Exercises Of Tenacity, Op. 50 is a set of thirty exercises for intermediate Pianists by Isidor Philipp. This volume will help the players to gain in tenacity, flexibility and dexterity. It focuses on developing the use and the strength of the five fingers of each hand, to be able to use them equally, without any weaknesses. Really important and really useful, this book will enable players to exec…

12 outstanding arrangements for the beginning jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos are included: swing, ballads, rock, pop, holiday, Latin and a great warm-up chart titled Loosen Up. This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation of 5 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, and 4 rhythm, but designed to sound full and …

Par DE HAAN JACOB. Utopia is the name of a book written by the English author Thomas More and was published in 1516. The title is a word thought up by More himself, after the Greek language, meaning 'Nowhereland' and leading to the invention of the words utopian scheme and utopian. Utopia pictured an ideal state on an island far from the inhabited world. This idea was the basis of the composition.…

Kim Perlak, Curator Developed by the Berklee Guitar Department Faculty. Par . Become a more musical guitar player! This book will help you learn and use chords, scales, and other building blocks of music from a guitarist's perspective. It applies concepts of music theory directly to your instrument, using the time-honored teaching approaches of the Berklee Guitar Department. These applications fac…

Par VINCENT RANDY. Contains detailed explanations and exercises on virtually everything a guitarist needs to start playing jazz with others, including different categories of chord voicings, comping tips for being in a rhythm section, plus scale and chord construction. The ultimate jazz guitar reference book, it also features charts for classic jazz tunes to work on, ways to approach practicing ja…

Par PHILLIPS BOB. A cute, pedagogically-based (get it'), first-year bass section feature, this piece will be fun and is sure to make your beginners sound fabulous. This piece is in first position for all players except basses. Basses shift up to C and D on the G string and only play pizzicato. Continuing Bob Phillips' tradition of bass section features, Dance of the Bowless Basses is sure to becom…

From The Classic Hot Licks Video Series. Par HAYNES WARREN. The legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all the classic video footage. In this edition, guitarist Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule, Allman Brothers Band) covers a wide range of blues-rock and slide guitar skills and techniques, including phrasing, vibrato, string bendin…

Par MANUS RON / HALL STEVE. Contains over 70 essential licks for live and studio performance. The book is divided into both Blues and Rock categories, each containing a brief history/introduction, recommended listenings as well as playing and equipment tips. All music has been written in both standard notation and tablature, so whether you read music or not, you will be able to start playing immed…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Songs Without Words Book 1, No. 1 includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he explores useful practice techniques for this classic example of Mendelssohn’s piano music, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour.  more than the score… is a serie…

The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso, Mambo, Salsa, Songo, Bossa, Guaracha, Samba and Latin-Blues. The 24 grooves totalling over 200 riffs/phrases and play-a-long tracks consists of a v…