Take centre stage and play along with a live rhythm section featuring Bass, Drums and Piano This collection features 24 great songs, from Jazz and Blues standards through Soul and Gospel favourites and lively Swing and Latin numbers. The authentic CD backing tracks will help you achieve a more professional performance. What's included: Printed music - 24 pieces in melody line arrangements Two audi…

Third edition of the world's biggest songbook. This is a vast bumper collection, perfect for buskers, of 1001 all-time hit songs.Whatever your taste, there's guaranteed to be tonnes of songs you'll want to play, this book will last you years!Inside the spiral bound cover you will find a generous selection of hit songs, golden standards, jazz and blues numbers, classical pieces, hymns, gospel songs…

I have the pleasure of presenting the new Souza Lima playalong method series. This project is the result of extensive research and careful elaboration aiming at offering representative material on the most varied styles of Brazilian music to professional musicians students teachers and all those who take a general interest in this field of music.The focus of this series is on the language of ins…

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In A Nuts and Bolts Approach To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar Rolly Brown teaches an organised approach to exploring and combining rhythm, melody and harmony to create fingerstyle Guitar arrangements.This instructional DVD includes numerous tips, tools and techniques, a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own ve…

50 Easy Pieces from 5 Centuries. Par . For the Easy Concert Pieces series, the experienced piano teacher Monika Twelsiek compiled pleasant, easy piano pieces for beginners and published them in three volumes in progressive order. The three volumes are intended to complement a piano tutorial method and are particularly suitable for performance at auditions at music schools, for examinations and fo…

Jazz Play-Along Volume 53-For use with all Bb Eb and C instruments the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue…

Learn 12 great swing standards recorded by Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Play along with a great Gypsy Swing Rhythm Section and learn chords comping and melodies then letthe band back you up as you practice chords and soloing. You play all the leads while the band backs you up. Beginners can practice basic skills while more advanced players …

This second Music by Me continues to foster the creative joy of the first. Book Two has the seven familiar units (rhythm melody harmony bass patterns musical form modern music and review) each divided into four parts: Tool of the Trade Let's Explore Improvise! and Compose Your Own. Humorous and light touches remain such as 'Breakfast Food Rhythms' and 'The Three Bears Improv' with mor…

The exercises in Melody & Rhythm Permutations were developed to improve sight reading and improvisational skills in the advanced player. The inversions of melody and rhythm will keep the instrumentalist busy analyzing andperforming these musical studies over the long haul and a note from the author offers insights and practice suggestions. Though written primarily for mallet players any instrume…

All Levels. Explores the fundamentals of playing rhythm. For decades, jazz greats have used these progressions as springboards to new interpretations and improvisations. Charlie Parker practiced ?I Got Rhythm? in all 12 keys and recorded these progressions on 28 separate occasions! Includes written melody and solo sections. Special sections contain uniquely designed slow recorded tracks to help yo…

The Complete Guide to Rhythm Melody Harmony Technique & Improvisation. Spice up your playing with The Guitar Cookbook! Written by Guitar Player magazine music editor Jesse Gress this collection of recipes for satisfying a wide variety of musical appetites is for beginning to advanced guitarists. It covers all the ingredients for cooking up great music on the guitar: music notation tuning int…

Complete Mandolin Edition. Learn 29 great swing standards in the style of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. 110-page book plus play-along audio. Download and jam along with a great Gypsy Swing band, learn mandolin chords, comping, melodies, then let the band back you up as you solo. We will jam all night long! Learn moveable closed-position swing/ja…

The songs in the Hal Leonard Easy Rhythm Guitar books are presented with large easy-to-read 'Rhythm Tab' notation. The rhythm Guitar part or accompaniment is carefully arranged for beginning to intermediate players. Chord frames are provided to help the player with left-hand fingerings.Lyrics and a melody cue are also included. Just listen to the CD to hear how the Guitar should sound and then…