Mike Seeger's important survey of 19th and 20th century banjo styles teaches old-time pieces and traditional techniques. Each lesson features a complete performance of each song (played on a different banjo) detailed instruction and historical commentary. This is the second volume and here Seeger concentrates on two and three finger chord accompaniment and picking styles. Songs include: Flop Eared Mule Lost Gander The Sailor and the Soldier American Spanish Fandango The Last of Callahan Lady Gay and more!

Corey Christiansens’s first foray as a headlining artist offers many standard as well as original tunes. Including "Beatrice" “"Darn That Dream" "Alone Together" "All the Things You Are" and five others featuring the great talents of Danny Gottlieb (drums) Mark Neuenschandwer (bass) and pianist Per Danielsson. A great jazz album to add to any collection. Corey Christiansens’s first foray as a headlining artist offers many standard as well as original tunes. Including "Beatrice" “"Darn That Dream" "Alone Together" "All the Things You Are" and five others featuring the great talents of Danny Gottlieb (drums) Mark Neuenschandwer (bass) and pianist Per Danielsson. A great jazz album to add to any collection.

Successful Drumming Tips from One of the Most In-Demand Players Today Berklee Workshop-Learn the techniques that have made Kenwood Dennard one of the most in-demand drummers around. Sharing knowledge gained from playing with Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter Jaco Pastorius Sting and other giants of jazz funk and pop Dennard teaches how to: get the most out of every practice session internalize the melody play melodic solos and more! Dennard will inspire you to bring more energy expression and variety to every performance on stage or inthe studio. 61 minutes.In this workshop you'll learn techniques that have made Kenwood Dennard one of the most in-demand drummers in the business. Learn how to get the most out of each practice session how to internalise the melody play melodicsolos and more! No matter what role you're asked to play on stage or in the studio Dennard will inspire you to bring more energy expression and variety to every performance.

Jimi Hendrix Style-The American Blues Guitar in 6 Weeks course is designed to focus your practice towards realistic goals achievable in six weeks. Each week provides you with techniques concepts and licks to help you play and understand blues soloing at a manageable easy to follow pace. Week five focuses on the style of Jimi Hendrix and includes: Learn a blues scale pattern learn the Jimi Hendrix vibrato learn the 'blues rake' learn how to use phrase repetition. The DVD is presented by Steve Trovato who is best known as a world class country guitarist but is equally proficient in a wide range of popular Guitar styles. He has written anumber of bestselling Guitar tuition books and maintains a full time position in the Guitar Department at the University of Southern California.

A fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory in four progressive books. Teaches staves clefs note identification time signatures key signatures note values and rest values. Includes stickers. Ying Ying Ng 's Music Theory For Young Children series is a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Young players will explore and learn about staves clefs note identification time-signatures key-signatures note-values and rest-values. Child centered the books in the Music Theory For Young Children series use clear and simple instructions appealing illustrations and a variety of self-motivating exercises such as tracing colouring and pasting (includes stickers)

Afro-Cuban Keyboard Grooves By Manny Patiño and Jorge MorenoThis book will help any musician unlock the secrets of the Afro-Cuban rhythmic feel. By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the Clave and the comping patterns called Tumbaos that are played over the Clave this book will help every keyboard player learn these fundamental Latin rhythms. [Matching bass book (EL9707CD) also available.]

With Drum Essentials Peter Erskine takes you step by step from the very beginning with the most fundamental concepts about technique and musicality discussed and illustrated in detail. Edited by Dan Morris. CD included.

Discover everything you need to know to begin playing the guitar with the extra convenience and close-up detail of DVD. Susan Mazer's instructional course covers all aspects of playing from holding the guitar and finding your first chords right up to fingerpicking and playing full songs. All lesons are presented with clarity and are easy to follow and before you know it you'll be impressing your friends with your guitar-playing skills.

Giovanni Hidalgo puts no restrictions or limitations on what he can do musically with his hands. His fans credit this phenomenon to Giovanni's remarkable ability to incorporate his imagination musical wisdom and life expereiences into his work. Hidalgo is the considered the leading conguero of our time. His diverse recording and touring credits include Dizzy Gillespie Eddie Palmieri Dave Valentin and Mickey Hart. On this masterful bilingual (English/Spanish) DVD he introduces basic sounds tuning and technique; patterns of son montuno bolero charanga and danzon; and multi-percussion applications of those forms. Special Features: LegendaryPerformances: Karl Perazzo Giovanni Hidalgo/Changuito Drums From Around The World Additional Product Previews DVD-ROM Features: Latin percussion glossary of terms tuning/maintenance internet connectivity

In this sequel to A Funky Primer World renowned drummer Charles Dowd helps to add Afro-Cuban rhythms and Odd-Meter Rock beats to a drummers repertoire. Suitable for all percussionists it introduces certain mechanics of these new styles focuses on skill building and reinforces practical skills. Many genres of music are covered here; such as African funk and jazz; all grounded in straight rock or Latin eighths. An invaluable guide for drummers who want to improve improvisation reading technique and stylistic taste.

Pieces for snare drum percussion effects and drum kit (includes free CD)

Sixty Exercises for Piano- Sixty exercises for the acquirement of agility independence strength and perfect evenness in the fingers as well as suppleness of the wrist.

