Professional Piano Teaching offers a practical guide to the art of piano teaching. Volume 1, now available as an updated second edition, is an excellent introduction to the profession of teaching piano. This revised second edition has been expanded to include chapters on teaching adult students and teaching popular, sacred, and other familiar music. Designed to serve as a basic text for a first-se…

Par HAMPTON ANDY. Saxophone Basics is a landmark method. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to about Grade 2, presenting a wonderful variety of classical, jazz and pop pieces, combined with exercises, quizzes, rhythm boxes and hot tips. The pupil's book is suitable for all saxophones.This new edition of the teacher's book for Tenor/B flat Saxophone contains all the piano and saxop…

In Christmas Extravaganza, Book 1, Robert Vandall takes familiar songs and carols to a new level of pianism and creativity. Each piece is arranged with pianistic freedom appropriate to the song. The arrangements combine both fresh and familiar harmonies, unique melodic treatments, and interesting rhythms. Each solo is comfortable in the hands while sounding impressive. / Piano

Start playing jazz Guitar. This book will help you understand and master the essential concepts and techniques of jazz, whatever style you may already know. You'll learn jazz theory and harmony through learning and practicing scales, diatonic seventh chords, and harmonic tensions. You will also learn to use chord and tension substitutions in order to give a jazz feel to any existing song. Accompan…

The 24 Preludes, one in each major and minor key, are among Chopin's most masterful works. Ranging from miniatures for intermediate-level students to lengthier works for advanced pianists, the Preludes were written in a monastery during the winter of 1839. The preface to this historically informed edition contains a thorough discussion of pedaling, tempo, ornamentation and rubato in Chopin's piano…

This work was commissioned by Music Teachers National Association to feature and promote collaborative music. Premiered at the MTNA Conference on March 23, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois, this trio is scored for trumpet, trombone and piano and composed with the intermediate-level student in mind. A simple two-measure motif becomes the vehicle, providing raw material from which a tapestry of melody, ha…

Media Type : Book DVD Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 104 An in-depth instruction manual for the Arabic oud, the ancestor of the lute and guitar. A companion instructional DVD is included showing key points to playing the Oud.. Contents include: Holding the oud, Plucking the Strings, Basic Plucking Rules in Arabic Tradition, Positions of Left Hand Fingers, Basic Not…

Teachers' Choice, Selected Piano Repertory and Studies for grades 1, 2 and 3 is compiled to provide teachers and students with good options for the 2015 and 2016 ABRSM Piano examinations.- This collection of interesting and appealing Piano pieces contains editorial suggestions for pedagogical purposes. Most teachers will find the performance points helpful in developing stylistic awareness in the …

for piano solo. Par GREENWOOD JONNY. 88 (No.1) by Jonny Greenwood is a contemporary work for solo piano, suitable for advanced-level players, consisting of two movements, slow and fast. Only previously performed by a handful of selected pianists, this work is now being made available for general public performance for the first time. Jonny Greenwood is best known as the lead guitarist of the band …

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Blues to the MAX! With lots of drive and down home blues harmonies, KENNESAW MOUNTAIN BLUES will latch on to your audience for keeps. Very accessible to Grade 2 1/2 bands, this is one of the most enjoyable pieces you’ll find for any level of ability. If you have a kickin’ drumset player, so much the better. Every section has gratifying parts to play, and the easy mixed-meter sec…