Meeting music curriculum needs with fun and creativity Red Hot Dots is an indispensable resource for class music teachers. This book is a treasure chest of musical activities to encourage good musical technique offer fun musical experiences and expand musical horizons. Thebook covers requirements for the National Curriculum music syllabus and is a useful resource for the specialist and non-specialist alike. Children can learn how to make up tunes and improvise; to talk about musical styles and howmusic makes them feel; and how to remember melodies and words by developing their listening skills. The accompanying CD with the teacher copy contains all the backing tracks you need to get the most out of the book includingten new songs for warming up cooling down having fun doing actions dancing to and dazzling an audience! The teacher copy also contains accompaniments if you prefer to accompany the class yourself.

A course for young beginners Pre-Grade 1- Cool Clarinet Repertoire includes lots of fun pieces to play alongside the Course Book. The Teacher's Book features all the piano accompaniments to the pieces in Student Repertoire (3612229).With Funky Flute fast becoming the country’s leading Flute tutor Heather Hammond’s winning approach has been applied here for the Clarinet. Cool Clarinet is the next generation of tutor featuring an effective style that childrenrespond to with fun-to-play pieces and vibrant artwork. Cool Clarinet shows young Clarinettist's everything they need to know including how to hold the clarinet getting a good sound and how to read music.

A course for Adult beginners-Play Piano! Adult book 2 carries on from where Book 1 left off. The two books in the series have a great range of both new and already popular music and have all you need to make playing the piano fun and keep you for playing along to. Play Piano! takes the adult student on a journey from their very first Piano lesson to about Grade 1 level in two books. The two books in the series have a great range of both new and already popular musicand have all that is needed to make playing the piano fun and keep them wanting to learn more.

Volume 3: Improvisation-Volume 3: ImprovisationHere is a method that will train organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of organ playing step-by-step. Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the organ - its console manuals and stops - before exploring the pedals good manuals and pedals technique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today’s church organist. Christopher Tambling is Organist and Master of the Schola Cantorumof Downside Abbey. He was an organ scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter’s College Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Teachers Book-The fun way to play together! Two at a Time is a groundbreaking programme for instrumental teaching. Sarah's famous fun approach: starts from scratch - absolutely no knowledge required on the part of thepupil enables the teaching of two different instruments (in this case descant and treble recorders) at the same time encourages pupils to play together from the very start is for any number ofplayers Aided and abetted by Sarah's unique effervescent accompaniments (CD included with the pupil's book) everyone will sound great from the very first note. What an amazing idea!

for Secondary and Adult Starters-Piano tutor that combines good technique with fun and imagination.Improvisation and creativity are encouraged from the start with duets throughout to introduce ensemble playing.

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Chill-out pieces to enjoy between exams-These books are for relaxing between exams. The lively tunes will consolidate what has been learnt and move the pupil on to the next grade. Each book comes with a FREE CD with demonstrations and accompaniments for each piece. The Fun Club books are for relaxing between exams. The lively tunes will consolidate what has been learnt and move the pupil on to the next grade. Each book comes with a FREE CD with demonstrations andaccompaniments for each of the 11 pieces. Contents: Abracadabra Aria Danger zone Gold nugget boogie Home alone Missing you Partying Riffs Tango Argentine The snake charmer and The waltz .

Music for contemplative worship-Margaret Rizza's music is used and loved all over the world wherever people pray. Awakening in Love her fifth collection will delight as usual for this is music of great depth and sensitivity which will touch the heart and themind. Margaret writes: My prayer is that this new collection leads us all to new awakenings of the eternal Spirit of Love deep within our being. Awakening in Love comprises chants and through-composedsongs. Each setting includes choir parts an accompaniment and separate instrument parts. There is great freedom of choice in singing these pieces; variety and experimentation are encouraged. The chants especially can be sungvery simply or using diverse musical resources but even the other compositions can be adapted according to available voices and instruments.

The fun course for young beginners-More of the same winning material this time for players of grade 3-4 standard. This Teacher Edition of Book 3 of the popular Funky Flute series enables you to help your students learn everything they need to know including how to hold the flute getting a good sound and how to readmusic. And naturally it is packed with fun-to-play pieces in Heather Hammond’s inimitable style. With Hammond's original and creative style you will be able to teach Book 3 of FunkyFlute with effectiveness and ease guiding your student up to around Grade 4 standard.

Chill-out pieces to enjoy between exams-Chill-out pieces to enjoy between exams 'Chill-out' pieces to enjoy between exams. Fun Club continues with a Flute edition including a free CD containing the performance and backing tracks. The separate student copy now available contains everything in theteacher's copy but without the Piano accompaniment. Alan Houghton studied Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and spent many years in education where he became Deputy Headteacher and Co-ordinator of Music. Havingleft mainstream teaching he has become established as a well-known and successful composer of music for the early grades his music being published by the Associated Board and OUP. Many of his pieces are set for Associated Boardexams. Apart from running the 'Olney Music School' he is also a well known jazz pianist and classical accompanist.

