Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

This is a landmark instructional text on bluegrass banjo. Written by the legendary Sonny Osborne, it presents the basics needed to successfully play bluegrass banjo (G tuning). A special bonus is the inclusion of seven favorite songs for banjo solo.Author: Sonny OsborneISBN-10: 0871665786ISBN-13: 9780871665782Publisher:...

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for...

(Music Sales America). This remarkable instructional pack contains books 1 and 2 from the Absolute Beginners series plus the songbook and fingering charts all in one volume, with 2 CDs of professional backing tracks and a bonus DVD to accompany the first tutor book.Author:...

(Music Sales America). The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By...

(Music Sales America). This celebratory collection gathers the very best in music, instruction and knowledge from two previous titles, Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar and Traditional and Contemporary Guitar Fingerpicking Styles to commemorate 40 years since their original publication. Happy Traum's landmark transcriptions represent the...

(Music Sales America). Teach yourself authentic bluegrass mandolin with this book/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 bluegrass songs...

(Music Sales America). Teach yourself authentic bluegrass guitar 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...

In Violin Secrets: 101 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Violinist, author and violinist Jo Nardolillo surveys the cutting edges of current violin technique, combining in one volume tradition with innovationAuthor: Jo NardolilloISBN-10: 0810886243ISBN-13: 9780810886247Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2015Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.90h...

In Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player, Jacqueline Leclair tackles the oboe's reputation as an especially difficult instrument and illustrates how oboists and English horn players can overcome common challenges. Leclair draws on her experience as a...

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is the most comprehensive guide on the rehearsal process for conducting instrumental music ensembles. Ideal for the advanced instrumental music conductor seeking to look beyond basic conducting technique, this work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with...

In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader.Author: Alan FraserISBN-10: 0810877139ISBN-13: 9780810877139Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2011Pages: 510Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader.Author: Alan FraserISBN-10: 0810877120ISBN-13: 9780810877122Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2011Pages: 510Format: HardcoverWeight:...

A compilation of essays written by renowned singing teachers as their testament to their great singing instructor, whose research and interpretations have given birth to a new era of vocal pedagogy known as 'Functional Voice Training.' The essays explain the four basic principles with...

A culmination of Friedberg's years of performing and teaching, offering piano students, teachers, and performers useful advice for many stages along the path to becoming a pianist.Author: Ruth C. FriedbergISBN-10: 0810843064ISBN-13: 9780810843066Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 153Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

(Signature Licks Guitar). Explore the music of one of the greatest acoustic bluesmen of all time with this fascinating book/audio pack. Blues expert Dave Rubin provides an introduction on Johnson's place in musical history, and extensive notes on his tunings, arrangements, fingerstyle technique and...

(Musicians Institute Press). A comprehensive source for mastering the art of single note, melodic improvisation. The online audio includes over 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along. The topics covered include: scales, modes, arpeggios, technique and visualization exercises; rock, blues, jazz, and other styles; and...

(Musicians Institute Press). This comprehensive source for learning to build melodic walking bass lines in all styles pulls together lessons from MI elective courses. The online audio includes 31 full-band tracks and demonstrates the exercises in the book. Topics covered include: intervals, chord symbols,...

(Musicians Institute Press). This book/audio package is for the singer, songwriter, or musician who wants to create a lead sheet or chord chart that is easy to follow. The audio includes over 70 demo tracks. The instruction covers: song form, transposition, considering the instrumentation,...

This celebration of the art of drumming is a must-have for all drummers, beginning to advanced. With essential tips on techniques and tongue-in-cheek anecdotes, The Drummer's Almanac is informative and fun. Features lots of photos, interviews, quotes, jokes, tuning tips from the pros, maintenance...

(Guitar Collection). Considered the father of modern classical guitar, Francisco Tarrega revolutionized guitar technique and composed a wealth of music that will be a cornerstone of classical guitar repertoire for centuries to come. This unique book with online audio features 14 of his most...

(Piano Method). A preliminary book that can be used to introduce young beginners to Piano Course Book 1, "Teach Me" covers approximately the first half of the first year.Author: Howard KasschauISBN-10: 079355294XISBN-13: 9780793552948Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.74h x 9.10w...

(Instructional). 12 of his best for the beginning player, including: Forever In Love * Silhouette * Songbird * The Wedding Song * and more.Author: G. KennyISBN-10: 0793539056ISBN-13: 9780793539055Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1995Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.40d

Key signatures and chord symbols are doors to facility at the keyboard - doors too often locked by insufficient understanding. This guide unlocks them with clear, simple explanations. Features: major and minor scales - guidelines for scale fingering - chord charts which include major,...

