Complete Performance Resource with Audio CD and Downloadable Extras-Raising the curtain on Christopher Norton’s Micromusicals exciting and accessible musicals for schools based on popular classroom teaching topics from the creator of the internationally-acclaimed Microjazz series. Designed for children aged 7-11 each production lasts around 30 minutes and can be learned rehearsed and performed in as little as 2 days. Stage a class act with this comprehensive and flexible resource:* Straightforward and catchy songs with complete demonstration and backing tracks on an accompanying CD * Voice and piano scores with guitar chords * Photocopiable lyric sheets * Cast list (with number on lines per role) plus succinct costume anddirection suggestions * Comprehensive props checklist * Wide-ranging cross-curricular teaching and classroom activity ideasDownloadable extra resources include:* a wide range of flexible easy band and orchestral parts which can be played in conjunction with the backing tracks or as part of an independent live orchestral or band * flexible prop designs illustrations and banners * PDF lyric sheets and scripts * Powerpoint files containing full script and song lyrics * sound effect audio files * a customisable poster to publicise performances Performance licences available online.Romeo & Juliet - Shakespeare’s tragedy about two ‘star-crossed lovers’ - is an English literary masterpiece studied at Key Stage 2 and 3 as part of the National Curriculum in England as well as at schools and colleges elsewhere in the UK and around the world. In this new Micromusical adaption the abridged story is told through poetry and song.TestimonialsThe micro-musicals have enriched our curriculum and have enabled the topics taught in class to come alive. Through the micro-musicals the children have gained a deeper and broader understanding of the curriculum and have developed a bank of rich language which has supported their writing outcomes. The micro-musicals have provided an excellent opportunity to teach music through all areas of the curriculum and we have been able to use music as a platform to learn history science geography and literature. They have been a good value for money and a valuable resource.-Bronwen Chalmers Head Teacher Davies Lane Primary School

More Quick-Start Lessons for the Elementary Class-Expand on the basics presented in Music Time: Primary with quick-start lessons and songs for upper elementary age groups. Whether you are a veteran teacher or beginner a teacher in training an elementary classroom teacher oreven a band choir or orchestra director who is now teaching general music for the first time you'll find quality learning material to take you through the year! Pick and choose what works best for your needs from a wide varietyof opening activities music reading songs with accompanying classroom instrument parts partner songs active listening lessons and assessment activities. This all-in-one resource comes with an Enhanced CD of the highest qualityrecordings 2 orchestral masterworks and PDFs of songsheets piano accompaniments instrument parts listening maps and activities that you can project or print. Quick-start your lessons with Music Time! Songs include: MusicRocks Fanga Alafia Yankee Doodle Rock and Roll Rhythms C. C. Rider Follow the Drinkin' Gourd Makin' Music All Day Long This Little Light of Mine Zum Gali Gali Walkin' Down the Street and more! Suggested for Grades 3-6.

Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar-This DVD lesson could be titled The Music of Louis Armstrong for Finger-picking Guitar or Gary Davis Meets Louis Armstrong. Born in 1896 the brilliant Piedmont guitarist Gary Davis came of age in the teens and the twenties. Hewas in his prime during the Jazz Age and his playing shows it. His guitar style and techniques came out of the twenties. It enabled him to play like a band. His thumb playing the rhythmic sections of the band while his indexfinger soloed over this. Rev. Davis only used his thumb and index fingers to pick. When asked why he replied with a smile: ?That?s all I need!? In Rev. Davis?s playing you can hear the drive of Louis Armstrong as well as Louis?sbugle call riffs.Rev. Gary Davis's style is made to order to play Louis Armstrong tunes on guitar. As I learned most of what I know and do on the guitar from Rev. Gary Davis this is how I see it and how I have approachedarranging the tunes on this DVD lesson. Once you find the right key on the guitar these early jazz masterpieces seem to fall right into place. Putting Cornet Chop Suey into the key of C for instance enables you to play thepatented ?Gary Davis Slow Drag G form C run' throughout as the statement of the initial melody.This lesson is over 2 hours and forty minutes. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance players. They aremulti-section compositions with lots of fingerpicking challenges. But all your hard work will be very worthwhile as these tunes are some of the greatest in the early jazz repertoire. Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then usesthe split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs.

