ISBN 9781619119802.

This continuation of Jimmy Wyble's book The Art of Two-Line Improvisation includes five duets in which each part is a two-line contrapuntal piece! Also includes three new solo compositions, all in standard notation and tab. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619119765.

This comprehensive text covers the spectrum of fingerpicking technique and styles. Performance and stylistic notes, fingerstyle guitar solos and a listening guide are presented for each section of the book.Sections include: Folk Songs; Gospel Songs; Country Blues; RagtimeBlues; Rags and Dances; Appalachian Fiddle Tunes; Celtic Airs; Jigs and Reels; Classic Rags; Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar & Fingerstyle Guitar Duets. All solos are in notation and tablature and are written by noted fingerpicking guitarists Stefan Grossman, Elizabeth Cotten, DeanSires, Ton VanBergeyk, David Laibman, Rev. Gary Davis, Duck Baker, Seth Austen, Steve Tilston, John Morris, Sid Percy, Tom O'Farrell, JimMcLennan, Leo Wijnkamp Jr., Lasse Johansson and Claes Palmqvist.

ISBN 9781609740290. This landmark book of music for the plectrum style jazz guitar took years to compile, write and edit. It contains some of the greatest solos and duets ever written and performed on the plectrum or flatpicked guitar, including works by Carl Kress, Dick McDonough, George Van Eps, Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Eddie Lang, George M Smith, Al Valenti, Mel Bay, Frank Victor, Harry Volpe, Carmen Mastren, Oscar Moore, Mundell Lowe, Tony Mottola, Al Hendrickson, and Cal Collins. All solos are in notation and tablature while the duets are shown in standard notation only.

ISBN 9781619117389.

The duets in Ten Concert Pieces for Classic Guitar Duo are written in different musical styles and varying degrees of difficulty. In addition to several pieces emulating the Baroque and Classical periods, the collection includes compositions inspired by the bossa nova, jazz, blues, and even the musical cross-pollination of the stride piano style. Ideal for recital, concert or festival settings, audiences as well as intermediate to moderately advanced guitarists will enjoy the timeless, international flavor of these engaging original compositions. Written in standard notation only.

Nineteen Skeletal Duets for Trombones is a set of duets of easy to moderately difficult specifically for teachers and students in private lessons. The first 15 duets are arranged from Fifteen Safari Duets for Tubas which was composed in 1989 for playing with my tuba students at Berklee College of Music. They are at different levels of difficulty and in various styles so that we always had duets to play no matter what was the ability of the student. The additional four duets were added in 2020 for trombones for this set. The title of each duet is also a name for a bone in the human body, hence the name Skeletal Duets. There is something in each duet for students to learn: the basics of tone production, rhythms, melodic phrasing, jazz, graphic notation, etc. Most are sight readable and some have been performed in concerts. Nineteen Skeletal Duets for Euphoniums are the same duets but in treble clef. Twenty-two Skeletal Duets for Hornsuses the first 19 of the trombone set with three additional duets added. Some of the trombone and horn duets are in the same key so they can be played together.

1. Cranium
This duet presents the cantabile ?singing? style as studied for playing the trombone. I find that this duet helps the student much like the melodies of Borgodni (Rochet) etudes.

2. Stirrup
This duet provides an opportunity to read basic rhythms and articulations. I find that the more advanced students can read in a faster tempo while the less skilled students work best in the slower tempos ? a common choice for all of the duets.
3. Humerus
This waltz helps the student match phrasing in a cantabile setting. There are a few instances where the teacher (playing the first part) plays a phrase then the student plays a similar phrase.
4. Vertebra
This is in a ?rock? style with syncopated rhythms with cantabile melodies. Articulations are especially important in this duet.
5. Axis
Legato scales and syncopated rhythms are the features of this duet. This is a good exercise for legato playing on trombone, especially when the legato tongue is needed versus when the trombonist does not need to tongue when moving across partials.
6. Tibia
This duet alternates in rock style and swing. Articulations and manipulation of ?swing? rhythms are important.
7. Clavicle
The key of A for this duet provides variation for the students.
8. Fibula nd
This duet uses the easiest of rhythms and range, especially for the 2
9. Scapula
This duet is non-metric and uses graphic notation. This was a favorite duet of my students as many had never experienced this notation before.
10. Atlas ndThis is an Invention in the Bach style. This is probably the best duet to play when the 2 part is played by bass trombone.

(student) part.

