Veteran blues guitarist Mary Flower gives novices all the necessary playing tools to jump-start their slide playing while experienced guitarists will be delighted by the more challenging techniques and powerful songs. Playing in open D (DADF#AD) provides rich ringing sounds and open access to the full slide guitar experience. Songs: Baby Please Don't Go • Boogie Woogie Dance • Swing Low Sweet Chariot • Green Onions Groove • Death Letter Blues. INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • LEVEL 3 • 1 HOUR

This new series from Paul Harris builds on his previous series' Improve your Scales and Improve your Sight-reading . The book begins by encouraging students to plan their practice sessions starting with warm-ups and then giving tips on how to 'explore a piece'. This book will encourage children to think about different aspects of their music as they play giving them a better musical understanding of their pieces and to encourage independent thought and exploration.

Full drum set studies for the modern drummer.

Just like Book 1 Book 2 of The Hal Leonard Mandolin Method is designed for anyone just learning to play mandolin. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside. The tracks provide an audio demonstration of each example in the book performed by the author. Topics covered include: modes and scales · time signatures · transposing · fretboard positions · solos and duets · styles spanning blues bluegrass Celtic ragtime and more! Just like Book 1 Book 2 of The Hal Leonard Mandolin Method is designed for anyone just learning to play Mandolin. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside. The tracks provide an audio demonstration of each example in the book performed by the author. Topics covered include: modes and scales time signatures transposing fretboard positions solos and duets styles spanning blues bluegrass Celtic ragtime and more!

The renewed popularity of the mighty uke has swept the world in recent years and Homespun has been right there with instruction from some of the best players in the business. This compilation takes a learning ukulele player from the easiest beginner's songs to more advanced blues ragtime pop standards and authentic Hawaiian music. Songs include: Home on the Range - Goin' Up the Country - Shady Grove - Avalon - That Hawaiian Melody - and more. 1 HR. - INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDFThe renewed popularity of the 'mighty uke' has swept the world in recent years and Homespun has been right there with instruction from some of the best players in the business. This compilation takes a learning ukulele player from the easiest beginner's songs to more advanced blues ragtime pop standards and authentic Hawaiian music. Songs include: Home on the Range • Goin' Up the Country • Shady Grove • Avalon • That Hawaiian Melody • and more. 1 HR. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF

Essential Tones Rhythms & Grooves-Learn to play djembe! This hands-on workshop will help you produce a good sound play with healthy technique and learn the essential concepts sounds and rhythms of West African djembe drumming. Extensive play-along online videos will help youpractice every technique in the context of a traditional African djembe ensemble. Teaches: correct effective djembe playing technique and posture; three fundamental sounds of the djembe: bass slap and tone; exercises and play-along videos to helpyou develop good tone facility and memorize essential rhythms and their variations; traditional djembe rhythms from different regions: Sofa Dundungbe Soli Guinea Fare Kuku Mane and Sinte; notated djembe ensemble parts including for djembesand dunduns; techniques for soloing; historical regional and traditional cultural conext of the djembe; how to tune maintain and care for your djembe; and more! Video clips are accessed online using the unique code in each book. Learn to play the Djembe. This complete method by Michael Markus will teach you how to produce a good sound develop a healthy technique and learn the essential concepts sounds and rhythms of West African Djembe drumming. This hands-on workshop includes access to extensive play-along online videos that will help you to practice every technique in the context of a traditional African Djembe ensemble. Beginning Djembe teaches: correct effective Djembe playing technique and posture; how to tune maintain and care for your Djembe; three fundamental sounds of the Djembe: bass slap and tone; exercises and play-along videos to helpyou develop good tone facility and memorize essential rhythms and their variations; historical regional and traditional cultural context of the Djembe; traditional Djembe rhythms from different regions: Sofa Dundungbe Soli Guinea Fare Kuku Mane and Sinte; notated Djembe ensemble parts including for Djembes and Dunduns; techniques for soloing; and more! Video clips are accessed online using the unique code in each book.

