Instrumental Play-Along. Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. Who needs a singer? With Play Puccini, instrumentalists can bathe themselves in luxurious Italian melody! These ten opera arias are among the composer's most famous and distinctive achievements, here transcribed forintermediate level solo instrument and piano. The book includes a biography of Puccini, notes about the plot of each opera, and the dramati…

15 awesome solos from ABBA to Adele. This volume features 15 songs in a range of styles from pop and classical to film and musical theatre. The pieces have been carefully selected and arranged to provide the perfect light relief from exam practice. The songs in this collection appear in order of difficulty, for students at Grade 1 level. Each song is presented with teaching notes to help you impro…

Favourite opera themes in jazzy arrangements Well-known classical themes, arranged with jazz and pop elements, making opera fun and appealing for all ages! • Easy, jazzy arrangements of famous opera themes • Short, lively descriptions of the operas • For all lovers of 'crossover' between classical, jazz and pop music • Written improvisations as well as chord symbols for your own improvisations • P…

The Play It Right series is for beginner - intermediate guitarists who want to improve their playing while learning their favourite songs.This book includes the Guitar part, shown in simple diagrams and pictures, plus an accompanying tutorial. A DVD is also included, showing how to play the songs with a full play-through to demonstrate how they should sound.Play It Right : Classic Rock contains a …

Par KASTELEIN JAAP. Play the Blues is meant for players who, depending on the instrument, have studied music for about 2 to 3 years. The pieces of music in this volume have all been written in the twelve-bar blues style and have been arranged in two parts, but it is possible to play just the treble and still sound good. The CD features accompaniments for all 9 duets and also includes tuning notes.…

Easy Baroque Pieces for Classical Guitar is an outstanding introduction for the beginner to intermediate guitarist to the music of the Baroque period. Jerry Willard explains the intricacies of Baroque ornamentation (including trills, mordents and notes inégale in an easy-to-understand way, and performs each piece on the accompanying audio CD. Includes standard notation and tab. / Guitare et Guitar…

Will Todd's Jazz Missa Brevis gives new life to the sung Latin Mass texts in an accessible, short setting which embraces a variety of jazz styles, from the swinging jazz waltz Kyrie to the up-beat Latin-groove Gloria. The smooth jazz ballad Sanctus, 7/8 Benedictus and soulful Agnus Dei complete this inspiring Mass setting. Underpinned by Todd's characteristic jazz harmonies and melodic craftsmansh…

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Patterns for Drums by Andrew D. Gordon, author of more than 30 instructional books, is designed to help drummers and drum programmers improve their funk drumming technique with a wide range of different Funk and R&B patterns and grooves. Each of the 55 examples in the book contains 4, two measure patterns increasing in complexity. There are a total of over 200 different fu…

This lyrical solo, written in the key of C minor and in 6/8 meter, provides an excellent opportunity for working on balance and chord analysis. The right hand melody is accompanied by broken chords in the left hand. The descending bass line adds another dimension in voicing the left hand chords. / Piano

Following the publication of Francis Jackson's organ reduction of Finzi's Requiem da Camera in 2014, Robert Gower, chairman of the Finzi Trust, recitalist and organist of Nottingham Cathedral, has created reductions of the full orchestra accompaniments to two more of Finzi's choral works. These reductions broaden the reach of these works to choirs which do not wish to present the works with orches…

Mostly remembered for his great compositions, during his life Edward Elgar was also a violin teacher.These six short studies, presented in a progressive order of didactic difficulty, are, despite their simplicity, very musical. They can be played in the first position, but require the knowledge of all fingering patterns. The compositions are set in C major, A minor and G major with occasional modu…

Concepts and techniques for traditional and modern blues guitar. Par FISCHER PETER. An in-depth look at the practical and theoretical concepts of traditional and modern blues guitar, covering all the important technical, rhythm and improvisational ideas. The book is divided into three stages: easy blues, blues and blues rock styles, and jazz blues. Stage 1 describes the development and basis of bl…

Book 1 Book With Online Audio. There are things in life you cannot learn from books. Jazz, rock, and the blues are among them. To play these improvised styles of music, it's important to look beyond the sheet music and theory manuals. The process involves learning by ear, directly from the music itself. Learning by ear acquaints you with melody, harmony, and rhythm in terms of how these elements s…

Easy mixed duets for descant and treble recorders to play together, suitable for two players or for class ensembles. The 22 duets feature a wide range of well-known arrangements including folk songs, spirituals, Latin American dances, blues and classical favourites as well as original pieces by John Pitts. The material is precisely graded so that both the descant and treble parts progress graduall…

Par FRANKLIN ARETHA. Ten classics arranged for voice, piano and guitar, as performed and recorded by the legendary Aretha Franklin. The accompanying CD includes full backings for each song, professionally arranged to recreate the sounds of the original recordings. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Date parution : 2006-10-26/ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare