Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how...

Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how...

If you can't afford to pay the tuition fee for a fancy music school, that doesn't mean you shouldn't fulfill your dream of becoming a grand clarinetist. For just a few dollars, this book will teach you how to play the clarinet from scratch....

Learning Guitar in a Classroom Setting Has Never Been Easier. Chords, Rhythms, Guitar Basics and Music Principles to Get Students Strumming Their First SongsGuitar for the Classroom - Student's Edition lets students learn guitar skills and music fundamentals in a classroom setting.The goal of...

(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...

How to Play a Tune in Any Key takes a comprehensive look at transposition in a short and easy-to-understand book. The reader will learn how to play each part of their favorite songs - chords, melodies and more - in new keys of their...

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing the pianoforte, with information on everything from finding the right notes to playing legato and staccato. "The Visible and Invisible in Pianoforte Technique" will be of utility to both beginner and more advanced students, and...

This is a vintage guide to learning how to play the banjo and ukulele. It is aimed at players with little to no previous experience with the instruments, initially walking them through the very basics from holding the instrument to strumming and picking out...

The care and understanding of an instrument are critical to its sound. This thorough book is therefore aimed at both the interested musician and those embarking on instrument repair as a full-time career. Organized into six parts, it guides the reader from initial diagnostic...

(Music Sales America). If you have ever wanted to learn to play all sorts of guitar styles from pop and rock to jazz and blues, then this book is for you Learn to Play Guitar in 24 Hours offers you 24 clear, self-contained lessons...

(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...

(Educational Piano Library). This first book in a series of five piano technique books presents short, 4-measure exercises with helpful text imagery ( Warm-Ups ), and brief etudes. The skills emphasized in the Warm-Ups are given a musical context in the Etudes that follow...

Beginner Guitarists: Learn to Strum Every Song PerfectlyAre you ready for the ultimate course in guitar strumming for beginner to early-intermediate players?Confident rhythm and strumming is at the heart of everything you'll ever do on the guitar, so wouldn't it be great if you...

A complete guide to building walking bass lines. Covers: cycles of fifths, triads, seventh chords, chromatic tones, cadences, harmonic sequences, modulation, vamps, bebop blues forms, Rhythm changes, and selected jazz standards. Text in English and Portuguese. "A great resource for the bass player that...

Analysis of jazz structures Blues, their forms and harmony changes through well known blues songs and Pere Soto originals.Author: Pere Soto TejedorISBN-10: 1726238296ISBN-13: 9781726238298Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2019Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.32d

See the joys, challenges, and exciting possibilities associated with jazz ensemble improvisation with Teaching Improv in Your Jazz Ensemble: A Complete Guide for Music Educators. Zachary B. Poulter presents scholarly research, professional performance techniques, and nuts-and-bolts rehearsal strategies, all of which will help teachers...

I have played the guitar for more years than I can remember. I can play quite a wide variety of chords and, with most guitar music; I can sit down and play the chords shown on the music sheet and hum or sing along...

This book contains an introductory guide to playing the banjo in the 'eureka' style. It walks the reader through the first steps of eureka banjo playing from how to hold the instrument and where and where to place your hands, to reading music, playing...

"Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique" is a 1910 guide to playing the piano by Tobias Matthay. Written as a supplement to Matthay's definitive books "The Act of Touch" and "First Principles", it contains further information on some of the more detailed areas...

Bold Sounds In The Wilderness is a wonderful workbook to explore and expand your creative self through piano improvisation. The book guides you through improvisations for the beginning piano student.Author: Ivan SalinasISBN-10: 1523483091ISBN-13: 9781523483099Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2016Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.02h...

Description: "The Rhythm Lab's Fundamental Studies For Snare Drum" was created to motivate and remind you that it's still important to review all your customary habits that will help you to fulfill your mission. By adding a copy of this text to your personal...

The great teacher Shinichi Suzuki revolutionized teaching strings by concentrating on mastering playing technique in an organized and scientific manner in a way that encourages students and parents to enjoy study, rather than suffer through it Len Collins approach to reading music is a...

Music of Mendelssohn & BerliozAbe Torchinsky (1920-2009), the former principal tubist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, produced this significant series of orchestral study books for tubists. Each book includes entire tuba parts for every work.Drawing on his extensive experience, Torchinsky's writing is concise and informative...

The Talking Harmonica is a excellent harmonica instructional book. It is designed for beginners to advanced intermediate players.Author: Tim GartlandISBN-10: 1511435305ISBN-13: 9781511435307Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2015Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.41d

Get it Together is the essential jazz bassists guide to rhythm and sound. Internationally acclaimed bassist Orlando le Fleming draws on over 20 years of experience to offer invaluable advice with many exercises designed to help strengthen rhythmic independence, time keeping and sound. Once...

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to playing the piano, focusing on the basic scales and arpeggios. Scale practice is of the utmost importance when learning the violin, and this guide concentrates on this idea, using it as a starting point for the...

This volume is from our series of carefully-selected historical publications on the subject of violins. The titles in this range include "A Guide to Violin Strings" "A History of Violins in England" "Antonio Stradivari and His Violins" and many more. Each publication has been...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Oscar CremerISBN-10: 1447457943ISBN-13: 9781447457947Publisher: Braithwaite...

