Music-Instruction & Study-Techniques

"The Console and Mechanism of the Church Organ" is a vintage article on church organs, focusing on how they are designed and built. With detailed descriptions of their inner workings coupled with precise and clear diagrams, this volume is not to be missed by...

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced player, this method provides a solid foundation for developing your saxophone skills. From basic techniques to advanced exercises, it offers a comprehensive program for improving your playing.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

Description: The Rhythm Lab's Exhibition Duets For Drum Set This package contains a combination of suggested contemporary studies to keep you enthusiastic about all the styles that you have already learnt, and are now performing with a live band (ensemble). These studies herein, will...

The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Research into the performer's experience has begun to explore such areas as practice techniques, performance anxiety and memorization, as well as...

(Fast Track Music Instruction). The fast way to find just the chord or scale you need. This user-friendly reference book is jam-packed with over 1,400 chords and voicings and includes a jam session with 20 original songs using common chord progressions. The cost of...

Massively improve your knowledge and understanding of the guitar fretboard and guitar theory with this step-by-step method for using the CAGED system.Armed with everything in this book, you can learn and master the essential guitar scales all over the guitar neck, organize your fretboard...

This is an easy to follow methodology with clear and useful illustrations that will not only encourage the most unskilled beginner, but will also provide a way back for those who have been discouraged in their initial attempts to learn.Author: Victoria Ann Davis, Chip...

Don't Sweat the Technique equips aspiring performers with the tools and knowledge needed to become a better rapper. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book helps build techniques and unlocks solutions to common stumbling blocks. It includes exclusive advice from dozens of MCs who give...

Sound and Action in Music Performance addresses how auditory feedback influences the planning and execution of our movements. Focusing specifically on auditory feedback in music, including instrumental and vocal production, the book also gives substantial coverage to its role in speech. Both of these...

An indispensable resource for the modern voice teacher, this volumeexplores the body's response to trauma and practical ways that singing teachers can adapt the principles of trauma-informed care while maintaining ethical boundaries. It gathering research and perspectives from the fields of psychology, speech pathology,...

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 own home.In...

(Educational Piano Library). Piano Technique Book 3 builds upon skills learned in Books 1 and 2, adding sixMajor and minor five finger positions, extended hand positions, and introducing moving from one position to another. Warm Ups and Musical Fitness Plans introduce each new skill,...

An indispensable resource for the modern voice teacher, this volumeexplores the body's response to trauma and practical ways that singing teachers can adapt the principles of trauma-informed care while maintaining ethical boundaries. It gathering research and perspectives from the fields of psychology, speech pathology,...

"Sight-Reading 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 contains simple...

Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo...

So, you're interested in learning to play the cello? That's fantastic! You might have heard that it's really difficult and requires years of practice just to create beautiful sound. However, that's not true. Sure, if your aim is to become an expert with exceptional...

This is the thoroughly revised 2023 "Handbell Ringers Bible". I listened to all your comments and have made this even more comprehensive and easier to learn from.A set of handbells creates ONE musical instrument. They are always 'in tune, ' and most ringers play...

A student of the world-renowned violinist Leopold Auer, Maia Bang acted as the maestro's teaching assistant and preserved his acclaimed methods of instruction in a series of manuals. The seven-volume collection covers every aspect of teaching and learning the instrument, from the beginning to...

The piano is world's greatest instrument Can you tell I'm a piano player? OK, I might be slightly biased. However, it is true that the piano is the most versatile acoustic instrument. And aside from perhaps the synthesizer or pipe organ, the piano has...

Learn Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Strategies for 8 Classic StandardsStruggling to play authentic Gypsy Jazz Guitar Solos? Ready to progress from licks to longer, meaningful solos that tell a story?In his new book, Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes - Volume One, world renowned Gypsy...

Master Pentatonic & Modal Scales and Achieve Complete Fretboard Freedom!Three best-selling modern guitar method books in one definitive collection: Minor Pentatonic Soloing ConnectionsFrom Pentatonic Scales to ModesGuitar Mode Soloing ConnectionsJoseph Alexander is the most popular and highly rated guitar author on Amazon.In this collection...

A Novel Approach to Learning Guitar Chord ProgressionsThis treatise seeks to encourage guitarists of all levels to find their voice by experimenting and creating chordal ideas by playing notes on any part of the fingerboard to come up with their own chord shapes and...

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 banjo. With practice, your banjo playing will become enjoyable, natural and effortless Nature...

At last, you can take a lesson from a Cuban piano master. Emilio Morales, along with musicologist Jon Griffin, will guide you through the full array of Cuban styles. From traditional Cha-cha-ch and bolero to son moderno and timba. This book will show you...

So, you're interested in learning to play the cello? That's fantastic! You might have heard that it's really difficult and requires years of practice just to create beautiful sound. However, that's not true. Sure, if your aim is to become an expert with exceptional...

