Happy Traum's long association with the iconic Bob Dylan makes him the perfect instructor to teach these seven fingerstyle arrangements of Dylan favourites. The detailed in-depth lessons are designed for both early intermediate and more experienced players who will gain important guitar technique along with first hand historical insights.

Bass Play-Along Volume 43-The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the bass should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are alsoincluded in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!This volume includes: Band on the Run • Hey Bulldog • I Want You (Shes So Heavy) • Live and Let Die • Maybe Im Amazed • Penny Lane • Rain • Silly Love Songs • With a Little Help from My Friends. Bass Play-Along Volume 43: Paul McCartney will help you play your favourite Paul McCartney songs quickly and easily. Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the bass should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch. Bass Play-Along Volume 43: Paul McCartney includes sheet music for Band on the Run Hey Bulldog IWant You (She's So Heavy) Live and Let Die Maybe I'm Amazed Penny Lane Rain Silly Love Songs and With a Little Help from My Friends .

This DVD provides rare insights into the musical thinking of one of the most influential songwriters and arrangers in modern American popular music. Steely Dan's Donald Fagen reveals how traditional twelve-bar blues and R&B structures can be the basis for unique and sophisticated compositions. He and jazz pianist Warren Bernhardt break down the keyboard arrangements to three great Steely Dan hits: (Chain Lightning · Josie · Peg) - as well as the solo works: On the Dunes · Tea House on the Tracks. 70 MIN. · INCLUDES MUSIC · LEVEL 3-4Songwriting legend Donald Fagen analyses some of his best-known songs showing you how to transform your song ideas into sophisticated Jazz/Rock arrangements. Three songs by Steely Dan plus two from his own Grammy-nominated album are dissected to show how altering the bassline and harmonic details of a standard Blues/Rn'B structure can transform the song into something more rich unusual and exciting. You will witness the development of progressively more complex pieces as the simplicities at the root of the song-constructions are revealed. With the help of Warren Bernhardt Fagen provides a unique masterclass that will transform your approach to songwriting.

Roy Rogers gives a full and comprehensive introduction to the master art of the Blues slide guitar. As a world-class performer Rogers has an unmistakable virtuoso style that draws upon the heritage of T-Bone Walker Albert King John Lee Hooker and here's your chance to learn the nuts and bolts of the style. Topics include: How to get into open tuning Holding the slide Using vibrato and proper intonation Developing a powerful hybrid picking technique Licks and their variations Improvisation harmony and rhythm riffs Combining the slide with hammer-ons and pull-offs The DVD is supported by some fantastic performances by The Delta Rhythm Kings illustrating all the points discussed and allowing you to witness the Rogers technique in context. Soon you will have the most blistering Blues solos at your fingertips.

The improvisational flair and amazing technical skill of the legendary Don Reno are laid bare for you to discover in this DVD tutorial by his very own son Don Wayne Reno. His unique style combines chord-based solos percussive techniques and flamboyant single-string runs. Don Wayne guide you through the distinctive rolls brush techniques walk-downs and chord melodies basing the lesson around eight classic Reno songs. Don Wayne even uses the 1934 Gibson Mastertone that his father received as a trade from the great Earl Scruggs. You won't find a more complete Reno-style Banjo lesson anywhere!

This book/CD master class gives you over 70 cool riffs that sound great over each portion of the blues progression. They're presented in two-measure chunks - organized by where they fall in a standard 12-bar progression- so you can enrich your blues vocabulary and assemble your own solos with authentic riffs and licks as played by blues master Buzz Feiten! Includes complete solos plus jam tracks for an uptempo shuffle and a slow blues featuring Buzz himself performing with a great band! Blues By The Bar is a book/CD master class that gives you over 70 cool riffs that sound great over each portion of the blues progression. They're presented in two-measure chunks – organized by where they fall in a standard 12-bar progression – so you can enrich your blues vocabulary and assemble your own solos with authentic riffs and licks as played by blues master Buzz Feiten! Includes complete solos plus jam tracks for an uptempo shuffle and a slow blues featuring Buzz himself performing with a great band!

