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Knowing your arpeggios is essential to becoming a complete guitarist. In this book you will find written out all of the arpeggios that you will need to learn and commit to memory. This book includes Major 7, Major 6, minor 7, minor 6, dominant 7, augmented, and diminished arpeggio studies for guitar...

The Martin Taylor Guitar Method offers you the chance to study with one of the giants of jazz guitar. Hailed by guitar legend Chet Atkins as "One of the greatest and most impressive guitarists in the world today..." and celebrated by New York's Jazz Times as "Europe's finest guitarist,"...

For most of the recorded history of jazz, the piano has been the main, and usually the only, comping instrument. This text will help guitarists get a handle on the most important job they have when playing in a small group: comping. This book can be used as a progressive study of comping or simply...

(Guitar Book). Right hand arpeggios are essential cornerstones for the development of classical and fingerstyle guitar technique. The study of arpeggios will enable the student of the guitar the opportunity to observe and refine technique and musicianship while playing beautiful music. Includes: 23...

(Educational Piano Library). In engaging and informal language, Ruth Price invites pianists to look for the "magic" in well-known works from both concert and student repertoire. What gives a piece its identity? How can we get inside the composition in order to develop an interpretation?...

AQA AS Music Revision Guide outlines the information you need to know for the written exam (Appraising music) for your AS Level Music. This is for exams first teaching 2016 onwards. It includes: - The key terms, elements of music and stylistic features you are expected to know for each...

This AQA A Level Music Revision Guide outlines the information you need to know for the written exam (Appraising music) for your A Level Music - For exams 2018 onwards. It includes: - The key terms, elements of music and stylistic features you are expected to know for each Area of Study -...

This book is a basic theory text designed for music majors as well as nonmajors who wish to acquire a working knowledge of musicianship and music theory. Music fundamentals are approached through the parallel study of pitch considerations and rhythmic design. The text includes four clefs for study,...

The Deluxe Encyclopedia of Piano Chords is a thorough analysis of chords and how to use them as applied to the piano keyboard. Virtually every conceivable chord in all inversions is shown in bass and treble clef notation as well as in keyboard graphics. This study does not only list chord types; it...

(Educational Piano Library). Students are genuinely surprised when things go wrong in a lesson. They don't realize that they only half-listen while practicing. When they do notice a problem, they simply play the passage over and over (cementing in the mistakes) and hope for the best. That's what most...

(Jazz Book). 120 etudes composed by 7 respected jazz performers/educators. Contains 5 etudes each in swing, ballad and Latin/funk categories, beginning at a medium level and progressing in difficulty. Includes a total of 15 etudes each for saxophones, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, piano, guitar, bass and drums.

(Fretted). Learn to play chords on the ukulele with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Ukulele Chord Finder contains more than a thousand chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the ukulele neck!

How to Grow a Young Music Lover is the ideal guide for parents who want to boost their children’s education through music; parents who want to aid in their children’s cognitive, motor, and creative development; parents who love music and want their children to do the same; and parents who wish...

(Percussion). Modern School for Mallet-Keyboard Instruments contains materials for the development of technique, performance skill, reading ability and musicianship on marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, bells, and chimes. Compiled by experienced teachers and performers Jim Sewrey, Ben Hans and Tom Schneller,...