Par HARRIS PAUL. Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sigh-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. St…

For 6 And 7 String Guitars. Par TIMOFEYEV OLEG / KONDENKO FEDOR. There are numerous publications on the art of flamenco guitar, and on the so-called gypsy jazz (the style of Django Reinhardt) guitar. Associated mainly with the Russian seven-string guitar, the art of the Russian-Romany guitarists is barely known in the west and unfortunately is almost lost in Russia itself. This book is designed to…

Featuring superb quality, live recorded backing tracks plus note-for-note transcriptions, this book lets you play some of Dire Straits' best-loved songs as accurately as possible, allowing you to Jam With Dire Straits. The included Audio Download also gives you instant online access to over two hours of music, allowing you to recreate the original songs.This Jam With Dire Straits Guitar workshop i…

Instrumental Play-Along. Here they come to save the day! This collection instrumentalists features 14 songs about your favorite superheroes from TV and the movies. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound then play along and sound like a pro! Songs include: The Avengers · Batman Theme · Captain America …

Par MARSH LIN. We are children of the world is an original song for unison or 2-part upper voices and piano, with words and music by Lin Marsh. This uplifting, multilingual composition was commissioned by the University of Oxford to help celebrate the many languages spoken in the UK’s schools and communities. The piece features folk songs in seven different languages: Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Por…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

The book is part of a series that forms an expertly structured method of studying ukulele. It covers all the material needed for an LCM Ukulele exam, enabling you to study for an internationally-recognised qualification. However, even if you do not intend to take an exam, this book will help you develop all aspects of your playing in a structured way. The book is cleverly designed so that it can b…

Par HARRIS PAUL. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books, including this volume for Grade 2, have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout. Designed to help …

Par CURNOW JAMES. Exceptionally useful! This collection of 24 etudes is specifically designed to help develop good individual and ensemble tone production and intonation. Citing tone production as one of the most important facets of good playing, Jim Curnow starts beginning players with material they have learned in their beginning method books, and then moves on to new and more advanced concepts.…

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 l…