Learn how to sight-read any rhythm instantly! Wouldn't you like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds? If so then this book is for you. You'll discover: how to memorize the sound of eachcommonly occurring one-beat note combination the difference between duple and triple time simple and compound time and 6/4 time and 3/2 time the true meaning of cut time how to instantly playodd groupings (triplets quintuplets etc.) and much more.If you would like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds then this book is for you. The only way to sight-read rhythms fluently is to think not in terms of how long notes last but in terms of what rhythmic sound might occur within each beat. This book shows you how to memorise the sound of each of the various combinations of notes that commonly occur within one beat. If you think in terms of beats you can sight-read rhythms successfully because the beat remains constant. You'll discover the difference between duple and triple time simple and compound time and how to instantly play odd groupings.

Play Along Trax - 3-CD Set-Play Along Trax - 3-CD Set. Essential Elements was the major breakthrough for beginning band methods in the '90s. Now Essential Elements 2000 will take band programs into the next millennium! EE2000 features:· A CD featuring a professional soloist in every Student Book 1 · Great performance music with planned first concert. · Even more great tunes motivating students to practice and stay in band. · Special Rubank® Studies · Better pacing sequencing and reinforcement. · Theory history and creativity exercises integrated into each student book.

Level 3A-3B-Early 1900s rags and marches arranged in cut time with quarter and half notes in place of eighth and quarter notes. These ever-popular pieces offer immense appeal to the piano student and are excellent for recital or other performance. Contents include: The Entertainer · Maple Leaf Rag · When the Saints Go Marching In · American Patrol · The Ants Came Marching · Dixie · The Easy Winners · Glad Cat Rag · Parade of the Tin Soldiers · Snowflake Rag · The Stars and Stripes Forever. FunTime Piano - Ragtime & Marches offers immense appeal to the Piano Student with this collection of ever popular pieces from the early 1900s. In addition to being excellent supplementary material the pieces are useful for recital or other performance. A tremendous selection these eleven fabulous rags and marches feature some of the best examples of these rhythmic dance tunes popularised by the likes of Scott Joplin and John Philip Sousa all arranged for Easy Piano arranged by Nancy and Randall Faber. Each has been carefully chosen for its compelling popularity and they will inspire practice whilst reinforcing lessons and theory. This volume is part of Level3A-3B of the PreTime To BigTime Piano Supplementary Library series.

Rhythmic Explorations for Bowed Instruments-Discover a whole bunch of innovative and exciting new bowing techniques that will get your stings grooving! Learn how to create infectious driving rhythms and syncopations in a wide variety of musical styles. Darol Anger demonstrates the percussive bowing techniques that will add dynamics and energy to Bluegrass Celtic Swing Latin Rock or any other style you can imagine. This DVD is a set of wonderful rhythmic explorations for all bowed strings that expands musical options and inspiration.

Method for Alto Saxophone-This new saxophone method has been written in such a way that you do not need to have any knowledge of music or the saxophone beforehand. It covers not only rock but all styles of pop music including reggae heavy metal soul blues R&B funk and dance. Everything is introduced gradually including maintenance of the instrument playing the instrument reading notes playing pieces playing by ear and making up your own music (improvising). The book comes with two professionally produced CDs which contain demo tracks play-along tracks and musical exercises. Go blow that horn!Contents: see German editionA unique learning method for Alto Saxophone complete with two supporting CDs that assumes no previous musical knowledge and will teach you all you need to play hot rock solos and other exciting music! Ruud Chermin's tutorial starts at the very beginning with your first notes and blowing techniques before carefully introducing music-reading more rhythms and a host of great little pieces. Every example is supported on the accompanying CD so you always know how things should sound. At every stage you are encouraged to improvise and experiment and the CDs also feature a clutch of specially recorded backing tracks to help boost your confidence as your abilitiesprogress. Before you know it you'll be playing some spectacular rock solos!

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics Original Keyboard Classics with opt. Teacher Duets-Includes a CD of Accompaniments. Contents include: Allegretto (Kohler) Ancient Dance (Praetorious) Circle Dance (Beyer) Country Ride (Kohler) Echoes (Kohler) Five-Note Sonatina(Bolck) The Hero's March (Vogel) In an Old Castle (Beyer) Little March (Turk) Melody (Beyer) Ponies (Low) Sonatina (Wilton). The Developing Artist: Preparatory Piano Literature presents authentic Keyboard literature at the elementary level. An excellent supplement to any method the pieces provide work with articulation independence of the fingers imitation and balance between the hands. The selections which span several centuries of music are in the keys of C G and A minor. The majority of the pieces are in a five-finger position. Includes optional teacher duets which add rhythmic harmonic and aesthetic interest to the pieces.