The Boy's Changing Voice features 20 selections of art songs and folksong arrangements with a limited vocal range of one octave chosen especially for the adolescent boy's voice during its change from a higher treble register. The complete range of the book falls between the F below middle C to the G above middle C. In addition to Piano accompaniments playable on both your CD player and computer the included enhanced CD also includes tempo adjustment and transposition software for CD-ROM computer use. The Boy's Changing Voice features 20 selections of art songs and folksong arrangements with a limited vocal range of one octave chosen especially for the adolescent boy's voice during its change from a higher treble register. The complete range of the book falls between the F below middle C to the G above middle C. In addition to Piano accompaniments playable on both your CD player and computer the included enhanced CD also includes tempo adjustment and transposition software for CD-ROM computer use.

Frigyes Sándor (1905-1979) violinist teacher and conductor. His six-volume Violin tutor was published between 1949 and 1959 and has remained popular ever since. One reason for its popularity - in addition to its methodological concept – may be the fact that from the very beginning learners are given high quality musical material on which to master the basic elements of violin playing. The musical material in the volumes was written specifically for this tutor by Pál Járdányi and Endre Szervánszky: apart from pieces designed for pedagogical purposes it includes a wealth of folk tunes (Hungarian and other European folk melodies) graded to suit each level of difficulty andexcerpts representing different periods in the history of music. Method for solo Violin in English German and French.

Taught By John Miller-Elizabeth Cotten occupies a unique niche in American finger-picked guitar her beautifully flowing style married with her exceptional attention to details of phrasing and voice leading. There is a strong improvisational element to her style and different renditions of the same song can often sound suprisingly dissimilar. This DVD includes rare film footage of Elizabeth Cotten performing all the songs that are taught ably by guitar legend John Miller. The accompanying booklet includes TAB/standard notation transcriptions and the lyricsof the songs. Click Here to view and download the booklet.

Does the very thought of the dreaded aural test fill you with fear? Does nothing seem as bad as being put on the spot having to recognise discordant intervals and singing back melodies that are simply too long to remember? Having a good ear is vital to becoming a successful musician and Improve Your Aural! is here to help develop your musicianship in easy graded stages. Through fun listening activities boxes to fill in and practice exercises this workbook and CD focus directly on all those key skills you need. You'll be singing clapping playing your instrument writing down music improvising and composing - as well as securing thatvital pass in the aural section of your grade exams.

Improve Your Sight-Reading! Grade 2 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally going solo' with a series of meticulously-graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition has been completely re-written with new exercises and pieces to support the Associated Board's new sight-reading requirements from 2009. Improve YourSight-Reading! will help you improve your reading ability and with numerous practice tests included will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

Firing Up Your Technique-This book will give you a complete rock piano workout ? in both modern and classic styles! You'll develop your rhythmic feel dexterity hand coordination and voicing skills as you work through the fun authentic examples. These pieces will help you use your rock piano technique in a musical stylistically effective way. Each music sample is recorded at several tempos so you can choose the one that's right for you as you play along with the rock rhythm section on the CD. This book will give you a complete rock piano workout – in both modern and classic styles! You'll develop your rhythmic feel dexterity hand coordination and voicing skills as you work through the fun authentic examples. These pieces will help you use your rock piano technique in a musical stylistically effective way. Each music sample is recorded at several tempos so you can choose the one that's right for you as you play along with the rock rhythm section on the CD.