This book will help you unlock the secrets of the Afro-Cuban rhythmic feel for bass. Beginning with complete explanations of the Clave (the underlying rhythmic pattern) and Tumbaos (the comping/rhythm patterns playing under the Clave) the book then guides you through 48 demonstration and play-along tracks covering all the fundamental Afro-Cuban rhythms. In addition a matching book for keyboard is available further illustrating the interdependent relationship of the bass and the keyboard in Latin music

A Study In Contemporary Music For The Bass-The genre Fusion as the name implies is a blend of many styles and influences. This book and CD use four tunes as a basis to show how this fusion-blending process can occur and expose you to new musical ideas. With unique step-by-step approaches to developing 'fused' feels that are not just superficial pasting-together styles you'll discover how to create new grooves for yourself. In addition there are many agility exercises to help you reach a high level of musicianship. For each style there is a comprehensive lesson centring on a fully notated chart of the music on written in the book and performed on the CD. The lessons consist of a breaking down of all theinspirational musical and technical elements involved in developing a convincing performance of the tune. The CD contains a demonstration performance of the tune followed by a version of the tune without the bass so you can play along With the sound of the music in your ears you can study and practice the technical aspects performing the rhythms and lines of each style. Each style section contains historical references and background useful information and explanations about the styles notated musical examples of each approach technical exercises to help with particular passages important performance tips and demonstration performances and play-along tracks on accompaniment CDs. The genre Fusion as the name implies is a blend of many styles and influences. This book and CD use four tunes as a basis to show how this fusion-blending process can occur and expose you to new musical ideas. With uniquestep-by-step approaches to developing 'fused' feels that are not just superficial pasting-together styles you'll discover how to create new grooves for yourself. In addition there are many agility exercises to help you reach ahigh level of musicianship. For each style there is a comprehensive lesson centring on a fully notated chart of the music on written in the book and performed on the CD. The lessons consist of a breaking down of all theinspirational musical and technical elements involved in developing a convincing performance of the tune. The CD contains a demonstration performance of the tune followed by a version of the tune without the bass so you can playalong With the sound of the music in your ears you can study and practice the technical aspects performing the rhythms and lines of each style. Each style section contains historical references and background usefulinformation and explanations about the styles notated musical examples of each approach technical exercises to help with particular passages important performance tips and demonstration performances and play-along tracks onaccompaniment CDs.

Pour les Choeurs de Formation Musicale - Niveau facile cycle 1- Nous avons tous souffert dans notre enfance de la théorie souvent rebarbative du solfège et plus encore des solfèges à changements de clés si fatigants pour les yeux. Tout en resant valables ces anciens travaux avaient besoin d'être complétés. Voici enfin un livre amusant instructif et artistique car en l'utilisant on fera en même temps du solfège du déchiffrage et de l'histoire de la musique. Musiques A Chanter d' Alain Louvier Jean-Paul Holstein et Pierre-Yves Level vient combler ces lacunes en faisantchanter aux élèves de toutes categories de la vraie musique empruntée aux grands Maîtres du Moyen-Age aux contemporains en passant par les classiques et les romantiques. L'idée est excellente le choix judicieux et varié et voilà un ouvrage vraiment utile que je me fais un Plaisir de recommender à tous les professeurs et à tous les élèves.

This unique publication for drummers includes: A CD with 14 play-along tracks (without drums): Funk-Shuffle Funk-Rock Latin-Funk Straight Funk Hip-Hop Shuffle Ballad Rap a.o. A folder containing the original hand-written drum parts (as used at the recording sessions) Computer typeset drum parts including additional notated drum fills.

Formed by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with the goal of fusing very heavy rock---heavier than had ever been played before---with British folk and acoustic music Led Zeppelin redefined and forever changed rock 'n' roll. With this book you will learn all the great guitar parts to eight rock and acoustic Zeppelin songs. To make learning Jimmy Page's guitar parts both fun and easy the included DVD contains complete easy-to-follow video lessons for each song. And if you use the disc in a computer you can accesssound-alike MP3s of every tune and our exclusive TNT 2 Custom Mix software that lets you alter the instrument and vocal mix for play-along.

Le volume 4 de la Technique pour Guitaristes de tous styles de Pierre Cullaz. Ce volume se concentre sur la mélodie et comment jouer en produisant toute l'harmonie soi-même.

Jean-Pierre Couleau (b. 1948) studied at the Aix-en-Provence Marseille and Versailles Conservatoires before devoting himself to teaching music particularly jazz. He compiled Time for Music Education in 1984. The first volume contains exercises on note names note values sight-singing rhythm dynamics phrasing articulation time signatures and performance directions among other aspects. Couleau 's first volume of Time for Music Education is ideal for all beginners of music theory.

The Most Complete Guitar Course Available- Guitar Method Levels 1-3 : These are the three core method books. Together they comprise a complete guitar course covering a wide variety of musical styles - chords theory tablature blues rock folk classical and fingerstyle! It's all here. Each book is available with and without a CD. All styles of music Rock Workshops teach rock rhythm and lead guitar Tablature used as an aid in learning new material Optional teacher accompaniments included Available with and without play-along CDs Now available on DVD and video