Par STILES SARAH. Impro, an exciting new introduction to improvisation in string playing, is suited to absolute beginners as well as more advanced players. It can be combined with regular teaching methods or used as a source of relaxation and fun in lessons, and all the material is interchangeable between violin, viola, cello and double bass. The skills of free improvisation are built up in stages…

Jazz composer and violinist Martin Norgaard offers this exciting new swing composition for your orchestra. Celli and basses get a chance to shine on the melody at the beginning of the piece. Solo sheets are provided for every instrument and you are free to ?open this one up? to encourage improvisation. Optional drum set is included to help with the style and mood. A great change of pace for your n…

Techniques Arrangements and Improvisation-The sensational Kelly Joe Phelps guides you through his country blues and gospel guitar playing style in this fascinating DVD. Phelps plays the instrument Dobro style with a unique bar and alternate-thumb fingerpicking technique which allows for unusually free improvisation. In this video he demonstrates aspects of his musical craft - covering bar techn…

The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissman's mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune Cripple Creek and wanted the trombone totake a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart Dick realized that - in addition to the many…

for Percussion and Violoncello. Par HUMMEL BERTOLD. In summer 2001, Bertold Hummel composed the present work as a commission for the 'Asiago Festival' and brought together in the grand dimensions of his 'Fantasy in one movement' - as he himself termed it - for the first time the instruments he had always loved much during his life. Asiago - the letters a-s-a-g, corresponding to the notes a, e-flat…

Thelonious Sphere Monk was a towering figure in the story of modern jazz. He was also one of the great originals in all of jazz history with a unique piano style perfectly suited to his visionary approach to composition andimprovisation. He is even better remembered as the composer of some of the classics of jazz: 'Round About Midnight and Blue Monk. For years regarded as a far-out eccentric Mon…

Creative Concepts for Metal-In this program Michael 'Padge' Paget lead guitarist of Bullet For My Valentine teaches the elements of his aggressive lead style and the vibrating riffs he pounds out to inspire a new generation of guitarists.Learn minor pentatonic and full seven note scales across the neck used to create crafty leads.See how Padge constructs many of his signature leads as he takes …