SKU: M7.AHW-1018
English.
Given the many demanding disciplines involved in achieving a solid 'sound' on the trumpet, it's easy to understand why most trumpet methods concentrate on breath control/ support, range and endurance- and attention to air/finger coordination is often overlooked. The purpose of these exercises is to challenge and develop greater finger strength, speed and flexibility. For best results, practice these exercises in strict tempo - with a metronome - making sure that you push the valves down firmly. As you master, increase tempo in small increments. Always keep your air stream supported and sing through the entire exercise. Remember, the last note is as important (if not, more) as the first!
SKU: PE.GT102CLR
UPC: 038081439068. English.
Gorilla Tips are the ultimate solution for sore fingers, experienced when learning to play a fretted instrument such as guitar, banjo, mandolin, or 'ukulele. The patent-pending design is engineered to have thicker material at the tip, which diminishes to a thin, stretchable perimeter for comfortable, flexible fit. A precision-molded transitional tool, each set comes with four washable, reusable, durable fingertip protectors that the player places over the tips of the fingers that touch the fretboard, allowing for hours of pain-free playing! This clear set of protectors allows for the most discreet comfort. The medium size generally fits teenage players and is measured by utilizing the sizing ring on the packaging or based on the width of your finger, closest knuckle to the fingernail, being 1.7cm.
SKU: PE.GT101CLR
UPC: 038081439051. English.
Gorilla Tips are the ultimate solution for sore fingers, experienced when learning to play a fretted instrument such as guitar, banjo, mandolin, or 'ukulele. The patent-pending design is engineered to have thicker material at the tip, which diminishes to a thin, stretchable perimeter for comfortable, flexible fit. A precision-molded transitional tool, each set comes with four washable, reusable, durable fingertip protectors that the player places over the tips of the fingers that touch the fretboard, allowing for hours of pain-free playing! This clear set of protectors allows for the most discreet comfort. The small size generally fits younger aspiring players and is measured by utilizing the sizing ring on the packaging or based on the width of your finger, closest knuckle to the fingernail, being 1.5cm.
SKU: PE.GT100CLR
UPC: 038081439044. English.
Gorilla Tips are the ultimate solution for sore fingers, experienced when learning to play a fretted instrument such as guitar, banjo, mandolin, or 'ukulele. The patent-pending design is engineered to have thicker material at the tip, which diminishes to a thin, stretchable perimeter for comfortable, flexible fit. A precision-molded transitional tool, each set comes with four washable, reusable, durable fingertip protectors that the player places over the tips of the fingers that touch the fretboard, allowing for hours of pain-free playing! This clear set of protectors allows for the most discreet comfort. The extra small size generally fits the youngest aspiring players and is measured by utilizing the sizing ring on the packaging or based on the width of your finger, closest knuckle to the fingernail, being 1.3cm.
SKU: PE.GT103CLR
UPC: 038081439075. English.
Gorilla Tips are the ultimate solution for sore fingers, experienced when learning to play a fretted instrument such as guitar, banjo, mandolin, or 'ukulele. The patent-pending design is engineered to have thicker material at the tip, which diminishes to a thin, stretchable perimeter for comfortable, flexible fit. A precision-molded transitional tool, each set comes with four washable, reusable, durable fingertip protectors that the player places over the tips of the fingers that touch the fretboard, allowing for hours of pain-free playing! This clear set of protectors allows for the most discreet comfort. The large size is the biggest available size and generally fits adult players. The correct fit is measured by utilizing the sizing ring on the packaging or based on the width of your finger, closest knuckle to the fingernail, being 1.9cm.
SKU: YM.GTP01100873
ISBN 9784636106282.
