On The Drumset-Mark presents a complete system to answer these questions. The book follows a system entitled D.R.O.P.: Dynamics Rate Orchestration and Phrasing. Mark pulls apart and addresses each of these building blocks individually presenting rhythmicconcepts that will expand your ability to call on different rhythmic rates and subdivisions on command move them around the kit freely and ultimately be able to phrase them in exciting and sometimes complex ways that sound like “polyrhythms” and“metric modulations” but are actually constructed upon a solid foundation of drumming basics. This material will give you the confidence to make a personal statement on the drumset.Adding to this package is live footage of Mark playing with two of his longtime collaborators Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Jason Lindner (keys). Having played together for years these three musicians most recently formed the rhythm section for DavidBowies final album Blackstar. Watch Mark interact with these world-class musicians in electric and acoustic settings as they apply Marks concepts in inspiring performances.The book comes packaged with a full-length DVD and the video is also available for download using a code contained in the book. Explore your creativity on the Drumset. In this book Drum tutor Mark Guiliana presents a complete system entitled D.R.O.P.: Dynamics Rate Orchestration and Phrasing. Guiliana pulls this structure apart examining each building block individually and presenting rhythmic concepts that will expand your ability to call on different rhythmic rates and subdivisions on command move them around the kit freely and phrase them in exciting and sometimes complex ways that sound like polyrhythms and metric modulations but are actually constructed upon a solid foundation of drumming basics. This book will give you the confidence tomake a personal statement on the Drumset. Exploring Your Creativity On The Drumset includes access to online videos showing live footage of Guiliana playing with two of his longtime collaborators Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Jason Lindner (keys). Having played together for years these three musicians most recently formed the rhythm section for David Bowie's final album Blackstar. Watch Guiliana interact with these world-class musicians in electric and acoustic settings as they apply his own concepts in inspiring performances.

Discover how to find your way around the whole fretboard with confidence with this vital book and CD using the essential patterns that all the pros know. Whether you are writing recording improvising or jamming a sound knowledge of the fretboard of your instrument will keep you out of trouble. By using simple patterns and learning how those patterns repeat across the bass you will no longer have to struggle to find the all-important right notes. Build bass lines under chord progressions and work with major minor and pentatonic sounds. The easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions will help you find the notes you're looking for instantly in any key! The book is supported with a 64-track demonstration CD with play-along backing tracks. Discover how to find your way around the whole fretboard with confidence with this vital book and CD using the essential patterns that all the pros know. Whether you are writing recording improvising or jamming a sound knowledge of the fretboard of your instrument will keep you out of trouble. By using simple patterns and learning how those patterns repeat across the bass you will no longer have to struggle to find the all-important right notes. Build bass lines under chord progressions and work with major minor and pentatonic sounds. The easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions will help you find the notes you're looking for instantly in anykey! The book is supported with a 64-track demonstration CD with play-along backing tracks.

How to Add Finger Markings to Non-Fingered Harp Music-Sylvia Woods has done it again! Harp Fingering Fundamentals is a must for every teacher and student. It clearly and concisely shows how to approach harp fingerings in her accessible and charming style. It will be a staple in my studio and should be in your collection too.” –Felice Pomeranz Professor of Harp Berklee College of Music Boston MA Sylvia Woods has done it again! Harp Fingering Fundamentals is a must for every teacher and student. It clearly and concisely shows how to approach harp fingerings in her accessible and charming style. It will be a staple in my studio and should be in your collection too. - Felice Pomeranz Professor of Harp Berklee College of Music Boston MA Chock-full of common-sense suggestions on fingering from the simplest to the trickiest passages. A real boon for do-it-yourself Harp players and good ideas even for experienced players on how to make the unplayable playable .- Joyce Rice Harp instructor

Authored by Mac Robertson Robbie Clement & Will Schmid this innovative method teaches 5-string bluegrass style. The method consists of two instruction books and two cross-referenced supplement books that offer the beginner a carefully-paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style. Now includes CD! Covers easy chord strums for the beginner; learning tablature; right-hand rolls characteristic of bluegrass; techniques such as hammer-on slide and pull-off. Authored by Mac Robertson Robbie Clement & Will Schmid this innovative method teaches 5-string bluegrass style. The method consists of two instruction books and two cross-referenced supplement books that offer the beginner a carefully-paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style. Now includes online audio! Covers easy chord strums for the beginner; learning tablature; right-hand rolls characteristic of bluegrass; techniques such as hammer-on slide and pull-off.

