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Complete Keyboard Player: New Songbook #2 features 19 more great songs, in standard notation with fingering diagrams, chord symbols and lyrics. This easy-to-play collection is ideal practice for beginners, as well as for more advanced players who want to add to their repertoire. Song List: -...

This songbook presents fourteen classic titles recorded by America's great jazz pianist: Bill Evans. Each piece is carefully arranged for solo piano, suitable for intermediate-advanced players, and many of Bill Evans’ original compositions are included. With an introduction by editor Jack...

Now, with The Big Guitar Chord Songbook: The Eighties you can play eighty songs ranging from stadium rock to synth pop, indie to power ballads, from the best artists of the era. Each song is arranged in the original keys, complete with full lyrics, guitar chord boxes and a playing guide. The...

This is a book to help you learn to play the piano. It is not a 'Learn the Piano in Ten Easy Lessons' tutor - plenty of those exist - but an adventure introducing you to the world of music and stirring your imagination. Beginning with simple pieces, as you are fed with more knowledge the compositions...

This book of exercises and studies is designed to develop left-hand guitar technique. The book concentrates on eight different technical areas: chords and chord changing skills, playing barre chords, shifts, slurs, scales, intervals, extensions, and left-hand harmonics. The text is divided into two...

One of the main reasons that many violin students lack solid bow arm technique, and subsequently create an ugly sound from their violin, is quite simply because they neglect to intentionally and specifically dedicate practice time to bow arm technique.  They never actually take time to specifically...

Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin...

What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness on the concert stage or in an audition reflects the intensity, efficiency, and organization of your practice. Far from being a mysterious gift randomly...

This book fills the need for intermediate to advanced violin duets appropriate for weddings as well as recitals, parties, and receptions. These unaccompanied settings would also be useful as sight-reading material in teaching studios. Selections in this volume include: Air in "D"and Jesu,...

Discoveries from the Fortepiano uncovers eighteenth-century performance practices and philosophical beliefs, enabling modern performers to craft an authentic, historically influenced style. Using a variety of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, noted keyboard pedagogue Donna Gunn offers...

Book Description Do you wish your students would practice smarter not harder? Are you tired of nagging your students about the same things over and over? Do you want your students to make faster progress in their piano studies?  Right now, all over the world, piano students are wasting precious...

These special arrangements offer beginning pianists the pleasure and satisfaction of playing Bach. Students of all ages will delight in these easy, pedagogical piano arrangements of familiar melodies such as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," "Sheep May Safely Graze," and the haunting...

The definitive study of Beethoven’s piano sonatas is “remarkable as an insider’s account of the works in an individual perspective.” (European Music Teacher) In “one of the most interesting, useful and even exciting books on the process of musical creation” (American Music Teacher),...