This book/CD pack shows guitarists how to transform basic jazz improv techniques into bebop figures in Bird's famous with strings style by making chromatic and rhythmic alterations. Includes many musical examples most in the user-friendly key of G major to accommodate players not well versed in jazz flat keys.This book/CD pack shows guitarists how to transform basic jazz improv techniques into bebop figures in Bird's famous 'with strings' style by making chromatic and rhythmic alterations. Includes many musical examples most in the user-friendly key of G major to accommodate players not well versed in jazz flat keys.

Book 3 continues with concepts such as relative major and minor: inverted triads simple and compound time transposition ledger line notes and the phrase. Book 3 continues with concepts such as relative major and minor; inverted triads simple and compound time transposition ledger line notes and the phrase.

An invaluable resource for students Improve Your Scales! Violin Grade 1 New Edition covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the 2012 ABRSM Grade 1 but also uses finger fitness exercises scale and arpeggio studies key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. New edition supporting the revised ABRSM syllabus from 2012.

Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises scale and arpeggio studies key pieces simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource forstudents Improve your scales! Flute Grades 4-5 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from theABRSM from 2018. Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises scale and arpeggio studies key pieces simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students Improve your scales! Flute Grades 4-5 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

The Pros Know And Use (2nd Edition)-The updated edition of this bestseller features more songs updated lessons and a full audio CD! This book will show you how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles; play chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard; expand your chord vocabulary; and learn to think musically ? the way the pros do. Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it along with playing tips and guitar insights. Absolute beginners can follow the diagrams and instruction and intermediate to advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the guitar. Second edition. The updated edition of this bestseller features more songs updated lessons and a full audio CD! This book will show you how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles; play chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard; expand your chord vocabulary; and learn to think musically – the way the pros do. Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it along with playing tips and guitar insights. Absolute beginners can follow the diagrams and instruction and intermediate to advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the guitar. Second edition.

A fun easy guitar songbook and CD with full-band backing tracks designed especially for today's kids featuring cool songs from great rock bands. This book is a companion to the instructional book Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids but also works as a stand-alone songbook. Tunes include: Come Out and Play · Just a Girl · The Man Who Sold the World · Oh Pretty Woman · Tubthumping · What I Got · Wild Thing · You Really Got Me. Also available: Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids 00699376 $5.95 A fun easy guitar songbook and CD with full-band backing tracks designed especially for today's kids featuring cool songs from great rock bands. This book is a companion to the instructional book Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids but also works as a stand-alone songbook. Tunes include: Come Out and Play · Just a Girl · The Man Who Sold the World · Oh Pretty Woman · Tubthumping · What I Got · Wild Thing · You Really Got Me. Also available: Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids 00699376 $5.95

Take you soloing into entirely new worlds of creativity and harmonic depth with this Musicians Institute Private Lessons complete guide to exotic scales and modes by Jean Marc Belkadi. Here are 16 tantalizing scales with all the harmonic knowledge you will need. This book and CD set has been devised by the celebrated Musicians Institute to transform your vocabulary with 80 demonstration tracks that will enable you to discover the unique characters and musical personalities of these mystical tonalities. The scales discussed include: Prometheus Enigmatic Hebrew Hungarian Gypsy Minor Hindu Romanian Persian Double Augmented Double Harmonic Minor Byzantine ...and many more Learn to use these scales all over the fretboard and discover the supporting harmonies that will furnish your songwriting and improvisation with new chords and possibilities. Take you soloing into entirely new worlds of creativity and harmonic depth with this Musicians Institute Private Lessons complete guide to exotic scales and modes by Jean Marc Belkadi. Here are 16 tantalizing scales with all the harmonic knowledge you will need. This book and CD set has been devised by the celebrated Musicians Institute to transform your vocabulary with 80 demonstration tracks that will enable you to discover the unique characters and musical personalities of these mystical tonalities. The scales discussed include: Prometheus Enigmatic Hebrew Hungarian Gypsy Minor Hindu Romanian Persian DoubleAugmented Double Harmonic Minor Byzantine ...and many more Learn to use these scales all over the fretboard and discover the supporting harmonies that will furnish your songwriting and improvisation with new chords and possibilities.

Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly 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 ofmeticulously graded sight-reading pieces. New edition devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

Written for the violinist who longs to leave the confines of the written page Improvising Violin is a comprehensive guide to the art and science of successful string improvisation. With clear step-by-step explanations and instructions acclaimed teacher and performer Lieberman breaks down all of the components necessary to master improvisation in jazz blues swing folk rock and new age styles offering dozens of helpful tips on theory and technique along the way. Written for the violinist who longs to leave the confines of the written page Improvising Violin is a comprehensive guide to the art and science of successful string improvisation. With clear step-by-step explanations and instructions acclaimed teacher and performer Lieberman breaks down all of the components necessary to master improvisation in jazz blues swing folk rock and new age styles offering dozens of helpful tips on theory and technique along the way.

Learn to use the entire fretboard with Bass Scale Finder. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most important scale types. Basic scale theory is also presented to help you apply these colorful sounds in your own music. Learn to use the entire fretboard with Bass Scale Finder. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most important scale types. Basic scale theory is also presented to help you apply these colorful sounds in your own music.

