Original Motion Picture Soundtrack-The 2016 Illumination animated film The Secret Life Of Pets has been nominated for an Annie Award for its soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat. This matching folio contains 14 original pieces from the film's delightful score arranged for solo Piano. This book also includes full-colour scenes from the movie making it a great souvenir edition.

A must have for all pianists seeking a creative approach to developing left and right hand coordination. The exercises and solos (based on the chord changes to well-known standards) are rhythmic, colorful, and fun to play. The chapters cover six specific areas of left hand development and left/right hand integration, with practical application from standard jazz tunes in the form of musical solo piano pieces. This book will definitely be an essential part of your practice routine. Besides improving your hand coordination, it will challenge you to think differently about it. All of the concepts are easily applicable to the real world. Highly endorsed! Pianist Emiko Hayashi has written a very comprehensive, challenging yet very accessible method book. With exercises designed for left hand alone and exercises designed to develop interplay between the hands, I wholeheartedly recommend this book. I\'ve already started practicing! - Kenny Barron In Etudes for Jazz Piano Emiko Hayashi illuminates a challenge that faces scores of jazz pianists at all levels; that of integrating the left hand in improvisation in a meaningful way, not only as an accompanist, but as an integral part of the whole. By taking various jazz standards and creating etudes specifically for the left hand as well as for developing coordination and the conversational aspects between the left and right hands, Ms. Hayashi illustrates many possibilities for expanding one�s technical and expressive range. I would think this set of etudes would be extremely useful to jazz pianists at any stage of development since the obvious outcome of the study will improve one�s ability to play melodically and expressively throughout the keyboard, without regard to the traditional roles of the left and right hands. - Todd Coolman It is understood that all musicians must play piano. Emiko\'s book fills a void for non-pianists addressing specific technical problems which will help towards being able to use the piano to improve and enlarge one\'s playing and composing, no matter what instrument you play. This is a hands-on book directed towards immediate results. - David Liebman

Book 2-Richard Smith's My Piano My Body And Me - Book 2 develops the holistic approach to technique musicianship and interpretation adopted in the first publication.  This book is suitable for students at an intermediate level and covers music from different periods. It charts the Piano's development showing how the larger instruments that emerged at the end of the 19th century made different physical and mental demands on performers. Pianists today are playing very different instruments to their predecessors. This demands close consideration when performing music from the Baroque Classical Romantic and 20thcentury. Why should I approach Baroque music differently to that written in the Romantic period? What is direct pedalling....and finger pedalling? How do I play and count unusual time signatures? These are all questions that My Piano My Body And Me - Book 2 will answer. This book is equally instructive and illuminating as its predecessor and contains another selection of inspiring imaginative pieces specifically written to practise particular skills and techniques - e.g. grace notes ('Kestrel') the una corda pedal ('Serenity') compound time ('Loving Living') and unusual time signatures ('All in Good Time').

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. The Complete Chopin ? A New Critical Edition from Edition Peters is firmly established as the most important ongoing scholarly edition of Chopin?s music and is a must for any discerning pianist. The world?s foremost Chopin editors, under Editor-in-chief John Rink, bring their unrivalled collective knowledge to imbue the project with unique authority, drawing upon the latest international scholarship. The Complete Chopin prioritizes the needs of the practical pianist and provides a beautifully presented performing text of each work based on a single principal source together with important variants, along with thorough critical commentaries and illuminating prefatory essays in English, French and German. Chopin?s etudes occupy a central position in piano literature. Prized by generations of the greatest pianists as the supreme examples in the genre, their reputation rests on their not only challenging specific aspects of a pianist?s technique, but also for being great music, transcending the genre of mere ?study?. In this edition of opus 10 (the earlier of Chopin?s two sets of studies, ending with the famous \'Revolutionary\' etude), pianist and musicologist Roy Howat presents a new edition which addresses many of the misunderstandings created by a very poorly engraved first French edition (containing errors which were then carried over to the German and English editions) ? an edition which nevertheless included many important revisions made at proof stage. Using this first French edition as a primary source, Howat produces an Urtext edition which, while recording noteworthy variants from a variety of sources, is not a ?conflated? version, but a coherent performing edition in its own right, ideal for all who aspire to play these cornerstones of piano repertoire in an informed way. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Recueil / Piano

