Par PILKINGTON BOB. Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, countermelodies, bass lines, and grooves. It will help you manage the intricacies of interactive lines, control dissonance, and improve melodic development. Carefully guided exercises let …

For each song you will hear the full version, featuring the Pianist accompanied by an Orchestra, as well as a playback version for you to play along to. There are three different versions for each piece: 1)Keyboard/Organ 2)Piano (medium difficulty) 3)Piano (simple for beginners) The pieces in Tubes Du Jazz Claviers are great for playing as part of a group. The included harmonic grids will help Bas…

Saxofoon Methodes En Etudes. Par GORDON / FRANK VILLAFRANCA. Blues Horn Ensemble Playing is the result of the combined efforts of Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca to present the material in a way in which beginning and intermediate horn players can gain an understanding of blues ensemble playing quickly and easily. The twenty examples recorded on the CD provide a dual purpose. They take you …

Arr. Miles Courtiere. There are 50 well known waltzes fully notated in the book and played on the CD with a full backing band. (play-a-long tracks including melody line played by another instrument). These pieces are all easy to learn. If you do not read music well (or at all) you can pick up the melody from the CD. The book can be used to build a repertoire of waltz music. At live engagements, es…

Learn, Create and Apply Your Own Blues Bass Lines. Par EPSTEIN MARK. Explore various 12-bar blues forms, the shuffle feel, walking lines, box patterns, tone, turnarounds, passing tones, and transitions to establish a great blues groove with this book! Use the accompanying audio to play along with a professional band in shuffle, slow blues, rhumba, and blues rock styles. You will also learn how to …

Get a Better Grip on Neck Navigation!. Par CHARUPAKORN JOE. Mastering the 5-string banjo neck can be a challenge, even for very experienced players. The diagrams in this book will help you quickly memorize scales and chords that may have previously seeemed difficult to grasp. You'll be able to easily see and understand how scale and chord shapes are laid out and how they connect and overlap across…

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Authentic Big Band swing style music for the concert band! You know this one will be a crowd pleaser, and SO much fun to play! Stephen Bulla works his magic with the great Jazz sounds of the 40s and 50s in such a way that your band will be able to put it together and make it happen. Lots of great jazz style articulation and harmonic considerations ensure that your students are d…

A fabulous string orchestra setting of a great symphony, this piece will provide opportunities to develop spiccato bowing technique and will please audiences. Perfect for contest or any concert. (6:35) / Orchestre A Cordes

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. Classic Keyboard Riffs And Rhythms by Andrew D. Gordon consists of 40 short riffs, 4 to 16 measures in length, covering blues, country, funk, gospel, jazz, latin, new age, reggae, R&B and rock styles. This book will help 'spice up' arrangements of songs by incorporating the techniques used for each of the different styles. There is also an analysis giving hints on the best wa…

Arrangeur: John W. Schaum. Par SCHAUM JOHN W.. Every pianist needs a book of exercises to help them develop technical skills needed to perform any type of music from classical to jazz and pop to rock. Carl Czery is considered the founder of modern piano technique, and using the Czerny-Schaum exercises will improve piano technique for all late elementary to early intermediate students. The Czerny-S…