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Ever wondered how many scales there are? Do you struggle to know which are the best to learn or forget? Stuck for soloing ideas?   Well, then the Essential Guitar Scales eBook will show you the 14 most useful scales every guitarist should know and use.

A creative/hands-on program using music concepts proven successful! Popular with students, incorporating an amount of outlining, notetaking, and portfolio building, also. An approach to listening which will be popular with middle school teachers! Teaching suggestions and ideas to fill a trimester...

Pianists are the main sources of inspiration for new developments in jazz guitar comping. Yet guitarists have been slow to develop a comping vocabulary with harmonic sophistication, subtle voiceleading, and rhythmic flexibility on the level of the best contemporary pianists. This book seeks to remedy...

Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, he...

Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters—and limitations—of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates, performers...

'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.' Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures,...

No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano. In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 19 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works...

Simple techniques for creating catchy lyrics and memorable melodies! Nearly everyone can hum the melody or remember the words to a hit song. Clever word play, catchy melodies, and thoughtful imagery can create an impression that lasts long after a song has ended. The Everything Songwriting...

With over 100 illustrations, book 2 of Learn Jazz Piano journeys further into the heart of jazz and blues improvisation. In non-technical language Paul Abrahams explains such concepts as rootless voicings and tritone substitution.

The Yellow Method No lessons to play the songs you love ! Approved by the Europe's House in Paris Play Jazz, Blues...  

Guitarists face a sometimes overwhelming number of choices as to where to play a given note or phrase and what fingering to use. While a given fingering for a scale or phrase may be possible, it may not be practical. In this book, jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno lays out six fingerings for the major scales...

The 4 Chord Songbook returns with eighteen of everyone’s favourite Bob Dylan songs. This series allows the beginner guitarist to build a repertoire of acoustic songs without having to remember reams of obscure chords: Just four will do! These special arrangements make this the perfect way to begin...

Traditional Songs for the 5-String Banjo features 22 classic old-time favourites, specially arranged for 5-string Banjo. The distinctive sound of the 5-string Banjo is most usually associated with folk, country and bluegrass music. In this book you’ll find a superb collection of traditional...

First Lessons Folk Harp is designed for the beginner harp student who has no prior music training. In this book they will learn to read music notation, count rhythm, implement important fingering techniques, organize practice, tune a harp, play common bass patterns and make a decision about which...