Stock your musical toolbox with Cool Open String Licks! Whether you're just learning how to play guitar or you're a more seasoned player who wants to expand your vocabulary of open-position licks this book is for you! You'll find 76 licks in rock blues country R&B funk jazz and bluegrass styles. Each lick is partnered with detailed instructions on how it should be played as well as a demo…

Five great songs are given the gospel treatment, and the result is a guaranteed showstopper - fun, funky, slick and stylish.The arrangements are by vocal coach and choral director Mark De-Lisser, and were performed by his choir, ACM Gospel Choir, on BBC's Last Choir Standing - they are all uplifting, modern and a joy to sing.Arranged for SAT choir with downloadable backing tracks using the accompa…

Par TROXEL JEFF. Guitarist, composer, songwriter, and Mel Bay author?Jeff Troxel has been successful in the flatpicking contest world as well as being a sought-after college and summer camp instructor. In this book, he shares a lifetime of knowledge about one specific role of the bluegrass guitarist? that of accompaniment or ?backup?.Beginning in Chapter One, Troxel lays the foundation for what is…

Written for the 30th anniversary of Kent Island United Methodist Church in Chester Maryland Don Besig and Nancy Price have quoted “The Church's One Foundation” in the accompaniment as well as in the narrator's partread during the introduction. A theme of unity runs throughout which emphasizes that the church is made up of the people in it. “Let this fellowship which unites us b…

Beyond Stick Control is the book that offers the snare and drum set player various eight bar solos to develop hand technique and hand/foot coordination. The book is divided into four sections: Part A: Hand Technique DevelopmentStudies Part B: Hand/Foot Development Part C: Ostinato Foot Pattern Development and Part D: Linear Jazz Studies. The hand technique solos in part A serve as the founda…

Par STANDFORD PATRIC. (KS3/GCSE:A1/AL) Listening, composing and performing are the foundation of Projects, Patric Standford’s exciting new composition manual that meets the varied demands of ‘A-level’ and undergraduate courses. Former head of Composition at Bretton College of Higher Education, respected composer and tireless advocate of new music, Standford begins unashamedly with melody. Through …

for Oboe and String Quartet-Frederick Fox (1931-2011) acquired both his master's degree in music (1957) and doctoral degree in music composition (1959) from Indiana University then began an odyssey that carried him to various teaching and foundation posts around the United States. Fox notes that his music continued to break down the diatonic structure to make it more chromatic but that he doesn'…

Uses: GeneralScripture: Matthew 5:1-12A foundational moment in Scripture is treated with musical interpretation in this artful selection for sanctuary choirs. The words that have comforted generationsof people take wing in an emotive piece that touches the heart with truth even as it inspires the singer with tender music. Lyricism and sensitive harmonic episodes abound while a cantabile piano acc…

A Celtic Christmas Celebration-The joy and hope of Christmas are celebrated in this new Celtic-styled cantata from the pen that brought you The Mystery and the Majesty and Winter's Grace. This jubilant work is filled with tuneful carols thoughtful narration and sparkling orchestrations. Traditional melodies form the foundation of this tapestry of light bringing to your holiday presentation a plea…

How To Blitz! Sight Reading For Beginners is a prequel to Book 1. It is written for musicians who are just starting out in their Piano careers and is designed to create a love of sight reading through the fabulous ‘key sticker’ reward system.The book presents three sight-reading concepts and a test in each of the ten levels drilling rhythm reading and note and pattern recognition. By the end…