Forty-Four Classic Solos by the Legendary Guitarist with a Complete Analysis. Par AYEROFF STAN. The solos of Django Reinhardt are an endless source of inspiration and amazement for any musician. In this exciting book, the author has compiled precise solo transcriptions (in notation only), as well as a thorough analysis of each. There is also a complete 'how to' section that is like a book in itsel…

Keynotes: Grades 1-2 (Early Intermediate) is a collection of pieces from across the ages, arranged specifically to provide the early Piano student with an exciting variety of styles to master. The melodies in this book range from Bach to Tchaikovsky and beyond, with exercises in improvisation and writing your own pieces. Each piece is accompanied by guidance footnotes that will help you to underst…

KENNY DORHAM: jazz legend, master composer, arranger and performer. His unique and compelling voice on trumpet is well documented on recordings. Now K.D.'s music is presented in print, through the eyes, ears and heart of friend and fellow Jazz Messenger, pianist WALTER DAVIS, JR. These piano arrangements give all musicians the opportunity to enjoy and study many of the subtle complexities of Kenny…

Vital concepts and topics of jazz piano improvisation are thoroughly presented in this outstanding book and CD by master performer and educator, Noah Baerman. Organized into three main categories - -scales, modes and other source material; practical application; and conceptual issues - -Baerman's approach develops the skills you need to channel your improvisational impulses into amazing solos. Com…

Learn from the master. Johann Sebastian Bach composed countless pieces specifically for his many students. My First Bach contains many of these educational pieces which are, for the most part, arranged in increasing difficulty. Easy two-part chorales and dances are followed by more demanding little preludes, two-part inventions and the first Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier. / Piano

Full Score. Par BERLIOZ HECTOR. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music. Both damned and venerated by his contemporaries — Mendelssohn conside…

Par WEISSENBERG ALEXIS. This book presents pianists and ambitious amateur musicians with unfamiliar, surprisingly flamboyant and often witty compositions. These piano works are by one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth Century, one of the most recent all-round musical grand masters: Alexis Weissenberg, who was born in Sofia on 26 July 1929 and died in Lugano on 8 January 2012. This first e…

Par BLOW JOHN. Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich. Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century, the master of an individual school that merged cont…

This advanced volume in the comprehensive method for fingerstyle guitar is perfect for experienced players who want to add greater variety, refinement, and creativity to their playing. Develops skillful tone production and dynamic control, and covers the free-stroke, rest-stroke, shifting, tremolo, planting, and inventive techniques used by contemporary fingerstyle masters like left-hand tapping,…