11. Radius
This duet is in a ?Medium Swing? jazz style. Each part has a chance to play a little bit of a ?walking? bass line. Articulations and manipulation of ?swing? rhythms are important in this duet.
12. Femur
This duet works on double time and half time tempo changes.
13. Patella
This is another duet that includes graphic notation. In this duet ?Free rapid legato lines? are used.
14. Anvil
This gallop displays different types of articulation.
15. Hammer
This duet is in the style of a fanfare.
16. Rib
This duet is a melody, ?Magallon Blues?, that I originally composed when I taught at a summer music camp in Magallon, Spain. In that camp each of the students would practice playing a jazz solo. This duet also has jazz chord changes so you can add piano or guitar. The use of drums is also an added option.
17. Sacrum
This duet is a short arrangement of Mozart?s ?Eine Kleine Nachtmusic?.
18. Ulna
This duet is a short arrangement of the traditional Irish folk song ?Londonderry Air?, more commonly known as ?Danny Boy?.
19. Ilium
This duet is a short arrangement of the Beethoven?s song ?Ode to Joy? which represents the triumph of universal brotherhood against war and desperation.

Gregory Fritze is a prize-winning composer and Fulbright Scholar, as well as an active performer. He recently retired from Berklee College of Music where he was Tuba Professor and Chair of Composition, serving on the faculty from 1979 to 2016. He has written over one hundred compositions for orchestra, band, chamber ensembles and soloists. He has won over sixty composition awards both nationally and internationally including First Prize in the 1991 TUBA Etude Contest for Twenty Characteristic Etudes for Tuba, an award from The American Prize for his Petite Suite for Brass Quintet and others. His compositions include works published by several publishers in the United States, South America and Europe that have been performed extensively throughout the world. Many of his compositions are available on ITunes, Youtube and Soundcloud.
His compositions are recorded on Albany Records, MSR Classics, Crystal Records, Mark Records and others. He has been a guest lecturer, conductor and performer at many colleges, universities and music festivals in the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Europe. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1954 and has Composition degrees from the Boston Conservatory and Indiana University. He now resides in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.

15 Really Easy Jazz Duets for Clarinet and Alto Saxophone, are exciting original compositions by David McKeown, arranged in easy keys and within a suitable range for one Clarinet and one Alto Saxophone. These duets are written with players of a few months? experience in mind. Click the YouTube link above to listen to samples of several of the duets played on Clarinet. 15 Really Easy Jazz Duets for Clarinet and Alto Saxophoneare all in a jazz swing style and each duet presents and reinforces a new rhythmic challenge. 15 Really Easy Jazz Duets for Clarinet and Alto Saxophone? are; Perfect for concert performances large and small.Fun for younger players with the cat titles theme.Fully articulated to help develop that sense of jazz style.Great for helping with jazz rhythms.Road tested with scores of students.Fun to play.Playable with piano, guitar or even full rhythm section.Chords in concert pitch are included throughout. The fifteen titles are, The Bossy Bobcat, The Careful Caracal, The Chatty Cheetah, The Cosy Cougar, The Lazy Leopard, The Leaky Lion, The Lucky Lynx, The Magnificent Margay, The Operatic Oncilla, The Outrageous Ocelot, The Polite Puma, The Porky Panther, The Selfish Serval, and The Timid Tiger.

15 Really Easy Jazz Duets for Flute and Trumpet, are exciting original compositions by David McKeown, arranged in easy keys and within a suitable range for one Flute and one Trumpet. These duets are written with players of a few months? experience in mind. Click the YouTube link above to listen to samples of several of the duets played on Clarinet.

15 Really Easy Jazz Duets for Flute and Trumpet are all in a jazz swing style and each duet presents and reinforces a new rhythmic challenge.

15 Really Easy Jazz Duets for Flute and Trumpet are;

Perfect for concert performances large and small.Fun for younger players with the cat titles theme.Fully articulated to help develop that sense of jazz style.Great for helping with jazz rhythms.Road tested with scores of students.Fun to play.Playable with piano, guitar or even full rhythm section.Chords in concert pitch are included throughout.
The fifteen titles are, The Bossy Bobcat, The Careful Caracal, The Chatty Cheetah, The Cosy Cougar, The Lazy Leopard, The Leaky Lion, The Lucky Lynx, The Magnificent Margay, The Operatic Oncilla, The Outrageous Ocelot, The Polite Puma, The Porky Panther, The Selfish Serval, and The Timid Tiger.

ISBN 9781619114968. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. The Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method Complete Edition is known worldwide for the incredible array of music presented, the thoroughness of educational music content and ease of understanding. The method contains hundreds of solos, duets, picking studies, chord etudes, position studies, scale and technique etudes, lessons in theory and harmony and much more! Every key and every position on the guitar fingerboard is thoroughly taught. Music is presented by many of the great master composers such as Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Handel, Grieg and also renown guitar composers such as Sor, Tarrega and Carcassi. The styles of music presented in this exhaustive course range from Early Music to Jazz to Bluegrass and Country to Rock. This method will equip any guitarist to perform the demands of modern music with ease and will transition the guitar student from beginner to virtuoso. This comprehensive method contains all of the music found in the Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method Expanded Edition volumes 1 through 7 and comes with extensive online audio and video.