Music-Instruction & Study

The joy of ensemble playing with six hands at the piano is captured in this series of trios by educational music author Melody Bober. Written with the elementary-level piano student in mind, the pieces in this collection have easy movement around the keyboard and...

The joy of ensemble playing with six hands at the piano is captured in this series of trios by educational music author Melody Bober. Written with the beginning piano student in mind, the pieces in this collection have a limited reading and playing range....

Bill Cunliffe's arrangements are creative and filled with unique reharmonizations, yet maintain the integrity of the original compositions. Titles: But Not for Me (Gershwin) * Haunted Heart (Schwartz/Dietz) * How About You? (Lane/Freed) * Old Devil Moon (Lane/Harburg) * Old Folks (Robison/Hill) * Polkadots...

The Alfred Jazz EASY Play-Along series goes beyond the other play-alongs. Each volume has parts for C, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments and includes a sample jazz solo written out for you to listen to, play, and practice. The included online audio has...

Best-selling author and educator Kenny Chipkin helps you get your classic rock licks on with this detailed show-and-tell multimedia package. Kenny breaks down how to play like the greatest players of all time in this book and DVD by carefully demonstrating and teaching every...

Sticking Time, Linear Time, Rhythm and Meter is built around Gary Chaffee's innovative teaching concepts, and is the perfect way to reinforce the techniques taught in the Patterns books. Jonathan Mover, a former student of Gary's, makes a special appearance to demonstrate the techniques...

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...

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band is a valuable resource for helping your students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. It contains 412 exercises, including more than 70 chorales by some of today's most renowned concert band composers. An...

Sound Innovations for Concert Band, 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. Following the unique Sound Innovations organization, the band method contains levels, each...

Anyone interested in learning to play acoustic guitar can pick up this well-paced, comprehensive method and get started right away. Beginning concepts include right- and left-hand technique, reading music, basic improvisation, barre chords, picking technique, playing bass lines, and basic arranging. Intermediate topics include...

The Complete Contemporary Guitarist is a comprehensive 396-page guide for blues, rock, and jazz players. Combining theory, ear training, fretboard knowledge, and sight-reading all under one cover, the book features easy-to-read chord and scale diagrams, plus detailed musical examples. It teaches intervals, scales, chords,...

Alfred's Kid's Guitar Course is the #1 best-selling guitar method for kids! This award-winning (Best Product of the Year"---Disney's iParenting Media Award) method is the easiest guitar method ever for kids ages 5 and up. Using plain language that's easy for kids to understand,...

The Flex-Ability series is ideal for solos, duets, trios, quartets, or any size ensembles, including woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion. Players of various abilities, levels 1--3, can play together. An optional play-along CD is available separately. The 11 classical" themes come from opera, symphony,...

The Flex-Ability series is ideal for solos, duets, trios, quartets, or any size ensembles, including woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion. Players of various abilities, levels 1--3, can play together. An optional play-along CD is available separately. The 11 classical" themes come from opera, symphony,...

Have you ever wondered how your favorite guitarists can play endless streams of notes that always sound like they fit the song? The secret is arpeggios, or broken chords that are played one note at a time. Arpeggios can turn simple chord progressions into...

The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 7, includes French, German and Spanish translations as well as a newly recorded CD performed by internationally renowned recording artist Seizo Azuma. Now the book and CD can be purchased together or separately. The contents...

Adults returning to the piano after a break will have a blast playing well-arranged pop hits from recordings, Broadway and television. These carefully sequenced collections correlate with I Used to Play Piano: Refresher Course, Alfred Item #22166. Titles: Ain't Misbehavin' * Anything Goes *...

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 primarily stay in five-finger position. For maximum benefit, students should work through...

Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. II is more than just a fun play-along kit. This book and CD set features 10 big band charts written at the intermediate level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble and...

Drumset 101 starts with the very basics and gets you playing right away. Every lesson in the book is explained and performed by the instructor on the DVD. It's just like taking a class in the privacy of your own home. If you're new...

Alfred's Pop Quartets for All series is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1...

Drummer's Guide to Fills is designed to expand drumming vocabulary by teaching fills all drummers can use to add excitement to different sections of a song, or even use as the building blocks of a solo. Learning how to play fills is not enough;...

Simply Christmas is a collection of the most beloved carols and popular Christmas tunes. These selections have been carefully arranged by Dan Coates for Easy Piano, making them accessible to pianists of all ages. Phrase markings, articulations, fingering, pedaling and dynamics have been included...

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Bass Method is the newest addition to the family, and features clear,...

The Step by Step series is a collection of exercise books/audio for violin based on the Mother-Tongue approach. From the very beginning, it will provide a solid foundation in instrumental technique for Suzuki and traditional approaches in private lessons or group settings. The focus...

Students in Level 3 will be playing syncopated, dotted and swing rhythms with ease. Up-tempo, original pieces with clever twists smoothly incorporate new concepts such as: pass-under and cross-over scale fingerings; the chromatic scale; IV chords in C, G, F, D; and ledger lines...