The CAGED system applicable to all playing styles will help you clearly map out the fretboard with recognizable forms and shapes that intertwine sensibly. The result is equal comfort with all areas and the confidence to play what you want where you want! Break free from the prison of unfamiliarity - get CAGED! Covers major minor and 7th chords song structures shortcuts and info on studying theory. The CAGED system applicable to all playing styles will help you clearly map out the fretboard with recognizable forms and shapes that intertwine sensibly. The result is equal comfort with all areas and the confidence to play what you want where you want! Break free from the prison of unfamiliarity - get CAGED! Covers major minor and 7th chords song structures shortcuts and info on studying theory.

David Hamburger's supplementary chord book for the Acoustic Guitar Method is a must-have resource for guitarists who want to build their chord vocabulary! Starting with a user-friendly explanation of what chords are and howthey are named this book presents chords by key in all 12 keys offering both open-position and closed-position voicings for each common chord type. Also includes info on barre chords using a capo and much more.David Hamburger's supplementary chord book for the Acoustic Guitar Method is a must-have resource for guitarists who want to build their chord vocabulary! Starting with a user-friendly explanation of what chords are and how they are named this book presents chords by key in all 12 keys offering both open-position and closed-position voicings for each common chord type. Also includes info on barre chords using a capo and much more.

Complete Instruction from Beginner to Advanced-This complete edition of the bestselling classic method by Peter Magadini includes all of Books 1 and 2 as well as access to online audio and video tracks for download or streaming. This book starts the beginning drummer on the entire drumset. Someof the topics covered include: Four and five piece drum setups: Illustrations of grips and how to use the sticks: Staff time values double strokes and counting: Many patterns such as 50s rock Motown blues disco beat funk urban beat jazz swing shuffle Nashville and more. How to play a drum fill a double stroke roll the closed roll and the buzz roll. As the player advances theyll also learn: Playing time: Developing beats with the open and closed hi-hat: Bass drum control andindependence: Fusion Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms: Basic brush technique: Basic polyrhythms: Reading and drum chart “choreography”.The price of this book includes access to audio and video files online. The files are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right. This complete edition of the bestselling classic method by Peter Magadini includes all of Books 1 and 2 as well as access to online audio and video tracks for download or streaming. This book starts the beginning Drummer on the entire Drumset. Some of the topics covered include: Four and five piece Drum setups; Illustrations of grips and how to use the sticks; Staff time values double strokes and counting; Many patterns such as '50s rock Motown blues disco beat funk urban beat jazz swing shuffle Nashville and more; How to play a Drum fill a double stroke roll the closed roll and the buzz roll. As the player advances they'll alsolearn: Playing time; Developing beats with the open and closed hi-hat; Bass Drum control and independence; Fusion Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms; Basic brush technique; Basic polyrhythms; Reading and Drum chart choreography. The price of this book includes access to audio and video files online. The files are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Private Lessons-With this popular guide and two-CD package guitarists will learn everything from basic techniques to more advanced moves such as accompaniment flatpicking swing and slide guitar. Informative articles include: Learning toSight-Read (Charles Chapman); Using the Circle of Fifths (Dale Miller); Hammer-ons and Pull-offs (Ken Perlman); Bass Line Basics (David Hamburger); Accompanying Yourself (Elizabeth Papapetrou); Bach for Flatpickers (Dix Bruce);Double-Stop Fiddle Licks (Glenn Weiser); Celtic Flatpicking (Dylan Schorer); Open-G Slide Fills (David Hamburger); Practicing Secrets (Dan Crary); and many more!24 in-depth lessons for players of all levels taught and recorded by the Master Teachers at Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach this new edition of Improve your sight-singing! Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-singing. Step by step you will build up a completepicture of each piece firstly through over 150 rhythmic melodic and technical exercises then by studying prepared pieces and making connections to your wider music making and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-singingpieces. These new editions of the best-selling Improve your sight-singing! series have been simplified into two (mid-range) volumes making them suitable for instrumentalists who wish toimprove their singing as well as for singers preparingfor sight-singing in vocal exams. The books feature completely new music throughout and have been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-singing criteria. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach this new edition of Improve your sight-singing! Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-singing. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic melodic and technical exercises then by making connections to your wider music-making studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-singing pieces. These new editions of the best-selling Improve your sight-singing! series have been simplified into two (midrange) volumes making them suitable for instrumentalists who wishto improve their singing as well as for singers preparing for sight-singing in vocal exams. The books feature over 100 completely new practice exercises throughout and have been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-singing criteria.

This pack provides both the original FastTrack book/CD pack along with an instructional DVD making learning to play Keyboard easier and faster than ever before! This pack provides both the original FastTrack book/CD pack along with an instructional DVD making learning to play Keyboard easier and faster than ever before!

Jazz rhythm guitar for swing and big band styles. Teaches the essentials of swing and big band styles including chord voicings inversions substitutions time and groove. Jazz rhythm guitar for swing and big band styles. Teaches the essentials of swing and big band styles including chord voicings inversions substitutions time and groove.

These imaginative games are designed to reinforce music reading skills in an entertaining and motivating way. All games are for two players at primer level. These imaginative games are designed to reinforce music reading skills in an entertaining and motivating way. All games are for two players at primer level.

New Edition-Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic melodic and technical exercises then by studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic melodic and technical exercises then by studying prepared pieces and finally going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-readingcriteria.

Four Lessons: Warm-Up Exercises Alternate Picking Scales Sequences and Legato Technique. A first of its kind the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information and song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. Four Lessons: Warm-Up Exercises Alternate Picking Scales Sequences and Legato Technique. A first of its kind the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information and song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action.