The New First Gig

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes, chords, strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author' books. Includes access to online audio. / Niveau : Facile / Musique traditionnelle / Etude / Guitare

First Movement of Niccolo Paganini's Violin Concerto No.1 In D which has been freely transcribed for modern concert performance and supplied with a Piano accompaniment by August Wilhelmj.

Simply arranged, this must-know collection includes 50 holiday favorites for beginning pianists to learn, including: Away in a Manger - Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella - Coventry Carol - Deck the Hall - The First Noel - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing - In the Bleak Midwinter - Jingle Bells - Joy to the World - O Holy Night - Silent Night - The Twelve Days of Christmas - Up on the Housetop - We Wish You a Merry Christmas - What Child Is This? - and more. / Piano

Every student's first concert is a special experience. Finding the right piece is important: it should be something easily manageable that sounds great, and isn't too long or too short.This collection contains the most beautiful original piano pieces from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary music, including some rock, pop and tango. There are works by well-known composers amongst lesser-known but equally wonderful masterpieces. / Piano

This first volume in the Classical Piano Solos series features 20 original pieces from the masters, suitable for pianists at a Grade 1 standard.This series was compiled to correlate loosely with the Modern Course method and can be used to supplement any teaching method or situation. This volume features a mix of well-known pieces, including several from Bartok's method (co-authored in 1913 with Reschofsky) and Burgmüller's 'Arabesque,? as well as lesser-known gems by composers like Melanie Bonis, Vincent d'Indy and Daniel Turk. Also includes two bonus pieces - by Gurlitt and Schmitt respectively - that have been adapted so that the beginning student can immediately start playing the classical repertoire. / Piano

A Christmas Musical for Secondary Schools-First Night is full of fine lyrics and big tunes. This is a musical full of gentle humour and bathos but above all it is immensely entertaining and guaranteed to make a memorable Christmas.When Daniel's firstnight of shepherding up in the hills is interrupted by a visit from the angels it starts him wondering what might be going on back home in his father's inn.Although written for middle and secondary schools FirstNight is extremely versatile and would work just as well as a youth group/all-age church production.There are parts for soloists and chorus made easily learnable by the accompanying CD which contains demos of allthe songs. This score also includes the narration parts.

String teachers have long turned to the First Album series to fulfill the need for fun educational first-year solo and ensemble music. Familiar classics and original works are presented each in elementary firstposition. All material has been carefully edited and bowed.First Quartet Album - easy arrangements of 20 classics by Haydn Beethoven Schumann Mozart and more

Score and Parts-Samuel Barber's First Essay arranged by Joseph Levey for Concert Band. Score/parts. Previously only available on rental this new publication of Barber's FirstEssay (ca. 1930) is a welcome addition to the literature. This edition includes newly discovered historical information on Barber's personal edits and revisions - including adding original music - to thearrangement prior to his approval for publication. Set in the original orchestral key this arrangement by Joseph Levey has been performed by several of the most prestigious concert bands. This deserves a seriouslook for mature groups.    

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 11 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: Adagio and Allegro from Sonata No. 6 for Violin (Handel) - Adoration (Borowski) - Berceuse (Barat) - First Concertino (Guilhaud) - Largo and Allegro (Loeillet) - Marche Comique (Ostransky) - Pavane pour une Infante Defunte (Ravel) - Romance and Troika (Prokofiev) - Russian Sailors Dance (Glière) - Sinfonia (Arioso) from Cantata No. 156 (J.S. Bach) - Two Russian Pieces (Kalinikov/Voloshinov). / Clarinette

Rhythmic and Melodic Elements for Primary Grades-Teaching strategies for rhythmic and melodic elements taught in primary grades (K-2) are printed on 3-hole punched loose-leaf paper so teachers can easily customize the teaching sequence in order to make the most of each lesson. Each teaching strategy contains a list of requisite readiness elements and skills (what the students need to know and be able to do) before learning the new element. It includes a list of activities to prepare for the new element a scripted step-by-step procedure for presenting it and ways to practice using the new element in each skill area. The strategies in this volume are geared towards the primary grades. New and experienced teachers alike will findFIRST WE SING to be a practical flexible and creative resource for bringing Kodály's approach into American music classrooms.

An absolute must for modern cello lessons: Hot Cello is a varied mixture of pieces from pop, rock, blues and jazz music. Volume 1 is very easy and limited to the first position. Students are gradually introduced to technical and musical problems. The second part is intended for the teacher or advanced students. The pieces in Volume 2 are musically and technically more demanding and assume an ability to play in 1st-4th position. All pieces are included on the accompanying CD. / Violoncelle

Play guitar on eight metal classics by power rockers, Queens of The Stone Age, with these specially recorded CD backing tracks plus matching music book. The music book features both guitar tab and standard notation of each song, plus complete lyrics. The CD contains two specially recorded backing tracks of each song. The first is a full demo with guitar, showing you how it should sound, and a backing for vocals. The second is a backing track without guitar for you to play along with on your guitar. Both versions are without vocals and have instrumental cues so you can sing along too, with or without guitar. / Guitare Tablatures

If you're just starting to play drums this method is absolutely made for you. First Drum Grooves will help you to play your first Drum beats and fills without delay and let you feel the immediate enjoyment of playing music! When playing those first beats the idea is not to blow people away but rather to play simple and rhythmically accurate things. In short to be a real musician... even if you are a beginner drummer for now.  As you progress through this book the featured beats and fills will become richer and more advanced page after page going from quarter notes to eighth notes triplets and sixteenth notes. By following the logicalprogression of this method you will be able to learn and make progress while actually playing. Each of the featured 40 tunes comes in 5 different tracks on the accompanying MP3 CD organised as follows: Drums only at normal and slow tempo then the same Drum beat played with its accompanying track and finally the play-along track only also at normal and slow tempo... so that you can learn and play at your own pace according to your level and your skills. This book includes more than 6 hours of music in total! If you're just starting to play Drums this method is absolutely made for you. First Drum Grooves will help you to play your first Drum beats and fills without delay and feel the immediate enjoyment of playing music! When playing those first beats the idea is not to blow people away but rather to play simple and rhythmically accurate things. In short to be a real musician... even if you are a beginner drummer for now.  As you progress through this book the featured beats and fills will become richer and more advanced page after page going from quarter notes to eighth notes triplets and sixteenth notes. Byfollowing the logical progression of this method you will be able to learn and make progress while actually playing. Each of the featured 40 tunes comes in 5 different tracks on the accompanying MP3 CD organised as follows: Drums only at normal and slow tempo then the same Drum beat played with its accompanying track and finally the play-along track only also at normal and slow tempo... so that you can learn and play at your own pace according to your level and your skills. This book includes more than 6 hours of music in total!