An outlined course of study designed to follow the elementary and intermediate levels of any instructional method the Rubank Advanced Methods are considered to be one of the gold standards of advanced instrumental study. Thespecially designed units provide a a complete pedagogy: Scales and Arpeggios All of the major and minor keys are covered in the complete two-book course Melodic Interpretation Including20+ contest level duets in each book Solo Preparation Six contest level solos included Articulation Studies Specialized for each instrument Exercises in Fingering (woodwinds) Flexibility (brass) and Sticking (percussion) Ornamentation All types are introduced Generations of musicians have been taught with Rubank methods - join the tradition!An outlined course of study designed to follow the elementary and intermediate levels of any instructional method the Rubank Advanced Methods are considered to be one of the gold standards of advanced instrumental study. Thespecially designed units provide a a complete pedagogy: Scales and Arpeggios All of the major and minor keys are covered in the complete two-book course Melodic Interpretation Including20+ contest level duets in each book Solo Preparation Six contest level solos included Articulation Studies Specialized for each instrument Exercises in Fingering (woodwinds) Flexibility (brass) and Sticking (percussion) Ornamentation All types are introduced Generations of musicians have been taught with Rubank methods - join the tradition!

Comprehensive band method- (Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000 ) Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy andengaging music all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learningenvironment as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship even at the beginning stages. Books 1 and 2 also include access to Essential Elements Interactive (EEi) the ultimate online music education resource - anywhere anytime and on any device. Go to www.essentialelementsinteractive.com to learn more! Method features: Enhanced Learning System Optimum Reinforced Learning Theory History Cross-Curriculum &Creativity Daily Warm-ups & Rubank Studies 12 Full Band Arrangements Rhythm Studies Book also includes My EE Library* (www.myeelibrary.com) - InstantStream/Download/CD-ROM* Start-up video Learn the basics Play-along mp3 tracks for all exercises Features a professional player on each individualinstrument Duets and trios Print and play parts with friends Music listening library Hear great pieces for band! * Internet access required for My EE Library .Book includes instructions to order free opt. CD-ROM. Now the best-selling band method is even better! Book 1 for absolute beginners includes a start-up video and much much more all on CD-ROM. Features: Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! 15-minute video/“super lesson” for learning the basics Play-along mp3* tracks for all 185 exercises (featuring a professional player on your instrument) Tempo Adjustment Software Duets and Trios Music Listening Library SmartMusic® Software for Exercises 1-100 (for use on PC/Mac) - practice record and email a performance with on-screen assessment

Here is a lesson that’s packed with dozens of time-tested musical phrases that will help you become a strong lead guitarist. Even beginners will be able to start playing hot licks over blues changes. As the phrases get more advanced you’ll start to use slides bends hammer-ons pull-offs and other techniques to increase your speed and dexterity. Each riff is played slowly and then at the speed to give you a feel for how it sounds in context. Jeff Pevar (currently playing guitar with David Crosby) joins Artie to demonstrate how two players jamming together would use these lead lines in blues progressions. Once you’ve got the basics down you’ll learn to put severalriffs together to create a complete blues solo. A demonstration of minor key jazz-blues phrases will round out your repertoire of licks and will allow you to create hot solos or jam on blues changes with your friends. This lesson will be of value both to beginners who want to get a jump on lead guitar as well as intermediate players who want to increase their knowledge of the fingerboard. Artie Traum has been a performer recording artist producer composer and session player for more than thirty years. His CD Letters From Joubee was #1 on the smooth jazz radio charts for six weeks. Artie has toured and recorded with his brother Happy Traum and has played guitar with The Band Livingston Taylor Tony Levin Michael Franks John Sebastian Sam Bush David Grisman and many other top recording artists. His recent recordings are on Narada and Roaring Stream Records. In addition to his busy concert and recording schedule Artie is a popular clinician for Taylor Guitars. Includes music and tab

ShowTrax CD-The magical ballad from Walt Disney's Pocahontas in a memorable choral arrangement patterned after Vanessa Williams' pop hit recording! Available: SATB SAB 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 4:00. The first track on this CD is the full performance for you to learn the song and sing along with. The second track is the accompaniment only perfect for performances and auditions.

