Par JOHNSON JENNIFER. What Every Violinist Needs to Know about the Body is a comprehensive volume on using Body Mapping technique to help violinists prevent injury and develop the physical freedom and sensitivity needed for technical mastery. Beginning with the fundamental concepts of how and why musicians move, this book presents a detailed explanation of Body Mapping accompanied by numerous illu…

50 Exercises For The Intermediate To Advanced Pianist. Propel your keyboard technique forward with this Private Lessons series book for intermediate to advanced pianists. Topics covered include: non-western scales - odd time signatures - exercises which can be transposed and modified - Greek, Turkish and Far Eastern modes - musical and melodic patterns - and more. With this book, you can build tec…

Second Edition Includes: * All of the original content * Three new performance pieces * Giuliani's Left-Hand Etudes, Op. 1 * New lessons and exercises * Improved music engravings Upon its first publication in 1995, Pumping Nylon became an instant classic and must-have technique handbook for all classical guitarists, and many players of other styles as well. Scott Tennant's encouraging style, sense…

With Lick Library: Jam With Andy James you'll study, jam and have fun at the same time with the help of well-respected guitarist and teacher Andy James.This DVD contains three top quality backing tracks and can be approached in two ways. First you can 'jam' with the tracks flying solo, experimenting with different ideas, licks and solos. Alternatively you can trade solos with Andy, drawing inspira…

Book with Online Video. Par . Learn all about this versatile open tuning, from basic chord shapes to sophisticated arrangements of J.S. Bach, the Beatles, and much more. Includes 11 in-depth lessons with Pierre Bensusan, Laurence Juber, and other masters, and 17 full songs to play. DADGAD is one of the most popular and versatile open tunings, lending itself to traditional music, blues, jazz, rock,…

More Tools to Go Beyond Strumming Includes Video Downloads. Par . In this book and video guide, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers gives you an array of tools for making chord progressions more distinctive, deepening your grooves, and getting outside the box of strumming block chords. Over the course of six in-depth lessons, you'll learn how to build dynamics in an arrangement, play bass lines on guitar, and …

A Step-by-Step Method for Developing Extraordinary Technique on the Bass Guitar. Bass Chops covers a cross section of musical genres with a unique step-by-step approach for strengthening your overall facility on the instrument. The lessons in this book include standard notation, tab, fingerings, and video demonstrations, and are presented in theme-and-variation format - a highly effective approach…

Designed and written by world-renowned bassist Tony Grey , Bass Academy features hundreds of musical examples and exercises, as well as step-by-step guides on theory and playing approach. Hundreds of specially-composed exercises and musical examples A DVD of exclusive video tutorials - your own one-to-one masterclass with Tony A wealth of insight into Jazz, in an accessible and easy-to-use layout …

Based on the World's Best-Selling Basic Ukulele Method! Using the same music and fundamentals taught in Alfred's Basic Ukulele Method, easy and user-friendly Study Guide pages have been added to help you easily understand how to play. The Study Guide pages are almost like having a ukulele teacher sitting beside you as you learn the skills needed to perform popular and familiar music. They'll offer…

Beginning Ukulele, Intermediate Ukulele, and Mastering Ukulele together in one complete, comprehensive instruction book dedicated to revealing the secrets of the ukulele! Anyone interested in playing ukulele can pick up this fun, well-paced method and get started right away. Learn everything you need to know, including chords, strumming, picking, basic music theory, and reading tablature (TAB) and…

Improv Lessons and Tips for the Contemporary Player. Par WOOD MARK / GILLESPIE ROBERT. Here is the chance to enter the new world of playing today's music while learning to express your own music through improvisation. Don't be afraid! Rockin' Strings is going to teach you how to create your own melodies one step at a time. Play along with the accompanying audio tracks. They will make you sound lik…

Guitar World presents its latest DVD, Mastering Arpeggios, a deluxe crash course in guitar theory. With over 2 hours of lessons, you'll learn everything you need to know about major, minor, diminished, and augmented triad arpeggios, plus a bonus tutorial on how to play like Paganini! Your Instructor is Jimmy Brown, who over the last 25 years has built a reputation as one of the world's finest musi…

Alfred's Kid's Electric Guitar Course is a fun method that teaches you to play songs on the electric guitar right away! Every lesson is explained in plain language that's easy to understand, and accompanying online audio demonstrations let you hear how the music should sound. You'll learn from three irresistible guitar experts---a clever classical dog, one cool jazz cat, and a friendly alligator w…

Start taking your fusion playing to the next level with an injection of jazz and practical theory. Lessons by Levi Clay.In this excellent DVD, Levi Clay introduces the jazzy sounding melodic minor scale based on the sound, teaching you how to hear this scale in music. After taking you through simple ways to introduce this harmony into your improvisations via the pentatonic scale, Levi teaches you …