A good warm-up session can be the most crucial part of your practice session. Not only does it limber and stretch your finger muscles, it helps to ward off injuries, gets your hands in 'sync,? and promotes accuracy and speed. This book contains a wide variety of exercises to help get your hands in top playing shape. It addresses the basic elements of guitar warm-ups by category: stretches and pre-…

At last! A simple, easy-to-learn method for playing the melodies of your favorite tunes, using hip voicings as played by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, etc. Famed jazz pianist and author of 'The Jazz Piano Book,? Mark Levine has created 'The Menu? - a succinct guide to learning a multitude of voicings so you can harmonize melodies on the spot.'So What' chords, upper structu…

Description These studies are designed to explore beyond the present limits of Horn technique and are meant to form a contemporary extension to the older studies of Kopprasch, Gallay, Maxime-Aphonse etc. They are therefore written to be very challenging - each Etude concentrates on an immediately identifiable problem of technique and presents it at an almost virtuoso level. This should not pu…

Nick Barber has been part of traditional English music sessions up and down the country for many years. His copious notes have resulted in this tune book suitable for any melody instrument (fiddle, accordion, tinwhistle, recorder, etc.). The tunes are accurately transcribed, referring to original sources wherever possible. Also included is information about each tune, with Nick's choice of chords …

Stuff All the Pros Know and Use-This book contains tips suggestions advice musical examples and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of Hammond organ study and professional gigging. Included in the book are dozens of entries gleaned from firsthand experience including: funky scales and modes; unconventional harmonies; creative chord voicings; cool drawbar settings; ear-grabbin…

These are companion studies to any basic teaching book of Clarinet method. The first few pieces are suitable for complete beginners with difficulty increasing as the set progresses. New notes and points of clarinet techinque are gradually introduced until by the end of the book the studies would challenge a good amateur player. The excercises are musically expressive including examples of Ragt…

Book Of Revelation-This nine-movement work masterfully captures the bizzare imagery of darkness and light and good and evil found in the Book of Revelation. Patrick Hawes' dramatic musical settings of nine different passages depicting some of the main scenes in St. John the Divine's prophecy cover a variety of moods and emotions. Construction of the movements ranges from simple poignant SATB to d…

Hering's etudes are the fruit of his 20 years of teaching experience. Students will develop musicality in the classical style. These are beginning to intermediate level etudes, each one page long, and each introduces a different concept. They also progress in difficulty throughout the book. This slim book is a good companion and for advanced players, will provide handy material for warm-ups and br…