Here are 10 hit songs tabbed for beginning guitarists to play while they are working through the Hal Leonard Bass Tab Method or any other guitar method. The songs are all on facing pages for no page turns and the CD features both examples of howthe guitar should sound and full-band backing tracks so students can play the lead! The CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the tempo without changing the pitch! The songs include: Beverly Hills • Born Under a Bad Sign • Brown Eyed Girl • Crazy Train • Hey Joe • I Wont Back Down • Smoke on the Water • Stir It Up • Use Somebody • You Are the Sunshine of My Life. The Bass Tab Method Songbook 1 features 10 hit songs tabbed for Bass players at a beginner’s level. Designed for ease-of use all of the songs in Bass Tab Method Songbook 1 are on facing pages so learners need not worry about having to turn the pages whilst playing. This songbook comes complete with a CD of backing tracks to play along to as well as recorded examples- allowing learners to hear how the songs should sound. The Bass Tab Method Songbook 1 includes the hits Brown Eyed Girl Use Somebody You Are The Sunshine Of My Life and more.

This book brings Billy Taylor's diverse piano-playing styles to life via technical analyses of be-bop boogie-woogie Dixieland and mambo. Learn authentic playing through studies in rhythm melody harmony and improv as well as several complete Billy Taylor solos. This book brings Billy Taylor's diverse piano-playing styles to life via technical analyses of be-bop boogie-woogie Dixieland and mambo. Learn authentic playing through studies in rhythm melody harmony and improv as well as several complete Billy Taylor solos.

The Complete Guide with Audio!-This comprehensive book and CD package will teach you all the basic skills needed to become a true master of the Jazz-Blues style. From comping to soloing you'll learn the theory the tools and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band including a chapter of complete songs! Lessons include: Scales and chords Harmony and voicings Progressions and comping Melodies and soloing Characteristic stylings This comprehensive book and audio package will teach you all the basic skills needed to become a true master of the Jazz-Blues style. From comping to soloing you'll learn the theory the tools and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying audio features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band including a chapter of complete songs! Lessons include: Scales and chords Harmony and voicings Progressions and comping Melodies and soloing Characteristic stylings

Do you play the keyboards in your sleep? Do you dream in black and white? Do you love the smell of a freshly opened instrument case? Do you live for the feel of the keys beneath your fingers? If you answered in the affirmative to one or more of these questions then read on brave musical warrior! All you seek is here: the history the tricks the stops the patches the plays the holds the fingering the dynamics the exercises the magic. Everything you always wanted to know about keyboards all in one amazing key-centric compendium. Stop searching you have found the source! Read listen then go forth and rock! Do you play the keyboards in your sleep? Do you dream in black and white? Do you love the smell of a freshly opened instrument case? Do you live for the feel of the keys beneath your fingers? If you answered in the affirmative to one or more of these questions then read on brave musical warrior! All you seek is here: the history the tricks the stops the patches the plays the holds the fingering the dynamics the exercises the magic. Everything you always wanted to know about keyboards all in one amazing key-centric compendium. Stop searching you have found the source! Read listen then go forth and rock!

