Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

First published in 1911, this vintage book contains a complete guide to learning and mastering fore-arm rotation for piano playing, by Tobias Matthay. Forearm rotation is the movement your arm makes when you turn your hand from palm down to palm up in front...

"The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity " is a guide to playing the piano or pianoforte by English pianist Tobias Matthay. It aims to provide the reader with a full understanding of the foundations of playing the instrument, explaining each step with...

PLAY THE UKULELE LIKE A PRO IN MINUTES is a fingerprint-unique ukulele songbook which, after years of hard work and traveling, was put together lovingly by the Southern-California-based author Veronico "Ron" Somera, with musical notes, lyrics, chord charts, and instructions on the pages of...

A UKE BOOK LIKE NO OTHER: Do you want to learn to play the ukulele really well? If so, this is the perfect book to learn from. With detailed step-by-step guidance, 89 stand-alone solos, and 54 accompaniments and tutorials, you will be playing really...

(Vocal Instruction). Great singing can inspire us, surprise us, make us laugh, or make us cry. It can draw the listener in, creating a shared experience of stories and emotions, communicating the singer's unique point of view. Singing with Expression presents a step-by-step guide...

(Guitar Book). The Fingerpower series delivers a proven and effective path to technical development. This guitar edition focuses on pick-style playing with short, progressive exercises that are easy to learn and fun to practice, developing strength in both hands.Author: Chad JohnsonISBN-10: 1495091236ISBN-13: 9781495091230Publisher: Schaum...

Filled with guitar scales patterns with scale degree/ intervals notated. Use as a visual reference to help guitar players to quickly learn and memorize scales. Cut out scales patterns and carry them in your pocket/wallet for reference anywhere, anytime.Author: Saiful I. AgoesISBN-10: 1466453753ISBN-13: 9781466453753Publisher:...

(Keyboard Instruction). No music reading is required for this book/video pack! The book covers topics such as: two-beat shuffle, box shuffle, linear boogie woogie, round boogie woogie, Yancy/Domino-inspired groove, and New Orleans-inspired groove. The intimate instructional video features Ann Rabson teaching her own brand...

"The Fiddler's Nurser" is a classic guide to playing the violin written for beginners an young players. It contains a collection of simple music compositions for violin, presented as clear sheet music perfect for annotations and notes. Each piece has some helpful information including...

This classic book contains a comprehensive guide to playing the organ, with chapters on every aspect from mastering the basic techniques to playing complex arrangements and beyond. With clear, step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations, "The Technique and Art of Organ Playing" is ideal for...

This vintage book offers the reader a comprehensive, elementary course in learning to play the organ, specially designed for those with absolutely no previous musical training. Written in clear, simple language and full of helpful diagrams, "The Brill System of Organ Instruction" will be...

"On Organ Playing" is a classic treatise on playing the organ specially designed for young or new players, with chapters on everything from learning the basic principles to mastering advanced techniques and beyond. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this is a...

This is a classic article on the subject of playing church organs by Reginald Goss Custard, focusing on the proper use of the pedal and the general interpretation of organ music. This fantastic text offers the reader a comprehensive and step-by-step guide complete with...

"Sight-Reading for Piano Made Easy" is a vintage guide to sight reading for the piano. "Sight reading" refers to reading and performing of a piece of music notation that the performer has not seen before. With concise instructions and many helpful tips, this volume...

This is a classic guide to playing the violin, being an illustrated book of practical suggestions and advice from a master of this instrument. It offers simple, clear instructions and tips for learning how to play or improve current proficiency, making it ideal for...

This is a guitar instruction book that is a definitive look at how to sweep pick chords on the guitar. Sweep picking is when you move your picking hand and pick across all or most of the strings with one motion. You are not...

I've tried to capture in this book everything I've learned from him in a clear and tidy manner, so it could be easyly accessible for any student no matter what his level is. Gilbert has many virtues, but this book focuses on his technique....

Play beautiful music even if you don't read music or know anything about music theory. Learn how to play this easy instrument that has the voice of a violin with the haunting quality of bagpipes. Easily play the great sounding Celtic Music, Mountain Folk...

(Trumpet Instruction). This 52-week, one-exercise-a-day workout program for developing, improving and maintaining trumpet technique includes access to demo audio tracks online for all 365 workout licks Techniques covered include: scales * articulations * flexibility * intervals * arpeggios * ornaments * buzzing & lip...

