What can age yet never grow old, and grip yet always pursue? The very popular Tum Balalaika, a traditional Yiddish riddle song with deep Russian roots, contains the answer: a haunting melody. This arrangement combines that mesmerizing melody with rich harmonies to produce a lushness that will encourage and inspire your students to play with passion and purpose. Beware! It may haunt you all of your…

Discovering Violin Book and CD is a revolutionary approach towards learning how to play the violin by Danielle Cummins. This Complete (96 pg) Method is designed to teach a beginning violinist proper technique in a logically progressive manner. The sole objective is to encourage students to develop a passion for music. We have included an instructional performance CD to make practicing fun, rewardi…

Now available as a book and CD edition. Pre-practice technical exercises for the Piano. The purpose of this book is to help develop strong hands and flexible fingers. The idea is to learn two or three exercises at a time, which should be played each day before practicing. Only when these are mastered should you add another. When all in the first group are mastered, the next group may be introdu…

Learn the Sound of Modern Chords & Chord Progressions. Par PASS JOE. Learn the sound of modern chords and chord progressions. You will play all basic and extended chord forms, solos and chord substitutions. The chords are divided into six major categories of sounds---major, seventh, augmented, minor, diminished and minor-seventh flat fifth. The purpose is to portray their sound in context of the c…

Romanticism through the Twelve-Tone Row. Par ULEHLA LUDMILA. The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of musical growth from the late Romantic period to the serial techniques of the contemporary composer. Through the detailed analysis of the mu…

Par COOPER BERNIE. The purpose of this method is to bring you back to the golden age of bass, the 60's and 70's and the musical styles that really made it shine: Rhythm 'n' Blues, Soul and Funk. These styles deeply influenced modern music, especially in the way the bass was used, giving it a prominent and even key role. At the menu of this method, certainly a must-have for any serious bass player,…

Fryderyk Chopin Concerto in F minor Op. 21 for piano and orchestra, WN concert version, score Piano concertos combine two elements: pure playing and full poetic expression. Virtuosity and romance. Pianistic brilliance, educated in the works in the stile brillant, brought to perfection, but at the same time ' a farewell. Both are forms of direct expression of the personality of the compos…

Now available as a book and CD edition. Pre-practice technical exercises for the Piano. The purpose of this book is to help develop strong hands and flexible fingers. The idea is to learn two or three exercises at a time, which should be played each day before practicing. Only when these are mastered should you add another. When all in the first group are mastered, the next group may be introdu…

Par ARCHER DARRELL. The word gospel means ?good news,? so it is no surprise that many songs of faith are uplifting, rhythmic and exuberant. Such is the case with the fresh piano settings of the 9 well-known gospel songs in this collection. These country-style arrangements enable the pianist to offer upbeat music that sets hands to clapping and feet tapping.These creative settings are best suited t…

Par HALL ALEX. This stately and sonorous grace was written for a celebration held at Oundle School of the civil partnership of two friends of the composer, who points out that as one studied at Oxford and the other at Cambridge, he chose a text with no association to any particular college! Though appropriate in purpose to any occasion where a communal meal is shared with a sense of thankfulness, …

Par SALKELD ROBERT. This book can be used for teaching the recorder on its own, but the main purpose has been to provide a book suitabke for use in the context of the general music class. Includes basic information on fingering, tonguing, breathing and reading./ Méthode / Flûte à Bec

Saxofoon Methodes En Etudes. Par GORDON / FRANK VILLAFRANCA. Blues Horn Ensemble Playing is the result of the combined efforts of Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca to present the material in a way in which beginning and intermediate horn players can gain an understanding of blues ensemble playing quickly and easily. The twenty examples recorded on the CD provide a dual purpose. They take you …

Par BAILEY ANDY. The purpose of this method is to make you discover, practise and above all actually play breaks and fills on the drum set, whose role is to link the part of a tune with another. As important to master as the drumbeats they?break?, these drum parts can be longer or shorter depending on the role they play. The fills demonstrated in this method are organised according to their length…

Woody Guthrie's songs gave direction and purpose to a generation of songwriters in the 1950s and 1960s, and they continue to move millions of people today. This Land Is Your Land has become an alternate national anthem!In this 101 minute lesson, Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play backup and solos to ten of Woody's best known songs. It's a great lesson in fingerpicking, as well as an intro to som…

Fifteen of the most popular classical pieces for clarinet in easy melody line arrangements by Daniel Scott, with specially recorded backing tracks. Junior Guest Spot is ideal for beginners and young performers, using short easy arrangements in simple keys. The accompanying CD contains full performance versions, and backing only versions so you can play the solo line. The series can be used for ens…