Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

The goal of this manual is to get you playing the guitar quickly and easily.You will see you improve every day. All your practice is already planned from start to finish. This is the key to your success - and it helps you achieve...

Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place Not so long ago, studio quality recording, mixing and music production was only available to the rich and famous artists. However these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your...

Play Awesome Solos with the Minor Pentatonic Scale - Anywhere on the Guitar Neck Are you tired of being stuck in Minor Pentatonic Prison? Are you ready to break out and access the whole guitar neck... to release your inner virtuoso? Is it time...

(Music Sales America). This chart includes advice on instrument care, notation guide and a photo/diagram of the instrument.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1780385072ISBN-13: 9781780385075Publisher: Chester MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 6Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.40d

Professional Orchestration: A Practical Handbook - Workbook is the Workbook for all three Handbooks in the series: From Piano to Strings, From Piano to Woodwinds and From Piano to Orchestra. You orchestrate and optionally record the same examples in the Workbook for the homework...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). If you're about to be stranded on a desert island and you can only take your guitar and one songbook with you, make sure it's The Guitar Tab White Pages This incredible second edition contains 150 note-for-note transcriptions straight from the...

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation,...

Are you bored of playing the same old jazz guitar chords?Playing rhythm guitar is one thing, but going beyond that to connect the chords with beautiful melodic phrasing is called comping. John Pisano is one of the all-time greats of jazz rhythm guitar and...

Keyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. By the twentieth century, however, the art of improvisation was all but lost. Today, vanishingly few classically-trained musicians can improvise with fluent, stylistic integrity. Many now question the system of...

Strumming the Guitar Book 1 is a detailed course for beginners and upward, focusing solely on the subject of guitar strumming. Separate sections take on strumming, changing chords and coordinating chord changes while strumming, therefore maintaining a thorough approach throughout with components broken down...

(Educational Piano). Physical training and discipline are needed for both athletics and keyboard playing. Keyboard muscle conditioning is called technic. Technic exercises are as important to the keyboard player as workouts and calisthenics are to the athlete. Schaum's Fingerpower books are dedicated to development...

(Guitar Method). A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books in one volume Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and...

If you want to know how it feels to be the DJ, to share the music you love with other people, to receive the adulation of packed dancefloors night after night, this book will show you exactly what to do to get there. Whether...

(Berklee Guide). Increase your command of the guitar. Joe Stump reveals licks, techniques, and exerises to build your guitar technique. Learn licks and techniques comon in rock/metal sytles, and commit them to finger memory. The online audio tracks include drum tracks for exercise practice,...

Learning to play the bass guitar is easy with the help of Laurence Canty's step-by-step instructions and clear advice-even if you've never played an instrument before. You'll learn how to: --read musical notation--correctly position your hands--understand the fingerboard--tune with harmonics--master simple and complex rhythms--fit...

Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills...

(Woodwind Method). This follow-up edition presents a continuation and expansion of the techniques presented in Scale Studies, with a special emphasis on chordal concepts. It includes innovative exercises and solos that will help sax players learn melody, harmony, rhythm and improvisation techniques.Author: Joseph ViolaISBN-10:...

(Berklee Guide). A highly effective and comprehensive book for developing complete technical and musical skills on the saxophone. This Volume One Berklee Workshop features innovative exercises, solos and performance tools that will help you learn melody, harmony, rhythm and improvisation techniques for the saxophone....

Thinking and Playing Music: Intentional Strategies for Optimal Practice and Performance distills cutting-edge teaching and learning methods for musicians of all levels, investigating topics in cognitive science that apply directly to musical development. Containing over one-hundred musical examples, many from the standard piano repertoire,...

Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. When composition is condensed to a series of logical steps, it can...

The Complete Guide to Keyboard and Piano Technique with over 140 ExercisesAt last - a method that addresses every aspect of piano technique and is clear and easy to follow This book lays the foundations for a lifetime of effortless piano playing. Do you...

Master Economy Picking For GuitarAre you struggling to play fast, economy picked passages on guitar?Do you need a methodical guide to economy picking that's packed with hundreds of exercises and powerful strategies? Economy Picking Guitar Technique is a complete roadmap of methodical steps that...

If you are looking to tap on guitar or you're looking to increase your knowledge, understanding and technique then Tapping Discovered by Honza Kourimsky and released by GMI - Guitar & Music Institute is the book for you.146 pages of pure tapping goodness takes...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with...

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with...

Curriculum decisions are the foundation of education. They determine the knowledge, understandings, skills, attitudes, and values deemed necessary for today's students. Beyond musical competencies, a curriculum is, therefore, the most important responsibility facing music educators--one that goes well beyond the skills of simply delivering...

"Piano Freedom is a great teaching aid for adults or children, and makes it fun, as music should be." - George Winston, pianist and composer Anyone can play piano Are you a frustrated pianist? Do you long for piano freedom? Do you exhibit any...

Training Soprano Voices provides a complete and reliable system for training each type of soprano voice. Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals, it couples historic vocal pedagogy with the latest research on the singing voice, emphasizing the special nature...