Author: Alexander PeskanovISBN-10: 1480369551ISBN-13: 9781480369559Publisher: Willis Music CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2005Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.60w x 0.50d

(Keyboard Instruction). Get a complete jazz-rock piano workout as you develop your rhythmic feel, dexterity, hand coordination and voicing skills as you work through the fun, authentic examples in this book. The pieces will help you use your jazz-rock piano technique in a musical,...

(Musicians Institute Press). A comprehensive source for learning rhythm guitar in a variety of musical styles. It covers: open chords, barre chords, and other movable shapes; strumming, fingerstyle, flatpicking and arpeggiation; common progressions and basic chord theory; triads, sixth, seventh, ninth, and many other...

This is a book with tips for how to practice the piano written by someone with fifty-seven years out in the trenches with piano students. It takes the reader through the process of choosing the next piece to work on, and then through the...

This groundbreaking work, specially designed for the music classroom, combines traditional and popular literature in a method that both teaches the ukulele and develops music literacy. Assuming no prior knowledge, the leveled content allows students to track their progress and teachers to reward benchmark...

At 368 pages, Beyond Salsa for Ensemble, Vol. 1 is the most ambitious of the 15 volume series. The course is designed for college and high school Latin music ensembles and working salsa bands seeking to add modern Cuban "timba" and "songo" material and...

FYI: This book is listed at Amazon's absolute lowest printing price as a low-cost resource for sparking strumming creativity.Note from the Author: Have you ever wondered how many strum patterns are possible? It's a big, big number. If you limit your options to just...

Not just another book of beats and rolls, The Ultimate Guide To Rock Drums is the firstfully developed system that teaches you what you want and when you need it. Thissystem, based on years of teaching experience takes you from basic rock grooves rightup...

Rarely do scales and arpeggios occur in music the way we learn them in books, that is, until now in this book. When we encounter a scale or an arpeggio in a piece of music, we should be prepared to first notice that it...

Over several years, Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet have interviewed approximately 50 musicians from various backgrounds about their practice of musical improvisation. Musicians include both the very experienced such as Sophie Agnel, Burkhard Beins, John Butcher, Rhodri Davies, Bill Dixon, Phil Durrant, Axel D...

Interpretation of Dave Lombardo's drumming on Slayer's "South of Heaven". Thrash drumming grooves, double bass, fills, and solos. Also a Slayer and Dave Lombardo biography. The thrash drumming guidebook.Author: Greg SundelISBN-10: 1500883956ISBN-13: 9781500883959Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2014Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 11.02h x...

The second edition of Clarinet Secrets provides techniques, tips, and guides based on Michele Gingras' 30 years of experience teaching in the clarinet studio. Discussed in a straightforward way, the concepts are explained clearly and illustrated with photos, diagrams, and musical examples--perfect for students,...

Drawing on both scholarly studies and production experience, Timothy Cheek presents an original English-language translation of the original Czech libretto of Leos Janáček's, most famous opera, Jenůfa. Cheek also provides background on the opera, a discussion about the various voice types and roles, Janáček's...

The authors present relevant and noteworthy research and insight into many therapies, including holistic, exposure, cognitive and behavioral therapies, and medicinal treatments. Each chapter features self-guided activities and journaling exercises, words of wisdom from established performing artists and athletes, and suggestions for music teachers.Author:...

So You Want to Sing Barbershop offers a close look at barbershop quartets and choruses and explores the techniques required to sing in the style. It also surveys the history and current popularity of barbershop societies. Guest authors offer chapters on vocal science and...

ABOUT GUITAR PRACTICE NOTEBOOKGuitar Practice Notebook is all about helping you keep track of your guitar lesson work as well as understanding the progress you are making.Fifty two lessons are accommodated for over two pages per lesson. Your guitar teacher remarks are offered for...

THE FIRST STEP TO PLAYING LIKE A PRO IS THINKING LIKE ONE. Guitar players frequently face the same roadblocks in their playing. Many feel stunted creatively, stuck playing the same old things, and unsure how to move forward. These issues are caused by some...

MY VIOLIN BOW-ARM METHOD establishes a logical sequence of exercises, giving the violin student and teacher a sequential lesson plan to address bow technique. Each exercise is targeted to achieve mastery of a specific technical element of bowing. Exercises increase progressively in difficulty to...

The Ultimate Vocal Workout Diary is a yearlong four page per week diary for users of the books "Raise Your Voice" and "The Ultimate Breathing Workout". Chart your progress as you learn the amazing techniques brought to you by Jaime Vendera, the world renowned...

20 Original Funk Bass Guitar lines in tablature and notation for the intermediate to advanced bassist, plus an extra bonus Bass line. 89 bars of music over 21 Bass lines (average Bass line length 4.2 bars) Video at full speed & Audio at full...

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:...