Author: Lauren HaleyISBN-10: 1946384259ISBN-13: 9781946384256Publisher: Purpose Driven PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2018Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d

Jazz Guitar Workshop Book I - Daily Warm Up Exercieses for Guitar. Guitar Method for developing a dedicated daily practice routine utilising scales, modes & arpeggios. One of the most important aspects of learning any instrument is being able to set aside time to...

Techniques, Tricks & Pro Tips to Make Your Sound The Very Best it Can Be!Do you want to make better music? How about achieving a professional sound? Or even being able to work in professional studios?If you're serious about improving your music production, songwriting...

Whether you are new to songwriting or have written hundreds of songs, "The Songwriter's Journal" should be within arm's reach whenever the mood to write a new tune strikes. It is packed with the fuel you need to ignite the imagination and provides you...

(Berklee Labs). Effective improvisation can add fun and individuality to guitar performances. This book presents a unique improvisation strategy based on ear training and a linear interpretation of note/chord relationships. You'll learn how to: develop an expectation of sound * master the relationships between...

Author: Ronnie LeylandISBN-10: 1498435610ISBN-13: 9781498435611Publisher: Xulon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2015Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.22d

Written by veteran music educator Peter J. Perry, Technology Tips for Ensemble Teachers presents a collection of practical tips to help today's school music ensemble director incorporate and implement technology in all aspects of large ensemble instruction. This go-to guide offers specific methods for...

Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions...

Known around the world for his advocacy of early historical performance and as a skilled violin performer and pedagogue, Stanley Ritchie has developed a technical guide to the interpretation and performance of J. S. Bach's enigmatic sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Unlike typical...

(Instrumental). Three vamp parts are layered on each other in this innovative improvisation collection, allowing soloists to join in as they please. Some vamps are simple, others more challenging. Improvising becomes accessible with soloing guidelines and tips. 35 different styles are covered, including jazz,...

(Musicians Institute Press). Designed to help today's up-and-coming DJs become familiar with the main methods of DJ-ing, this book teaches the important historical and technological landmarks that have contributed to this art form. Not only does this publication present the traditional method of DJ-ing...

German song in the nineteenth century offers some of the greatest pleasures available to the singer, pianist, and listener. The great German poets--Goethe, Schiller, R?kert, Eichendorff, Heine, Mike, Hesse, and many lesser figures--inspired masterpieces by Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and Richard...

Author: Lenard C. Dma BowieISBN-10: 1479774960ISBN-13: 9781479774968Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2013Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d

Everything you need to know about singing and caring for your voice. Topics include: posture, breathing, resonance, studio work, how to warm up, and much more.Author: Roma WatermanISBN-10: 0825673585ISBN-13: 9780825673580Publisher: Omnibus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.70w x 0.60d

Alexandra Pierce singles out elements of music such as melody, meter, and phrase, and investigates the defining quality of each through movement. Although simple, these exercises engage the listening attention in complex ways and can be integrated into a musician's daily practice. Practicing movements...

Drop-Voicings are presented to the jazz pianist within the context of both major and minor rootless 2-5-1 progressions, along with their most common altered dominants, in all twelve keys.Author: Jeff BrentISBN-10: 1482569698ISBN-13: 9781482569698Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2013Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 11.00h x...

This vintage book contains a fantastic guide to playing the violin, focusing on the elementary techniques and fundamental principles. Written in simple, clear language and full of helpful illustrations and expert tips, "The Technics of Violin Playing" will appeal to anyone wishing to learn...

Get Total Fretboard Freedom Using Modes on Guitar Are you tired of being stuck in one guitar scale position? Are you ready to break out and access the whole guitar neck to release your inner virtuoso? Is it time for you to learn the...

Pentatonic Speed Strategies for Guitar is Chris Brooks' guide to building jaw-dropping speed and fluency with the pentatonic scale. Famous for his picking technique and guitar teaching strategies, Chris has turned his attention to the humble pentatonic, and is here to show you its...

This is the third volume of an organic educational system that includes an extensive online component consisting of hundreds of interactive sound examples, videos, theory and practice glossaries, tests, programs written in Max, a Max object library created specifically for these volumes, and many...

The Comprehensive Guide to Practicing GuitarFeel like you're wasting time in the practice room?Don't know what guitar skills you should be working on when? Need a complete guide to the most beneficial way to practice guitar? Every musician understands the value of practice, but...

Based on the pioneering improvisation workshops of the late cellist David Darling, Simple and Daring presents suggestions for teaching Social Music Improvisation to children and adults at all levels of ability and experience. There are specific ideas for incorporating improvisation into the common practices...

(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...

This expanded edition includes a new introduction by John Nix as well as a new appendix offering case studies and practical insights from teachers about how Barbara Doscher has impacted their voice instruction.An understanding of how the singing voice functions should be a prerequisite...

The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a m駘ange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy...