A compilation of pieces composed and performed by some of France's most famous musette musicians including Jo Private and Tony Murena. Included are tangos paso dobles mazurkas sambas polkas and gypsy music with a generous collection of traditional French musette waltzes as well. All are arranged for the piano accordion in standard notation. A compilation of pieces composed and performed by some of France's most famous musette musicians including Jo Private and Tony Murena. Included are tangos paso dobles mazurkas sambas polkas and gypsy music with a generous collection of traditional French musette waltzes as well. All are arranged for the piano accordion in standard notation. A compilation of pieces composed and performed by some of France's most famous musette musicians including Jo Private and Tony Murena. Included are tangos paso dobles mazurkas sambas polkas and gypsy music with a generous collection of traditional French musette waltzes as well. All are arranged for the piano accordion in standardnotation.

Play Like a Legend: Doc Watson features transcriptions of his great guitar flatpicking recordings from the early 1960s until the 1990s. In addition detailed explanations of special techniques such as Carter Plus soloing using three note patterns (3NPs) and numerous crosspicking patterns are included. Exercises are designed to isolate specific licks and patterns making them easier to learn. Moveable phrases and licks are identified so that players can introduce Doc's unique sound into their own playing. Includes access to online audio. Play Like a Legend: Doc Watson features transcriptions of his great guitar flatpicking recordings from the early 1960s until the 1990s. In addition detailed explanations of special techniques such as CarterPlus soloing using three note patterns (3NPs) and numerous crosspicking patterns are included. Exercises are designed to isolate specific licks and patterns making them easier to learn. Moveable phrases and licks are identifiedso that players can introduce Doc's unique sound into their own playing. Accompanying audio is included.

This book provides a clear and concise way to increase your guitar chord vocabulary across the entire fretboard. The book outlines a movable chord system which allows you to both understand chord construction and provides the necessary tools to create chords on-the-fly in a playing situation. This book provides a clear and concise way to increase your guitar chord vocabulary across the entire fretboard. The book outlines a movable chord system which allows you to both understand chord construction and provides thenecessary tools to create chords 'on-the-fly' in a playing situation.

Book With Online Audio-Contains 49 bugle calls used exclusively by the infantry branch of service during the American Civil War. Performed by the author on the B-flat infantry bugle each call is accompanied by historical notes and direct quotes from the manuals of the period. When appropriate the command is spoken before the call is played. Also includes interesting anecdotes. In standard notation. Audio download available online. Contains 49 bugle calls used exclusively by the infantry branch of service during the American Civil War. Performed by the author on the B-flat infantry bugle each call is accompanied by historical notes and direct quotes fromthe manuals of the period. When appropriate the command is spoken before the call is played. Also includes interesting anecdotes. In standard notation. Audio download available online.

Grey Larsen in the 150 Gems collections has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications 2003) and The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox (Mel Bay Publications 2004). The Gems feature not only meticulously-selected tunes but represent the first major offerings that use Larsen's innovative system of notating Irish ornamentation. These books and online audio will help players gain a deeper understanding of the Irish musical tradition as well as provide new material to enhance the experience of the solo player and Irish session participant alike. Includes access to online audio. Grey Larsen in the 150 Gems collections has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications 2003) and The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox(Mel Bay Publications 2004). The Gems feature not only meticulously-selected tunes but represent the first major offerings that use Larsen's innovative system of notating Irish ornamentation. These books and onlineaudio will help players gain a deeper understanding of the Irish musical tradition as well as provide new material to enhance the experience of the solo player and Irish session participant alike.

This unique series offers students and teachers a carefully sequenced Urtext edition of Beethoven's sonatas gradually progressing in difficulty. Each book in the series features an informative biography of Beethoven including a moving letter he wrote to his brothers and pictures of his parents his birthplace in Bonn his teacher Neefe Beethoven's music room and more. The table of contents in each book gives additional information on some of the sonatas. Book One includes eight sonatinas for early intermediate students.

Recorded lessons from one of America's greatest guitarists. Johnny Hiland teaches essential Licks and Tricks every great Blues Rock and Country player should know. Lessons in standard notation and TAB. Includes access to online audio. Recorded lessons from one of America's greatest guitarists. Johnny Hiland teaches essential Licks and Tricks every great Blues Rock and Country player should know. Lessons in standard notation and TAB. Includes access to online audio.

