The Let's All Play The Ollie Way series is designed to teach the basics of musical knowledge and good musicianship through the electronic keyboard. Ollie the hedgehog travels through the pages and answers questions asks quesions and generally helps to enhance the child's understanding. The books are written for use with any make of keyboard and are fully illustrated with pictures and diagrams.

This course is designed for beginning mandolin students. It teaches the fundamentals of mandolin chord strumming single-note melody picking and explains tablature. This method does not require any previous musical experience or note-reading ability. You will learn several well-known bluegrass songs in both strumming and picking styles. Includes free instructional booklet at http://www.melbay.com/Pages/About/DVD_Booklets.aspx. This Mandolin course is designed to teach the basics of mandolin to the beginner student with no playing experience of background in music.

For those eager to scorch the fretboard like Hendrix scales are an essential part of any guitarist's armoury. If you want to learn scales simply quickly and effectively then this handy pocket-sized book is just the thing for you. For those eager to scorch the fretboard like Hendrix scales are an essential part of any guitarist's armoury. If you want to learn scales simply quickly and effectively then this handy pocket-sized book is just the thing for you.

A Beginner Book For Viola-Viola Time Starters is a great beginner book for the budding viola player. Carefully paced to suit young learners it supports players through the important early stages step by step-from how to hold your instrument and bow through basic notation to exciting pieces in a range of styles. With plenty of entertaining illustrations and a CD to play along to with Viola Time it really is fun to play! Building on the success of the Viola Time series Viola Time Starters provides the best possible foundation for the budding string player. Carefully paced to suit young learners the book supports players through the important early stages step by step-from how to hold your instrument and bow through basic notation to pieces using the 1st 2nd and 3rd fingers. Packed with quizzes games and songs as well as colour illustrations to demonstrate each stage Viola Time Starters also includes a CD of performances and backing tracks to encourage and enhance progress throughout. The Starters books provide a thoroughpedagogical approach that supports the early years of learning up until the end of Joggers and the Starters and Joggers books work well when used in conjunction.

This is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is the methododically and carefully introduced. The method features Ron Wheeler's colorful cartoon artwork. Includes a DVD. DVD 31:00 minutes. This is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments tonumerous songs. Note reading is the methododically and carefully introduced. The method features Ron Wheeler's colorful cartoon artwork. Includes a DVD. DVD 31:00 minutes.

The best way to learn any instrument is to have lessons from a good experienced teacher. Although happily the number of such teachers is constantly growing the recorder is still frequently taught by enthusiastic but inexperienced teachers and many players start by teaching themselves.This series of books sets out to help learners of all ages in all three situations. Experienced teachers who may choose to disregard much of the text as personal demonstration is always clearer than the written word will find exercises and fine tunes a-plenty to support their own mathod at each stage. The less experienced willbenefit from many valuable teaching hints culled fromlong experience and may rely on the books to lead to a sound playing technique and a mastery of simple notation.Those learning by themseves - and I started in this way - are urged to work carefully and systematically through the books taking plenty of time to assimilate each point before moving on. For them without the personal model provided by a live teacher it is vitally important to listen as often as possible to fine players in person or on record so that they have in their mind's ear a clear notion of the kind of sound they would like to produce.But however they start I can only wish that all who use these books will derive as much pleasure and musical satisfaction and gain as many lasting and valued friendships as I have through this most subtle delightful and sociable of instruments. (Brian Bonsor)...this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken (Oliver James Contact Magazine)These two tutors with accompanying teacher's books are for newcomers to the instrument who are beginning on the treble and so assume no previous knowledge either of the instrument or of musical notation.

Tracing the history of blues guitar from Robert Johnson through Eric Clapton John Lee Hooker Stevie Ray Vaughan Jimi Hendrix Peter Green and many more Neville Marten explains each player's definitive playing techniques showing how to emulate their solos and develop their tricks to expand your own musical vocaulary. Playing styles personal trademarks and characteristics are explained and illustrated clearly in notation and tab as well as played in full on the CD. The CD includes two licks from each player a solo using those licks and finally a jam track which you can play along with eventually creating your own solo. A short biography of each player assessestheir historical position in the genre's development while the musical traditions from generation are examined.

