Think Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide but just for strings! Written to be used for outreach or recruiting concerts, this piece is a great way to educate audiences of all ages about the different instruments of the string orchestra. All of your students will love getting a chance in the spotlight as the simple main theme is followed by five variations, each featuring a different section (ye…

Compilation. He who commands the ballad will command the audience! Here are 8 soulful ballads enjoyed by both musicians and listeners for years. Ballads have always been a challenge to play, but when you hear the right changes played with great feeling by this outstanding rhythm section you'll agree that learning these songs is made much easier. Melodies, chords, and lyrics are included. Transpose…

Leichte Klavierstücke Und Tänze. Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók's voluminous output for the piano contains a great many exquisite masterpieces at every level of difficulty. This collection gathers together easy to moderately difficult pieces, including a wide variety of dance forms and folk-music miniatures. Players can coax magical sounds from the instrument using a varied refinement of touch such as si…

This book is great for guitarists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. Topics include the II-V-I progression, creating solo lines, altered chord formulas and 'comping' in different jazz feels such as Latin, swing, ballad andfunk. / Guitare

Six of the Best is a new series that makes top hits from leading artists available in a new and economical format. No need for large greatest hits compilations, these books simply provide 'Six of the Best'! All songs are arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar A movie named as one of the most popular of all time, seen by millions of people worldwide, with a soundtrack which has sold over 44 million c…

Par HARLE JOHN. RANT! is a portrait of the saxophonist Jess Gillam: her energy, her sound and her presence, painted in music from her own part of England. A 'rant' in the tradition of English folk music is an energetic dance and means 'to make merry' - a reflection of Jess's fearless and exuberant performances. RANT! draws on Cumbrian folk tunes sourced from Ed Heslam's unique folk music resource …

Par WENIGER PETER. This CD (including music booklet) has not especially been worked out for the use in musical education. It is, on the contrary, an audio CD which has been recorded for sale as a trio CD under my name. Mixing the recordings at the studio, however, gave us the idea to offer this CD Legal Paradizer also as a play along CD. For this reason I have never taken a pedagogic approach to t…

Learn to play finger picking style - fast! Easy Pickings Dylan lets you play some of this legendary artist's greatest songs, finger picking style. It's easier than you ever thought possible with Easy Pickings, the exciting new way to master the technique. The music in this book doesn't use standard notation. Instead, a combination of chord boxes and crosses on the strings illustrate the picking pa…

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the Grande Sonate pathétique op. 13 and Symphony No. 2 op. 35. The work's initial drafts date from 1800-01 - it was first published in March 1802. This demanding sonata is highly varied in its form: it b…

Cette remarquable série ouvre des perspectives passionnantes du répertoire stimulante et enrichissante pour le chanteur sagace et aventureux. Comme pour les volumes de compagnon Peters de français Operatic Arias, cette série russe présente bon nombre des airs célèbres à juste titre, mais aussi leur juxtapose avec autres gemmes moins familiers, dont undoutedly méritent une reconnaissance plus large…