The Collaborative Artist Flute Cello Piano-Faber Piano Adventures is proud to present a new chamber music composition Curiouser and Curiouser . Composed by Nancy Faber this unique piece was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) to celebratethe organization's Year of Collaborative Music and was debuted at the 2011 MTNA National Convention. Written for late intermediate to early advanced students this chamber trio features a curious one-noteopening followed by a quirky merry melody that leads the performers to unexpected musical places. The piece ends as mysteriously as it begins - with a final flourish. This piece is suitable for piano students whohave completed Piano Adventures® Level 5.Faber Piano Adventures is proud to present a new chamber music composition Curiouser and Curiouser . Composed by Nancy Faber this unique piece was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) to celebratethe organization's Year of Collaborative Music and was debuted at the 2011 MTNA National Convention. Written for late intermediate to early advanced students this chamber trio features a curious one-noteopening followed by a quirky merry melody that leads the performers to unexpected musical places. The piece ends as mysteriously as it begins - with a final flourish. This piece is suitable for piano studentswhohave completed Piano Adventures® Level 5.

One of the great jazz bassists of our time Gary Peacock shares the technical and improvisational ideas he has developed during the course of his brilliant 45-year career. He delves into three important aspects of playing - the physical the mental and the intuitive - which together form the complete process of creating music on the bass.

Level 2 in the ultimate self-teaching method designed to prepare you for any style of playing from rock to blues to jazz to classical. The exercises and studies in Book 2 will develop your technique range and musical abilities. There's no better way to learn to play alto sax - either on your own or with an instructor - than with this book! It features over 70 great songs and examples; 77 full-demo online audio tracks; more new notes keys and rhythms; a fingering chart; a glossary of musical terms; and much more! The audio is 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.

Power Studies are supplemental songbooks to go along with the Wolf Marshall Guitar Method. This book contains the songs you want to play divided into sections that correlate to each chapter in the method book! 12 songs including:Bang a Gong * Crossroads * Sweet Emotion * and more. 52-minute audio accompaniment.The Power Studies books are companion songbooks to the Wolf Marshall Guitar Method. Featuring completely transcribed songs from Stevie Ray Vaughan Metallica The Beatles Aerosmith and many others. CD contains authentic full band reproductions of all songs in the book.

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!The popular method series by Voxman and Gower continues with this second advanced-level tutorial for Trombone or Baritone.

Learn to Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics-Add to your repertoire with this collection of traditional easy-to-play holiday classics. You'll practice and reinforce the techniques you've learned in The Acoustic Guitar Method Book One. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the companion audio online and then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies in open position basic downstroke strums and simple chords. Songs: Jingle Bells · Joy to the World · Deck the Halls · Silent Night · The First Noel · Away in a Manger · O Christmas Tree · O Come All Ye Faithful · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing · It Came upon a Midnight Clear · What Child Is This? · We Three Kings of Orient Are · God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Angels We Have Heard on High · We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Includes tab lyrics and notes on the song origins and arrangements. Learn to Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics. Add to your repertoire with this collection of traditional easy-to-play holiday classics. You'll practice and reinforce the techniques you've learned in The Acoustic Guitar Method Book One. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the recordings on the companion CD and then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies in open position basic downstroke strums and simple chords. Songs: Jingle Bells · Joy to the World · Deck the Halls · Silent Night · The First Noel · Away in a Manger · O Christmas Tree · O Come All Ye Faithful · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing · It Came upon a Midnight Clear · What Child Is This? ·We Three Kings of Orient Are · God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Angels We Have Heard on High · We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Includes tab lyrics and notes on the song origins and arrangements.

Mid-Elementary-Level 2A Piano Solo-Rhythmic and appealing this piece explores the fun of ritardando and a tempo as halloween characters appear at the door. The music fades to the high reaches of the keyboard as the characters disappear. But they will be back next year. A spooktacular delight! Rhythmic and appealing this piece explores the fun of ritardando and a tempo as halloween characters appear at the door. The music fades to the high reaches of the keyboard as the characters disappear. But they will be back next year. A 'spooktacular' delight!

Make your rock band better or prepare yourself to join one! This sensational series lets you improve your intuitive sense of timing and improvisation develop your technique and reading ability and master your role in thegroove. Play along with a Berklee faculty band on the accompanying CD then play with your own band!This is the first ever method that teaches you how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively - how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. The book andplay-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability. Become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band.