Exercises category: 166 books

In Mastering the Art of Performance: A Primer for Musicians, Stewart Gordon offers seasoned advice to musicians intent on meeting the challenges of performance. Through real-life examples and pre-performance exercises, this accessible manual gives musicians and other performers practical insights...

In this second volume of Bottle Neck Blues by Rick Payne you'll be learning more about this magical style by exploring extra G tuning riffs and an introduction to the deeper sound of the blues with D tuning. There are plenty of exercises and study tunes which follow on naturally from Volume 2....

The MUSIC PRACTICE COACH workouts will help you learn HOW, WHAT and WHY to practice. They will challenge you, help you find tools to diagnose your weaknesses and improve any area of your playing, whether you pluck, strum, bow, blow, strike or sing! Whether you are just starting out, have been playing...

Learn to play Boogie-Woogie through theory, application and development. Explains the elements of the Boogie-Woogie. Includes exercises.

Thirty-Six Jazz Practice Ideas to Get the Most from Your Real Book You may know about the REAL BOOK, but what you probably don’t know is how much MUSICAL PROGRESS can be accomplished with only a single fake book! Don’t know what to practice? Don’t want to waste valuable time? Based...

The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion is an essential practical resource for instrumental music teachers and band directors. Author Stewart Hoffman, a Juilliard-trained percussionist, performer, private instructor, and former classroom teacher, offers a...

Lots of piano books offer either in-depth analysis or quick gimmicks that don’t really teach music theory. But The Only Basic Piano Instruction Book You’ll Ever Need is different. For students who want to learn the basics and dive right into playing, this book skips all the unnecessary trivia...

First book in an exciting new series for today's pianist. Three books designed to develop basic techniques in various jazz styles through authentic, progressive exercises.

Making music is all about patterns. 24 Keys is designed to help you learn the unique fingering pattern that makes up each key on the violin quickly and easily through learning scales and arpeggios, and through practice exercises.It provides a unique visual guide to learning the position of the fingers in each key, so that you can make each second of your violin practice count.

Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student. It aims to equip the student with a basic skill set that he or she can directly apply to the art form. John Bell and Steven R. Chicurel explore...

A simple method for studying the electric bass. In the era of Youtube video demonstrations, in which anyone can upload their own personal performances of any song, it is spreading the tendency to want to learn not "an instrument", but "one or more songs on that instrument". This...

Here's a book intended to challenge you. Here’s a book meant to inspire you. This book is a wake-up call to the global problems and roadblocks for you as a guitarist. This book is meant to be a reality check. Even if guitar playing is a hobby for you, your level of enjoyment and satisfaction will...

Improvisation is a big part of our daily lives, essential to the things we love to do and the music we love to hear. Improvising together seems natural when we’re playing a game or having a conversation, yet improvising music together is often viewed as mysterious and forbidding. Free Improvisation:...

An essential guide to how the voice works; and how to realize its potential. Concise, accurate, and accessible, The Performer's Voice explains how the voice works and how to use it efficiently. Emphasizing the infinite potential of the human voice, this practical book enables vocal professionals...