Par DEHNHARD TILMANN. This workbook and DVD will galvanize anyone into action who wants to learn and apply contemporary flute techniques. Everything from beatboxing on the flute to high speed trills is included. Tilmann Dehnhard\'s confidence-building approach and helpful, practical advice will ensure good progress in this exciting genre and enhance the self-assurance to improvise and experiment. …

This popular method starts young children on their musical journey by teaching basic principles of guitar playing. It begins with the parts of the guitar, how to comfortably hold the instrument, right and left hand positioning and tuning. Easy step-by-step playing examples are used to teach chords, picking, strumming patterns and single note melodies. This course book uses plain language that make…

Par HINDSON MATTHEW. Matthew Hindson's Rush for guitar and string quartet takes its influence from the music of Felix Mendelssohn. The fast and technically challenging passages found in the final movement of the Mendelssohn String Octet influenced Hindson's decision to compose a work for the Goldner String Quartet that is highly virtuosic in nature. Hindson remarks, 'it is much more the spirit of …

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Guitar Favorites is perfect for any pop, rock, folk, or blues guitarist who wants to explore classical music. Thomas Kikta of Duquesne University will teach you classical fingerstyle technique in the context of some of the most beautiful classical guitar repertoire ever assembled. Music in written in standard notation and TAB.This book comes with two enhance…

Par CHAPMAN CHARLES. Bass Line Basics introduces guitarists to the art of adding bass lines to their chord/rhythm playing. Adding bass lines to the average chord progression gives a sense of direction and motion to chord accompaniment. 'Four to the bar' comping with moving bass lines as well as bass lines with chord melody are also covered in this text. These techniques are valuable to the guitari…

Max Reger composed his Three Suites for Violoncello solo in 1914/15 for three important cellists and teachers of the time: Julius Klengel, Hugo Becker and Paul Grümmer. Klengel was also friends with the composer. Reger humorously told him of his Opus 131c in summer 1915, calling them 'strapping triplets?. He asked the cellist to 'use these three things as often as possible in your lessons?, althou…

Par SCHUMANN CLARA. Clara Schumann (née Wieck) was undoubtedly the most important female pianist of the 19th century. As a young child she toured Europe as a prodigy: her entire career as a celebrated piano virtuoso spanned more than 60 years. Equally important, but less well known, is the composer Clara Schumann, who published her Opus 1 at the age of eleven. Despite the domestic duties expected …

The Skálholt Suite - The Black Forest Suite. Par O'RHYS DANIEL . Piano music that seems to be written for nature. These pieces are miniatures of a calm world, fragile and beautiful. Daniel O'Rhys thinks of his music in suites. Each of these suites is about a special place. ''The music makes a solid connection. With the places, the people, the stories and the journey itself. The music would not ha…

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Level 6 concepts include: a review of major and minor triads - diminished and augmented triads - the diminished seventh chord - a special style of pedaling - the key of F-sharp Minor - the E Major scale - the key of C-sharp minor - the A-flat Major scale - thirty-second notes - and dotted…