Jazz Saxophone Etudes, Volume 3 features twelve melodic etudes for the advancing jazz saxophonist. These etudes focus primarily on medium tempos and demonstrate a melodic approach to soloing with authentic jazz vocabulary. The etudes are catchy, fun to play, and written idiomatically for the saxophone.Like all of Greg Fishman's books, all saxophonists (soprano/alto/tenor/bari) read the same writte…

Par HARRIS PAUL. Improve your theory! Grades 1-5 are the latest additions to the bestselling 'Improve your …' series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 1 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt, improving every aspect of musici…

5th Edition with Answers. The fourth grade of the Practice in Music Theory series is highly recommended for those who are making good progress in their early musical studies. The J Koh's teaching approach is academic and logical, yet musically conceived. Progressive topics are set out to guide students through their understanding of the fundamental musical concepts and ideas, including rhythmic wr…

This handbook is primarily intended for candidates preparing for the Grades 6 to 8 Jazz Piano exams offered by London College of Music. It features everything required for the exam (technical work, pieces, sample tests) in addition to performance notes and discussion of the new topics introduced at each grade. The grades reflect a structured approach to learning jazz: improvisation is introduced g…

Par ROBB GRAHAM. Jazz Steps is a unique methodical approach to jazz improvisation. It is an aural based method that starts with simple listening exercises and moves on towards copying and then responding to short jazz phrases. The cassette provides improvisation sequences and is designed to be reused as new jazz steps are introduced. This cassette accompanies the book, available on Catalogue No.: …

Par WILSON CHRISTOPHER. This is part of a series of inter-related instrumental workbooks for keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and percussion. Planned so that concepts are carefully introduced, consolidated and extended, the workbook comprises three progressive volumes each containing twenty-five units. They support and complement the teacher's resource through an innovative approach that encourages a…

Par GILMORE S.. by Jamey Aebersold. 2 CDs with book. A no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. Beginning to advanced. Starts very simply, with intervals gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers are listed in book. Book contains transposed parts for C, Bb and Eb in…

Early Piano Music. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. These previously unpublished piano pieces will appear in print for the first time in three volumes. Volume I contains fairly short individual pieces (1872-83) of widely varying difficulty. Volume II will contain four Sonatinas in several movements and a Fantasia (1874), which is about as demanding as the Sonatinas of Kuhlau and Clementi or early pieces by Mo…

Album For The Young features 64 classic Piano pieces inspired by the spirit of childhood. From Johannes Brahms' unashamedly lyrical Wiegenlied through the more cerebral approach of Schumann's album Für die Jugend and the works of contemporary composers such as Lutoslawksi and Richard Rodney Bennett, the music contained in this collection offers many contrasting approaches to the idea of music for …

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Stephen Bullas highly descriptive work was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place between the 19th February and 26th March 1945. Casualties on both the American and Japanese sides were horrendously high before the famous image of the raising of the flag on top of Mount Suribachi signalled the end of one of the most significant and…