First Pop Hits is a collection of popular songs in simplified arrangements designed for Pianists working through parts two to four of the renowned John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.This repertoire book has been specially created to be complementary with the original and best selling Easiest Piano Course. The songs are ordered so that they progress in difficulty so that songs at the beginning like Fight For This Love and Let It Be are best suited to beginning Piano players just getting started with the course. As the book progresses songs like The Sound OfSilence and Let It Go are introduced reinforcing more advanced musical techniques through well-known songs. To see the full list of songs included in First Pop Hits scroll down.With 15 contemporary pieces this songbook is ideal for students who will be able to put what they've learned into practice with songs that are enjoyable fun and familiar. This will help to develop musicality since the student will know how the song is supposed to be played.Helpfully dynamics and phrasing are not included with some of the earlier pieces since these concepts are not introduced until part three of the course. Outline fingering is included with the hand assumed to stay in a five-finger position until a new position is indicated. The pieces can also be used as sight-reading practice for more advanced students making these pieces truly versatile and useful.Whether you or your student is working through John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course First Pop Hits is the perfect songbook to transform the newly-learned skills and techniques into the beginnings of a crowd-pleasing repertoire.

Learn the techniques that every truly great bass player needs to know! From basic slapping and popping to machine-gun riffing this programme has something for bass players at every level. The one-on-one lessons withbassist/instructor Chris McCarvill show you how to apply the techniques popularised by Marcus Miller Larry Graham and Louis Johnson. You’ll learn the four elements of Slap and Pop as well as advanced techniques like octaves fifths muting double slapping sliding the snap bending notes and using effects. By the end of this programme you’ll be the funkiest bass player around!

417 Exercises include 63 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5-From the author of the popular ABCs of Strings method Janice Tucker Rhoda's Complete Technique for Cello Book 1 suits the advanced beginner to upper level student wishing to learn or improve left hand and right bow-arm skills.Starting in first position and proceeding carefully through the higher positions this method book uses studies and exercises to demonstrate specific technical ideas. 417 Exercises include 63 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5.Technique Highlights:Positions 1 through 5Extended positionsHalf PositionBass tenor and treble clefs3 octave CMajor Scale to IV and VII positionAdvanced chromatic scale to IV V and VII positionBasic thumb positionWorksheets for note-readingScales arpeggios broken thirdsImprovisational melodiesDouble-Stops chords octavesHarmonicsArm Swing left-hand and bow-arm techniqueBow balancing exercisesBallet of Shifting exercisesQuick Finger exercisesFinger Substitution exercisesLeft-hand pizzicato exercisesTeaching points throughout

A New Tune A Day: Pop Performance Pieces For Violin provides an inspiring collection of pop songs clearly presented with playalong CD for the advanced beginner. These pieces have been chosen and arranged to builda repertoire of pop songs for performance and for fun and include classic hits from Johnny Cash and Michael Jackson through to contemporary songs by Coldplay Beyonce and Adele.Complete with chord symbols foraccompaniment on Piano Keyboard or Guitar this volume is the perfect companion to A New Tune A Day For Violin.

A New Tune A Day: Pop Performance Pieces For Trumpet provides an inspiring collection of pop songs clearly presented with playalong CD for the advanced beginner.These pieces have been chosen and arrangedto build a repertoire of pop songs for performance and for fun and include classic hits from The Beatles and Michael Jackson through to contemporary songs by Lady GaGa Rihanna and Taylor Swift.Complete with chord symbolsfor accompaniment on piano keyboard or guitar this volume is the perfect companion to A New Tune A Day for Trumpet.

This innovative fun collection introduces intermediate to advanced level cellists to a range of pop and rock styles.Building on the trail-blazing approach to Cello playing that he developed in Ten American Cello Etudes and Ten International Cello Encores Aaron Minsky presents the student with attractive new pieces that explore a number of technical and musical challenges.In Pop Goes The Cello you will find:Imaginative and entertaining pieces.A variety of contemporary styles including pop rock latin and country.Technical challenges such as double stops syncopated rhythms harmonics thumbposition and percussive effects.Useful fingering and bowing suggestions.

A follow-up to the highly successful Vocal Technique - A Guide To Finding Your Real Voice by the same authors. Helps you to get the vocal sound you desire in whichever style you choose. Includes various vocal technique exercises. Includes jazz country R&B Pop and Rock styles. The CD contains demonstrations exercises and full-band demo tracks. Ideal for anyone studying/singing popular song styles.

Available for the first time: easy to advanced solo works from the Rubank archives with online performance and accompaniment recordings printable piano accompaniments and PLAYBACK audio tools. This new collection of 13 Rubank solos includes many that have long been unavailable. All are suitable for contest and festival performance (grades 2-4). Purchase includes exceptional performance tracks (recorded by pro players) accompaniment tracks for practice and PDF piano accompaniments for use at contest. Includes: Adoration (Borowski) - Allegro from Sonata in Bb Major (Koepke) - Alleluja (Mozart) - Barcarole Op. 30 No. 3 (Köhler) - The Dance of Elizabeth (Hurrell) -Meadowlark (Koepke) - Pavane pour une Infante Defunte (Ravel) - Poplars in the Wind (Koepke) - Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) (folk song) - Serenade (Saint-Saëns) - Sonata in F Major (Telemann) - Three Aquarelles (Koepke) - Wind in the Pines (Johnson).

This book contains 40 Etudes that are essential for the intermediate to advanced cellist. Each exercise covers a specific area of technique that aims to stregthen arm muscles finger agility and every aspect of bowing.

Volume 1-Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms harmony melodies and his passion for ornithology his Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà for Orchestra is no exception to the composer's popular distinctive style. Composed between 1987-1991  Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà was one of the composer's last works with the premiere occuring six months after his death. The work includes Messiaen's popular compositional techniques such as his modes of limited transposition and the use of birdsong.Messiaen's piece for orchestra is divided in to eleven movements and a typical performance lasts about one hour. Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà is essential to all advanced orchestras seeking to expand and vary their repertoire.

The World's Great Classical Music-The World's Great Classical Music. This new book in our World's Great Classical Music series features 36 solo pieces by one of the world's most highly regarded composers. Faithfully transcribed for intermediate to advanced piano it contains many of Beethoven's beloved masterpieces such as Piano Concertos No. 3 and 5 Moonlight Sonata Pathétique Sonata Agnus Dei (Missa Solemnis) the Violin Concerto his popular concert overtures excerpts from all nine of his incredible symphonies and many more works. Includes a biography of this great German master.