Book 1 with TAB- Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1 with TAB is a comprehensive lesson by lesson introduction to the Guitar. Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1 with TAB covers notes on all six strings reading music and tablature picking technique and basic music theory. Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1 with TAB icorporates well known traditional Pop/Rock Folk and Blues songs.

Dave Van Ronk's DVD lesson spans a wide variety of exciting and powerful music. The blues of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell the 'old fashioned' picking of Rev. Gary Davis the ragtime bounce of Blind Blake the sophisticatedblues of Brownie McGhee the country blues of Jim Jackson a children's ring song and a Van Ronk original all receive the unique Dave Van Ronk treatment. Each arrangement is discussed and explained in detail. This is acomplete lesson for the intermediate guitarist that clearly illustrates how traditional music can be placed in a fingerstyle setting. Titles include: Green Green Rocky Road Kansas City Blues Sportin' Life Blues Sunday Street Spike Driver's Moan That Will Never Happen No More Midnight Hour Blues Cocaine Blues and Down South Blues .

Internationally renowned authors musicians and recording artists Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon of The Super Groovers have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians. After releasing their first CD 'Supergroovin' which received world wide airplay they recognized a need in the music publishing business for a series of books on contemporary improvising within the 'Smooth Jazz' genre. Andrew composed and recorded all the rhythm tracks used in this book. In their opinion the melodies were so catchy theycouldn't resist developing them into completed songs. Mainline Connection Villefranche-sur-Mer and You're The Only One In My Life are a few featured on their second CD Mainline Connection . The smooth jazz grooves in this 50 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R&B Jazz Funk Top 40 Rock Gospel Hip Hop and Latin. Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My favourites so far are track 1 2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!! Thank you for making the book :)

A thorough easily understood workbook of basic music fundamentals. Includes many examples and exercises as well as an excellent section on harmony. Designed for individual group study. A good supplement to any basic method and a valuable text for any music student. A thorough easily understood workbook of basic music fundamentals. Includes many examples and exercises as well as an excellent section on harmony. Designed for individual group study. A good supplement to any basic method and avaluable text for any music student.

Discover the very roots of modern Rock n' Roll with over an hour of Rockabilly guitar magic. The combination of electric Blues country Blues Travis fingerpicking and Boogie Woogie rhythms remains as potent as ever. In this DVDFred Sokolow introduces the licks and techniques that have made the recordings of Carl Perkins Eddie Cochrane and Chuck Berry so distinctive. By the end of this lesson you will know how to play... Boogie Woogie backuplicks Turnarounds Blues/Rock licks in the classic Blues key of E Moveable Blues/Rock scales Fingerpicking patterns and a host of riffs from the best Rockabilly stars including Buddy Holly andScotty Moore.

Supplementary Songbook A-A carefully graded collection of 28 additional songs cross referenced to the lessons in Progressive Guitar Method for Young Beginners Book 2. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full color. Songs include: Twinkle Twinkle LittleStar On Top of Old Smokey Skip To My Lou The William Tell Overture Michael Row The Boat Ashore London's Burning and many more.

Blind Boy Fuller recorded his unique brand of country blues from 1935 to 1940. His playing is chock-full of both wit and soulfulness. His guitar arrangements are strikingly original and make perfect use of the sound of theNational Steel guitar which he used on the majority of his recordings. He is best known for his classic tune Truckin’ My Blues Away a standard that has been recorded and performed by generations of blues and rockguitarists. This DVD gives a fully-detailed presentation of Blind Boy Fuller’s intricate guitar work on six of his best and best-known recordings.

