The best of the Howard Shore score from the 3 blockbusting Lord of the Rings movies (The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers Return of the King) arranged for french horn. This book comes complete with a CD of backing tracks to help with practice. Suitable for students from Grade 2 upwards.

Horn in F-12 outstanding arrangements for the beginning jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos are included: swing ballads rock pop holiday Latin and a great warm-up chart titled 'Loosen Up.' This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation of 5 saxophones 3 trumpets 3 trombones and 4 rhythm but designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of just nine players - 2 Alto Saxes Tenor Sax 2 Trumpets Trombone Piano Bass and Drums. Optional parts are available for C Flute Tuba (doubles Bass part) Horn in F (doubles 1st Trombone) and Baritone Horn T.C. (doubles 1st Trombone).Rhythm section parts offer suggestions for voicings and rhythms and guitar chord frames are included to assist young guitarists. Solos are written out for improvised sections and there is plenty of full sounding ensemble. Conductor's book includes a full length CD recording. Titles are: Chattanooga Choo Choo * El Gato Gordo * James Bond Theme * A Jazzy Merry Christmas * The Judge * Li'l Darlin' * Loosen Up * One O'Clock Jump * Over the Rainbow * Peter Gunn Theme * The Pink Panther * Rock This Town.

Imagine playing the exact parts of some of the most memorable and consequential songs of our time note-for-note exactly as the legends played them. This unique new series features transcriptions of all the horn parts included on the original recordings with a separate staff for each horn. Perfect for cover bands! The books also include vocal melody lines complete lyrics and chord symbols.

Instrumental Play-Along-Play along with 10 pieces from the beloved holiday ballet including: Arabian Dance ('Coffee') Chinese Dance (Tea) Dance of the Reed-Flutes Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Final Waltz and Apotheosis March from the Nutcracker Overture Russian Dance (Trepak) Spanish Dance and Waltz of the Flowers.

Instrumental Play-Along-Horn players will love the 15 folk favourites in this collection provided complete with backing tracks on CD: A-Tisket A-Tasket â?¢ Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie â?¢ (Oh My Darling) Clementine â?¢ Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) â?¢ The Galway Piper â?¢ Greensleeves â?¢ Home on the Range and more.

Instrumental Play-Along-Nine songs from the world-famous film and stage musical have been carefully arranged for the Horn soloist complete with a set of full band backing tracks.With such familiar and memorable melodies as Edelweiss and My Favorite Things The Sound Of Music offers a world of music that you and you audience will love. What's more the specially recorded accompaniments will really transform your performance!

Instrumental Play-Along-This Stephen Sondheim - Broadway Solos edition from the Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along series features solo Horn arrangements of 14 fabulous Sondheim tunes complete with CD accompaniment.

This book is part of an instrumental series arranged for Flute Clarinet Alto Sax Tenor Sax Trumpet Horn in F and Trombone. The arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the early intermediate player along with a fully orchestrated CD with backing tracks and demonstration tracks.

