Whether you're a beginning guitarist/songwriter or have been at it for a while, you'll find a wealth of tips and techniques for exploring and expanding your musical creativity in Guitar for Songwriters. Guitarist, composer, and teacher Leo Cavanagh is your guide on this tour of chords and chord progressions that will help you expand your use of guitar for composing and accompanying. The more you k…

The Bending Bible for the 10-Hole Diatonic Harmonica. Learn techniques used by the blues harmonica greats to build inspired 12-bar solos! Renowned blues harpist Steve Cohen explains and demonstrates topics including: low and mid-register draw bends - high-register blow bends - double-stop bends - overblow bends - warbles and various vibratos - and more. Includes over 100 demo and play-along tracks…

In 1648 Heinrich Schütz published a collection of 29 motets with five to seven parts titled 'Geistliche Chor-Music? (Sacred Choir Music). Here, the term 'Chor? (choir) refers not only to a (large) vocal ensemble but, more generally, to a group of musicians, vocal or instrumental. As explained by Schütz in the foreword he published with the collection, all parts of the motets can be performed vocal…

Vol. 1: Lyric. OperAria is the ideal 'vocal coach' for all voice types. Edited by Peter Anton Ling, the books address all singers and are conceived above all for training and auditions. In addition, through their careful selection, they offer valuable inspiration for opera recitals. OperAria offers in every book - a well-founded repertoire collection of common audition arias and rarities, which a…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their studen…

This long awaited 104 page book is THE defining treatise on the diminished scale. It explains everything you need to know about this versatile scale and how/where to use it in your solos. Includes 12 exercises, 6 common patterns, and 4 classic diminished licks over ii/V7/I tracks aligned to Jamey's popular Vol. 3 play-a-long (sold separately). Also included are 12 etudes, many based on standards, …

La 'Messe en si bémol' a été réalisée en Novembre 1915 par le choeur de Tous les Saints, Margaret Street, Londres. Le directeur de la musique à l'époque, le Dr Walter Vale, adapté mouvements de la 'Liturgie de saint Jean Chrysostome' de Rachmaninov aux termes de l'ordinaire de la messe du 'Book of Common Prayer', en anglais, à l'exception du 'Kyrie 'qui utilise des mots grecs traditionnels. L'adap…

Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. This chart provides the basics of playing the blues guitar. Common scale and chord diagrams as well as blues chord progressions are laid out in a fashion anyone can understand. Chords, changes, power chords, scales and turnarounds are all listed here to help any level of guitarist pick up the blues in no time! / Niveau : Débutant / Blues - Improvisation / Recueil / Guita…

Par STERK JORDAN. Trombones in Paradise by Jordan Sterk will give your trombone section an opportunity to shine in this bright and fun feature piece. Using only the first six notes of the B-flat concert scale and only 'natural' glissandos for the trombones, this piece is sure to come together quickly and be enjoyed by your young students. Your entire band will love learning one of their first sync…

Dix Bruce's 'Swing and Jazz Mandolin: Chords, Rhythm and Songs? DVD teaches everything you need to know to get up and swinging on the mandolin! The main focus is on chord forms and songs so you'll build a repertoire of moveable chords, which you can use on ANY song in the style, while learning eight great songs played by swing/jazz musicians all over the world. Learn at your own pace as Dix takes …