This course is designed for the beginning guitarist who wants to start playing the blues. No note-reading ability is required in this course but a basic knowledge of open and barre chords is necessary. These types of chords are taught in Mel Bay’s Anyone Can Play Guitar Vol. 1 and 2. This video will teach you new chords and chord progressions as applied to blues music. You will learn blues techniques licks and scales that will enable you to perform complete blues Guitar solos. Also included are rhythm tricks so you can practice your chords and licks with a complete blues band. This course is designed for the beginning guitarist who wants to start playing the blues. No note-reading ability is required in this course but a basic knowledge of open and barre chords is necessary. These types of chordsare taught in Mel Bay’s Anyone Can Play Guitar Vol. 1 and 2. This video will teach you new chords and chord progressions as applied to blues music. You will learn blues techniques licks and scales that will enable you toperform complete blues Guitar solos. Also included are rhythm tricks so you can practice your chords and licks with a complete blues band.

A showcase performance featuring the Hindustani Classical music of North India and one of its most popular and respected guitarists - Debashish Bhattacharya. In recent times the slide guitar has become an important addition to the Indian music with its uncanny knack for approximating the nuances of the human voice. The improvisatory possibilities of the guitar are very well suited to the raga and tala systems of the Hindustani tradition and Debashish Bhattacharya has become one of India's leading concert guitarists. In this special concert presentation Bhattacharya is accompanied by tabla master Kumer Bose in a performance that captures both the subtlety andastonishing virtuosity inherent in the Hindustani tradition. His guitar is modified with sympathetic resonant strings and the occasion takes place at Max Muller Bhawan one of Calcutta's best known concert halls.

Teach yourself how to play Guitar with Progressive Beginner Guitar . Progressive Beginner Guitar covers the important techniques required to learn to play the Guitar including notes chords and rhythms. Suitable for all ages and all Guitar types including acoustic and electric. Progressive Beginner Guitar includes 60 exercises chord progressions and popular easy songs forbeginners in rock country folk blues and pop styles. Also includes basic music theory as it applies to the Guitar including key signatures time signatures sharps and flats ties rests and major scales. In fullcolour throughout with photos diagrams and easy-to-read Guitar music for beginners Guitar chords for beginners and easy Guitar tabs for beginners. Comes with 1 access to online media containing Guitar videos and audio forall examples. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing Guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play Guitar from this book. Includes free poster.

A technique book for the intermediate player which follows on from skills introduced in Creative Saxophone and Creative Saxophone Duets and may be used alongside Creative Saxophone Improvising. The workbook focuses on specific techniques which with regular practice will give the student the confidence fluency and freedom to realize their full potential in performance and improvisation. BL Introduces essential techniques for the intermediate soloist BL Builds confidence and fluency in performance and improvisation BL Covers harmonics vibrato alternative and altissimo fingerings BL Provides interesting and effective ways to practise modes scales and arpeggios BL Developsimprovisation skills through focusing on patterns cycle of 5ths the II-V-I and transcription BL CD with live expert demonstrations and inspirational backings for the play-along pieces and many of the exercises: includes versions for alto and tenor instruments Creative Saxophone is an innovative series for the beginner Alto or Tenor Saxophonist who wants to play Jazz Rock and other contemporary music styles whilst developing a solid technique. The idiomatic exercises and pieces encourage an awareness of authentic styles and give players the confidence to begin improvising from as early as possible. An accompanying CD features backings for many of the pieces performed by world-class musicians giving the student an opportunity to experience playing against a real band. Introduces essential techniques Builds confidence and fluency in performance and improvisation Harmonics vibrato alternative andaltissimo fingerings all covered Provides interesting and effective ways gto practice scales modes and arpeggios Develops improvisation skills through focusing on patterns cycle of fifths II-V-I and transcription