Features 64 pages of manuscript paper with standard notation and tablature staves plus a music notation guide and a guitar notation legend. Pages are sized and punched to fit in 3-ring binders. 64 pages of manuscript paper with standard notation and tabulature staves plus a music notation huide and a Guitar notation legend. Pages are sized and punched to fit in 3-ring binders.

This terrific book and CD by Dave Eastlee will give you the jazz guitar voicings you need to know plus the theory behind how they are used in common chord porgressions. There is a CD incuded which contains 56 demo tracks. This terrific book and CD by Dave Eastlee will give you the jazz guitar voicings you need to know plus the theory behind how they are used in common chord porgressions. There is a CD incuded which contains 56 demo tracks.

The Psychology of Piano Technique is much more than a musical self-help book dealing with a large range of topics and problems which pianists of all levels constantly face. This fourth volume in the Piano Professional series takes a technicalperspective on what have traditionally been seen as psychological issues presenting a new approach for performing musicians and their teachers. Author Murray McLachlan deals with a wide range of subjects relevant to pianists including stage fright inspiration injury short-term tactics for success and long-term development strategies. He also emphasizes the importance of a positive mind-set and a comfortable joyful and calmly creative way of thinking. The Psychology of Piano Technique is much more than a musical self-help book dealing with a large range of topics and problems which Pianists of all levels constantly face. This fourth volume in the Piano Professional series takes a technical perspective on what have traditionally been seen as psychological issues presenting a new approach for performing musicians and their teachers. Author Murray McLachlan deals with a wide range of subjects relevant to pianists including stage fright inspiration injury short-term tactics for success and long-term development strategies. He also emphasizes the importance of a positive mind-set and acomfortable joyful and calmly creative way of thinking.

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 1–3 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 1–3 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.

Nancy Telfer. Perfect for choirs and choral classes this series provides a detailed plan for implementing a comprehensive programme of vocal production through warm-ups. The purpose of each practical warm-up piece is clearlyidentified with tips to help singers make the most of each warm-up. Further information is given in the Conductor’s Edition together with weekly plans and a diagnostic chart.

This Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition is a detailed method with lessons and lines to take your playing over the top! Jean Marc Belkadi shows you how to create musical ideas through improvising and composing with notes that are outside the key area implied by the chord or scale that is sounding. A CD of demonstration tracks is included. This Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition is a detailed method with lessons and lines to take your playing over the top! Jean Marc Belkadi shows you how to create musical ideas through improvising and composing with notes that are outside the key area implied by the chord or scale that is sounding. A CD of demonstration tracks is included.

A Complete Course-With this blues course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop general guitar basics and a solid foundation for playing the blues. Learn essential blues chords scales and lead techniques like string bending vibrato and hammer-ons pull-offs. John teaches full blues scales with tri-tones the B.B. Box and how to construct a 12 bar blues progression. He challenges you to learn complete blues solos riffs and syncopated rhythm progressions. Learn the talk back effect expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music. Master techniques such as rakes pick & finger and advanced bending. John shows you blues endings turnarounds melodicblues the circle of fourths slide techniques and many blues rhythms. See Hear and Apply Each Lesson On the high density DVD find two full programs on one one disc! John teaches and illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand. He slowly breaks down all the lessons so you can easily follow along to get the hand positions correct. The included video also allows you to hear how the examples are supposed to sound and most important how John applies them in a musical sense. Lifetime Web Membership for Lesson Support & Download Backing Tracks You get free membership to The Rock House Method« support system on the web. Use the member number found inside this book to register for lifetime support at RockHouseMethod.com. Use this fully interactive Lesson Support site to download backing tracks to play the examples over enhance your learning experience link with instructors and connect with a community of people around the world who are also learning. With this blues course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop general Guitar basics and a solid foundation for playing the blues. Learn essential blues chords scales and lead techniques like string bending vibrato and hammer-ons pull-offs. McCarthy teaches full blues scales with tri-tones the B.B. Box and how to construct a 12 bar blues progression. He challenges you to learn complete blues solos riffs and syncopated rhythm progressions. Learn the talk back effect expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music. Master techniques such as rakes pick and finger and advanced bending. McCarthy showsyou blues endings turnarounds melodic blues the circle of fourths slide techniques and many blues rhythms. See Hear and Apply Each Lesson: On the high density DVD find two full programs on one one disc! McCarthy teaches and illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand. He slowly breaks down all the lessons so you can easily follow along to get the hand positions correct. The included video also allows you to hear how the examples are supposed to sound and most importantly how McCarthy applies them in a