John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph. For a while in his youth he played at country dances but mostly he just picked the guitar and banjo for his own amusement and his tastes ranged from the Piedmont blues of Blind Blake Josh White and Blind Boy Fuller to the hillbilly yodels of Jimmie Rodgers and an old-time banjo style that reached back to the 19th century. “I can play most anything I put my mind to if I want to ” he would say with a big smile. “Blues mountain hoedowns dance tunes... I don't get into soul or disco or rap music or nothing likethat but I ain't got anything against it; it just didn't come along when I did.” Jackson always seemed supremely relaxed and easy-going but under his friendly country manner he was an indefatigable worker. He recalled a time when musicians would walk twenty miles over dirt roads to get to a house party play till the wee hours of the morning then walk home and put in a full day on the farm and he kept numerous jobs – most famously as a grave digger – into his seventies. He was just as dedicated onstage an all-around entertainer who mixed his songs with jokes and stories and tried to give his audiences a sense not only of the music he loved but of the world that had produced it. That world is long gone but it lives on in the loping rhythms of Jackson's intricate guitar picking and the mellow flow of his honey-slow Virginia drawl. This is old-time back-porch country music played by a man who always seemed like he was just kicking back and enjoying himself with some friends but put all he had into every note. John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph. For a while in his youth he played at country dances but mostly he just picked the guitar and banjo for his own amusement and his tastes ranged from the Piedmont blues of Blind Blake Josh White and Blind Boy Fuller to the hillbilly yodels of Jimmie Rodgers and an old-time banjo style that reached back to the 19th century. “I can play most anything I put my mind to if I want to ” he would say with a big smile. “Blues mountain hoedowns dance tunes... I don't get into soul or disco or rap music or nothing likethat but I ain't got anything against it; it just didn't come along when I did.” Jackson always seemed supremely relaxed and easy-going but under his friendly country manner he was an indefatigable worker. He recalled a time when musicians would walk twenty miles over dirt roads to get to a house party play till the wee hours of the morning then walk home and put in a full day on the farm and he kept numerous jobs – most famously as a grave digger – into his seventies. He was just as dedicated onstage an all-around entertainer who mixed his songs with jokes and stories and

In Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar In DADGAD Sandy Shalk teaches five popular jazz standards in DADGAD tuning. Tunes are included by legendary jazz artists such as Thelonious Monk Miles Davis Billie Holiday Paul Desmond and David Brubeck. Each tune is performed taught phrase by phrase and played slowly in a split screen so you can follow the movement of each hand. Additionally background information is added for each tune as well as a discussion of how the DADGAD tuning is very adaptable for arranging jazz voicings. A tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD featuring each of the five arrangements. In Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar In DADGAD Sandy Shalk teaches five popular jazz standards in DADGAD tuning. Tunes are included by legendary jazz artists such as Thelonious Monk Miles Davis BillieHoliday Paul Desmond and David Brubeck. Each tune is performed taught phrase by phrase and played slowly in a split screen so you can follow the movement of each hand. Additionally background information is added foreach tune as well as a discussion of how the DADGAD tuning is very adaptable for arranging jazz voicings. A tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD featuring each of the five arrangements.

“Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player a fingerpicker a country flavored soloist - and he’s one of the finest players we’ve heard in years... His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense innatemusicianship unfailing human and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous loving touch... He’s a monster player with chops galore great ideas and anencyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences.” – Guitar Player Magazine Buster B. Jones is a master of hot fingerpicking guitar solos. He has combined his love for the styles and techniques of Chet Atkins JerryReed and Merle Travis to create an original and exciting approach for fingerstyle guitar. In this series of lessons Buster presents and teaches guitar solos that he plays in the woodshed as well as on stage. Eachinstrumental has evolved from its basic form to a complex arrangement featuring melodic variations chromatic rolls rhythmic licks and lyrical runs. These instrumentals will challenge the talents of any intermediate to advancedstudent.

Master Text II-Especially written for the college music major with a primary instrument other than piano or the college piano major who wants to develop functional skills at the keyboard. Best in a second year college class covering at least 2 semesters. A piano series for group or private instruction for the older beginner. Covers theory and technique repertoire and creative activities.

Doc's accompanists as well as his songs here are an eclectic group ranging from his 1950s musical partner pianist Jack Williams to his son Merle (seen playing exquisite slide guitar) to Rocky Skaggs (singing and playing mandolin in a Monroe Brothers style set) to a stellar stringband featuring Mark O'Connor Tony Rice Bela Fleck David Grisman and Jerry Douglas. This collection ends with a solo set from Doc which brings his music full circle to the straightforward simplicity with which it was first presented during the 1960s folk revival.

An excellent beginner's book that teaches simple chord strumming. This package also includes an instructional DVD featuring Joe Carr teaching simple chords strums and songs. An ideal beginner's course for guitarists of any age. An excellent beginner's book that teaches simple chord strumming. This package also includes an instructional DVD featuring Joe Carr teaching simple chords strums and songs. An ideal beginner's course for guitarists of any age.