Write for a horn section!
In this book, you will learn how to add saxophones and brass to a rhythm section ensemble. You will learn the capabilities and characteristics of the most common instruments, and how to order them effectively. You will also learn the different roles that a horn section can serve in your ensemble. Online audio tracks demonstrate the key concepts, as exemplified in a complete score.
You will learn to:
Write for alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, as well as trumpet and trombone
Construct common voicings, such as unisons, octave unisons, two- to five-part soli, and open voicings
Expand your harmony by using jazz chords
Use brass mutes
Compose many textures, including melodies, solis, fills, pads, comping parts, background lines, and others
Score advanced harmonic techniques characteristic of brass sections, such as chromatic approach chords, four- and five-part voicings, tension substitutions, and more
?An amazing book that opens your mind for new horn arranging techniques. Horns on steroids!?
?Hassan El Shafei, Artist/Record Producer
?Arranging for Horns is the one-stop-shop the young arranger can make to explore the techniques, applications, and context for contemporary horn arranging. Jerry Gates masterfully compiled three decades of experience?both in classroom and in professional writing?into an organized and concise 80-page text. Highly recommended!?
?Adi Yeshaya, Composer, Arranger (Prince, Aretha Franklin, The Voice)
?An insightful and valuable resource for all arrangers. Jerry?s explanations are very clear and concise. Highly recommended!?
?Mark Harrison, Keyboardist/Composer, Music Educator, and Author
?Jerry is a devoted musician and educator who has written yet another clear and concise book! This time Jerry guides the reader through a direct and useful approach to writing horn arrangements. Included are rhythm section considerations, notations, and a valuable mention about contour shaping as the blueprint for a successful arrangement. This book demystifies arranging for horns and inspires us to dive right in. There are great tools included and distilled from Jerry?s many years of experience and education. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to get quick and positive results without excess theory to weigh the creative process down.?
?David Goldblatt, Composer, Pianist, and Music Director (for national television programs, world tours, and varied media)
?Jerry Gates? Arranging for Horns is a concise yet thorough guide to horn arranging in jazz and popular styles. The book progresses through each vital instrument, offering writing techniques for them as individuals and as a group. Arranging for Horns goes one step further than many treatments of this topic, looking at how an arrangement can vary throughout a song?changing the intensity of the music. This added consideration gives arrangers a powerful tool for adding shape and contour to their songs. Recommended for all arrangers and songwriters.?
?Ben Newhouse, Composer and Educator
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Les débuts de l?apprentissage d?un instrument sont certainement les plus décisifs. Un bon professeur est un élément-clé mais il est indispensable de posséder des outils pédagogiques complémentaires motivants offrant une présentation structurée des techniques de jeu et d?apprentissage. Starter Studies vous fournit un environnement adéquat à l?introduction de nouveaux éléments musicaux en suivant une démarche logique qui facilite le développement rapide d?un ?musicien complet?.

This album offers a varied selection of solos from the Baroque period. Robert van Beringen has made a careful selection of the main repertoire from this period of composers including works by Purcell Handel Bach Hasse Rameau Tartini Lully and especially George Philipp Telemann. This publication comes with a play-along CD featuring complete performances together with organ accompaniments.

An outlined course of study designed to follow the elementary and intermediate levels of any instructional method the Rubank Advanced Methods are considered to be one of the gold standards of advanced instrumental study. Thespecially designed units provide a a complete pedagogy:• Scales and Arpeggios All of the major and minor keys are covered in the complete two-book course• Melodic Interpretation Including20+ contest level duets in each book• Solo Preparation Six contest level solos included• Articulation Studies Specialized for each instrument• Exercises in Fingering(woodwinds) Flexibility (brass) and Sticking (percussion)• Ornamentation All types are introducedGenerations of musicians have been taught with Rubank methods – join the tradition!

12 Challenging Pieces for the Beginner Musician-Jump Start contains ten motivating pieces written to help you beginplaying exciting melodies from day one. In addition to the piecesyou’ll find Jump Start Jams in which you hear a band play a phrasefor you to repeat and a special warm-up routine to use every daybefore practice. The accompanying CD includes a completeperformance of each piece together with an accompaniment onlyplay-along version.

The Boosey Brass Method is a complete course for individual and group teaching. Full to the brim with tips tricks important advice and golden rules as well as progressive repertoire examples this is a spectacular way to learn to play your instrument! It has been specifically designed to be used as a joint learning method with supervised or classroom work and home study combining to maximise learning potential. The novel and intuitive lay-out clearly shows warm-ups and breathing exercises; clapping singing and echo games; ensemble and individual work. The pack contains two fabulous CDs of demonstration performances backing tracks and listeningactivities which will aid development as well as being great fun! In conjunction with the illustrations exercises and the carefully considered progression this is one of the best ways to learn to play your instrument as part of an ensemble and at home.