Par HOSAY JAMES L.. If you seek truly dramatic music, look to opera. Opera has been enormously influential on Classical, Popular, and Film and Television music over the years. James L. Hosay’s new intermediate level piece, OPERATICA, incorporates the important elements of Opera and Classical music to bring exhilarating drama to the concert band stage. Style and technical considerations make this a…

Par COCKER JERRY. An essential book for every jazz musician wishing to organize their practice time and priorities. Ever feel like you have a million things to practice, but you don't know where to start? Jerry condenses his decades in jazz education into a usable, practical book that highlights some of the best ways of dividing your practice time so that you can FOCUS on the essentials, instead o…

Piano Vocal Score and CD with instrumental and vocal versions. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Cantolopera is an exceptional new series of book/CD packs from Ricordi that offers a fresh approach to great opera repertoire. The books include versions for voice and piano of the worlds most famous arias. The CDs feature two versions of each aria:one with a 130-piece orchestra providing accompaniments to allow the…

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.The Rockschool packs have standard music notation plus great sounding CDs featuring top musicians. Includes full notation plus click-track and non click-track backing tracks on the CD. Students are enc…

Open up your mind, and make playing piano a no-brainer! Start with the basics, like sitting at the piano, and then move on to playing folk, rock, blues, classical, and other styles. In addition to reading sheet music, you will learn to improvise and solo over great play-along tracks. With this book, you won't just learn to play piano, you'll learn about playing in a band. / Piano

Learn to play djembe! This hands-on workshop will help you produce a good sound, play with healthy technique, and learn the essential concepts, sounds, and rhythms of West African djembe drumming. Extensive play-along online videos will help you practice every technique in the context of a traditional African djembe ensemble. Teaches: correct, effective djembe playing technique and posture- three …

Take your playing to the next level with 101 Simple Songs! This beginner-friendly collection features easy rhythms, accessible key signatures, and melodies you'll love to play. Songs include: Africa · Anti-Hero · Drivers License · Fly Like an Eagle · Hotel California · Invisible Touch · Jolene · Owner of a Lonely Heart · Rocky Mountain High · Shape of You · Take On Me · We Will Rock You · When I'm…

Playing on the Changes features 13 jazz etudes through the various chord qualities found in standards and jazz tunes in all 12 keys. Areas covered include major 7th chords, minor 7th chords, dominant 7th chords (Mixolydian, altered dominant, and half-whole diminished), minor ii (flat-5) chords, tritone substitutions, and a variety of progressions using all of the above. Bob Mintzer has written out…

Andrew D. Gordon has created 30 12bar blues play-a-long backing tracks in various Blues styles, keys and tempos such as: Funky Blues, Boogie Blues, Jazz Blues, Minor Blues, Country Blues, Latin Blues, Old Time Jazz Blues, Jazz Swing Blues, Classic Blues Rock, Soulful Blues, Slow Blues and many more.Each of the 30 play-a-long tracks has been recorded with 12 choruses of the 12 bar blues progression…

Take your clarinet playing to the next level with 101 Simple Songs! This beginner-friendly collection features easy rhythms, accessible key signatures, and melodies you'll love to play. Songs include: Africa · Anti-Hero · Drivers License · Fly Like an Eagle · Hotel California · Invisible Touch · Jolene · Owner of a Lonely Heart · Rocky Mountain High · Shape of You · Take On Me · We Will Rock You ·…

The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the online audio to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book, you may also choose to sing along. The audio includes PLAYBACK features that allow you to loop passages, change the temp…

The Ultimate-Guitar Chord Decoder is aimed at guitarists who are mystified by chords. It displays only the most essential chords in the most practical and useful fingerings, along with an easy-to-understand primer on chord construction.Starting with open-position power chords all the way up to advanced altered and extended jazz voicings, you'll have all the chords you'll ever need to use in your l…

In this What Jazz and Blues Can I Play? collection you'll find seventeen popular tunes that are both challenging and entertaining. These pieces have been carefully selected and arranged to provide a fascinating introduction to jazz and blues, and are ideal for young pianists who are either working towards or have recently taken a Grade One, Two or Three piano examination. Technical demands increas…

Hercules at the crossroads (Dramma per musica) - BWV 213. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. What does Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio¨ have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the fall of 1733, with the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Crown Prince Friedrich Christian fast approaching, Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata “Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen” (Let us …