2004 Edition-Recorder From The Beginning: Pupil's Book 1 (2004 Edition) is the full-colour revised edition of John Pitts ' best-selling recorder course. The eight extra pages in Book 1 have allowed for some new tunes and rounds whilst retaining the well-known favourites that have helped to make the scheme such an enduring success. This is the book we all learned from as children and is still successfully teaching today's youth how to play the Recorder. Composer and Author John Pitts tells us about his Recorder From The Beginning series of Recorder books: Recorder From The Beginning: Pupil's Book 1 (2004 Edition) is the full-colour revised edition of John Pitts ' best-selling recorder course. The eight extra pages in Book 1 have allowed for somenew tunes and rounds whilst retaining the well-known favourites that have helped to make the scheme such an enduring success. This is the book we all learned from as children and is still successfully teaching today'syouth how to play the Recorder. Composer and Author John Pitts tells us about his Recorder From The Beginning series of Recorder books:

Improvisation - Musicianship - Techniques- Since it was first published in 1992 The Jazz Method for Saxophone has guided thousands of beginners of all ages from producing their first note on the saxophone to the performance of full-blown jazz pieces including pieces by contemporary composers. Based on the tried and tested format of the original method (with step-by-step guidance and a number of pieces specially written for this series) the revised edition is packed with updated content. It also comes complete with exciting new tunes a re-recorded audio CD and over 2 hours of demo tracks available as free MP3 downloads. Now there is also a greater emphasis on the development of improvisational and listening skills.Thanks to additional suggestions for listening and reading as well as an appendix with all chord sequences for the 'live' accompaniment of the melodies the 'Jazz Methods' are ideal for both pupils studying by themselves and for pupils learning with a teacher.

The Bluesier Side of Jazz by Andrew D. Gordon was inspired by the Piano students he teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon Yumiko Yoko Eunice Sooji Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background (including himself) it is a difficult transition to learn to play Blues & Jazz. When a musician improvises they usually play a variety of riffs or phrases that they have developed and learnt over a period of time and can access these phrases instantaneously whatever key they are playing in to create a seamless improvised solo from the phrases they havelearnt. Andrew's idea for this book is to create phrases or riffs over two measures of various Blues progressions. He sub-divided each of the 12 Bar Blues progressions used in this book (the chord progression for Watermelon Man is a 16 measure progression) into six sections (two measures each) and within each of the six sections created four different phrases or riffs so that the student has a choice of four different phrases to play over every two measures. They can then create a solo based on which phrase they choose for each two measures. By breaking down these phrases to two measures each he has found that the students have an easier time of learning to improvise than by trying to transcribe a whole solo from an audio recording or leaving them to their own devices in trying to play a solo based on the Blues scale or other related scales. Each of the ten examples are based on common Jazz/Blues chord progressions from Jazz songs such as 'Watermelon Man' 'Blue Monk' 'Tenor Madness' 'Route 66' 'Blue Trane' 'Bag's Groove' starting off with basic I-IV-V chords and increasing in complexity throughout the book. There are over 200 phrases/riffs to choose from that can be learned and applied to many types of jazz songs.

Comprehensive Band Method-This is a comprehensive band method in 3 parts which combines a strong performance-centred approach with music theory music history ear training listening composition improvisation and interdisciplinary and multiculturalstudies. With full colour drawings and colour-coding of important text the series helps to motivate and inform across the full range of band instruments. This enhanced edition includes two CDs containing accompanimentrecordings and interactive Pyware assessment software. This unique music system will help to aid your progression by providing feedback and gradings for your performances based upon your accuracy and articulation. With iPAS it's like having a friendly teacher with you at all times!

In this highly entertaining Nativity Sheik Rattle and Roll are the names of the three wise men who tell the tale from their own perspective. A large cast list can include children as young as 5. With a wide variety of songstyles including a lullaby rock and roll and blues. Duration: 30 mins. You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.

Rolly Brown: Improvisation / An Interactive Approach (DVD) leads you through an organized approach to improvisation on the Guitar. Rolly Brown: Improvisation / An Interactive Approach(DVD) starts with Rolly 's Rule the notion that your guitar should recall aspects of the human voice the lesson takes an interactive approach to exploring several different genres of musicalimprovisation with Rolly playing instructive examples of these styles then playing rhythm while you work through the exercises.

Priestley & Fowler. Book 1 covers the first 15 notes on the descant recorder introducing each note with illustrations. Book 2 completes the study of the descant recorder then proceeds to teach the treble recorder. Easy pianoaccompaniments.