The scale training exercise complete book, supervised by Yoshiko Kurokawa. This is a revolutionary collection of all-key scale exercises designed to help both aspiring and practicing pianists practice essential scales efficiently. The major and minor (harmonic and melodic minor) scales in the 12 keys are an important part of the practice for learning tonality and training the muscles and joints of the hand. The human hand is flexible, and the thumb and other fingers bend in different directions, making it easy to turn and play a wide range of notes. However, it is important to learn scales from an early age because the correct playing style is required, such as knowing how to turn the fingers when playing speed is faster, the position of the black keys and white keys, and how to use the wrist. To play scales smoothly with all five fingers (one hand), the turn of the first finger is significant. It is advisable to practice scales from an early age to improve the turns. The fingering of the scale changes depending on the key. It takes a lot of time to learn them because fingering is different for the right hand and the left hand as well. Also, although the scale is written in two-fourths time, if you are not used to it, you may end up playing one octave at a time. Various exercises are described in this book to help you solve these problems. It takes a lot of time to play scales well by nature, but that is why it is important to practice efficiently.
SKU: HL.50600499
GTRSO inches. English.
Good technique doesn't appear overnight. Technical exercises are necessary but have a reputation for being boring and frustrating - perhaps this is down to perspective and attitude. Fabian Payr has developed an approach in Finger Fitness totrain dexterity--among other things--in a way that is anything but tedious. The focus of this collection of exercises are efficiency, accuracy and variety. With minimum time devoted to practice, a maximum benefit can be achieved, and monotony isavoided altogether through the built-in variations. Finger Fitness is a collection of short exercises in almost every area of guitar technique from beginner to advanced level. From the wealth of material provided, the guitarist can focus onhis or her specific abilities and targets by creating a personalised practice regime to be worked through in the course of a week. Finger Fitness provides the solution to enjoyable yet target-oriented practice.
Good technique doesn’t appear overnight. Technical exercises are necessary but have a reputation for being boring and frustrating - perhaps this is down to perspective and attitude. Fabian Payr has developed an approach in Finger Fitness to train dexterity—among other things—in a way that is anything but tedious. The focus of this collection of exercises are efficiency, accuracy and variety. With minimum time devoted to practice, a maximum benefit can be achieved, and monotony is avoided altogether through the built-in variations. Finger Fitness is a collection of short exercises in almost every area of guitar technique from beginner to advanced level. Fromthe wealth of material provided, the guitarist can focus on his or her specific abilities and targets by creating a personalised practice regime to be worked through in the course of a week. Finger Fitness provides the solution to enjoyable yet target-oriented practice.
SKU: M7.AHW-1045
A graded series of 16 studies designed to develop finger flexibility and tongue and finger coordination. The exercises are to be played in all keys and in a variety of articulations: legato, single, double and triple tongue. From the patterns set forth in the studies, Dr. Colin has developed fifteen virtuosic etudes.
SKU: MB.98751M
ISBN 9780786697199. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This book is for all levels and styles of guitarists. Finger Gymnastics is a term used for warm-ups, stretching, and any type of practice exercise that develops technique and stamina while preventing technique related injuries. The exercises in this book are time-tested and will keep your technique at its optimum while helping to ensure injury-free performance. The online audio recording presents three versions of the exercises in chapters I and II, each version more advanced than the preceding one. In chapter III, bass and rhythm accompaniments are included for many of the examples. Matching the pitch and articulation with a rhythm background will not only assist in warming up, stretching, and building stamina, but will make your practice a more pleasurable experience. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: CF.BF131
ISBN 9781491153765. UPC: 680160911264. 9 x 12 inches.
