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(Instructional). Tips, suggestions, advice and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of flute study and professional gigging are all presented in this book with audio with dozens of entries gleaned from first-hand experience. Topics covered include: selecting the right flute for you...

A comprehensive text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, harmony, and technical studies leading to improvisation. For the flute student beginning the serious study of jazz and contemporary styles, this book will help in many ways. Phrasing and interpretation of rhythms are studied...

(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones and techniques that made Chet Atkins a legend. Audio files of all the music in the book are included. Explore 14 of Atkins' most influential songs including: Country Gentleman * Galloping on the Guitar * Mister Sandman * Orange Blossom Special * Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger) * Yakety Axe * and more.

Suitable for exam boards: Edexcel, AQA, OCR The AS Music Composition Workbook will help students gain the necessary skills and confidence to write a successful composition for AS music exams. It assumes a GCSE level understanding of composition, and offers a series of exercises focusing on...

(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of blues guitar royal, Freddie King. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of King's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, riffs, and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know...

Roger Filiberto's widely-used beginning bass method in one comprehensive book! Includes handy arpeggio charts featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and dominant seventh chords, plus their upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained widespread acceptance...

(Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series.

The GCSE Music Composition Workbook will help students build all the necessary skills and confidence to write a successful composition at GCSE by looking at forms, styles and genres. The workbook covers music for special occasions, verse and chorus, ternary form, theme and variations, minimalism,...

The culmination of a series of events held over two years by leading music educators in an homage to the famous Tanglewood symposium of 1967, this study prods the profession to examine what the future of music education is. It provokes a reevaluation of present programs and philosophies and tired...

Quiero Tocar El Saxofon by Victor M. Barba is a great book for learning how to play the sax. If you want to play in school bands, jazz bands, or just for yourself, you need this book, because is simple and easy to understand, starting with just one note, all the way to playing nice melodies with the...

A comprehensive study text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, chord studies, and technical studies leading to improvisation. In addition, a theory workbook section teaches scales, modal concepts and chord construction. Includes jazz trumpet studies and trumpet improvising.

Examining the mentor-protégé dynamic and its critical impact on the lives of ensembles and their conductors, author Tim Sharp draws from research, his own experience as a choir conductor, mentor, and protégé, and his travels as the executive director of the American Choral Directors Association...

The Edexcel AS Level Music Revision Guide presents all the key information you will need to know for the written exam (Component 3 Appraising) of the 2016 AS Level specification For exams 2017 onwards. It includes the most important facts about each of the AS Level set works, extensive practice...

In Getting Started in Ballet, A Parent's Guide to Dance Education, authors Anna Paskevska and Maureen Janson comprehensively present the realities that parents can anticipate during their child's training and/or career in ballet. It can be daunting and confusing when parents discover their child's...