Quick Start Lessons for the Elementary Class-It's music time! No problem! Bring the joy of music to your classroom with this one-of-a-kind resource created for music teachers in training beginning music teachers elementary classroom teachers and even band choir ororchestra directors who are teaching general music for the first time! Teach the basics with quick-start sequential lessons designed for younger elementary age groups. Pick and choose what works best for your needs with openingactivities music FUNdamentals music reading singing games listening lessons and assessment activities. This all-in-one resource comes with an Enhanced CD of the highest quality recordings 2 orchestral masterworks and PDFs ofsongsheets piano accompaniments instrument parts listening maps and activities for printing and projection options. Time's a-wastin'! Let's get started! Available: Teacher Book/Enhanced CD. Suggested for grades K-3.

This clever collection features music of the masters with words that teach about their lives. Includes unison arrangements of well-known works from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century periods. Equip your music history toolbox with the composer caricatures, kid-friendly biographies, and fun-filled activities. Then create a 25-minute program with the optional rhyming script. Recommended for grades three and up. CD includes reproducible PDFs of biographies, activitities, and song sheets, as well as accompaniment and performance tracks. / Tout Instrument

Play 50 top hits from movies and musical theater on the Flute. This collection features pieces from Glee The Lord Of The Rings Porgy and Bess Frozen Star Wars Harry Potter Toy Story and more. This book is part of Alfred's Top Hits From TV Movies and Musicals series for solo instruments. All Wind arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be successfully performed as ensembles or solos by students who have completed the first book of any standard band method. Each book features a carefully edited part complete with articulations dynamic markings and keys well-suited to the level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated MP3 CD is alsoprovided. The CD includes a demo track of each song which features a live instrumental performance followed by a play-along track. In addition PDF documents are included with specially designed Piano accompaniments that can be easily played by a teacher or intermediate Piano student. **Please note: The CD included in this set can only be used with an MP3 compatible player**.Due to level considerations regarding keys and instrument ranges the arrangements in this series for Wind instruments are not compatible with those for String instruments.

Instrumental Solos for Strings-Play 50 top hits from movies and musical theater on the Cello. This collection features pieces from Glee The Lord Of The Rings Porgy and Bess Frozen Star Wars Harry Potter Toy Story and more. This book is part of Alfred's Top Hits From TV Movies and Musicals series for solo instruments. All String arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be successfully performed as ensembles or solos by students who have completed the first book of any standard band method. Each book features a carefully edited part complete with articulations dynamic markings and keys well-suited to the level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated MP3 CD is alsoprovided. The CD includes a demo track of each song which features a live instrumental performance followed by a play-along track. In addition PDF documents are included with specially designed Piano accompaniments that can be easily played by a teacher or intermediate Piano student. **Please note: The CD included in this set can only be used with an MP3 compatible player**.Due to level considerations regarding keys and instrument ranges the arrangements in this series for String instruments are not compatible with those for Wind instruments.

Play 50 top hits from movies and musical theater on the Trombone. This collection features pieces from Glee The Lord Of The Rings Porgy and Bess Frozen Star Wars Harry Potter Toy Story and more. This book is part of Alfred's Top Hits From TV Movies and Musicals series for solo instruments. All Wind arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be successfully performed as ensembles or solos by students who have completed the first book of any standard band method. Each book features a carefully edited part complete with articulations dynamic markings and keys well-suited to the level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated MP3 CD is alsoprovided. The CD includes a demo track of each song which features a live instrumental performance followed by a play-along track. In addition PDF documents are included with specially designed Piano accompaniments that can be easily played by a teacher or intermediate Piano student. **Please note: The CD included in this set can only be used with an MP3 compatible player**.Due to level considerations regarding keys and instrument ranges the arrangements in this series for Wind instruments are not compatible with those for String instruments.

Instrumental Solos for Strings-Play 50 top hits from movies and musical theater on the Violin. This collection features pieces from Glee The Lord Of The Rings Porgy and Bess Frozen Star Wars Harry Potter Toy Story and more. This book is part of Alfred\'s Top Hits From TV Movies and Musicals series for solo instruments. All String arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be successfully performed as ensembles or solos by students who have completed the first book of any standard band method. Each book features a carefully edited part complete with articulations dynamic markings and keys well-suited to the level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated MP3 CD is alsoprovided. The CD includes a demo track of each song which features a live instrumental performance followed by a play-along track. In addition PDF documents are included with specially designed Piano accompaniments that can be easily played by a teacher or intermediate Piano student. **Please note: The CD included in this set can only be used with an MP3 compatible player**.Due to level considerations regarding keys and instrument ranges the arrangements in this series for String instruments are not compatible with those for Wind instruments.

