Alfred and the National Guitar Workshop offer the key to the art of good improvisation. An essential element of playing jazz improvising solos that are creative and well put together can be very intimidating. Easy Soloing for Jazz Keyboard proves that improv can be fun! Learn basic tools for making great authentic-sounding jazz solos like embellishing a tune's melody or chords. The ideal book for keyboardists with basic music knowledge but little improvisation experience this how-to guide is perfect for real life situations. Players from beginner to advanced will find everything they need; plus the included CD demonstrates all the examples in the book.

Charles Dancla (1817-1907) is considered to be the last great representative of the French Violin School. He knew, in a special way, how to implement the principle no music without technique, no technique without music in his teaching material. This is the case in his easy melodic studies. These studies are perfectly suited for young beginners after the second year, but also for adult players, refreshers or outsiders. Most of them can be effectively used as little performance pieces, providing an excellent foundation for every advanced étude or concert piece. Each study is preceded by new or revised exercises which either deal with specific problems relating to the playing technique or present the tonal material of the respective study in a condensed, playful form. Those who prefer Dancla's somewhat easier original preliminary exercises will find them in the appendix.

By Artie Traum-By moving one finger to a different fret a familiar chord takes on a whole new quality! Move a chord shape to a different position on the neck and you have a rich advanced-sounding progression! This lesson is fun easy and filled with Guitar tips musical ideas and good songs including Sloop John B Corrina Worried Man Blues Barbed Wire The Water Is Wide Diamond Joe and more

This informative volume provides a chord reference for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz. Starting with the most basic intervals the text explains how chords are built and how they are used in different performancesettings. After covering the basics advanced chord types such as 9ths 11ths 13ths drop voicings and the blues chord are presented and explained. The functions of chords are described as are substitutions clusters andpolytonal clusters. Numerous charts are provided which can be helpful for practicing and for quick and easy reference as to which can be used with given bass notes. The Melody Harmonization Charts show chords based on fourths.Learning to use these chords will help the pianist play with more harmonic variety color and interest.

Following the success of the composer's more advanced Jazz Singles these easy studies provide an attractive introduction to various jazz styles for the less experienced player. A practical and pleasing collection of thirty-four melodic studies in technique and rhythm set in a jazz or popular idiom. These are very attractive and useful studies. Music Teacher Magazine.

17 Pieces From 6 Centuries. The Easy Concert Pieces series presents 3 volumes with popular pieces for alto saxophone with piano accompaniment in progressive order. These pieces are designed to complement a saxophone tuition method and are particularly suitable for performance at auditions, concerts, competitions and examinations. They offer varied repertoire in a broad selection of pieces from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern era along with jazz and pop. All the pieces are included on the CD in full and playback versions. Volume 3 (intermediate) uses notes ranging from c#\' to F?\' with a few uncommon time signatures and requiring more advanced melodic and rhythmic phrasing. It includes pieces by Ortiz, Händel, Mozart, Lefèvre, Saint-Saëns, Rubinstein, Grieg, Debussy, Ravel and others. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Nicolai Podgornov's compositions for piano students at all levels inspire and stimulate with beautiful and enjoyable melodies. At the same time however quite specific pianistic skills are addressed. This new collection of pieces for grades 1 - 3 is the first in a three-volume series: EASY INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED. The pieces are presented in order the technical level gradually increasing throughout but never obscuring the pleasure of music making.

Classical music and DADGAD tuning prove to be a beautiful combination as Rob MacKillop's latest book shows. You will be surprised just how easy it can be to master classics from like likes of Beethoven Mozart Vivaldi Tchaikovsky and others with your guitar. Like the other books in MacKillop's DADGAD series the songs start off easy with tunes such as Ode to Joy and progress through intermediate and ontoadvanced where you will be able to play the entire Cello Suite No.1 by Bach.This collection of tunes each have their own downloadable audio tracks you can play along to providing you with techniques andexcercises to help you progress through this impressive selection of timeless classics.

Drums easy 2 is the sequal to the succesful teaching method Drums Easy. Directly putting theory into practice motivates students and this is the main emphasis of Drums easy. Intensive work on practisepad and drumsetis of course a necessary condition for every successful method. What will particularly help the teacher and the student here is the systematic treatment of the different themes and figures.

