The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso, Mambo, Salsa, Songo, Bossa, Guaracha, Samba and Latin-Blues. The 24 grooves totalling over 200 riffs/phrases and play-a-long tracks consists of a variety of tempos and keys. Each groove has a variety of riffs to learn that are generally 4 or 8 measures in length. It would be beneficial if you could memorize these riffs so that you can experiment using different permutations of the riffs as well as being used as a starting off point for one's own improvisations. Each riff has been recorded with a rhythm track with each style having an extended play-a-long track, around 3 minutes in length, recorded without the solo part so you can practice the riffs that you have learned. Also, these musical phrases or riffs may be interchanged from one groove to another and should be learned in as many keys as possible. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Etude / Piano et Clavier

This books contains familiar motivational pieces for the holiday season using the same concepts introduced in the corresponding Premier Piano Express Book. / Niveau : 5-6 / Etude / Piano

An excellent collection of over 100 pieces in a variety of styles specially arranged for the adult student. Includes works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and many more. / Piano

This is one of four level-three books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level Three For early intermediate students- Basic syncopation accidentals swung eighth notes- Whole half quarter note dotted half note eighth note triplet- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest eighth rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent tenuto grace notes- 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures- Keysignatures up to two sharps and one flat- Repeat 8va 8vb tie fermata ritardando a tempo- Fine DC al Fine Coda DS al Coda Skills Books:round out the comprehensive course of study. Paced to enhance progress in the corresponding Repertoire and Etudes Albums the module structure ensures a smooth integration of Ear-Training Sight-Reading and Technic. ? Ear-training: reinforces the auraldevelopment already achieved through the repertoire and improvisation etudes; ? Sight-reading: time-effective module structure leads to regular practice the single most important contributing factor to success;? Technic: provides a structured and measured approach; prepares for the challenges ahead.About the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional

This is one of four level-three books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level Three For early intermediate students- Basic syncopation accidentals swung eighth notes- Whole half quarter note dotted half note eighth note triplet- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest eighth rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent tenuto grace notes- 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures- Keysignatures up to two sharps and one flat- Repeat 8va 8vb tie fermata ritardando a tempo- Fine DC al Fine Coda DS al Coda About the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional pianistic and musical skills through music in contemporary popular styles;? be motivated to practice by working on music that is familiar fun and that they can?t wait to play; ? nurture their creativity and spontaneity through a user-friendly modular approach to improvisation; ? enjoy regular ensemble playing; ? and find pleasure in a lifelong relationship with music!Written entirely by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith American Popular Piano is an educational piano course which comprises 44 books clearly divided into 11 difficulty levels. With 4 resources

Compiled to provide students with a progressive program for technical development this first book contains 21 classic elementary studies carefully chosen for their pedagogical merit as well as their lyrical beauty. A choice series for both teacher and student libraries. Contents include: Andante (J.C. Bach); Legato Study (Bartok); Dialogue (Bartok); Etude Op. 70 No. 9 and No. 16 (Berens); Etude Op. 166 No. 6 (Bertini); Etude Op. 101 No. 68 (Beyer); Etude Op. 823 No. 11 (Czerny); Etude Op. 777 No. 3 (Czerny); Melody (Diabelli); Etude Op. 82 No. 17 (Gurlitt); Vivace Op. 117 No. 8 (Gurlitt); Quadrille (Haydn); Etude Op. 190 No. 31 (Kohler); Etude Op. 163 No. 1 and No. 3(Kohler); Etude Op. 17 No. 5 (LeCouppey); Study in C Op. 13 No. 3 (Rowley); The Little Stream Op. 13 No. 4 (Rowley); Etude in E Minor (Schytte); Etude in C Major (Schytte).

Iniciación al Piano. Par GOMEZ GUITIERREZ E.M.. Metodología completa de ejercicios para los 4 cursos de Piano Complementario. Basados en piezas del repertorio habitual y en canciones populares españolas, comprende diversos tipos de ejercicios según los cursos: ejercicios técnicos, de lectura progr de lectura directa, de reducción, de mutuo acompañamiento y piezas a 4 manos. Se trata de fragmentos cortos todos ellos, con una esmerada digitación y concebidos para desarrollar la clase de Piano Complementario de una forma muy amena. Pueden tambiéempleados, especialmente este primer volumen, como texto de iniciación en la asignatura de Piano. / Pédagogie / Etude / Piano

Technique 2B se poursuit et développe les outils techniques et artistiques apprises dans les livres Technique 1A, 1B, 2A et. Les sept nouveaux outils de fabrication introduites sont: insultes trois notes, préparer rapidement des passages à niveau de la main, sentir les pessimistes, étirements doigts, legato pédales, doigt sous 1 doigt 3, et le doigt 3 sur 1 doigt. Etudes artistiques mettent en valeur la technique d'un élève dans un cadre musical expressif et Mains Ensemble ateliers axés sur le développement des compétences nécessaires à la coordination mains-jouer ensemble. Etudes ouvragés offrent une formation pour jouer chefs-d'oeuvre standard. Chaque page du livre technique en corrélation avec une page spécifique dans le livre de leçon. / Piano