Swinging electrifying and inspiring! The Majesty of Gospel presents 16 of the most popular and best-known gospel songs. Melodies in groovy new arrangements to touch your soul! Solo parts with additional written-out variations of the theme and chord symbols for your own improvisation.The accompanying CD recorded by top studio musicians contains all the pieces in two versions: as a complete version with melodic parts and as a band backing-track for playing along to. Let yourself be accompanied by a real gospel band!In addition all the music for the piano accompaniment (with the solo part printed above) is included as PDF files on the CD so that it can be printed out to professionalstandards.All the fascination of gospel songs - at last available for solo instrumentalists to experience!

Swinging, electrifying and inspiring! 'The Majesty of Gospel' presents 16 of the most popular and best-known gospel songs. Melodies in groovy new arrangements to touch your soul! Solo parts with additional written-out variations of the theme and chord symbols for your own improvisation. The accompanying CD recorded by top studio musicians contains all the pieces in two versions: as a complete version with melodic parts, and as a band backing-track for playing along to. Let yourself be accompanied by a real gospel band! In addition, all the music for the piano accompaniment (with the solo part printed above) is included as PDF files on the CD so that it can be printed out to professional standards. All the fascination of gospel songs - at last available for solo instrumentalists to experience!/ Recueil / Trombone

Swinging electrifying and inspiring! The Majesty of Gospel presents 16 of the most popular and best-known gospel songs. Melodies in groovy new arrangements to touch your soul! Solo parts with additional written-out variations of the theme and chord symbols for your own improvisation.The accompanying CD recorded by top studio musicians contains all the pieces in two versions: as a complete version with melodic parts and as a band backing-track for playing along to. Let yourself be accompanied by a real gospel band!In addition all the music for the piano accompaniment (with the solo part printed above) is included as PDF files on the CD so that it can be printed out to professionalstandards.All the fascination of gospel songs at last available for solo instrumentalists to experience!

McKinley Morganfield better known as Muddy Waters grew up onStovall Plantation near Clarksdale MS where he learned to play Guitar in the regional style emulating local legends Son House and Robert Johnson. In 1941 and1942 Muddy made his first recordings for Alan Lomax (Library of Congress) who came to Stovall to record various country blues musicians. These first recordings gave Muddy the confidence to move north to Chicago with thehopes of becoming a full time musician. He purchased his first electric guitar in 1944 and in only a few short years not only achieved his goal but became a major star recording hits like 'I Can't Be Satisfied' 'I Feel Like GoingHome' 'I Got My Mojo Working ' 'I Just Want to Make Love To You' and many more with his infamous band. This raw electric sound ushered in a new era of blues and Chicago Chess Records and Muddy Waters where the epicenter.In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you through 6 of Muddy's staple slide tunes in Open G Open D and Standard Tuning. Feldmann teaches each song slowly phrase by phrase making this a perfect lesson for those new to playingslide as well as the more seasoned players looking to get deeper into the mind and music of the great Muddy Waters. A detailed tab/music PDF file is included on the DVD.

At the age of 19 Paul Gilbert recorded his first album with the band Racer X and stunned audiences in L.A. with his fast clean and intense rock guitar style. After two more psycho-speed-guitar albums with Racer X Paul left to form Mr. Big with monster-musicians Eric Martin Billy Sheehan and Pat Torpey. Mr. Big's debut established Paul as a seasoned player able to combine ripping guitar licks with dynamics and feel. Intense Rock: Complete goes where no guitar instructional DVD has gone before. Mr. Big guitarist Paul Gilbert explains step-by-step how to approach untouchable skills such as sequences alternate picking phrasing dynamics improvisation and feel. Of course no Paul Gilbert lesson would be complete without a healthy dose of techno-terror licks. So grab a guitar turn on the TV and watch it if you dare! This Complete DVD features both parts of his intense rock course with over 2 hours o footage printable PDF companion booklet and special bonus material that includes Live performance by Yngwie Malmsteen and lessons with Steve Morse and John Petrucci.