Tunes for Beginning Improvisers. The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser. Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano voicings, guitar chord diagrams, sample bass lines and useful scales for improvisation are included with each tune, for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop's summer jazz camps. It works! Each song will sound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. A great resource for music teachers and band directors. / Instruments En Bb

The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser: Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano voicings, guitar chord diagrams, sample bass lines, and useful scales for improvisation are included with each tune, for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshops summer jazz camps. It works! Each song will sound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. A great resource for music teachers and band directors. Available in C, Bb, Eb and Bass Clef. / Instruments En Do

This is a compilation of all Graham Lyons' best material from his previous volumes. This collection combines the best elements of many styles of music: Rock Dance Classic Romantic Jazz Boogie and Folk. All are inspired and crafted pieces that will excite players and encourage regular practice.The Piano accompaniments are available on the companion CD (printable in .pdf format). The CD also features mp3 backing tracks and 'extras' which include ensemble arrangements in .pdf format to print out.

This work is classic Chilcott - vibrant fresh and great fun. It is an exuberant setting of the well-known carol in which the 'five gold rings' refrain is re-written to appear in an array of guises: gentle soprano solo swinging barbershop quartet hard funk and rock gospel style. This version is for an SATB choir but retains the flexibility to include 'guest' performers. Even the audience can join in! Percussion parts and the original accompaniment for piano duet are on sale.

This collection covers ragtime guitar styles and techniques from the ?stumblin? bass? of Blind Blake to the evergreen piano sounds of Scott Joplin. Playing the Guitar like a Piano: Shake That Thing , 99 Year Blues, The Bald-Headed End of a Broom, Buck Dancer?s Choice, A Salty Dog Rag, See That Girl Sitting on a Fence. Raggin? The Blues: Blake?s Breakdown, Ton of Blues, That Won?t Do, Cincinnati Flow Rag/Slow Drag. Ragtime Songs, Marches

John Luther Adams' Four Thousand Holes for Piano Percussion (Vibraphone and Orchestra Bells) and Electronic Aura. Composed in 2010 and dedicated to Stephen Drury. Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds.'Four Thousand Holes is my own effort to re-appropriate and reclaim for myself something of my own musical past. For the first time since my days as a rocker I've chosen to restrict myself to major and minor triads - thosemost basic elements of Western music (both pop and classical). But I've tried to assimilate them fully into my own musical world. Approaching these simple chords as found objects I've superimposed them in multiple streams oftempo to create darker harmonies and lush fields of sound. In recent years I've been fortunate enough to form a close musical partnership with Stephen Drury. Steve's extraordinary gifts inspired me to exploreexpansive forms and textures (similar to those of my orchestral music) with only one or two performers In essence Four Thousand Holes is a concerto. To begin I composed the score for the electronic tracks. Steve recorded all ofthe individual chords that occur in the score. I took these recordings time-stretched them reversed their envelopes and knit the reversed sounds together with their original decays. The resulting waves of sound I layered intoten independent tracks to create the virtual 'orchestra'. Next I composed the Piano part articulating the peaks of all the electronic tracks simultaneously - a feat of coordination that demands considerable virtuosity from thepianist. Finally I composed another multi-layered part for metallic Percussion sounds that I think of as sparks emanating from the Piano. In Four Thousand Holes strong musical currents fall and rise again andagain as points and lines are juxtaposed with heavy hammered chords. The mix of 'live' and electronic sounds blurs the distinction between musical figure and ground. As in much of my recent music I conceive of the entire piece

This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include: arpeggio exercises; right hand left hand and combinations; alternating bass and syncopation; piano style exercises; classical pop/rock and jazz/Latin styles; drop D tuning exercises; and more. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying lesson booklet.

If you've tried learning music theory before, only to be put off by archaic concepts delivered in a stuffy tone, this is the book for you. Hands-On Music Theory teaches you practical contemporary music theory in contemporary terms--without all the classical nostalgia for methods that are hundreds of years old. Written in fresh, accessible language, and illustrated with examples that draw on modern tools such as sequencer piano rolls and guitar tabs, this book offers practical, hands-on, easy-to understand instruction on key points of modern pop, rock, jazz, and electronica music theory. You'll find a wealth of practical examples and familiar references, with links to music that you can listen to online. Learn today's music theory in today's language, with Hands-On Music Theory. / Formation Musicale

Capriccio for Trombones. Capriccio is a term for a musical work that doesn?t strictly adhere to formal ?classical? conventions but rather follows its own ideas. The composer Pascal Proust plays about with the listener?s normal expectations in an amusing way, such as presenting a slow swing groove in the piano that is overlaid with a barcarolle-like theme in in the winds, or the colourful coming-together of straight rock and tango? A varied and effective concert piece for four ambitious musicians!

Book 1-A comprehensive musicianship String method.About The Book:Unique chapter layout provides a goal-orientated format organised by school quarter.4 full-page assessments include:- Critical Listening- Playing By Ear- Theory and Terminology- Composing Arranging and Improvisation- Performance- Advanced Bow StudiesWealth of classical and world music.8 arrangements and original compositions for String Orchestra.Duets rounds and a solo with Piano accompaniment.Play-along accompaniments feature demo and performance tracks with professionalmusicians.Featured in SmartMusic.Correlates with science and world history.Fully integrated with the National Standards for Music Education.Video tutorials with master teachers and students. About The Accompaniment Tracks:Each track includes a demo version with professional musicians followed by accompaniment only.Outstanding accompaniments explore a wide variety of musical styles to make practice exciting and fun.Play classical and world melodies with characteristic accompaniments that include:Full OrchestraRockLatinJazzFunkCountryElectronicWorld MusicMedia Options:DVD Features:Video tutorialsAccompaniments for the entire bookAbility to transfer MP3 files to a computer or portable deviceOnline Features:Stream or download all accompaniments at no chargeStream all video tutorials at no charge

A comprehensive musicianship String method.About The Book:Unique chapter layout provides a goal-orientated format organised by school quarter.4 full-page assessments include:- Critical Listening- Playing By Ear- Theory and Terminology- Composing Arranging and Improvisation- Performance- Advanced Bow StudiesWealth of classical and world music.8 arrangements and original compositions for String Orchestra.Duets rounds and a solo with Piano accompaniment.Play-along accompaniments feature demo and performance tracks with professionalmusicians.Featured in SmartMusic.Correlates with science and world history.Fully integrated with the National Standards for Music Education.Video tutorials with master teachers and students. About The Accompaniment Tracks:Each track includes a demo version with professional musicians followed by accompaniment only.Outstanding accompaniments explore a wide variety of musical styles to make practice exciting and fun.Play classical and world melodies with characteristic accompaniments that include:Full OrchestraRockLatinJazzFunkCountryElectronicWorld MusicMedia Options:DVD Features:Video tutorialsAccompaniments for the entire bookAbility to transfer MP3 files to a computer or portable deviceOnline Features:Stream or download all accompaniments at no chargeStream all video tutorials at no charge

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. With the continued worldwide success of the book series Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves that I co-authored with sax player Frank Villafranca based on compositions that we wrote for our band The Super Groovers, I have now authored this series of Smooth Jazz books for the following instruments: Piano/Keyboards, Guitar/Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Tenor and Alto Saxes, Trumpet and Trombone. Smooth Jazz covers a wide variety of different styles and I have combined elements of Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Latin, GospeL Funk and R