Blues & Jazz Jam Tunes-This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio. This is a collection of 48 original jazz tunes in different styles with fun melodies ideal for jamming. The pieces are in a variety of keys and are presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

in Notation and Tablature-This book presents nine original guitar solos written for the six-string guitar by jazz guitarist George Van Eps. His arrangements and chord symbols illustrate advanced harmonic melodic concepts. In standard notation and tablature with carefully annotated fingerings and pick direction indications. Includes access to an online audio recording of Charles Chapman performing each Van Eps solo.

This collection of various style chants and reflections for duet recorder is designed for church performance and other occasions requiring solemnity and quiet joy. Most arrangements are for alto and tenor or soprano and tenor. They are all original compositions except for two plainsong chants. The classic chants O Come O Come Emmanuel and Of the Father's Love Begotten are especially suitable for the Advent season while the compositions His Sacred Heart His Sorrow and others are appropriate for Lent.

When John Hurt was rediscovered in 1963 he was presented with a very rare opportunity to expand and re-write his musical legacy late in life. And he did just that recording over seventy songs previously unrecorded by him adding to the repertoire of thirteen titles he had recorded in 1928. In The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt - The Rediscovery Years John Miller focuses on performances that John Hurt recorded in between 1963 and his death in 1966 presenting transcriptions of 24 of those performances. The richness and variety of John Hurt's music is showcased in these songs with everything from low-down blues in E to raggy numbers in C to waltzes in D featured.Transcriptions are provided in TAB and standard notation lyrics for all of the songs are provided and where verse accompaniments are provided in the transcriptions indications are given to show where the vocal sits relative to the accompaniment. Audio clips of Mississippi John Hurt playing each transcribed song are available via a download link. If you're a fan of Mississippi John Hurt's music The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt - The Rediscovery Years will give you the most complete collection of his later performances available anywhere. When John Hurt was rediscovered in 1963 he was presented with a very rare opportunity to expand and re-write his musical legacy late in life. And he did just that recording over seventy songs previously unrecorded by him adding to the repertoire of thirteen titles he had recorded in 1928. In The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt - The Rediscovery Years John Miller focuses on performances that John Hurt recorded in between 1963 and his death in 1966 presenting transcriptions of 24 of those performances. The richness and variety of John Hurt’s music is showcased in these songs with everything from low-down blues in E to raggy numbers in C to waltzes in D featured.Transcriptions are provided in TAB and standard notation lyrics for all of the songs are provided and where verse accompaniments are provided in the transcriptions indications are given to show where the vocal sits relative to the accompaniment. Audio clips of Mississippi John Hurt playing each transcribed song are available via a download link. If you’re a fan of Mississippi John Hurt’s music The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt - The Rediscovery Years will give you the most complete collection of his later performances available anywhere.

Popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. Students start with easy one finger chord forms and strum accompaniments to numerous songs - Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced. Two subsequent volumes complete this course.

Soul Of Hand Drumming Percussion

Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues

For more than a century violinists have played jazz swing blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone considerable range and bowed rhythms and phrasing the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists from blues to bebop from jug band to jazzgrass from big-band swing to Texas swing. Tunes represent the styles of Stéphane Grappelli Joe Venuti Stuff Smith Eddie South Mark O'Connor Benny Thomasson Jean-Luc Ponty and Darol Anger. Helpful jazz theory sections with exercises alternate with tunes that show how the theory works inpractice. This book has two objectives: first to present a broad roughly chronological sampling of major jazz violinists and the styles associated with them and secondly to introduce the basics of jazz theory as applied to the violin. Whether consciously or intuitively through critical listening or by practicing jazz patterns and exercises the more knowledge of jazz you acquire the better you will be able to think about the content of your playing without being bound by technical and theoretical aspects. This anthology was written to help provide that foundation. Interspersed with pragmatic jazz theory lessons you'll find 28 original tunes in the style of various jazz violin luminaries. The book ends with an extensive discography of recommended jazz recordings with a violin focus. Mandolinists as well as other instrumentalists will find a wealth of useful information in this outstanding collection. Delightful broadcast-quality recordings of the repertoire are available online. Includes access to online audio. Written for intermediate to advanced violinists.