Method and Solos for Jump Blues Guitar 2-DVD Set-Cult figure rock & roll legend and music writer Cub Koda defined jump blues as an up-tempo jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s. Usually featuring a vocalist in front of alarge horn-driven orchestra or medium sized combo with multiple horns the style is earmarked by a driving rhythm intensely shouted vocals and honking tenor saxophone solos - all of those very elements a precursor to rock& roll. The lyrics are almost always celebratory in nature full of braggadocio and swagger. This 2-DVD set is presented as a methodology covering theory comping accompanist riffs horn lines arranged for guitar andseveral approaches for soloing drilling down on many approaches for opening up the neck for the scales arps and riffs that are employed in swing and Jump Blues guitar. It also ices the cake with 12 tasty solos followed byin-depth analysis of several jump blues giants such as Brian Setzer T-Bone Walker Charlie Christian Gatemouth Brown and Freddie King all of whom have their own signature sound. Accompanying vocalists and soloists is a big partof the style and is as challenging and rewarding as soloing. A sizable chunk of these DVDs are dedicated to voicings pulling off various rhythms and locking up with the rhythm section. 182 minutes.Cult figure rock & roll legend and music writer Cub Koda defined jump blues as 'an up-tempo jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s. Usually featuring a vocalist in front of a large horn-driven orchestra or medium sized combo with multiple horns the style is earmarked by a driving rhythm intensely shouted vocals and honking tenor saxophone solos - all of those very elements a precursor to rock & roll. The lyrics are almost always celebratory in nature full of braggadocio and swagger.' Dutch recording artist and top European Guitar educator Matthieu Brandt spent a decade interviewing and studying with many of the originatorsof Jump Blues to document the style and create this essential Jump Blues course for Guitar. This 2-DVD set is presented as a methodology covering theory comping accompanist riffs horn lines arranged for Guitar and several approaches for soloing drilling down on many approaches for opening up the neck for the scales arps and riffs that are employed in swing and Jump Blues Guitar. It also ices the cake with 12 tasty solos followed by in-depth analysis of several jump blues giants such as Brian Setzer T-Bone Walker Charlie Christian Gatemouth Brown and Freddie King all of whom have their own signature sound. Accompanying vocalists and soloists is a big part of the style and is as challenging and rewarding as soloing. A sizable chunk of these DVDs is dedicated to voicings pulling off various rhythms and locking up with the rhythm section.

Renowned jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli shares his take on the key elements of jazz guitar style. Filled with dazzling demos insightful lessons and great anecdotes this DVD is perfect for newcomers looking to get their feet wet or for experienced jazzers. Filmed in hi-def with onscreen music for many of the examples. 1 hour 28 minutes.Renowned jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli shares his take on the key elements of Jazz Guitar style. Filled with dazzling demos insightful lessons and great anecdotes this DVD is perfect for newcomers looking to get their feet wet or for experienced jazzers on the hunt for fresh inspiration. Filmed in high definition with onscreen music for many of the examples.

Extreme Metal Drumming is your guide to an impressive musical genre that lineaments considerable technicality fast and complex double-bass patterns odd time signatures erratic song structures and flaming tempos. Extreme Metal Drumming contains a logical step-by-step path that will enable drummers to achieve the diverse skills needed for this style while highlighting musical applications of the techniques. Also included is a fantastic play-along 93 track CD. This disc includes; demonstrations of many of the beats and fills played up to to speed as well as at a slower tempos to aid learning and play-along tracks with and with out drums that gives the opportunity to test out the newly learnt techniques. Extreme Metal Drumming is your guide to an impressive musical genre that lineaments considerable technicality fast and complex double-bass patterns odd time signatures erratic song structures and flaming tempos. Extreme Metal Drumming contains a logical step-by-step path that will enable drummers to achieve the diverse skills needed for this style while highlighting musical applications of the techniques. Also included is a fantastic play-along 93 track CD. This disc includes; demonstrations of many of the beats and fills played up to to speed as well as at a slower tempos to aid learning and play-along trackswith and with out drums that gives the opportunity to test out the newly learnt techniques.

Join the My First Piano Adventure ® friends as they play Christmas songs on the grand staff. Students celebrate with merry melodies such as A Ten-Foot Icicle Jingle Bells the hit song Must Be Santa and carols from around the world. Songs include: A Ten-Foot Icicle • Deck the Halls • Go Tell It on the Mountain • He Is Born the Heav'nly Child • Infant Holy Infant Lowly • Jingle Bells • Must Be Santa • The 24th of December • What Did the Angel Say? • We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Join the My First Piano Adventure ® friends as they play Christmas songs on the grand staff. Students celebrate with merry melodies such as A Ten-Foot Icicle Jingle Bells the hit song Must Be Santa and carols from around the world. Songs include: A Ten-Foot Icicle • Deck the Halls • Go Tell It on the Mountain • He Is Born the Heav'nly Child • Infant Holy Infant Lowly • Jingle Bells • Must Be Santa • The 24th of December • What Did the Angel Say? • We Wish You a Merry Christmas.