This follow-up lesson to Mike Dowling's popular DVD brings a number of new slide techniques musical ideas and great songs to bottleneck blues enthusiasts. Mike calls it a grab bag toolbox of open tuning tricks and licks. Songs include: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor · Drop Down Mama · The Cuckoo · Railroad Bill · and Street Corner Rag. 100 MIN. · INCLUDES TAB · LEVEL 3 Nothing creates a sound quite like a bottleneck slide which is why it is used in everything from Delta blues to finger style folk tunes and even ragtime. All well-rounded guitarists need to know this style and Mike Dowling’s “Bottleneck - Blues And Beyond” is the best way we know to catch the spirit. On his accessible easy-to-comprehend follow-up lesson Mike Dowling teaches precision bottleneck techniques designed to broaden your repertoire textures and rhythms. Mike starts by teaching his unique version of Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor which uses a rumba beat in Open G tuning. His funky irrepressible Drop Down Mama is an absolute classic a fantasticlesson in syncopation and groove. From there try D minor tuning for a haunting vocal and guitar version of The Cuckoo. After some tips on Open D tuning Dowling launches into a study of his own tune Street Corner Rag. This fantastic piece includes finger picking syncopation and slide enhancements for a true tour-de-force of bottleneck guitar work. Along the way Mike tosses in many tips on how to use the slide as well as his alternating thumb for maximum effect. His “toolbox tips” on turnarounds strumming arranging a tune like “Railroad Bill” and what Mike calls “ornamentation” rounds out this powerful lesson.

Basic Method for Drumset-A continuation of the successful method Real Time Drums - Basic Method Level 1 in the same successful and practically orientated style of the first volume. The second book also presents nine complete chapters in which new percussion patterns rhythms and styles are introduced such as rock and funk paradiddles and ‘fitness exercises’ for drummers. Apart from the exercises and explanations the student will also find background information rehearsal suggestions guidelines for variations and fills and the encouragement to improvise.This is the continuation of the successful method Real Time Drums: Basic Method For Drumset - Level 1 by the experienced musician and composer Arjen Oosterhout who was a percussion teacher for many years. In the same successful and practically oriented style as the first volume this second book presents nine complete chapters in which new percussion patterns rhythms and styles are introduced including rock and funk paradiddles and 'fitness exercises' for drummers. Apart from the exercises and explanations the student will also find background information rehearsal suggestions guidelines for variations and fills and the encouragement to improvise.The CDs included with the method present all exercises twice once to listen to and once to play along with so you can put everything you have learned into practice immediately!

Roy Book Binder has given us another terrific look at his unique brand of fingerpicked blues guitar. On this DVD/video he covers the basics of open tunings and the use of the bottleneck teaching essential techniques in a way that will be easy even for newcomers to this style. Roy introduces beginning players to the slide through an exploration of open D (Vestapol) and open G (Spanish) tuning demonstrating songs licks techniques and the sounds of bottleneck blues. Songs: Never Drive a Stranger from Your Door · Cigarette Blues · Electricity · Palm Trees Shaking in the Night · She Did You a Favor · Baby Don't You Do It No More · Tired of Being Mistreated. 80-MIN. DVD ORVIDEO · LEVEL 2 · INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB DVD tutor pack of essential techniques for slide guitar taught by Roy Book Binder. Lovers of acoustic blues guitar will find a wealth of songs licks and invaluable techniques on this fabulous introduction to open tunings and bottleneck style.

