Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

Can music be a curse? Here is an alternate history of online politics and new technology from the perspective of listening, typing, composing, and shared hearing. Emile Frankel presents a rigorous account of a world felt to be in crisis. The aesthetic and tonal...

No Performance is Complete Without an Encore You asked for it, and you got it Lead Guitar Wizardry is back with more how-to guitar playing instruction that will have you rocking like Jimmy Page. Jam-packed with simple diagrams and clear explanations, this training manual...

Rock guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix & Eddie Van Halen made playing the guitar look like magic.Now you can learn how to play lead guitar and create magic of your own with this book. Jam-packed with simple diagrams and clear explanations, this training manual...

Learn to execute the bass guitar from its bases, acquiring a solid and formal technique. Includes fingering exercises, simple and syncopated accompaniments; In addition, learn to enrich base lines with adornments and pass notes. Includes exercises with audio (mp3) downloadable from the author's page.Author:...

Warning: Do NOT buy this book unless: 1- You are familiar with Jaime Vendera's methods 2- You are ready to train like a hardcore singer In SingFit, Jaime Vendera introduces you to a military-style 30-Day Vocal Bootcamp (V30) by combining exercises and techniques from...

One exercise, one minute, one new voice... In Raise Your Voice 2: The Advanced Manual, glass-shattering vocal coach Jaime Vendera unveils his most innovative exercise designed to explode a singer's voice beyond their potential. The "Ultimate Isolation Exercise" is comprised of a six-exercise stack,...

The Solid Beat Concept is a must-read for all music students and those who want a career in the 21st-century music industry. This unique resource identifies some of the challenges facing today's students and professionals and provides answers to core questions, helpful tools, wisdom,...

"High School Jazz is the culmination of 40 years of teaching jazz. It is designed to give you clear instructions as well as the reasoning behind why I make these suggestions. I currently travel to high schools around the country doing clinics with jazz...

Favorite Hymns for Three Violins is a collection of 40 hymns arranged in 3-part harmony for beginning or intermediate violin students. It is a supplement to any beginning method book. The order of the hymns follows a logical and sequential key progression, with an...

In music-instrument language a bridge usually refers to the part of the violin that supports the strings and transfers its vibrations to the instrument's body. It conducts the sound as well as the music produced by the player. In a wider sense, however, a...

Supplementing the pedagogy of the popular walking bass method Low Down Vol. 1, this book (Vol. 2) provides 200 pages of reading practice in 12 keys. This book provides the tools to quickly start playing jazz bass, walking lines, improvising, and even playing with...

If you study nature closely you will understand the strategies and techniques that the natural world has developed over millions of years Many of these strategies can be applied to the guitar. With practice, your guitar playing will become enjoyable, natural and effortless Nature...

This book is a guide for teaching violin in classes. Teaching violin in a classroom is fundamentally different from individual tuition: the students are different, the objectives are different, the challenges and the rewards are different. In this guide, Joel Epstein brings years of...

Double Bass/Single Pedal: Bounce Technique For Bass Drum Book 2 is a drum set instructional book tailored to developing your single pedal bass drum technique. There are 30 exercises and 35 etudes designed to facilitate complete control over triplets, duples, artificial rhythmic groupings, and...

Jazz Arpeggios: 9ths thru 13ths with all alterations, plus rootless 251 soloing!The object of this book is to achieve, in the absolute shortest time possible, muscle memory mastery of the fingering gestures necessary to visualize and internalize the jazz arpeggios on guitar in order...

Learn how to make reeds with Oboe Reed-Making Simplified. Follow along as the book guides you though seven steps to make an oboe reed, from tube bamboo cane to a finished reed. Steps include: Splitting Tube Cane, Guillotine, Pre-Gouging, Gouging, Shaping, Tying-On Reeds, and...

Autistic people and musical individuals often have perfect pitch, a gift they were born with. The musical gift may be accompanied with learning differences such as reading comprehension problems, trouble with mathematics, and significant difficulties in learning how to read music. This book was...

Learn to play the melodies of nine selected hymns on the mountain dulcimer. Then the same hymns will be taught using just chords so you can sing along with your family and friends.Author: Gary Loren McCallisterISBN-10: 1530980488ISBN-13: 9781530980482Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2016Pages:...

A BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Ultimate Guide For Teaching Private Guitar Lessons (A Guide For Guitar Teachers) The Complete Version" contains hundreds of tips for beginning private guitar teachers, private or group guitar lessons, acoustic or electric guitar, in your own home or at the student's...

It's Time to Learn The Ukulele the Right way This book is perfect for beginners Bonus Books Included FREE With Kindle Unlimited You will learn everything that you have to and would like to learn about the ukulele with the help of this book....

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...