Piano Adventures?-The Piano Adventures?: Gold Star Performance Primer Level is an adventurous collection for the elementary pianist featuring changing moods keys and hand positions. The series offers performance pieces ???with a challenge.??? This collection may also be used as a graduation book to improve artistic technical and rhythmic skills before advancing to the next level.As the title Gold Star suggests these pieces are especially appropriate for recitals and other musical events. A broad range of styles are presented to enhance the young musician???s awareness of classical jazz folk and impressionistic sounds. Pieces need not necessarily be taught in theorder presented.The Gold Star Performance CD is a discovery in sound for both listening and play-along. Repeated listening with and without the score will familiarize students with diverse musical textures and sonorities a lively marching band the bass sounds of roaming pterodactyls or ringing French cathedral bells.The educational recordings provide more than student demonstration they provide settings in harmony style and rhythm which explore the expressive and dramatic qualities of the piano. Solo piano performances superlatively performed by Randall and Nancy Faber are included at the end of the CD.Gold Star characteristics of each piece are listed in the table of contents and a Gold Star music dictionary and certificate conclude the book.G-O-L-D Star Performance: a Guide Offering Lyricism and Drama at the Keyboard!

Advanced Jazz Ensemble Method-The comprehensive tutorial method for all Jazz ensemble instruments reaches the advanced level complete with a full CD of accompaniments.The Standard Of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method is designed to introduce anddevelop Jazz playing styles either individually or in group instruction. The method combines a strong performance-centred approach with music theory music history ear training and listening but always with the emphasis uponimprovisation.The book is divided into three sections covering Swing Rock and Latin Jazz styles. Each section contains improvisation studies advanced improvisations and suggested solos that may be played with other membersof the Jazz ensemble or with the accompanying CD. Disciplines covered include scale modes articulation understanding Jazz chord harmony and much more.This method is ideal for school-based teaching allowing students tostudy the tunes and techniques individually before coming together to enjoy the excitement and energy of a full Jazz ensemble!

Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music and mentor to Keith Jarrett Diana Krall Joe Zawinul and thousands of others reveals thepedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep practicalunderstanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated by the accompanying practice CD where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and originalcompositions and how you can do the same.You will learn:Jazz chords and their characteristic tension substitutions in many voicings and configurationsModes and scales common in jazzTechniques forcomping developing bass lines harmonizing melodies melodizing harmonies and improvisationPractice techniques for committing these concepts to your muscle memoryVariations for solo and ensemble playingAdvancedconcepts such as rhythmic displacement approach-chord harmonization and jazz counterpoint.

Advanced Piano Solo-This contemporary setting of the famous Canon in D is a proven hit with teenagers. The fresh pianistic arranging blends pop and jazz elements with this timeless classic. A real winner!

Par MISSY HIGGINS. This is another volume of lively and entertaining original duets, encouraging the development of good Violin technique. Written in idioms ranging from the wistful folk music of Eastern Europe to jazz, More Polytekniks presents a variety of more advanced technical challenges, from vibrato, spiccato, extended position work tremolo bowing, and double-stopping, to intricate rhythms, ornaments and metrical changes. More Polytekniks will be an enjoyable exercise in lessons for teacher and pupil, or by two friends at different stages of development. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Contemporary - Solos / Recueil / Piano

Piano Adventures?-The Piano Adventures?: Gold Star Performance Level 2B is an adventurous collection for the late-elementary pianist featuring changing moods keys and hand positions. The series offers performance pieces ???with a challenge.??? This collection may also be used as a graduation book to improve artistic technical and rhythmic skills before advancing to the next level.As the title Gold Star suggests these pieces are especially appropriate for recitals and other musical events. A broad range of styles are presented to enhance the young musician???s awareness of classical jazz folk and impressionistic sounds. Pieces need not necessarily be taught in theorder presented.The Gold Star Performance CD is a discovery in sound for both listening and play-along. Repeated listening with and without the score will familiarize students with diverse musical textures and sonorities an ancient Chinese folk song a gypsy dance by firelight a humorous ???blues??? or a sonatina accompanied with orchestra.The educational recordings provide more than student demonstration they provide settings in harmony style and rhythm which explore the expressive and dramatic qualities of the piano. Solo piano performances superlatively performed by Randall and Nancy Faber are included at the end of the CD.Gold Star characteristics of each piece are listed in the table of contents and a Gold Star music dictionary and certificate conclude the book.G-O-L-D Star Performance: a Guide Offering Lyricism and Drama at the Keyboard!

Composed by Armando Ghidoni Jazzy Flute Challenge is a piece for Flute and Piano accompaniment. Lasting approximately ten minutes it is dedicated to Maxence Larrieu and was commissioned for the International Flute Contest. Quite technical this piece requires some upper intermediate/advanced skills and a good knowledge of the instrument. It is an enjoyable notated jazz work which will definitely be loved by players and their audience. Armando Ghidoni is a French composer with Italian origins who plays Saxophone and Flute. He has been edited since 1989 by Alphonse Leduc.

This book provides a step-by-step approach to learning basic piano realizations of jazz and pop tunes from lead sheets. Systems for voicing chords are presented from the most elementary to the advanced along with methods for practicing each system. Both the non-jazz and the advanced jazz player will benefit from the focus on: chords chord voicings harmony melody and accompaniment and styles.

Intermediate/Advanced Level-Outstanding Blues and Jazz Compositions Intermediate/Advanced Level by Andrew D. Gordon progresses on further from the Beginner/Intermediate package. It contains 10 challenging compositions in the blues boogie woogie jazz gospel and rhythm and blues idioms.It introduces the musician to more complex chords including 9th. 11th. and 13th. chords syncopated rhythms passing chords tremolos octave runs chromatic walking bass lines jazz licks major and minor blues progressions turnarounds etc. All these techniques are used by professional pianists giving you a practical approach to learning these styles. Recorded at normal and slowtempos.

Original Music by Dave Brubeck-This comprehensive anthology of Dave Brubeck's serious piano works is a must for every Brubeck fan. These dynamic works for the early advanced to advanced player are enveloped within boundaries of romanticism yet remain cutting-edge. Dramatic concert works that effectively showcase Brubeck's compositional genius are: Glances (a four-movement suite) Points on Jazz (an eight-part jazz ballet) Chromatic Fantasy Sonata (a four-movement contemporary sonata with fugue) Tritonis (a contemporary concert work full of harmonic creativity) They All Sang Yankee Doodle (theme and variations) The Salmon Strikes Back. This folio also includes numerous photographs.

Book and CD. The Drop 2 Book is the first publication to explore the 4-note block chord approach to jazz Piano playing- as used by Piano masters like Kenny Barron, MyCoy Tyner, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton and Bill Evans. World renowned educator and pianist Mark Levine gives the reader a comprehensive, step-by-step, beginner to advanced Masterclass on this approach to voicing chords. This book includes chapters on: The basic Drop 2 approach Advanced techniques soloing and 'comping in Drop 2 Practice techniques Plus a CD of Levine demonstrating all the exercises This is an invaluable insight into the harmonic minds of some of the world's greatest Piano players.

Continuing the ever popular six book In Recital series this book showcases Jazz and Blues works for the early advanced pianist expertly arranged by Edwin McLean and Kevin Olson.Students will experience walking bass figures swing bebop boogie-woogie traditional blues stride bass as well as Latin Jazz and Jazz Ballads. The works are true crowd pleasers and will fill many hours at the Piano with delight!