Funk and its infectious style remains a popular part of the music we listen to today. Timeless recordings from such artists as James Brown The Commodores Stevie Wonder The Meters The Crusaders Brecker Brothers The Average White Band Sly and the Family Stone Tower of Power Prince The Blackbyrds Manu Dibango Maceo Parker Junior Walker and the All Stars and many more continue to enjoy…
For Changed and Unchanged Voices-Following the success of Pop Warm-Ups and Work-Outs for Guys (08749926) and Pop Warm-Ups and Work-Outs for Choir Volume 1 (08753187) this sequel includes many of the latest pop song melodies and motives to inspire students to sing with gusto and to reinforce basic choral fundamentals common to all types of music. The ten songs featured in this second volume of Pop…
Commissioned by the music publisher Rózsavölgyi and Co., Béla Bartók and Sándor Reschofsky assembled their Piano Method for beginners, which was first published in 1913.
Pianist and composer Reschofsky devised the framework and wrote the exercises for Piano Method, while Bartók composed 48 short performance pieces on the basis of the exercises.
Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Number One hit from Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat arranged for recorder flute violin clarinet or B flat saxophone with piano accompaniment.
for Ukulele Baritone Ukulele Guitar Banjo and Mandolin-The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments - or any combination of them - to strum together on over 40 great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody lyrics and chord diagrams for standard ukulele baritone ukulele guitar mandolin and banjo. Songs include: Angels We Have Heard on High · Away in a Mang…
A unique guide to the composition of folk tunes. It requires no previous experience of tune writing is full of practical down-to earth suggestions about every aspect of composition and covers a wide variety of folk styles. The book shows you how to analyse deconstruct and rebuild traditional tunes and takes you step by step through the process of creating a tune. Chris Haigh's second book follo…
My First Concert-Following the great success of Look Listen and Learn Michiel Oldenkamp and Jaap Kastelein are now focussing their attention on teaching material that can be used in both instrumental lessons and the class band or wind ensemble. They have developed in close collaboration with professionals from the class band scene music schools and academies in the Netherlands and Germany a c…
In these extraordinary studio performances Dobro virtuoso Rob Ickes (Blue Highway Three Ring Circle) is joined by bluegrass prodigy Andy Leftwich (Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Three Ring Circle) on Mandolin andthen by jazz pianist Michael Alvey. These powerful sets of richly improvisational instrumental duets are followed by two signature solo works that showcase Ickes' tradition-steeped …
Seven Pieces for Clarinet-A delightful collection of folk music arranged as duets whith both parts recorded on the enclosed CD allowing the clarinettist to play either part with fantastic accompaniment.
This course is designed both for beginners and for 'amateur' players who want to play their favorite songs without having to spend years in traditional Piano study.You will learn chord formulas chord progressions left-hand accompaniment techniques and right-hand melody work. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. (45-minutes).
Master the heart-warming sounds of the country Harmonica with this comprehensive tutorial. Starting from your first few notes this DVD will guide you as you learn the phrasing blowing patterns and bending techniques that characterise the sound of an authentic Harmonica melody. Peter 'Madcat' Ruth shows you basic breathing patterns that then become the basic 'Train Rhythm' of Harmonica comping. R…
This DVD course is designed for people who want to play Bass in a small group or ensemble and presents all the most common musical forms. You will learn Bass techniques for rock country pop and other popular musicstyles.No music-reading ability is required. After mastering this method you will be ready to start playing with other musicians regardless of what type of music you choose.
This course is designed to help beginning to intermediate guitarists learn to improvise fills and solos for country songs. You’ll learn to create your own lead licks using a major pentatonic scale then advance to a slightlymore complex approach.Hammer-ons pull-offs and slides will be added to increase the speed and smoothness of your lead playing. Finally you'll learn single and double string…
Designed to help both the beginning and intermediate guitarist learn the most commonly used chords. Through split-screen viewing the student learns how the chords are fingered and how they should sound.You will learnmajor minor and 7th chord forms as well as diminished and augmented chord shapes on the first four frets of the fingerboard. These are the same chords used in thousands of your favor…
This course for acoustic and electric Guitar is designed to follow our Volume 1 video and continues it its easy step-by-step approach. Again music reading ability is not necessary to learn the material in thiscourse.You will learn both E and A-form bar chords with their major minor and minor seventh fingerings. You will also be taught new strumming patterns along with functional chord changes c…
This course is designed to give beginning to intermediate Drum students a working knowledge of the 26 basic Drum rudiments. These rudiments develop improved sticking control technique and speed. No previous drumming experienceis required.
This DVD is designed for the guitarist who wants to study jazz Guitar improvisation. This course uses a logical beginning approach that includes jazz theory explanations common chord substitutions major jazz scales andmodes and their applications.No music reading is required in this course however knowledge of chord diagrams and tablature is needed. This DVD method is equivalent to several m…
This course is designed to present beginning Keyboard students with a practical easy-to-learn approach to portable electronic Keyboard playing. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. If you follow this method you wilenjoy a lifetime of Keyboard playing no matter what style of music you choose.This keyboard method was created and is taught by Wayne Judd. Wayne has been teaching Keyboard …
An original study for piano of the Pop and Jazz standard. The well-known Pop/Jazz standard 'Angel Eyes' is featured in this book which takes the player from a normal lead sheet and teaches them how to create comp patterns andimprovisations based off of the melody. For intermediate to intermediate-advanced players.
This course is designed to help people of all ages and ability levels to improve their singing. No previous musical training is needed to be successful with this method. You will learn correct warm-ups proper breathing technique breath support awesome vibrato and how to imitate your favorite singers.
No music reading ability is needed to learn from this video lesson. You'll start with easy chords strumming and fingerpicking techniques by playing along with songs on the video. In addition you will learn the countryboogie-woogie Guitar style and Travis picking as well as how to solo over back-up rhythm track on the video.The songs include Amazing Grace Wabash Cannonball and Will the Circle …
Eleven moderately easy pieces-A wonderful collection of eleven moderately easy pieces for Flute and Piano accompaniment. This is an ideal volume for Flautists wishing to extend their repertoire either for training or performance. With a wide variety of styles from Burlesque to Ragtime and Serenade to Mazurka these original pieces by Michael Rose will delight and entertain whilst providing materi…
First Lessons Flamenco Guitar introduces the absolute basics of Flamenco Guitar. Suitable for beginners this comprehensive book covers the fundamentals of reading music including note and rest values readingGuitar tablature finger names for the left and right hands the names of Guitar parts and basic flamenco techniques and rhythms. This book and accompanying audio are meant for those who wo…
Funk and its infectious style remains a popular part of the music we listen to today. Timeless recordings from such artists as James Brown The Commodores Stevie Wonder The Meters The Crusaders Brecker Brothers The Average White Band Sly and the Family Stone Tower of Power Prince The Blackbyrds Manu Dibango Maceo Parker Junior Walker and the All Stars and many more continue to enjoy…
