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(Banjo). Ready to take your banjo playing up a notch? Renowned teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which banjo players of all styles and levels can benefit. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying audio provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including techniques, ear training, performance, and much more!

Amidst a background of wars and revolution, the nineteenth century produced many of the worlds best-loved composers. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky are just some of the many familiar names whose music was shaped by the events of the period: Discover Music of the Romantic Era charts the course...

300 Years at the Keyboard has a very long list of excellent reviews, PUBLISHER COMMENTS: This book has been very well received. Music teachers throughout North America - over 130 schools - have adopted the title for their classes. AUTHOR COMMENTS/DESCRIPTION: You may ask: Who is...

This instalment of Really Easy Keyboard contains 21 hit Summer Songs. From Pharrell Williams to The Beach Boys to Noah And The Whale and many more. If you’re a beginner pianist looking to let some sun into your music then this is the music book for you. These simplified arrangements give...

From the best-selling Easy Piano Collection Gold, a series featuring the greatest classical composers arranged for easy solo piano, Early Romantic Gold presents a fine selection of the most famous masterpieces from the Early Romantic period. The works included are: - Au Fond Du Temple...

Teach yourself how to play drums with our easy drum lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.*** "BEST, MOST COMPLETE DRUM BOOK OUT THERE!!!! I love this drum book! It teaches...

Really Easy Piano: Michael Jackson contains easy arrangements for nineteen hits from the King of Pop. These simplified arrangements are accompanied by background notes on the songs as well as handy playing hints and tips. Suitable for beginners of all ages, including grades 1-3, this book will make...

The compilation album Now That's What I Call Music 96 was released in April 2017 and features 43 popular hits spread over two disks. This official songbook for Now That's What I Call Music 96 contains 20 of the biggest and best chart hits from the album, specially arranged for Piano and Voice...

Timothy Cheek’s revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set “a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction,” according to Notes:...

Sight-reading is a skill which offers a student access to all music literature; a skill through which he can acquaint himself with any composition, unaided by a teacher. Nor can the ability to sight-read be lost. Once musical notation has become a living picture for the student, it will remain so,...

Trevor Wye’s famous Practice Books for the Flute are invaluable to players of every grade and have received worldwide acclaim, selling over 1 million copies in total. Each book concentrates on individual facets of flute technique in concise detail. This revised edition has updated diagrams, clearer...

SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, which has been offering straightforward explanations of Schenkerian analysis to undergraduate...

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music,...

Suitable for exam boards: Edexcel, AQA, OCR, WJEC The Writing about Music Workbook will develop students' skills in writing about music for AS, A2 and undergraduate level. Exercises appear at every stage to challenge and provide examination practice for students. These range from naming...