Par BRIGGS FRANK. This book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles, author Frank Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. Briggs states, 'He believes the more you know about dif…

Par DECRUCK FERNANDE. Composé pour François Combelle, saxophone solo de la Garde Républicaine, Chant Lyrique op. 69 pour saxophone et piano fut achevé le 6 février 1932. La pièce connut un tel succès que Fernande Decruck en écrivit plusieurs versions. Chant Lyrique est d’autant plus remarquable qu’il s’agit de la première oeuvre d’une compositrice jamais intégrée au répertoire de la Garde Républic…

Par BRIGGS FRANK. This book offers challenging material for the intermediate to advanced drummer. Addressing a multitude of styles, Frank Briggs helps guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. Frank Briggs states, 'He believes the more you know about diff…

This volume is dedicated to helping Violinists develop a solid technique in the string-stopping left-hand, so secure that there are no technically limiting factors that will interfere with creative freedom. They deal not only with training the hand but with training the ear as well - intonation must be the primary factor in pracice/lessons. Includes several notes and discussions on aspects of tech…

Celebrate the lessons and legacy of the great president Abraham Lincoln in 2009 the bicentennial of his birth. This choral suite uses Lincoln's own words to create a dramatic salute to this hero of freedom. Songs include: AJust Cause A Lasting Peace A Mystic Chord Hand in Hand Nowhere to Go. Available separately: SATB SAB SSA. Total Duration: ca. 15:00.

36 More Accompanied Exercises that Teach Technique. Par BECK ANDY. Each exercise in this valuable resource is designed to reinforce fundamental vocal concepts for choral and solo singers of any age. Organized in 12 focused categories, the purpose of every warm-up is evident, and clearly stated directions optimize growth. Supportive piano accompaniments, including progressive modulations, are light…

Understand and Command the Fretboard-Jazz music forces Guitarists to learn their fretboards. There is no getting around it. In all of its harmonic complexities and demands for virtuosity there is no choice but to head on down the bumpy road to fretboard mastery. Enter Visual Improvisation for Jazz Guitar ' a comprehensive practice method for understanding and commanding the fretboard. Through a s…

Graded jazz pieces for solo flute recently set on the new Trinity College syllabus for all 8 grades. The story behind Scatadoodledoo: 'One day when I was at home practising my flute for a Jazz gig I had a particularly hard chart with lots of key changes and I just couldn't get into the flow of it. I was thinking logically and thinking of the chord symbols and just thinking thinking thinking wh…

The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissman's mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune Cripple Creek and wanted the trombone totake a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart Dick realized that - in addition to the many…

One of the first documentary collections of Negro folk songs was compiled in 1867 by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Under the title Slave Songs of the United States, this collection of 136 authentic folk songs of the Negro people revolutionized America's understanding of this music. The book, which contains spirituals, work songs, field hollers, soldier songs …