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop- Many southern blues musicians performed and recorded gospel songs; spirituals or church songs as they were called. Some like Blind Willie Johnson and Edward W. Clayborn strictly adhered to a religious message earning them the handle 'guitar evangelists' while others like Fred McDowell and Charlie Patton blurred the socially imposed lines and mingled gospel with the blues. In this anthology of Bottleneck Gospel Guitar Tom Feldmann highlights the fervent and aggressive slide playing of Fred McDowell Robert Wilkins Muddy Waters Bukka White Blind Willie Johnson Edward W. Clayborn and Charlie Patton. Each player offers a distinct style and Tom breaks down theirtechniques allowing you to imitate the masters as well as build a repertoire of classic bottleneck gospel blues. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original old recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles include: OPEN D TUNING: FRED McDOWELL Jesus Is On The Mainline • ROBERT WILKINS Wished I Was In Heaven • MUDDY WATERS Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You • BUKKA WHITE I Am In The Heavenly Way • BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON It's Nobody's Fault But Mine • BLIND WILLIE McTELL I Got To Cross That River of Jordan OPEN G TUNING: EDWARD W. CLAYBORN Gospel Train Is Coming and There'll Be Glory • CHARLIE PATTON Lord I'm Discouraged and I'm Going Home

The quintessential tutorial to get you started in the complex but satisfying world of Jazz guitar. Fred Sokolow gives you all the basics you will need including chords scales licks and theory to get started playing Jazzstraight away. In this 75 minute lesson you will learn: Chord construction and chord types Scalewise progressions and how to use them The Circle-of-fifths how to recognise and use it Comping chords and singlenote solos Improvising with scale and chord-based licks How to recognise and solo over the II-V-I progression.

Based on historical fact this refreshing musical takes place in Austria and tells how the carol Silent Night came to be written. As winter closes in Barny the church mouse chews the organ bellows to curb his hunger. When theorgan no longer plays all the notes Barny fears that he has spoilt Christmas for the villagers but there is a way round the problem! This work contains songs dance narration and dialogue and is suitable for perormance inchurch or school. There is a lagre cast list with four principal characters plus narrator. You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.

This Restoration musical featuring twelve lively new songs takes us back in history and recalls with humour the hardships and experiences during the Restoration of Charles II the Bubonic Plague and the Great Fire of London. Asuperb way to make history come alive for children. You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for moreinformation and our application form.

As the Country Blues began to be recorded in the mid-1920s it soon became apparent that the music was being played and appreciated not only by African-American musicians and audiences but by white musicians and audiences as well. Many of these white musicians played with and learned from black musicians for even in the Jim Crow Era there was always a good deal of musical interaction and exchange. So it is that the term 'Hillbilly Blues' can be used to describe the music made by white musicians of that era in the Country Blues style. Included on this DVD are songs from Clarence Greene known mostly as a fiddler but an ace guitarist Dick Justice who in his one dayin the recording studio waxed ten masterful performances Frank Hutchison who excelled at lap slide harmonica on a rack and conventional blues picking Sam McGee a banjo and guitar master who went on to star on the Grand Ole Opry Hobart Smith a musical powerhouse Maybelle Carter a rocksteady and beautifully lyrical player who may have been the most influential of the bunch and Emry Arthur a soulful singer and player who recorded one of the earliest versions of Man Of Constant Sorrow. The songs selected for inclusion on the DVD have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different keys and playing positions as well as a host of different right hand techniques. A PDF included on the DVD offers not only detailed transcriptions of the songs but the songs' lyrics too. All of the original performances by the musicians are included on the DVD as bonus tracks both as references and for your listening enjoyment.

