I Can Play That! Showtunes

Learn to play the best of Broadway with this special selection of themes from the world of music theatre, all arranged for the elementary Flute student. This fantastic album features ten blockbuster hits from Cabaret, The Phantom of The Opera, Showboat, South Pacific and more! Each song has been carefully adapted to be accessible to the early performer, giving you the chance to master your skills and techniques by playing the tunes you know and love. You will even find a section of helpful performance tips to guide your learning and inform your practicing. The accompanying CD has professional performances of every piece, plus backing tracks so you can play along. FREE internet downloads are also available with this publication, with piano accompaniments and practice demos downloadable to your computer along with 2 bonus tracks! / Flûte Traversière

Par WEDGWOOD PAM. A fantastic selection of showtunes arranged by Pam Wedgwood for her It's Never Too Late to Play... series. Featuring brand new Piano settings of some of the greatest show tunes ever, by one of the UK's foremost composers of educational and recreational music./ Recueil / Piano

The Library Of Showtunes is a treasury of the greatest songs from the world’s best-loved musical shows. This collector’s volume spans over 85 years of Broadway and West End musicals giving you a vast number ofthe greatest showstoppers all arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar.  From pioneering classics like Guys And Dolls Oklahoma! and Sweet Charity to modern favourites like The Phantom OfThe Opera Wicked and The Lion King every kind of musical show is represented by what are universally hailed as the finest songs of the genre. Every one of these amazing songs is arranged with Piano parts vocalmelody and Guitar chord boxes and symbols as well as being spiral bound for utmost convenience.Taken together the songs included in The Library Of Showtunes comprise nothing less than the history ofthe stage musical told through outstanding numbers that often became hits in their own right as well as advancing the wonderfully colourful stories told on stage. From Summertime to Over The Rainbow and fromCan You Feel The Love Tonight to I Dreamed A Dream these incredible tunes are essential playing for all fans of musical theatre.The stage musical was born on Broadway in the early years of the 20thcentury as a drama where the story and the music complemented one another. No longer just a series of songs linked by a flimsy plot these new musicals had substance. Early classics like Show Boat and Carouselwere not afraid to use tough source material and they led the way for what would become a wildly popular art form that could tackle any subject and in the end be conceived just as successfully in Europe as the United States.Celebrating the passion emotion and dramatic power of the stage musical The Library Of Showtunes is both a joyful celebration and an enduring reference book allowing you to bring the power and beauty of

If you've heard jazz guitarists like Joe Pass play chord melody you may think that the style requires an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory musical super-powers or making a deal with the devil. But fear not! This bookwill show you how to create your own satisfying chord melody arrangements on the Mandolin...and will do so in a practical applicable way.'Aaron Weinstein has many musical accomplishments. I am very proud to have playeda small part with some of them. When he was only 12 he made his first recordings and asked me to play Mandolin on them. I was knocked out to encounter someone that young that was conversant in both old-time or contest fiddling andJoe Venuti style jazz. Not long after that Aaron became interested in the Mandolin and chords and he came by every so often to play and discuss voicings improvisation and the like. I showed him some of the Jethro Burns chordmelody arrangements that Jethro showed me. I've been teaching those for decades in hopes of one day playing them smoothly myself!Fast forward a few more years and Aaron has a Berklee degree traveled the worldplaying hot Violin music and is hobnobbing with the greatest NYC jazz stars. And oh yeah one other thing: he took the art of chord-melody Mandolin style to an entirely new level! The rich harmonies of the standard jazz and showtune repertoire the swinging bass lines and connecting chords and independent voice movements (doing more than one thing at a time) are all present in Aaron's style thanks to his great ear open mind and gift at locating thingson the fretboard. And now Aaron has documented explained and shared his discoveries and approach with all of us in this book. Thank you Aaron!This is truly a step-by-step method that you will enjoy. You'll findyourself saying 'oh of course!' as the author gets you playing and understanding things that sound very detailed and complex. The first section I would call the mandolinistic stuff: the how-to on getting things moving and