Par NICKERSON ROSS. Easy to play five-string banjo arrangements of twelve Christmas favorites by banjo master Ross Nickerson. Each song is arranged and performed using proper three-finger bluegrass technique. The arrangements are carefully designed to bring out the melody, but easy enough for a beginner or intermediate player to learn quickly. The tablature in the book is large and easy to read wi…

This book serves as a practical as well as a conceptual guide to help you navigate through various idioms that have become common practice in funk guitar.

Instructional Designs for Teaching Comprehensive Musicianship in Rehearsal and Performance-Guides to Band Masterworks with downloadable student workbooks provides band directors with a ready-made curriculum developed to incorporate comprehensive-musicianship training through quality band literature.When incorporating unit studies as a regular part of the band curriculum students move beyond simpl…

The basics of playing electric blues rhythm guitar are taught on this DVD. The accompanying chart displays the basics of the material taught. Power chords common chord shapes fragmented chords the blues progression itself andother essential aspects of blues rhythm guitar are presented with clear explanations and easy to read materials.

O Be Joyful is a jubilant setting of Psalm 100 from the Book of Common Prayer. Suitable for performances throughout the church year it features fluctuating time signatures a lively tempo and bright harmonies which are underpinned throughout by a sparkling organ part.

100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for Clarinet. 100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for Clarinet. by Andrew D. Gordon consists of, as the title suggests, 100 Jazz riffs based on common chord progressions used in jazz such as the II-V-I, III-VI-II-V etc. in both major and minor keys. There are five separate sections: Jazz Swing, Jazz Ballad, Jazz Funk, Jazz Waltz and Latin Jazz. Each musical example has a single note im…

Here is a winning combination of old and new. This three-movement sonata contrasts the traditional sound of the harpsichord with tonality and syncopation's common to popular music and jazz. There are guitar-like moments in the first and third movements while the second alternates between the baroque and the modern. McLean brings all the character of the instrument to light.

A collection of solos for beginners compiled to assist the tuba-player in learning to play melody lines and to introduce them to common repertoire where tuba solos make an appearance for example Grieg's 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King' and Schumann's 'The Happy Farmer'. Given the tuba's place in band music several military meoldies also make an appearance; there is also the much harder 'Down …

Tristia is a song-cycle to words by Osip Mandelstam one of the founding members of the so-called Acmeist school of Russian poetry - a movement which has much in common with both Symbolism and Imagism. As a Jewish dissident who had survived the Russian Revolution of 1917 and fallen foul of the subsequent Soviet regime Mandelstam found it increasingly difficult to get either recognition or employ…

The fifteenth full Opera from the prolific Hans Werner Henze and the first to feature a self-penned libretto. After the poems he wrote for his Songs from the Arabian Henze has produced this unusal tale through adaptingboth Arab and Persian legends and invoking the same half-real half-imaginary Arabia as the song cycle. The story itself is a fairy tale comedy with much in common with The Magic F…