Inspired by Clarence Cameron White’s book The Violinist’s Daily Dozen, The Violinist’s Daily Sixteen is a collection of daily exercises compiled by Roland Vamos. Intended for student and professional violinists, the collection provides the performer with a variety of exercises for daily warm-ups. Mr. Vamos also focuses on developing dexterity and flexibility in the fingers and joints, the first and fourth fingers in particular. Each of the sixteen exercises is notated for each of the four strings, and Vamos recommends that the exercises be practiced as warm-ups, choosing a different string for each day of practice.Also included with the Daily Sixteen is a comprehensive set of studies for developing fluency with scales and arpeggios. Mr. Vamos’ unique methodology is to begin with major scales and arpeggios, followed by minor scales and arpeggios, all of which are notated in two, three and four octaves. Alternate fingers are provided, as well as a variety of slurred and mixed bowings using the three parts of the bow whenever feasible. It is a remarkably systematic approach to performing scales and arpeggios on the violin and will surely benefit students and professionals alike.ForewordThis short hand-setting set of exercises was inspired by a book entitled The Violinist’s Daily Dozen, conceived by Clarence Cameron White, a prominent African-American violinist, composer and arranger who enjoyed the bulk of his career in the first half of the twentieth century.I have practiced this set of exercises since I was twelve years old. It has served me as a superb warm-up and hand setting tool. Over the years, I have found that there are some aspects of this warm-up routine that were not given sufficient attention or not addressed at all. Consequently, I have expanded the Daily Dozen to create a new work entitled The Violinist’s Daily Sixteen.I have also paid particular attention in this work as to how these exercises are to be practiced. In exercises one and two, I have indicated some notes to be played before the actual written exercises. This is to ensure that the fourth finger will be over the string in a position ready to strike even though it is not being used. Before playing exercises three, four, nine, ten, eleven and twelve, I have indicated silent fingers to be placed on the notes they would be playing if they were being used.I have replaced Mr. White’s grace notes with notes of specific value and have slowed down the exercises so that the first joint (the joint nearest the string) of each finger can move with flexibility and strength. At no time should the first joint buckle.In Mr. White’s version, the last exercise gave the first finger some very valuable backward extensions. In this exercise (number 14 in this book), I caution the student not to move the hand along with the first finger. The hand should remain in position while the first finger independently moves back and forth.It became obvious to me that if the first finger were given the opportunity to develop the dexterity that Mr. White’s twelfth exercise emphasizes, the fourth finger could benefit from an exercise that gives it a forward extension. Consequently, I added another exercise to create a Baker’s Dozen (thirteen).Several years later, I felt that the second and third fingers should also have an exercise to further develop their dexterity…hence exercise fourteen was added to create a “Vamos Dozen.â€Because the first finger did not have sufficient practice in the development of the first joint in the original version, I have added two exercises to precede White’s fifth exercise. After re-working and re-numbering these exercises, I have come up with a total of sixteen exercises. It is my suggestion that these be practiced as a warm-up, choosing a different string each day.—Roland VamosEvanston, Illinois 2017 PrefaceScales are a means of teaching a person the fingerboard on his or her instrument. The fingers move across the strings and are required to make shifts, all in highly organized patterns. Scales and arpeggios are the foundation upon which our repertoire is built. Many scale books have been written; each one being organized in its own specific way. The Flesch Scale System has been a standard for many decades. It is very comprehensive and systematic. From the point of view of establishing similar patterns, it has one drawback: it is organized by starting with a major key, followed by its relative minor, going through the circle of fifths. I believe that it is more profitable to do only major scales with their arpeggios first, going up chromatically, and then follow them in a similar way with the minor scales. In using this approach, the similarities in fingerings between the various scales are more apparent. It is also profitable to have alternate fingerings whenever possible. My approach to scales and arpeggios includes a variety of slurred and mixed bowings using the three parts of the bow whenever feasible. These bowings are not all-inclusive. Whenever a particularly awkward bowing pattern is encountered in the repertoire, it can be practiced as an additional bowing variation in the scales and arpeggios.   I have chosen to introduce the three and four octave scales by teaching two octave scales across the strings in one position going up chromatically through seven positions; starting on the first, second, third, and finally fourth fingers in major and melodic minor.—Roland VamosEvanston, Illinois 2017.
SKU: BT.WMP2217
ISBN 9789810924102. English.
Teachers’ Choice, Selected Piano Repertory & Studies for grades 6-7 is compiled to provide teachers and students with good options for the 2015 & 2016 ABRSM Piano examinations.
- This collection ofinteresting and appealing Piano pieces contains editorial suggestions for pedagogical purposes. Most teachers will find the performance points helpful in developing stylistic awareness in the students.
-Examinat ionrequirements aside, details on articulation, dynamics, fingering, pedal marks and tempo serve to provide a directed approach for students to strive towards achieving musical excellence and perfection.
-Effect ivetechnicalstudies suited to each level have been carefully selected, forming in themselves, supplementary materials to enhance technical competence.
-Most important of all, enjoy the high standards of music typography suchclear, professionally laid scores supported by modern publishing technology and musical semiotics. The digital print on quality cream-coloured paper ensures comfort in the reading of musical scores.