Recent years have seen a rise in interest, from a diversity of fields, in the musical ensemble as an exemplary form of creative group behavior. Musical ensembles can be understood and investigated as high functioning small group organizations that have coordinative structures in place...

Learn to read standard music notation on the guitar with this easy step-by-step book Great for beginners or more-experienced "by ear" players who want to start reading, it explains notation reading in detail, relating notes on the staff to guitar fingerboard diagrams and tablature....

(Music Sales America). Teach yourself authentic bluegrass banjo with this book and audio pack. The book contains clear instructions on the basics: right- and left-hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance, and much more, as well as a complete selection of the best...

The definitive text on Jazz Organ bass line walking and grooving by a master educator and performer. Eddie Landsberg, a protege of the late great Big John Patton and Shirley Scott, original Nord Electro factory demonstrator, and creator of "The Seven Secrets of Jazz...

(Guitar Educational). Small in size but loaded with valuable info, this 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 guide features: easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see color photos, basic chord theory and fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms and more. Over 1,600 glorious chords...

(Berklee Labs). Create more expressive solos with this book/audio pack, which presents a unique improvisation strategy based on ear training and a linear interpretation of note relationships. Comprehensive, step-by-step instruction will guide you as you: develop an expectation of sound; master the movement of...

(Percussion). Performing in a big band, and accurately interpreting a big band drum part, can present a challenge to beginning and experienced drummers alike. This book by the founder and publisher of Modern Drummer magazine has been written and designed specifically to help drummers...

(Guitar Educational). The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists & experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues in other words, lots of licks It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with...

Italian bassoonist Sergio Penazzi was the first instrumentalist to introduce multiphonics to Bruno Bartolozzi, which lead the latter to publish the revolutionary book New Sounds for Woodwind. Since then, however, bassoonists have fallen behind in the development of their contemporary sound. While researching materials...

A Quick Guitar Player's Guide to Simplified Practicing and Study Here's a book for all guitarists, in all styles packed with the best practices from years of playing, practicing, and more.Are you happy with your playing? Looking for ways to improve?Whether you're a musician...

Do you play a musical instrument? Here are the best ways to memorize music, explained step-by step. Build a repertoire of pieces that you can play without the score Though mainly for those who play the piano, or other keyboard instrument, these methods can...

(Guitar Book). The Fingerpower series delivers a proven and effective path to technical development. This guitar edition focuses on fingerstyle and classical guitar playing with short, progressive exercises that are easy to learn and fun to practice, developing strength in both hands.Author: Chad JohnsonISBN-10:...

(Musicians Institute Press). Renowned fusion guitarist Dean Brown explains and provides detailed demonstrations of his unique approach to: * Developing drummer-style two-hand rhythmic independence * Developing accurate, consistent rhythm patterns over a variety of grooves * Creating rhythmic variety and texture * Understanding harmonic...

With a doctorate in five woodwind instruments and decades as both a performer and a teacher, Dr. Mark Watkins has long been interested in the production of sound. What differentiates his book From the Inside Out: An In-depth Resource for the Development of Saxophone...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Discover Blues Improvisation offers the piano student of any age a chance to explore the blues. It also provides an essential foundation for learning to improvise in other styles such as popular music and jazz. A pianist starting this book...

(Fretted). This terrific collection for beginning to advanced ukulele players features easy arrangements of 50 great songs, in standard notation and uke tablature. This great resource also teaches popular strum patterns and how to tune the uke.Author: Ron MiddlebrookISBN-10: 1574240722ISBN-13: 9781574240726Publisher: Centerstream PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

All the arpeggios for the Jazz Trumpet Player Complete with Extensions and their alterations. 7ths through 13ths. Plus soloing examples on how to improvise using Jazz arpeggiosAuthor: Richard J. Sojka, Jeff BrentISBN-10: 1548166936ISBN-13: 9781548166939Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2017Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 11.00h...

This vintage book contains a selection of effective exercises that can be done on a daily basis to improve piano playing, by seminal English pianist Tobias Matthay. Coupled with simple instructions and expert tips, these daily repetitions will prove invaluable to both beginner and...

At a time of unprecedented interest in improvisation across the arts, The Art of Becoming boldly asserts that everyone can and should improvise. Drawing on emerging psychological literature as well as their own research with musicians, authors Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson - both...

Comprehensive Aural Skills is a complete suite of material for both performance and dictation, covering the wide range of sight singing and ear training skills required for undergraduate courses of study. It provides a series of instructional modules on rhythm, melody, and harmony, and...

Thirty-Six Jazz Practice Ideas to Get the Most from Your Real BookYou already know about the REAL BOOK, but what you probably don't know is how much MUSICAL PROGRESS can be accomplished with only a single fake book Don't know what to practice? Don't...

First Steps in Classical Piano is the beginning of your journey to playing beautiful classical piano pieces. Either as a stand-alone guide, or as a resource to support lessons with your piano teacher, First Steps in Classical Piano will dramatically speed up how you...