Rottenburg Toccata. Par HAKIM NAJI. The Rottenburg Toccata develops the choral melody of “Sankt Martin, dir ist anvertraut” in the virtuosic style of french romantic toccatas. The work is articulated in three sections with contrasted textures: opening variation of the melody with sextuplet figurations, middle variation with a peasant rhythmical character in the minor mode and conclusion presenting…

Par COLQUHOUN MICHAEL. Salsa is a popular Hispanic-American urban dance music with deep African and Cuban roots. Charanga is a style of Salsa which was popular from the 1920's through the 1970's. What made Charanga unique was that along with the usual percussion section (congas, bongos/cowbell, timbales, maracas/guiro and clave) there was a string section and a flute lead. When the music was cocin…

How does a trip to sunny Spain sound? You can get there without leaving home with Sharon Aaronson's new solo, Costa del Sol. This late-intermediate solo is written in the key of A minor and 4/4 time. The syncopated rhythms capture the Spanish style and provide rhythmic interest throughout the piece. In A-B-A form, the allegro A section contrasts nicely with the adagietto B section that also featur…

S'vivon (se-vi-vohn) is the Hebrew word for dreidl, a four-sided top that is popular with children during the celebration of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. In this arrangement by Brendan McBrien, variations are created through the subtle use of motivic rhythms from within the melody, presenting the theme in different voices and keys in both arco and pizzicato, using the A sec…

Bring world rhythms and sounds into your drum set playing. Learn the three ways that the drum set plays in world music settings: a standard kit as part of a percussion section, a standard kit alone, and an expanded drum set that includes world instruments, such as tambora. This systematic approach includes demonstrations and practice grooves for meringue and other Dominican rhythms, which you wil…

Par CHRISTIANSEN MIKE. From blues rhythm guitar to soloing, this book will help you learn in a step by step manner to play blues guitar styles similar to greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King, Eric Clapton and others. You will learn the different techniques used in playing blues guitar and how to combine these elements to create your own blues solos and rhythm parts. The book contains sections…

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Basic Series Number of pages : 32 This superb study book or method supplement for any bass student contains 19 bass rhythm parts in a mixture of popular styles, including shuffles, reggae, rock, swing, standard walking bass, be-bop, newgrass, syncopated Latin lines, the jazz waltz, and country western. Performance notes are…

Par MITZNER ROB. Drumming in a Band: Stuff you Can Use, by Rob Mitzner, can prepare drummers to play almost any kind of gig. The target audience is drummers with 2 or more years of playing experience who want to learn to play in a band. All of the material presented comes from the author's real-world experience in recording sessions and band situations. Based around ?Groove Workshops? that include…

any Sound Sources. Par WOLFF CHRISTIAN. Presented in this performing edition as a facsimile of the composer's manuscript, Christian Wolff's Exercise 39 comprises five sections of musical material, each notated with varying degrees of specificity. The score includes fully notated staves of music, a passage of notated rhythms alone, a passage specifying only dynamics, and a passage of still more abs…

This method explores the most common syncopated rhythms found in jazz and improves coordinated independence and reading skills. Includes sections on snare drum and bass drum independence, drum fills in context, section and ensemble figures, 1-, 2- and 4-bar ensemble figures, and ensemble 'shout chorus' solos. 80 pages. / Batterie

This is the internationally acclaimed Joe Pass guitar method in which Joe displays his mastery of the jazz guitar. Part One/Harmony, is divided into five sections on chord construction, embellishment, substitution, connection, and symmetric chords. Part Two/Melody, is divided into twelve sections, including chord scales, altered scales, ear training, whole tone scales, chord resolutions, improvisi…

for String Orchestra Score. This toe-tapping polka is originally for piano solo and transposed to the keys of A and E major. The melody and harmony float between the violins, with a brief appearance for cello and bass. The viola section provides a strongrhythmic drive. This work was written and published in 1860 while Bares was still enslaved. Not only is it a strong example of a composition by a …