If you've ever felt compelled to play Flight of the Bumblebee on the 5-string banjo this is the book for you!Challenging banjo transcriptions of classical masterpieces may seem like a humorous anachronism to some but not for Italian master Claudio Parravicini a conservatory graduate who while majoring in French horn always believed that the banjo was 'a virtuoso instrument capable of enriching any musical genre.”In the author's words 'I chose the classical pieces in this book on the basis of how they might advance right and left-hand banjo technique and even refine the player's musical sensibility… Some pieces like Flight of the Bumblebee will challenge yourability to play rapidly while others like Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata are much slower but will test your musical abilities in other ways.” The other pieces in the book are: Prelude No. 2 in C minor and Inventions No. 4 and No. 6 by J. S. Bach Flight of the Bumblebee by Korsakov Perpetual Motion and Carnival of Venice by Paganini and Toccata for Piano or Harpsichord by Paradisi. Classical Masterpieces for Banjo is written in tablature only in standard G tuning [gDGBD] using three-finger banjo technique in the traditional melodic and single-string style. Each selection is guaranteed to further your technique and delight your audience or simply expand your vision of what is possible on the 5-string banjo. If you’ve ever felt compelled to play Flight of the Bumblebee on the 5-string banjo this is the book for you! Challenging banjo transcriptions of classical masterpieces may seem like a humorous anachronism to some but not for Italian master Claudio Parravicini a conservatory graduate who while majoring in French horn always believed that the banjo was “a virtuoso instrument capable of enriching any musical genre.” In the author’s words “I chose the classical pieces in this book on the basis of how they might advance right and left-hand banjo technique and even refine the player’s musical sensibility… Some pieces like Flight of the Bumblebee will challenge your ability to play rapidly while others like Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata are much slower but will test your musical abilities in other ways.” The other pieces in the book are: Prelude No. 2 in C minor and Inventions No. 4 and No. 6 by J. S. Bach Flight of the Bumblebee by Korsakov Perpetual Motion and Carnival of Venice by Paganini and Toccata for Piano or Harpsichord by Paradisi. Classical Masterpieces for Banjo is written in tablature only in standard G tuning [gDGBD] using three-finger banjo technique in the traditional melodic and single-string style. Each selection is guaranteed to further your technique and delight your audience or simply expand your vision of what is possible on the 5-string banjo.

Lively Violin Tunes is a collection of 57 spirited violin solos. The selections include reels hornpipes jigs sea chanteys dance tunes and more. These violin solos are ideal for performance or just enjoyment while playing the instrument. Guitar chords are included for accompaniment and can be used by any chordal instrument.Lively Violin Tunes is a collection of 57 spirited violin solos. The selections include reels hornpipes jigs sea chanteys dance tunes and more. These violin solos are ideal for performance or just enjoyment while playing the instrument. Guitar chords are included for accompaniment and can be used by any chordal instrument.

Nestor Ausqui hails from the picturesque Argentinian city of Santa Fe: a robust and vibrant city catering to the arts and culture most notably music. Definitive de Falla is Ausqui's second book from Mel Bay Publications following the release of the Nestor Ausqui Collection (MB99894EB). This book and accompanying audio represent an important collection in the classical guitar genre. Guitarists from around the world will enjoy Ausqui's faithful attention to detail in the transcriptions making this book an excellent addition to any guitarist's library. Includes access to online audio.

As one of the most productive composers in history Georg Philipp Telemann endeavored to supply a steady stream of new music for both professional and amateur musicians. The 64 compositions in this collection fall into three categories:Sonatas for two treble-clef instruments without bass accompaniment.Pieces for solo instrument and bass.Movements from Telemann’s many trio sonatas and overture-suites for two melody instruments and bass.Written in standard notation only for two mandolins or mandolin with violin flute recorder or any other instrument of similar range.

This collection of ten jazz etudes with accompanying audio provides intermediate to advanced alto sax students with a fun and effective way to learn to play in the specific odd meters: 3/4 5/4 7/4 and 9/4. Each etude is based on the chord progression of a different jazz standard and includes an in-depth analysis of the melodic harmonic and rhythmic devices used. The addition of the odd-time ingredient along with completely original melodies and improv lines converts what would be mere academic etudes to a delightful jazz listening and playing experience.If you want to improve your fluency in reading performing and improvising in odd time signatures this is the bookfor you! A generous number of preparatory exercises gradually introduce the student to not only reading music but also “hearing how phrases land within a measure” of odd time.Play-along audio tracks featuring a professional rhythm section (piano bass and drums) minus the sax track allow you to play as the soloist. Includes access to online audio.