Early to Later Intermediate Level-Each piano suite is addictive! Austin's Jazz Suite No. 2 in B-flat Major (2001) remains hugely popular but this collection also features the charming first suite in F Major (one of her first published pieces) as well as the exciting third suite also in F major and originally composed in 2019 for clarinet cajon and piano. The outer movements of all three suites are rhythmic and melodic but it is the inner soulful movements that surprise and illuminate.

A complete and comprehensive guide to scales arpeggios chords and cadences that will allow you to fully understand melodic construction tonality and harmony - suitable for Piano students of all levels.A complete understanding of harmony and scales will illuminate all areas of your playing and enjoyment of music. The practicing of scales does not only improve technique it also helps develop fluency in sight-reading and improvisation. This painstaking tutorial will give you the tools to master both the theory and the practical application of harmony boosting your confidence and your musicianship to a whole new level.

A challenging and rewarding learning experience for all proficient Jazz pianists who want to broaden their vocabulary and improvise more creatively based around six stunning standards.Andy LaVerne illuminates the chord changes voicings embellishments and improvisational ideas that make the standards come to life. You'll begin by learning the basic changes before moving into more complex renditions demonstrated at half-speed so that you won't miss a note. Each song is harmonically dissected opening up huge potentials in reharmonisation and substitution as well as providing a solid guide for your own improvised melodies.

En parlant de la danse classique on imagine toujours une fragile danseuse, raffinée, vêtue d?un tutu pailleté et de pointes satinées. Mais on oublie souvent (et à tort !) ceux, grâce à qui cette finesse et cette féminité sont mises en valeur : les garçons. Ce sont les partenaires incontournables lors des présentations scéniques : leur force durant les grands portés en Pas de deux et Grands adages rassure la jolie princesse tout en soulignant son image légère et vaporeuse ; la fiabilité de leurs appuis au moment des grandes pirouettes fait tourner la tête des spectateurs ; leurs envols en grands sauts déclenchent des tempêtes d?applaudissements ! Qu?ils soient souvent minoritaires en cours de danse classique, leur morphologie ainsi que les qualités techniques de leurs pas spécifiques doivent être mises en valeur et méritent une attention particulière. C?est pour cette raison que j?ai décidé de consacrer la grande partie de ce volume aux exercices pour les garçons, car, à mon sens, ces "perles rares" des classes de danse doivent être traités avec beaucoup de soin. Ils ont le droit à leurs propres exercices au milieu de la salle (pendant que les filles mettent leur pointes !), et avec la réponse adaptée par la qualité d?accompagnement : les schémas harmoniques les plus clairs sont là pour souligner la stabilité et la force d?appui ; le volume sonore et le diapason mélodique du morceau doivent correspondre aux amplitudes des mouvements et aux déplacements du danseur dans l?espace ; les tempos des morceaux s?adaptent aux niveaux et aux exigences techniques des exercices. Il est impossible d?imaginer les spectacles de danse sans variations : ce sont les moments très émouvants tant pour les danseurs que pour leurs spectateurs (et pour les professeurs aussi !). Ce sont en quelque sorte des résumés de performances techniques acquises durant l?année scolaire. J?ajoute à ce volume trois variations différentes (une pour garçons, deux pour filles : sur demi-pointes et sur pointes) afin d?assurer un choix optimal pour les professeurs de danse. Et à la fin de la prestation - les saluts et les révérences ! Les ports de bras accompagnent les inclinaisons du corps. L?intention de mouvements exprime la gratitude et la reconnaissance, et les regards des danseurs s?illuminent en dialogue avec leur public ! Le moment est venu de le remercier pour sa fidélité, son attention et son intérêt porté à cet art éternel !

The 2013 self-titled offering by prog-rockers Dream Theater. This matching folio includes note-for-note transcriptions of all the guitar parts for all nine tracks on the album. / Piano