First published in 1896, "The Violinist's Manual" is a classic guide to playing the violin by Eugene Gruenberg. It contains a complete course for the prospective player, with progressive material, solo pieces, notable compositions, and general tips on how to learn and improve. This...

Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.Harry Somers,...

This guitar instruction book is a speed primer that takes you through graduated techniques to play the guitar fast. Unlike other "exercise books", Shred Tech. addresses ways for any player, no matter the level, to achieve their own personal maximum speed of playing the...

This is an introductory book that shows the first steps of learning how to play the viola. The book is organized with ascending level of difficulty into nine chapters; each chapter has a theme of different viola techniques or theory concepts. With author's own...

Click the "LOOK INSIDE!" feature to view pages helpful to the consumer in understanding this valuable resource. Click "Index" for the subject and music indices and "Back Cover" for professional testimonials.Classic Series: Volume 2 Intermediate Basics for the Piano is a holistic method book...

Click the "LOOK INSIDE!" feature to view pages helpful to the consumer in understanding this valuable resource. Click "Index" for the subject and music indices and "Back Cover" for professional testimonials.Classic Series: Volume 1 Beginning Basics for the Piano is a unique study of...

Volume 6 of Beyond Salsa Bass begins our 4-volume study of the style of Alain P rez - the composer of La sandunguita, Salsa timba y amor, and Amigo Juan. P rez is one of the most talented bassists, composers and arrangers of modern...

Body as Instrument explores how musicians interact with movement-controlled performance systems, producing sounds imbued with their individual physical signature. Using motion tracking technology, performers can translate physical actions into sonic processes, creating or adapting novel gestural systems that transcend the structures and constraints of...

Steps to Technical Development for Drummers is a text to develop hand and foot ability by playing sticking patterns that are practical and easily applied to drum set, rudimental snare drum and classical playing. This book can be used by students who have a...

Learn All Your Sax Scales in just 10 hours! The Quickest and Most Efficient Way to Master Scale Fingerings on the Saxophone. Zero redundancy between related scales, and omitting all identical fingerings between registers allows for eliminating a substantial number of already mastered patterns...

The canon is contrapuntal compositional technique, which sounds more complicated than it really is. When you go through known canons, you will find it easy. Somebody starts singing, other joins later and sings the same melody. Altogether It sounds beautiful. I arranged ten world...

Originally published in 1908. A detailed book dealing with the more advanced points of violin playing in a most concise manner. The photographic illustrations enable the reader to clearly understand the various positions of hands and fingers described in the text. Contents Include comprehensive...

Offering lessons, licks and tricks drawn from rock guitar masters, this how-to guide boosts players' soloing technique, rhythm playing, and understanding of rock theory. Fully updated and expanded, it reveals secrets of nﾜ-metal stars such as Rage Against the Machine, provides lessons on roots-rock...

Inside Pierrot lunaire: Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenberg's Masterpiece is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of the recitation in Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, op. 21. Presenting a guide for the listener and an aid to the interpreter of the 21 melodramas, the...

Stage Presence From Head to Toe: A Manual for Musicians is the only resource of its kind: a practical, authoritative guide to accepted practices of stage presence for performing musicians. It answers the basic questions every musician has about a performance: how to prepare,...

The purpose of this book is to help the beginning flat-picker learn the essential elements and styles to become a better Bluegrass and Old-time guitar player. This book will also help take you from the beginner status to more of an intermediate player. I...

The Essentials of CoreSinging: A Joyful Approach to Singing and Voice Pedagogy presents an innovative outlook by one of the most important voice pedagogues in modern times. CoreSinging, developed by Meribeth Dayme, offers a universal approach applicable and complementary to any style, system, or...

(Guitar Educational). In any music style, there are essentials scales, licks, chords, etc. Blues Guitar Chords teaches you the must-know chords that will get you shufflin' like a pro in no time. You won't get bogged down with tons of details. Rather, you'll be...

Award-winning music educator Merlin B. Thompson invites today's teachers to link their teaching with notions of humanity and create success by building on what students naturally bring to their own musical journey. Filled with over fifty practical and inspirational teaching tips, More than Music...

Developing cellists need to know their way around the fingerboard in order to learn music quickly and sight-read well. However, learning and understanding positions can be challenging, especially for young students. In Hello Cello Positions! 2nd Position Book for Young Cellists, Jisoo Ok, a...

This is the follow-up to "New Techniques For 5 String Banjo, Volume 1 - Beginner" and is geared to the later beginner as both a bridge to enhanced playing technique and a reference of musical knowledge regarding the banjo.Some of the highlights include: Banjo...

(Musicians Institute Press). This book, designed from MI core curriculum programs, teaches keyboardists everything they need to know about voicings, covering: triads, seventh chords, extended chords, suspended chords and altered chords; inversions; voice leading; intervals; diatonic harmony; and moreAuthor: Kevin KingISBN-10: 0793582040ISBN-13: 9780793582044Publisher: Musicians...