Make your solo guitar sound like an ensemble with this complete guide to bass runs and how to use them! Renowned guitarist and celebrated tutor Happy Traum takes a handful of traditional songs and shows you how to add 'walking' bass parts and bring your chord playing to life. Learn the notes of a scale in several keys and apply them between chords to create a smooth harmonic transition and an effective counter-melody that will enrich your arrangements. Happy teaches a variety of patterns from simple bass moves to more complex chromatic runs. By breaking the technique down into building blocks and fundamental patterns you will soon be developing your own personal solo style andyou'll be amazed at what can be done with even the simplest folk melody! Get the most from this absorbing and highly individual approach to the guitar with this superb tutorial from one of the best in the business. Full music and tablature are included. Happy Traum has created the Guitar Building Blocks series of lessons to help learning players develop essential guitar technique. Each of these DVDs concentrates on a specific 'building block' allowing you to delve deeply into just those areas that you need to strengthen. The Building Blocks series gives you a solid foundation upon which to base your future guitar studies.

Happy the man's gentle pace tender harmonies and flowing piano accompaniment perfectly capture the reflective and uplifting message of John Dryden's text: 'Happy the man...He who secure within can say; Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today'. Featuring stirring climaxes expressive vocal lines and a fluid piano part this piece will give rise to a moving performance. Happy the man is featured on the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir's CD of Bob Chilcott's music.

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Aleksey Igudesman might reasonably be described as a modern day Victor Borge. With his cabaret partner, Hyung-ki Joo, he has toured concert halls all over the world, wringing all that is humorous out of classical music with just the basic tools of violin and piano. The “Happy Birthday Variations” for violin and piano are dedicated to his good friend, the late Sir Roger Moore and are typical of Igudesman’s brand of humour. They take the internationally known musical greeting on a world-wide tour, from a Viennese Waltz, through a Big Band number, a Bulgarian Vivace in 7/8, a Russian Presto, a Tango and an Alpine Air to conclude in a Paganini-esque finale that’s not quite as difficult as it looks. A great concert showpiece for intermediate students, not least if someone in the audience is celebrating a special day! Or, if the teacher prefers to play the violin, Igudesman’s “The Soloist’s Ultimate Happy Birthday” (UE37199) does a different but equally funny job for violin duet./ Recueil / Violon et Piano

E-Z Play Today Volume 25-20 of the most often-sung songs of the modern era are featured in this collection including: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) Don't Worry Be Happy Fly like an Eagle Happy Birthday to You If I Only Had a Brain It's a Small World Lean on Me The Name Game Pure Imagination Yellow Submarine and more.

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.

1 - Starting From Scratch-Celebrated instructor Happy Traum guides you through the first steps in learning fingerstyle blues guitar. In this DVD intended for novice players you'll discover the basic blues forms along with a series of easy steps to develop your playing technique around a variety of characteristic tunes. Disciplines include:Syncopated progressions12-bar and 8-bar formsBass runsDozens of turnarounds intros and endings. Happy's lessons are packed with numerous tips and suggestions as well as invaluable information about music theory and musicianship. As you conquer each step your playing will become stronger and more confident and you'll be well onyour way to becoming an accomplished blues guitarist. Music and tablature are included.

Bluegrass Flatpicking-Good bluegrass flatpicking is a wondrous and mysterious art. How do those great players get all those notes with just a triangular piece of celluloid? This terrific compilation taken from Homespun’s vast library of music instruction provides lessons at a variety of levels from beginner to advanced. Taught by some of our most celebrated pickers each segment covers a complete song or instrumental that will expand your repertoire improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. Before long you’ll be tackling everything from backup in the Texas swing style to playing hot bluegrass solos. Just for this new compilation Happy Traum has recorded a specialintroductory lesson that will give you the tools you’ll need to really start picking in the flatpick style. Includes lessons from Happy Traum Nick Forster Russ Barenberg Steve Kaufman Dan Crary Norman Blake and Tony Rice.

Here's a medley that couldn't be happier. It includes a swinging classic ('Forget your troubles and just get happy...') and a gospel standard ('Oh happy day...when all my sins were washed away...'). Put the two together and it's a recipe for a smile. The lyrics make it appropriate for all age groups and the songs are ideal for any concert.

Instant Fingerpicking Success-The compelling mysteries of guitar fingerpicking are now easier to master than ever before. Renowned guitarist and celebrated tutor Happy Traum provides a comprehensive and straight forward method for learning the right-hand techniques needed to become an accomplished fingerpicking player. By breaking the technique down into building blocks and fundamental patterns you will soon be developing your own personal picking style. Get the most from this absorbing and highly individual approach to the guitar with this superb tutorial from one of the best in the business. Full music and tablature are included. Happy Traum has created the Guitar Building Blocks seriesof lessons to help learning players develop essential guitar technique. Each of these DVDs concentrates on a specific 'building block' allowing you to delve deeply into just those areas that you need to strengthen. The Building Blocks series gives you a solid foundation upon which to base your future guitar studies.

Appearing in a practical and convenient landscape format, Pianorama is a collection of contemporary and classic hits, arranged by Hans-Günter Heumann with melody line, lyrics and chord symbols. With spiral-binding and songs on a double-page spread, this songbook is easy-to-use and a lot of fun.Featuring 100 hits including currently popular songs like Coldplay's A Sky Full Of Stars, Lady Gaga's Applaus, Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Pharrell Williams' Happy, Pianorama includes plenty to keep pop-loving pianists happy. It also includes many fantastic evergreen and classic hits such as R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion, Keane's Everybody's Changing and Buena Vista Social Club's Chan Chan, along with many more. Expertly arranged by Hans-Günter Heumann, Pianorama is full of great songs to play on the Piano in a convenient and accessible format that will stay open on your music stand while also minimising page-turns. / Piano

Creating Easy Song Arrangements-The compelling mysteries of solo guitar arrangements are now easier to understand than ever before. Renowned guitarist and celebrated tutor Happy Traum takes a handful of traditional songs and shows you how to transform them into magical solo arrangements. You will discover interesting picking patterns altered chords and substitutions ornamentation harmonised scales and much more. By breaking the technique down into building blocks and fundamental patterns you will soon be developing your own personal solo style and you'll be amazed at what can be done with even the simplest folk melody! Get the most from this absorbing and highly individual approach to the guitarwith this superb tutorial from one of the best in the business. Full music and tablature are included. Happy Traum has created the Guitar Building Blocks series of lessons to help learning players develop essential guitar technique. Each of these DVDs concentrates on a specific 'building block' allowing you to delve deeply into just those areas that you need to strengthen. The Building Blocks series gives you a solid foundation upon which to base your future guitar studies.