They listen to your song and you cough loudly every time that lame drum fill comes up. You wish you'd taken a drum programming course but well.. Professionals across many different genres including leading sound designer DavePolich provide hands-on tips and reveal industry secrets about programming drums using the latest beat generators from hardware drum machines to plug-in applications to plain old MIDI keyboards and DAWs. Drum ProgrammingSecrets gives you the inside track on programming drums: how to set up your drum sounds on a keyboard how to input the basic material how to use both simple and advanced editing techniques plus finger-by-finger instructionand insights into a whole range of different drum styles from rock to world dance funk and much more. Cough no more.They listen to your song and you cough loudly every time that lame drum fill comes up. You wish you'd taken a drum programming course but well.. Professionals across many different genres including leading sound designer DavePolich provide hands-on tips and reveal industry secrets about programming drums using the latest beat generators from hardware drum machines to plug-in applications to plain old MIDI keyboards and DAWs. Drum ProgrammingSecrets gives you the inside track on programming drums: how to set up your drum sounds on a keyboard how to input the basic material how to use both simple and advanced editing techniques plus finger-by-fingerinstructionand insights into a whole range of different drum styles from rock to world dance funk and much more. Cough no more.

DVD-Frederic Hand one of the world's top players brings the beauty and romance of the classical guitar to any player who has a familiarity with the fingerboard and some basic classical technique. He teaches seven well-known and beloved student pieces demonstrating correct technique and other invaluable pointers. Includes three Italian lute pieces (Vaghe Belleze Bianco Fiore Danza) plus Bach's Sarabande Sor's Study in B Minor Tarrega's Adelita and Fred Hand's own distinguished arrangement of the traditional Shaker hymn Simple Gifts. 75 MIN. INCLUDES MUSIC LEVEL 3The beauty and romance of the classical guitar is brought home in this enjoyable lesson with one of the world's top players. Frederic Hand teaches gorgeous music that is within the reach of any guitarist who has a familiarity with the fingerboard and some basic classical technique.

Jazz Play-Along Vol.28-8 more classic compositions for all musicians wishing to find out what it's all about. Includes the historical Giant Steps. Coltrane could also cook on a simple straight-ahead blues as evidenced in this set. The rhythm section provides the perfect rhythmic feel for each tune and weaves a beautiful harmonic fabric for you to play along with. Eight more classic compositions for all musicians wishing to find out what 'it’s all about' including the historical Giant Steps. Coltrane could also 'cook' on a simple straight-ahead blues as evidenced in this set. The ryhthm section provides the perfect rhythmic feel for each tune and weaves a beautiful harmonic fabric for you to play along with. The great rhythm section includes Harold Mabern piano; Ron Carter bass; and Adam Nussbaum drums.

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Jazz Play-Along Vol.64-Finally an authentic collection of Salsa/ Latin favorites. Complete with syncopations voicings and bass figures guaranteed to make you play in whole new ways and expand your musical awareness. There is no drum set on this recording! The percussion is purely Latin/American and the rhythm section is tight! This is like no other Play-A-Long in the series! Finally an authentic collection of Salsa/Latin favorites with syncopations voicings and bass figures guaranteed to make you play in whole new ways and expand your musical awareness. There is no drum set on this recording! All the percussion is purely Latin/American and the rhythm section is tight! Be sure to check this one out. It’s like no other play-a-long in the series. Rhythm section is Mark Levine-Piano; David Belove–Bass; John Santos-Timbales and miscellaneous percussion; Harold Muniz-Congas and miscellaneous percussion.

Super Studies brings this series to a close with 26 more advanced studies which introduce such things as double and triple tonguing lip flexibility breath control and finger strength. By the time you have mastered the studies in this book you will be a ready to face any advanced solo work.

Charles Dancla is considered one of the last great representatives of the French School of Violin. These 36 Études Mélodiques Et Très Faciles are idea practice pieces for beginners that are both musical and educational at the same time. These 36 Études are practical and enjoyable making them beneficial to students as well as being highly pleasing to the ear.

