an alternative view, examining childhood as a...

This concise guide to the king of instruments offers an accessible introduction to the mechanics and artistry of playing the organ. George Cooper, an accomplished musician and teacher, provides practical advice on everything from posture to repertoire selection. Students of all levels will find...

(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of jazz guitarist and bebop pioneer Charlie Christian. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Charlie's gear, style, and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know about his...

Unlock the full potential of your guitar playing with The Guitarist's Visual Chord Dictionary. This comprehensive guide is a must-have for both beginners and seasoned players looking to enhance their chord vocabulary.Dive into a visually immersive journey with detailed chord charts and crystal-clear images...

Unlock the enchanting world of accordion music with "Playing Accordion Beginners," your ultimate companion on the journey to mastering this versatile instrument. This meticulously crafted guide is designed to empower beginners with no prior experience, providing a step-by-step roadmap to transform you into an...

(Guitar Educational). A basic guide for learning to play jazz chord solos, chord backup, and improvising with jazz chords. Includes: 175 moveable chord shapes; chord construction; common chord progressions; and more. Complete with a dozen sample chord solos plus chord grids and a CD...

(Jazz Book). From Thom Mason comes a fun and interesting guide to help you develop aural skills. This book focuses on improving your technique in hearing pitches, rhythms, melodies, and chord progressions, as directly applied to actual music in the jazz repertoire. The text...

Intermediate to advanced studies featuring full band chorales, chromatic exercises and articulation studies, color woodwind trill charts, a wide variety of multicultural songs, and much more.Author: Rhodes BiersISBN-10: 0793518121ISBN-13: 9780793518128Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.40d

Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings--interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken reparative...

A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations. This is the Primer level.Author: John W. SchaumISBN-10:...

Designed for use with any electronic keyboard with 44 or more keys and automatic chord and rhythm effects, this book goes beyond teaching how to use these features and covers how to read music in treble and bass clefs, form chords and much more,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

(Fast Track Music Instruction). For electric or acoustic guitar - or both! Teaches music notation, tablature, Full chords and power chords, riffs, licks, and scales, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 73 songs and examples. Corresponding audio files are accessed online...

(Guitar). This follow-up to the popular Fingerstyle Guitar book by Ken Perlman (00000081) is really two books in one. To the advanced player, it's an excellent tune book featuring 33 interesting and highly playable guitar arrangements. To the intermediate player, it serves as a...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

Features all common keyboard chords shown in every key in root position. Chords are shown as keyboard diagrams and also notated on both treble and bass clefs. Chords are arranged by type and presented in the order of the Circleof Fifths. The book also...

Author: Bireli LagreneISBN-10: 1513461702ISBN-13: 9781513461700Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2018Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.60w x 0.40d

This melody is instantly recognizable, and your students will love playing it. From the classic films Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wonka. This arrangement, by Chris M. Bernotas, is perfectly playable for beginning bands. A fun way...

This melody is instantly recognizable, and your students will love playing it. From the classic films Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Wonka. This arrangement, by Chris M. Bernotas, is ideally suited for your young orchestra. There are...

"Music Theory, Solf鑒e, Developing Aural Skills" is a three - book music theory series and it is written in order to present a multifaceted and comprehensive teaching method that connects music theory with the act of making music. The aim of the book is...

Standard Lines Book III in the Constructing Walking Jazz Bass Lines series for the Electric Bassist is a comprehensive guide demonstrating the devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz standard tradition. Book III covers 24 standard jazz chord progressions with...

(Guitar Educational). Break out of your blues rut and think beyond the box If your blues solos are stuck in the box, literally and figuratively, this book/CD pack will take your soloing to a fresh, new place. Buzz Feiten teaches you how to break...

This book will guide you to understand what happens when chords change, why you choose certain notes over certain chords, how modes are affected by chord changes, how chords are related to modes, and how to solo through chord changes on any part of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A collection of 24 guitar solos written in notation and tablature for use during Eucharistic worship services. Includes access to the online audio recording of all the solos recorded by the author in a contemplative style.Author: William BayISBN-10: 8985650416ISBN-13: 9798985650419Publisher: Mel Bay Publicaitons, IncLanguage:...

This book explains the history of the Bayreuth Festival in Germany which was founded to showcase the operas of Richard Wagner. It not only provides insight into the festival itself, but also into the life and work of Wagner.This work has been selected by...

(Music Sales America). Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backup track Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your guitar. In one great...

The Suzuki Method(R) of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can...

The 21 pieces in this collection represent some of the best miniature masterworks in piano literature. These pieces were carefully selected not only for their overall quality and musicality, but because they advance very logically from the five-finger position pieces that preceded them in...

Paul Gray is the Grammy Award-winning bassist of Slipknot. In Behind the Player: Paul Gray, he gives an intimate behind-the-scenes look at his life as a professional musician---including rare photos and video footage. Gray also provides in-depth bass lessons for how to play Duality"...

Beyond Sound is a must-read for anyone who loves music technology and wants to build a career in this competitive, fast-paced world. Author Scott L. Phillips draws on his seventeen-year career as a technology trainer and educator, and his extensive network of music technology...

(Fretted). Climb aboard for an exciting musical cruise unlatch your sea chest, break out the ukulele, and cast off with 62 songs of oceans, rivers, canals, lakes and bays. Songs include: Anchors Aweigh * Blow the Man Down * Cape Cod Girls * The...

Amongst all the figures in the history of Western art forms, Beethoven is one of the most radical and influential. Not only did he produce some of the most celebrated and recognizable music of all time, but his influence dramatically accelerated the development of...

(Percussion). The Playing Techniques series marks the culmination of legendary drummers Ralph Humphrey and Joe Porcaro's deep contribution to drum set education. Covering the study of everything pertaining to the proper technical performance of music on the drum set, the materials are presented in...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 2 continues your student's musical journey by teaching with a complete review of Book 1, and a segmented presentation of new concepts while introducing ensemble playing. Continue skill development with review, new keys, rhythms, tone development, and introductory...