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Take your creativity to another level with this book! Rock music is, or should be, a form of personal expression. This text was written to encourage and develop the drummer's ability to create and develop his own ideas from a solid foundation. This is one in a series of books that deals with one of...

Middle school general music may be a student’s last encounter with school music. A practical book with accessible pedagogical resources on middle school general music is needed for methods courses and music practitioners' use. The book Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General...

(Instructional). The Hal Leonard Handbell Method is designed for anyone just learning to ring handbells. Whether you're an experienced musician or you don't read music at all yet, this step-by-step guide will teach you the basic skills and techniques you need for ringing in a handbell or handchime...

(Guitar Educational). This book covers the art of self-accompaniment while soloing. Incorporating the styles of blues, rock, jazz, country, and funk, the jams will help your ability to play chords and bass lines simultaneously. You'll increase your scale and chord-voicing vocabulary, and you'll improve your rhythm, groove, and phrasing. Audio demos of all 150 guitar jams are included!

Increasingly, guitar study is offered alongside band, orchestra, and chorus in school music programs. This development has drawn a new population of students into those programs but has left music educators scrambling to developing meaningful, sequential courses of study that both meet the needs of...

(Guitar Book). The Fingerpower series delivers a proven and effective path to technical development. This guitar edition focuses on pick-style playing with short, progressive exercises that are easy to learn and fun to practice, developing strength in both hands.

This episode of the The Essential Collection series presents the most famous masterpieces by Hollywood and Broadway composer George Gershwin, including songs from Porgy And Bess, Girl Crazy, The Goldwyn Follies, A Damsel In Distress and more, all arranged for solo piano. The works included...

100 short, information-packed nuggets to make your parent, teacher and student relationship the best it can be!As an independent music teacher, one of the trickiest relationships to navigate is the one between the teacher, the parents and the student. This easy-to-read book is full of valuable,...

At first glance, no two experiences could be further apart than genocide and music. Yet real, live culture usually goes beyond rational divisions. It is now fairly commonly known that art is not absent from the sites of mass killings. Both victims and prosecutors engage in artistic activities in prisons...

Anyone can learn to play the ukulele, and play it well. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. First Lessons Ukulele provides a simple approach for learning how to play the ukulele without reading music. From the most basic necessities, such as holding...

This episode of the The Essential Collection series presents Robert Schumann’s most famous masterpieces arranged for intermediate solo piano. The works included are: - 1812 Overture - Dance Of The Cygnets (Swan Lake) - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (The Adagio Espressivo (Symphony...

This episode of the The Essential Collection series presents the most famous masterpieces by Ludwig van Beethoven arranged for solo piano. The works included are: - Adagio Cantabile (Sonata In C Minor 'Pathetique' Op.13) - Adagio Sostenuto (Sonata In C Sharp Minor 'Moonlight' Op.27 No.2) -...

Wade Ward Clawhammer Banjo Master is a collection of clawhammer banjo tablature as played by Wade Ward, with modern interpretations by Bob Carlin and Dan Levenson. This book is the second in a series of transcriptions of tunes from the old masters--in this case, Wade Ward--who gave definition to our...

Blues Guitar Play-Along Trax, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting play-along that contains the most common grooves used in blues bands today. Notated examples are also provided to give you an idea of how you can approach accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist. Along with...