4 Studies on Contrary Motion. Par VANDE GINSTE STEPHANE. On January 1st, 2016, Stephane Vande Ginste had an extraordinary intention: he planned to compose a 1-minute piece for piano every single day for the whole year. The result is an impressive collection of piano miniatures which - although contemporary - result in a variety of musical styles: apart from some experimental pieces, there are jazzy- and poppy pieces, more traditional 'etudes', polyphonic compositions and so on... The 366 pieces also tell various stories: from very emotional events like the terrorist attacks in Brussels over homages in honor of deceased artists (David Bowie,...) to birthdays and festive occasions,... . More than once, even poetry (Heinrich Heine,Anna Enquist, ..) or other pieces of art inspired Stephane to compose his daily one-minute piece. Every single composition originated from the 'here and now', and therefore capture the unfiltered feelings and emotions of that very unique moment in time: joy, enthusiasm, but also melancholy and sadness. On January 1st, 2016, Stephane Vande Ginste had an extraordinary intention: he planned to compose a 1-minute piece for piano every single day for the whole year. The result is an impressive collection of piano miniatures which - although contemporary - result in a variety of musical styles: apart from some experimental pieces, there are jazzy- and poppy pieces, more traditional 'etudes', polyphonic compositions and so on... The 366 pieces also tell various stories: from very emotional events like the terrorist attacks in Brussels over homages in honor of deceased artists (David Bowie,...) to birthdays and festive occasions,... . More than once, even poetry (Heinrich Heine,Anna Enquist, ..) or other pieces of art inspired Stephane to compose his daily one-minute piece. Every single composition originated from the 'here and now', and therefore capture the unfiltered feelings and emotions of that very unique moment in time: joy, enthusiasm, but also melancholy and sadness./ Etude / Piano

This is one of four level-four books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level Four For intermediate students- Frequent jumps and spans of more than a 5th- Whole half quarter note dotted half note dotted quarter note eighth note triplet eighth triplet sixteenth- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest eighth rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent tenuto grace notes- 3/4 4/4 and 6/8 time signatures- Key signatures up to three sharps and two flats- Repeat 8va 8vb tie fermata ritardando a tempo- Fine DC al Fine Coda DS al CodaAbout the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional pianistic and musical skills through music in contemporary popular styles;? be motivated to practice by working on music that is familiar fun and that they can?t wait to play; ? nurture their creativity and spontaneity through a user-friendly modular approach to improvisation; ? enjoy regular ensemble playing; ? and find pleasure in a lifelong relationship with music!Written entirely by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith American Popular Piano is an educational piano course which comprises 44 books clearly divided into 11 difficulty levels. With

Variations Nocturne & Finale On An English Sea-Song for Piano and Orchestra Op.60. Orchestral part arranged for a second Piano by David Lyon. After a brief introduction to the Orchestra the melody of an eighteenth century whalermen's ballad with verse and refrain 'Blow Ye Winds' is given out the verse by the Piano the refrain divided between Orchestra and Piano. Then follow thirteen variations the last three being pianistic etudes accompanied Orchestrally. The nocturne evokes the nostalgia of a long voyage and the finale the excitement dangers and glory of a triumphant chase. In these movements as well as in the variations the entiremusical material is derived from the basic theme. The work is designed as a virtuoso concert-piece for the pianist with supporting Orchestral flashes of colour and points of contrast.

Book Three of the Expressive Etudes expands this comprehensive program for technical development to include early intermediate repertoire which can be introduced after the third level of any piano method. Contents include: Allegro Deciso (Bartok); Round Dance (Bartok); Etude Op. 89 No. 4 (Berens); Etude Op. 777 No. 18 (Czerny); Etude Op. 823 No. 19 (Czerny); Etude Op. 599 No. 50 (Czerny); Study Op. 176 No. 24 and No. 21 (Duvernoy); The Trumpeter (Gurlitt); Etude Op. 82 No. 52 (Gurlitt); Etude Op. 17 No. 12 (Le Couppey); Staccato (Reinecke); Study Op. 13 No. 8 (Rowley); Ecossaise (Schubert); Melody Op. 68 No. 1 (Schumann); Distant Bells Op. 63 No. 6 (Streabbog); By theSeaside (Op. 63 No. 7 (Streabbog); The Orphan Op. 64 No. 4 (Streabbog).

This comprehensive approach to basic guitar skills includes varied repertoire, theory, detailed instruction about seating and hand position, standard music notation, an introduction to tablature, basic improvisation, and teaches both the pickstyle and fingerstyle techniques. Great for college non-music majors, continuing education classes, music dealer in-store programs, and group guitar classes at the middle and high school levels. Book 1 contains 16 units, each with a variety of repertoire, exercises, and timed tests at the end. Unit 16 provides instructions for playing 11 hit songs. Students can cut out flashcards provided at the back of the book to use for home study. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. / Guitare

En 1826, âgé de 15 ans Franz Liszt a écrit son premier cycle d'études qu'il voulait vraiment être considéré comme un grand étude consistant en 12 exercices différents, comme une Etude en douze exercices. Chacun de ces exercices, cependant, est une étude indépendante portant sur un certain problème technique. Bien qu'ils sont devenus un modèle d'études grand de Liszt ('Grandes Etudes') plus tard, ces premières oeuvres étaient encore loin d'exigences techniques de leurs grands frères et soeurs. Ils conviennent surtout dans les enseignements avancés comme une excellente alternative aux études plus exigeants de Czerny. / Piano