A workbook for examinations including over 60 practice tests for Associated Board exams supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012. 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 a specific technical issues then by studying preparedpieces with associated questions and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition has been devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012. Paul Harris is one of the most respected music educationalists known for his innovative Simultaneously Learning approach. He has over 500 publications to his name including the highly-acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your scales! Improve your Aural and Improve your Practice! series. Paul writes frequently on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

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. Metal Guitar - At a Glance features five lessons including: Metal Rhythm Metal Licks Modern Metal Guitar James Hetfield Style and Randy Rhoads Style. Includes 37 songs: Black • Crazy Train • Mr. Crowley • No More Tears • Photograph • Stone Cold Crazy • Welcome to the Jungle • and more. 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. Metal Guitar - At a Glance features five lessons including: Metal Rhythm Metal Licks Modern Metal Guitar James Hetfield Style and Randy Rhoads Style. Includes 37 songs: Black • Crazy Train • Mr. Crowley • NoMore Tears • Photograph • Stone Cold Crazy • Welcome to the Jungle • and more.

The Foundation Pianist is a set of two books for students beyond the beginner stage who want to develop a technical and musical foundation to help them progress on to intermediate levels. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements the books include daily exercises sight-reading repertoire and musical time travel. This series not only develops students’ technique reading theory and musicianship but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music from madrigals to symphonies and operas to concertos. The Foundation Pianist is a set of two books for students beyond the beginner stage who want to develop a technical and musical foundation to help them progress on to intermediate levels. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements the books include daily exercises sight-reading repertoire and musical time travel. This series not only develops students' technique reading theory and musicianship but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music from madrigals to symphonies and operas to concertos.

Piano Grade 3 (Trinity Edition)- The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books including this volume for Grade 3 have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout. Designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems these books follow the same progressive format as previous editions: technical aspects are introduced step by step firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises then by studying prepared pieces with associatedquestions and finally Going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

An Introduction to Music-The Peanuts Music Activity Book is a fun introduction to music through songs games puzzles and other music activities including dozens of kids' favorites songs and Vince Guaraldi tunes. This book can be used by beginning pianists keyboard players guitarists vocalists and other C-instrument players. It's perfect for learning music at home daycare preschool and with family and friends. Songs include: Baseball Theme · Bingo · Chopsticks · Christmas Time Is Here · Für Elise · Happy Birthday to You · He's Your Dog Charlie Brown · Heart and Soul · Linus and Lucy · Ode to Joy · Red Baron · Schroeder · Skating · Take Me Out to the Ball Game · This Land Is Your Land ·Twinkle Twinkle Little Star · and more. Have a great time learning music with your favourite Peanuts characters. The Peanuts Music Activity Book is a fun introduction to music through songs games puzzles and other music activities. Including dozens of kids' favourites and Vince Guaraldi tunes this book can be used by beginning pianists Keyboard players Guitarists vocalists and other C-instrument players. It's perfect for learning music at home daycare preschool or with family and friends.

Jay Bocook demonstrates again why he is considered a master of adapting classical literature for young concert bands. This distinctive and well-known work features pulsating rhythms and dynamic full band passages. Thisexhilarating piece is sure to be a treat for your audiences as well as your band.Jay Bocook demonstrates again why he is considered a master of adapting classical literature for young concert bands. This distinctive and well-known work features pulsating rhythms and dynamic full band passages. This exhilarating piece is sure to be a treat for your audiences as well as your band.

Accompaniment CDs (Set of 2)-More great teaching material at the same level as the first volume. Over 30 songs in each volume with no song duplicated between voice types. A student could easily begin either in The First Book or The First Book Part II or the books may be used concurrently. A Two CD Set to accompany The First Book Of Baritone/Bass Solos Part II compiled by Joan Frey Boytim.

ShowTrax CD-Here's a handy jazzy collection that's great for both concerts and caroling! Set in an easy swingy style these tunes will be a big hit with your audiences. Includes: Carol of the Bells Jingle Bells We WishYou a Merry Christmas .Available separately: SATB SAB SSA Instrumental Pak (R) ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 4:30.Here's a handy jazzy collection that's great for both concerts and caroling! Set in an easy swinging style these tunes will be a big hit with your audiences. This CD features the recorded accompaniments for all choral versions.

A third book of original compositions and appealing arrangements of classic tunes by John Edmondson and Anne McGinty for beginning Concert bands and Big bands.