In every band or ensemble the drummer is called upon to give that group a solid rhythmic foundation. Therefore it is important that every drummer has excellent music reading skills. The goal of this book is to first introduce basic music reading skills and then to explore many of the most common syncopation rhythms found in today's music.

60 Progressive Duets for Clarinets-The early stages of learning any instrument are undoubtedly the most important. A good teacher is of course essential but it is also vital to have stimulating pieces to play which complement your choice of teaching method and are carefully tailored to introduce learning and playing skills in a structured manner. As in the book of Starter Studies the duets in Starter Duets introduce new musical elements in a logical order to facilitate the speedy growth of the „complete musician“ with the obvious benefit of allowing teacher and student (or two students) to play together and therefore experience the benefits of ensemble playing in the learning process. Award-winning composer Philip Sparke presents Starter Duets a collection of his delightful original compositions. This title aims to introduce new musical elements in a logical order to help facilitate the speedy growth of the complete musician. Teacher and student - or two students - can perform together and experience the benefits of ensemble playing early in the learning process. Arranged for the Clarinet.

In three books Lucien Thévet (1914-2007) a virtuoso Horn player of his day provides 148 pages of detailed and progressive studies and exercises for the Horn. The first volume of Méthode Complète de Cor is essential to all Horn players seeking to improve their technique on the instrument. Thévet 's book focuses on elements including timbre fingering breathing sound production holding the instrument intervals articulation and notes values among other musical aspects. Moreover Méthode Complète de Cor also contains 125 exercises and suggestions on how to organise practice. Significantly Méthode Complète de Cor first seeks to address tube-lengths fingering combinationsand tuning-slides so that when the student progresses to Horn notation the sound is not lost. With notes in French English German and Spanish this Thévet book is versatile and crucial to the progress of any Horn player. In three books Lucien Thévet (1914-2007) a virtuoso Horn player of his day provides 148 pages of detailed and progressive studies and exercises for the Horn. The first volume of Méthode Complète de Cor is essential to all Horn players seeking to improve their technique on the instrument. Thévet 's book focuses on elements including timbre fingering breathing sound production holding the instrument intervals articulation and notes values among other musical aspects. Moreover Méthode Complète de Cor also contains 125 exercises and suggestions on how toorganise practice. Significantly Méthode Complète de Cor first seeks to address tube-lengths fingering combinations and tuning-slides so that when the student progresses to Horn notation the sound is not lost. With notes in French English German and Spanish this Thévet book is versatile and crucial to the progress of any Horn player.

Jazz Play-Along Vol.27-8 Favorite jazz classics from one of the most innovative and influential jazz artists in history the great John Coltrane. Includes the haunting ballad Naima. Coltrane's compositions explored many new frontiers and opened up new harmonic doors for all who followed. The crisp tight rhythm section adds much enjoyment to this unique Play-A-Long. Eight favorite jazz classics from one of the most innovative and influential jazz artists in history the great John Coltrane including the haunting ballad Naima. Coltrane’s compositions explored many new frontiers and opened up new harmonic doors for all who followed. The crisp tight rhythm section adds much enjoyment to this unique play-a-long.

This interactive method from Salvador Dominguez presents all the techniques and essential resources that an Electric Guitarist needs as well as how to use them to make music. The book takes you from the parts of the Guitar to your first chords scales and tunes. The accompanying audio download features audio demonstrations of many of the exercises.

This second edition of Music Theory For Young Musicians - Grade 2 brings the practice exercises and examples in the text up to date with the latest ABRSM exam requirements. It also includes many clarifications that update the presentation of the ideas and concepts in the book and thus improve its logical flow: It adds a specimen test in the exam format and provides a set of revision notes on the key areas. All exercises and examples have been revised and many new exercise drills have been added. Concept explanations have been simplified for greater ease of understanding. The book's layout has been made clearer byputting the main text against a white background. Additionally a background colour has been given to each information note to make it more visually inviting.