Rhythm by the Numbers provides a fundamental and comprehensive way to learn and use rhythm in drumming. Born from the author's lifelong interest and involvement with rhythm and rhythmic exploration, this book will help students become more creative players by developing vocabulary that does not come from rote learning. The method presents notes within a given metric space that can be applied in va…

Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack. Par WILLIAMS JOHN. Steven Spielberg and John Williams have joined forces once again on a critically acclaimed movie with a memorable musical score. This collection features 7 piano solo arrangements from the soundtrack of this 2017 film: The Court's Decision and End Credits - Deciding to Publish - Mother and Daughter - The Oak Room, 1972 - The Presses Roll…

Par WATTS CHRISTINE. Wonderfully simple and light-hearted biographies, perfect for children, teach lessons thru the composer's life and how they reacted to their circumstances and childhood. This is to depict that the great composers were 'human' and suffered hard times, but overcame their difficulties to become the best they could be. The majority of the pieces are written for the piano and violi…

From best-selling author, John O'Neill, The Saxophone Method is a complete course for the beginner to intermediate saxophonist. Start by mastering the essential foundation techniques of breathing, embouchure, tone production, and tonguing required to be a great player in any style. With a wide range of tunes from all over the world you will be exposed to a great variety of musical styles to motiva…

10 Virtuoso Pieces for Solo Violin. Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Challenging and unusual concert pieces for the more advanced violinist Aleksey Igudesman takes us to his homeland and then around the world with his own arrangements and humorous compositions for solo violin. Aleksey Igudesman's solution, when considering mistakes that could be made when performing well-known virtuoso pieces, was to '…writ…

Shhhh…don't tell anyone! Secret Songs: 18 Guilty Pleasures is a compilation of those all-time great songs that everyone loves and nobody will admit to liking. You know the ones - those songs that lurk in the back of every self-respecting record collector's hoard and come out late at night when you think nobody's around. They're all here, in an easy-to-hide book and CD with specially recorded backi…

Par PURCELL HENRY. Staeps (rightly) believes that the English Baroque is the fountainhead of recorder music, and that Purcell's music is the perfect vehicle. Here, he takes six excerpts from The Fairy Queen (introductions and dances) and fashions a Suite for recorder quartet with basso continuo (keyboard instrument with another bass instrument playing an octave lower than the bass recorder). For a…