Trombone B.C.-Following the huge success of their instrumental method Look Listen & Learn Michiel Oldenkamp and Jaap Kastelein have focussed their attention on school bands and devised a completely new method that can be used in both instrumental lessons and class bands or wind ensembles. Learning Music Together is the new method for young wind players and percussionists aged eight and above. Learning Music Together has been developed in close collaboration with professionals from the class band world music schools and academies in the Netherlands and Germany. Learning Music Together combines instrumental lessons with a course for class band. The trombone lessons offer trombone -specific items such as new notes and technical exercises while at the same time supporting the learning of the class band with a focus on rhythm melodic structure and playing music together. The method consists of two volumes. Volume One introduces the first instrumental notes in unison and then develops part-playing with duets. Volume Two builds on the skills taught in the first volume and introduces pieces in three parts.In addition supplementary material is available on the extensive website e.g. demo- and accompaniment tracks for all pieces additional pieces of music (well-known songs) and video tutorials. Learning Music Together is logically structured and illustrated in a child-friendly way - a perfect combination for young musicians! Following the great success of Look Listen & Learn Michiel Oldenkamp and Jaap Kastelein are now focussing their attention on teaching material that can be used in both instrumental lessons and the class band or wind ensemble. They have developed in close collaboration with professionals from the class band scene music schools and academies in the Netherlands and Germany a completely new method for young wind players and percussionists aged eight and above. Learning Music Together is a combined method for instrumental lessons and class bands. Instrumental technique is introduced and developed in the student books and this supports thelearning pathway for the class band. The emphasis in the class band pieces is on playing together group dynamics general musical education and having fun making music together. Integrating these two components produces the complete method. The extensive website offers all kinds of supplementary materials such as demos and accompaniment tracks for all pieces additional playing material and instructional videos. The logical structure with carefully planned skill progression and child-friendly layout ensures that this method will prove to be motivating for students teachers and conductors.

from Grease-Best known as the exciting finale from the movie Grease this rollicking '50s novelty is made for choreography! Available: SATB SAB SSA 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:20. (from Grease). Best known as the exciting finale from the movie Grease this rollicking '50s novelty is made for choreography! Available: SATB SAB SSA 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:20.

Jody Stecher has long been America’s least generic flatpicker. From the teenage hotshot who won the 1966 World’s Champion Flatpicking Cup at Union Grove North Carolina to the mature and reflective artist who was twice Grammynominated in the 1990s Jody has always played his own style. Here he presents the technical nuts and bolts for you to make your own personal style. This lesson is both a roadmap of Jody’s development as a flatpickingguitarist of mostly American vernacular music and a guide to how any flatpicker can expand their expressive technique. Think of it as “Flatpicking According to Jody”. It’s a graded course starting with basics in whichthe technical relationship between fingerpicking and flatpicking is made clear. The first few pieces are great songs with memorable melodies but minimal fingering so that right hand fundamentals can be mastered. Witheach new tune more techniques are introduced and more of the fingerboard is used both horizontally and vertically. The second half of the lesson is purely instrumental music and the tunes are more complex. Titlesinclude: Carter’s Blues It’s Hard To Love I Got A Bulldog Leake County Blues Arkansas Traveler The Dawn and The Ship in Full Sail.

Improvisation - Musicianship - Techniques- These methods provide complete courses for players off all ages guiding students from their first note to 'classics' together with compositions by contemporary writers.Each book is accompanied by high quality rhythm section tracks recorded on compact disc. Right from the start students can enjoy authentic jazz sounds playing in the company of professionals.With step-by-step instruction and a progression of specially written pieces the fundamental elements of good technique are introduced alongside the rhythmic subtleties of jazz. Improvisation is encouraged from an early stage and is given direction through the systematic study of scales and arpeggios and advice onear-training and chord patterns. With supplementary suggestions for listening and reading and an Appendix containing all the chord progressions for 'live' accompaniment of the tunes The Jazz Methods are ideally suited to both students working alone and those learning with a teacher.John O'Neill has a solid understanding of jazz and how it can be taught. I highly recommend his educational jazz materials. (Jamey Aebersold)...a rare opportunity for a new player (or a more experienced one) to develop a really musical facility. A rare addition to the jazz improvising library. (Lee Konitz international jazz saxophone soloist)The Saxophone is for many the instrument of jazz and there is an enormous and exciting repertoire waiting to be explored by newcomers to the instrument. The Jazz Method for Saxophone will guide beginners of all ages from producing their first note on the saxophone to the performance of full-blown jazz pieces including classics by Thelonious Monk Charlie Parker Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver as well as contributions from leading contemporary jazz players and composers. Backing for all the music-specially recorded for this method is provided on the accompanying CD so that right from the start student saxophonists can enjoy an authentic jazz sound playing in the company of a top-class rhythm section (bass guitar drums) used