An excellent introduction to ensemble playing- Red Hot Recorder Duets is an excellent introduction to ensemble playing. The jazzy piano accompaniments give a fun popular feel and a free CD is included to help learn the pieces and to play along with them. Red Hot Recorder Duets are an excellent introduction to ensemble playing. The pieces are very easy using only the first octave and simple rhythms with both parts being of a similar standard. Also includesjazzy Piano accompaniments and a free CD to help learn the pieces and to play along with them. Suitable for Grade 2.

With accompanying CD designed to give musicians of any ability the opportunity to improvise. Ideal for any musician with a desire to play blues and jazz including teachers. Jammin’ the Blues is a series of 5 guide books each with accompanying CD designed to give musicians of any ability the opportunity to improvise. They are ideal for any musician with a desire to play blues andjazz including teachers. The books are simply laid out with 40–50 minutes of backing tracks on CD for the user to play along with and develop their ‘jammin’ skills. Jammin’ the Blues effectively addressesthe creative music skills needed in today’s education environment.

Volume 2: Repertoire-Volume 2: Repertoire Here is a method that will train organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of organ playingstep-by-step. Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the organ - its console manuals and stops - before exploring the pedals good manuals andpedals technique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today's church organist. Christopher Tambling is Organist andMaster of the Schola Cantorum of Downside Abbey. He was an organ scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter's College Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Includes many musicalexamples to illustrate: Using 1 manual and 2 pedal notes Using 2 manuals and 2 pedal notes Involving easy manual and coupler changes Involving slightly more manual and coupler dexterity Requiring easy volume changes Using the 2 hands on different manuals Using the swell pedal Pieces introducing 3 and 4 pedal notes Two manuals and three pedals i) Solo and accompaniment ii) Changingmanuals Four pedals i) Solo and accompaniment ii) Manual and registration changes Four pedals - more advanced Five pedals in two groups Six pedals in two groups Hymn tunes using two to fourpedals

Sequel to the UK's bestselling recorder tutor Red Hot Recorder Tutor 2 continues the same great method introduced in Book 1 combining best practice with a fun approach. The pupil's book contains all the teaching material and the teacher's book hasthe piano accompaniments to the catchy solo and ensemble pieces. A CD with both performance and backing tracks only is available in the student book to help them practise at home.

Level 2 - Keys of C major/A minor G major/E minor F major/D minor D major/B minor and G minor. Each piece is written so that it can be played in one hand position as is the case in the ABRSM sight-reading syllabus. However one of the principalintentions from Level 2 upwards is to practise reading and playing hands together in a variety of five-finger positions. The melodies are more complex and supported by ‘riffs’. FunKey! is a series of five books of short pieces designed to develop students' sight-reading skills and awareness of key using fun material which supports the sight-reading requirements of the ABRSMexamination board. The pieces are in a variety of styles notably rock swing and Latin increasing in difficulty from Level 1 up to Level 5. Each book comes with an accompanying CD. The backing tracks first appear with themelody incorporated then as minus one covering all the keys of that level. FunKey! will improve rhythmic awareness and confidence and the ability to play fluently. Students will be encouraged tosight-read regularly changing an element of Piano playing which is often seen as an intimidating one into a pleasurable one.

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A fun tutor for children-A fun tutor for children Play Piano with Max is a popular and highly successful three-book tutor for young children. Max an amiable cuddly dog and his friends make learning the Piano a happy and rewarding experience. The step-by-stepapproach using tuneful pieces fun exercises and home worksheets has been developed over many years by Myrna Stent an outstanding music teacher and educator. Her method is structured to give children confidence but flexibleenough to allow pupils to proceed at their own pace. Play Piano with Max is delightfully illustrated in full colour throughout by the incomparable Roy Mitchell.

Complete Brandenburg Concertos-In 1721 Bach collated six concertos as a gift for the Margrave of Brandenburg. Having been composed over a long period they had little in common musically and were primarily intended as a job application. Bach received neitherthanks job nor payment from the venerable Margrave. They were given the title Brandenburg Concertos 150 years later by Bach's biographer Philipp Spitta. The concertos are of great historical importance because they weremuch influenced by Italian music and the work of Vivaldi: they managed to break away from the standard German Concerto Grosso form. Using many combinations of textures and solo instrumentalists they were obviously written forvirtuoso players. The concertos have achieved immense popularity and the fact that a recorded excerpt from the 2nd concerto was placed on the Voyager spacecraft is a tribute to their importance and popularity. Thesix Brandenburg Concertos are a pinnacle of musical invention and they underline Bach's position as one of the world's supreme musical geniuses.