Tom Anderson: Play-Along with Jazz: Mixed Choir a Cappella: Classroom Resource

Jammin' Styles for the Classroom and Beyond-Build your own Classroom Band with ten play-along jammin' music styles! From country bluegrass jazz and blues to reggae rock surf and more there is something for everyone! A variety of reproducible instrument parts areincluded for recorder mallet instruments unpitched percussion and body percussion so everyone can join in. This flexible series with suggestions for lower and upper grades teaches rhythm reading music notation reading steady beat teamwork and ensemble playing. The enclosed CD offers audio style tracks with and without the classroom instrument parts for instruction and performance options. This Enhanced CD also offers PDFs of the classroominstrument parts to project or print and a full teacher score to keep the band together! Band Styles include: Rock Country Blues Bluegrass Reggae Hard Rock Jazz Soul Dixieland Surf. Suggested for grades 1-6.

Capture the spirit of calypso zydeco bossa nova gospel jigs jazz and more with this unique collection of global rhythm styles. Each ensemble includes 3 to 4 rhythm parts for classroom percussion instruments and one part is always the pulse so even your youngest students can join in! There are also body percussion parts to help learn the rhythms before the instruments are distributed and when there aren't enough instruments to go around. Optional Orff instrument parts and piano are also included for additional layers of tone colour! The enclosed CD offers two recorded tracks for each groove: an instructional track and a play-along track without the percussioninstruments for the flexibility of adding any number of performers. PDFs of all the parts are also included on the Enhanced CD. All parts are 4 to 8 measures and once they are secure the parts can be layered in one-at-a-time in different orders. You decide! Then add your new world groove accompaniments to different songs in these styles from your music library! There is even an overall theme song called ?The Beat of the World? for your students to experience. Let the spirit groove you! Music grooves include: Calypso South African Hora Gospel Irish Jig Zydeco Rock and Roll Bossa Nova American Jazz Irish Reel. Available: Book/Enhanced CD. Suggested for grades 3-6.

Techniques Rhythm & Soloing for Nashville-Style Guitar 2-DVD Set-Some call it country Guitar with a dash of rock blues and jazz. Others call it modern Nashville-style guitar. We call it 'Big Twang' and no one's better qualified to help you get a grip on the style than bonafide master twanger Joe Dalton. Players like Albert Lee Arlen Roth Danny Gatton Johnny Hiland Ray Flacke Leon McAuliffe Brent Mason Chet Atkins Scotty Anderson Red Volkaert James Burton and Jimmy Bryant all have their own classic Big Twang signature sound and technique. But today contemporary players across all styles have incorporated twang influences in their signature sounds.In this DVD you will work through a wide variety of rhythm and soloingparts across five distinct Big Twang grooves that Dalton has prepared to illustrate the diversity of the style. Key learnings include mastering the many different attacks required with the picking hand along with the essential 'touches' required from the fretting hand. As you work with the material Dalton will cover hybrid picking chicken-picking pull-offs hammer-ons double-stops pedal steel emulation ending slides pluck 'n cluck staccato and legato effects tips for crafting a good solo syncopation vibrato and tons of other tricks of the twang trade.