Par FINE ELAINE. Although the practice of scales is essential to building and maintaining strength, technique, tone, and agility?it is very easy to slip into the habit of playing them automatically, without paying attention to how they sound or even being aware of what scale we are playing. The 29 single-page studies in this book are designed to combat that tendency as they are musically, intellectually, and rhythmically challenging.The first 24 studies proceeded through the circle of fifths and address all minor and relative major keys; the last 5 pieces were individually conceived, i.e., apart from the circle of fifths. Occasional fingerings or position guides are suggested but these are largely left to the student or their teachers. No metronome indications are given so that the etudes can be played at individually comfortable tempos?with or without a metronome, or freely as concert etudes. It is the stepwise motion and octave leaps of the etudes that makes the intervals between pitches easy to hear, even in keys with numerous flats or sharps.Just as in Elaine Fine?s more basic scale etude book, Violin Scale Tales, the names of the etudes herein refer to various animals that have scales, including insects, fish, birds, reptiles, a few species of squirrels with scales on their tails, and the solitary pangolin, the only known mammal whose entire body is covered with scales. Again, the author hopes that in addition to experiencing more enjoyable scale practice, students will be inspired to learn more about these amazing creatures, or even write scale studies of their own. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Etude / Violon

The ability to jam is a vital element of blues playing and this DVD lesson is designed and presented by Happy and Artie Traum to teach you exactly how it's done.The blues is unique as it offers a highly stable but dynamic structure for improvisation without the need for advanced harmonic theory. Artie and Happy's unique and inimitable delivery will get you playing straight away and the lesson is packed with detailed instruction practical advice good songs and all the techniques you'll need to trade riffs use chord inversions and much more. You'll have plenty of opportunity to jam with guys themselves as they provide a full rhythmic back up to all the songs theyteach including six classic blues standards in the keys of E and A.

The duets in this volume increase in difficulty: more advanced keys and rhythms are introduced and the musical demands are greater. The score format is used to encourage players to be aware of both parts. The duets cover a wide range of styles and introduce pupils to the music of different periods and countries. The two parts of are equal difficulty and the main melodies are shared between the players for equal interest.

36 Original Piano Pieces-The music teacher and pianist Monika Twelsiek adds a new selection of piano works around the subject of Night and Dreams to the Piano Classics series. At any time the night was a theme in literature art and music. 'Night' and 'Dream' are emotional images which evoke vastly different emotions in different people. The night is a place of peace and security of longing and love of secrets imagination and dreams. But night also means strangeness loneliness fear danger and crime. The collection 'Night and Dreams' with works from the Romantic piano literature to new contemporary sounds tries to capture all of these nightly emotions. Apart from aplethora of folk-song-like lullabies numerous fantastic dream pieces and descriptions of dangerous night scenes have been added to the collection. An alluring mixture of imagination and reality for advanced piano pupils and lovers of piano music.Content - P. Zilcher: Lullaby op. 93/4 - G. Nevada: A Little Dreamy - A. Gretchaninoff: Lullaby op. 98 - C. Gurlitt: 4 Reverie op. 210 - R. Volkmann: Night Song op. 17 - R. Schumann: Lullaby op. 124 - J. Senfter: Lullaby - F. Burgmüller: Lullaby op. 109 - P. Tschaikowsky: Sweet Reverie op. 39 - R. Fuchs: Lullaby op. 32 - E. Satie: Lullaby - K.-H. Pick: Sleeping Beauty is Sleeping - H. Regner: Phantasmagoria - B. Heller: Evening Flower - G. Nevada: When Paris Dreams - J. Turina: The Village Sleeps - E. Pütz: Sleep Well Blues - J. Kember: Midnight Blue - G. Nevada: Starry Dome - E. Grieg: Lullaby op. 38 - A. Gretchaninoff: Bed Time op. 109 - Nightly Event op. 115 - K. Slavicky: The Evil Dream - B. Martinu: The Cats' Procession in the Solstice Night - R. Schumann: Reverie op. 15 - Child Falling Asleep op. 20 - A. Rubinstein: The Night op. 44/1 - L. He: Lullaby - E. Pütz: Night of Love - J. Field: Nocturne B major op. 9/2 -

Urtext Edition-Edited and engraved by Ephraim Hammett Jones Volume I of this two-book set presents an original compilation of Robert Schumann's best-known character pieces and piano cycles in a pristine urtext edition. Printed to precisely reproduce the artist's original intentions it features thirteen of the Romantic composer's finest works.Suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists the contents include Fantasy Pieces Op. 12; Symphonic Études Op. 13; Toccata Op. 7; Variations on the Name 'Abegg' Op. 1; Scenes from Childhood Op. 15; Kreisleriana Op. 16; Arabeske Op. 18; Blumenstück Op. 19; Humoreske Op. 20; and Forest Scenes Op. 82.Dover Original.