Alfred's Kid's Drum Course is a fun method that teaches you to play rhythms and songs on a variety of drums and sound sources, including many simple, inexpensive objects found around your home. With two accompanying CDs that always let you hear how the...

This guide, containing the Percussive Arts Society's 40 International Drum Rudiments, begins by addressing the seven essential rudiments necessary to perform all the other rudiments, and continues by covering roll, diddle, flam and drag rudiment categories with variations of each. Also included are practice...

Magic Carpet is a collection of audience-pleasing concert pieces for the youngest beginners. These pieces can be used in either a reading-based or Suzuki teaching environment, and teachers can choose whether the children learn them by reading or by ear. Magic Carpet is available...

Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. I is written at the easy to intermediate-easy level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble to improve your playing, whenever you want. As you play with and listen to the outstanding...

Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. I is written at the easy to intermediate-easy level. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble to improve your playing, whenever you want. As you play with and listen to the outstanding...

Gene Krupa: The Pictorial Life of a Jazz Legend is a photographic presentation of the life, times and music of that ace drummer man." With over 200 photos that span six decades of jazz history, this most visual of performers, the man who made...

Learn everything you need to know to start playing music from standard notation on the guitar and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Guitar players of all ages can begin or continue their journey to...

The appealing repertoire with charming lyrics further reinforces and enhances the learning of new musical concepts introduced in the Lesson Book. Includes attractive music created by internationally acclaimed composers in a variety of styles, plus tips on how to perform more musically. Each piece...

A Race to the Finish is a charming, witty, and whimsical mini-musical based on Aesop's most popular fable, The Tortoise and the Hare." Recreate the famous race between the slow and steady turtle and the over-confident rabbit. Features five unison and 2-part songs with...

Learn to play guitar and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of playing either acoustic or electric guitar. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will...

From the best-selling author of Pumping Nylon, Alfred introduces the third book in Scott Tennant's Basic Classical Guitar Method series. This book offers a step-by-step approach for learning how to play new techniques such as barres, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and grace notes and how to...

This unique method was designed specifically for young students who are beginning piano study in a group setting. This easy-to-teach beginners course includes all of the most important components to develop comprehensive musicians and performers. CDs and MIDI Disks have accompaniments that range from...

(Music Sales America). An excellent set of bowing exercises that will help all violinists to develop their bowing styles, speed, control and rhythms.Author: Otakar SevcikISBN-10: 071199837XISBN-13: 9780711998377Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.20d

(Music Sales America). Contains exercises in intonation, scales, keeping the fingers down, bowing styles, crossing strings, sixths, octaves, ninths, tenths, triads, the chromatic scale, arpeggios and double stops. Part 1: First position.Author: Otakar SevcikISBN-10: 0711997705ISBN-13: 9780711997707Publisher: Bosworth & Co. Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight:...

(Music Sales America). Fifth part out of six from the Op. 2 "School of Bowing Technique" which includes 4,000 exercises in bowing. Instructions are provided in German, English, French and Italian.Author: Otakar SevcikISBN-10: 0711997012ISBN-13: 9780711997011Publisher: Bosworth & Co. Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2004Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize:...

(Music Sales America). If you finally have the time to do what you always wanted to do and learn to play like a professional, this is the book for you Keyboard diagrams show you exactly where to put your fingers in order to play...

(Music Sales America). Composers include Loeillet, Telemann, Boismortier, Blavet, Mozart and Kohler.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0711935564ISBN-13: 9780711935563Publisher: Chester MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.60w x 0.20d

(Music Sales America). These are the original editions of the ever-popular instruction books for various instruments by C. Paul Herfurth. The books are packed full of lessons, illustrations, fingering charts, daily practice records, test questions, and manuscript paper for homework. Perfect for use in...

(Music Sales America). The only flute course using well-known popular tunes This book also features clear text, photographs and diagrams. It covers assembling the flute and producing your first sounds. Contents: All My Loving * And I Love Her * Annie's Song * Arriverderci...

(Music Sales America). Based on popular tunes and famous light classics, this saxophone course assumes no knowledge of either the saxophone or of music. From the beginning you will be playing songs by Lennon and McCartney, Elvis Presley and Billy Joel. The step-by-step instruction...

This is an intermediate level book on how to play, improvise, and write blues songs on the piano. Over 50 example songs are provided in two different stylistic sounds - blues and pop/jazz. Suggested fingerings are provided for all songs. To simplify learning of...

Book 2 continues your journey towards making the musical experience with your piano or keyboard a gratifying one. We continue with the same fixed hand position throughout this second book. This makes it easier to focus on the other aspects of playing that enter...

Are you interested in learning how to play jazz bass or walk bass lines, but feeling overwhelmed? With so many method books to choose from how do you even know where to start? If you're looking for an extremely clear and straightforward method for...

Bassists are on a mission to create hip bass lines-but don't always have the right tools to do it. Topics in Jazz Bass: Harmony offers a fresh take on the fundamentals of harmony, enabling you to create beautifully melodic bass lines that don't sound...