Book 3 includes attractive musical etudes by Carl Czerny, Johann F. Burgmuller and Stephen Heller and select exercises by Charles-Louis Hanon. The studies are organized into four units, each focusing on mastering a particular skill. Performance suggestions for each study are included, along with...

(Music Sales America). Six of their greatest hits in easy-to-follow tab with chord symbols and full lyrics. Matching CD allows you to play guitar or sing along with the backing tracks or full performance demos. Songs include: America * The Boxer * Homeward Bound...

(Music Sales America). Pick up your acoustic guitar and strum along with the backing tracks to six classic Dylan songs: Visions of Johanna * Tangled Up in Blue * Just Like a Woman * Lay Lady Lay * Things Have Changed * You're a...

(Play Today Instructional Series). Learn to play the alto saxophone at your own pace This book/CD pack walks you through the basics, and teaches you to play 5 songs: Chariots of Fire * Forrest Gump Main Title (Feather Theme) * The Man from Snowy...

(Bass Instruction). Peter Murray's book, which scored an "A+" rating from Bass Player magazine, provides bassists with everything they need to know to play effectively, helping them master the basics, and then explore what's beyond. Essential to any bass player "Once in a while,...

(Musicians Institute Press). Learn the essential lines and techniques of the world's greatest guitarists with this super cool book/CD pack from Musicians Institute Set up like a dictionary, it provides clear, concise instruction and application tips in standard notation and tab for licks in...

(Musicians Institute Press). Go one on one with MI instructor Ross Bolton to get that funk groove with your guitar! This book/audio pack covers: movable 7th, 9th, 13th and sus4 chords; 16th-note scratching; straight vs. swing; slides; single-note "skank" and palm muting; songs and...

(Instructional). This comprehensive, 562-page method, called "Solid, readable and relevant" by Keyboard magazine and "The major work for today's pianists" by International Musician, is divided into four sections. The first, "A Philosophy of Music," deals with communication, cause-effect principles and practice disciplines. The second...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 14 favorites from one of the founders of outlaw country, including: The Best of All Possible Worlds * For the Good Times * Help Me Make It Through the Night * Just the Other Side of Nowhere * Loving Her Was...

Many early blues songs from players such as Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake and others were played using the basic "Cowboy" chords (chords played between the first three frets) that most beginning students have learned. Combining those chords with fingerstyle methods such...

This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically...

A solid grounding in musical techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. As scholar Denis Stevens says in his introduction to this work, Full enjoyment will come only when the soloist learns the gentle art...

A solid grounding in musical techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of the topic, covering every issue of significance to today's performers. The text is fully amplified...

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies' work from the Kinks' first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early...

Practicing Music by Design: Historic Virtuosi on Peak Performance explores pedagogical practices for achieving expert skill in performance. It is an account of the relationship between historic practices and modern research, examining the defining characteristics and applications of eight common components of practice from...

Pedro de Alcantara's The Integrated String Player: Embodied Vibration is a practical guide for all string players: violinists and violists, cellists and bassists, but also gamba players and anyone who makes music drawing a bow across a string. Dozens of exercises, supported by a...

This engaging and long influential collection of essays looks at the art of singing in its totality. Written in a lively, non-technical style, On the Art of Singing is a comprehensive manual that deals with all aspects of singing, from the physiology and acoustics...

Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D....

This book is written on the belief that the essential basic principles underlying good singing are in themselves rather few, and very simple, but that their application is amazingly varied in light of the individual's needs. It is not intended as a manual of...

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition.Author: Bruce HaynesISBN-10: 0195189876ISBN-13: 9780195189872Publisher: Oxford University...

This engaging and long influential collection of essays looks at the art of singing in its totality. Written in a lively, non-technical style, On the Art of Singing is a comprehensive manual that deals with all aspects of singing, from the physiology and acoustics...

Perhaps more than any other experience, conflict in schools and workplaces can zap our energy and steal our vigor as teachers. If we knew ways to minimize conflict and maximize vitality, would we use them? Teaching with Vitality offers specific behaviors and attitudes to...

Providing essential tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers, Courtney Crappell's Teaching Piano Pedagogy helps teachers develop pedagogy course curricula, design and facilitate practicum-teaching experiences, and guide research projects in piano pedagogy.Author: Courtney CrappellISBN-10: 0190670533ISBN-13: 9780190670535Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Assessment is central to ensemble music. Yet, teachers do not always have the expertise to harness its potential to improve rehearsals and performances, and promote and document student learning. Written specifically for band, choir, and orchestra teachers at all levels, this book contains all...

Written for the cellist looking for an approach that demystifies cello playing, Cello, Bow and You is an innovative text in the field of string pedagogy written by a 40+ year veteran of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and certified teacher of the Alexander...

Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook...