Magic Flea

SKU: KN.02420S

UPC: 822795024203.

Recorded by Count Basie on his Basie-Straight Ahead album, the Moocho Fasto! style marking at the start of this fast swing outing for proficient players sums it up pretty well. Improvised solos for piano, tenor sax and drums are highlights, along with the solid ensemble scoring that we've all come to expect from the pen of Sammy Sammy Nestico. Rhythm section parts are partially notated with chords cued.

SKU: BO.B.3688

This book proposes a way to start the girls and boys from five yeras old to study the piano. Through the characters of the short stories, that head each piece on the form of a little poem, we work in a fun way, exploring the various possibilities of sound, timbre and register of the instrument. From the first contact, the piano is displayed with all its full expression.

At first, these scores have been designed to provide memory reference points on order to focus all the attention on what happens on the keyboard. Thus, the identification of groups and patterns of notes -often illustrated with cartoons and a short analysis of the formal structure, sometimes referred to in the opening poem- may be one of the first approaches the student has to the complexity of musical abstraction. Therefore, the use of the score is also an invitation to discover musical language intuitively.

The organization of material is also designed so that its contents can be played, in part or in full, in auditions and concerts. Students can recite the poems before playing the pieces and even perform dressed up. Thus, from the elegant leap of a dolphin to the small steps of a mouse, we imagine the rapid jump of a flea trapeze artist or the rhythmic sound of a train. From the sounds we hear in a haunted house, we will add a touch of the magic wand and learn to accurately enter pinches of ingredients for a potion….