Intermediate Banjo is great for banjo players who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. It covers many crucial topics like basic improvisation, moveable chords, playing up the neck, double stops, playing backup and vamping, and playing licks and fills. The book also includes a comprehensive breakdown of single-string and melodic style. Author and host Ned Luberecki's friendl…

The fourth book in this new edition of Denes Agay's famous Piano tutor series for children continues on from Book Three through an equally thorough progression of melodic pieces and studies. It develops more sophisticated piano technique and music theory topics in an accessible and imaginative way, inspiring students to learn and practice. Included are attractive illustrations, colourful stickers …

Par LEADBETTER PHIL (TAUGHT). Although designed for the intermediate Dobroandreg - player, resonator guitarists at all levels can benefit from the topics discussed in this workshop video. Phil addresses: creating breaks, building speed, backing up a vocalist, dynamics, and working in a band, and offers lots of shortcuts to playing the Dobroandreg - . Several songs are performed with split- screen …

Par COHEN ALEX. Ultimate Progressive Drumming, by Alex Cohen, pushes the boundaries of drum independence and technical complexity while providing foundational training that will help all drummers, regardless of style. Starting with basic independence and balance training on the drums, Cohen moves into groove coordination, melodic phrasing, unison patterns, and weak-foot builders in the early secti…

Par RAE JAMES. Here are some great new duets for young saxophonists by James Rae in his own inimitable style? or perhaps that should be styles, since, like many of his collections, this covers swing, jazz, blues, rock and much more. ?Easy Jazzy Saxophone Duets 2? includes some very topical references with ?Lockdown Blues? and ?Stickin? Together? but the mood is lifted with pieces like ?Just Rockin…

for American School Songbooks. Par HINDEMITH PAUL. A collection of English songs with various instrumentations, from simple children's song accompanied by piano to mixed a-cappella choirs, according to their purpose at a really easy level. The content covers the fantasy world of fairies and children's dreams, to a prayer for a pilot which was of topical interest at the time of composition./ Répert…

Par PURCELL HENRY. Matching skilfully contrived music with topical and often scabrous texts, Purcell’s Catches offer vivid glimpses of 17th-century life which also appeal to a more modern sense of humour. Reissued to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer’s death, this complete collection is edited by Michael Nyman, who provides an extensive preface that tells the history of the genre. For 3-p…

Par BEDNALL DAVID. David Bednall 's Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? for SATB double choir unaccompanied. A setting of Shakespeare 's much-loved Sonnet 18, Bednall 's expressive work highlights this timeless text with sumptuous harmony, including pleasing tonal shifts and topical false relations. Various choral textures are explored, from the imitative lines of 'Sometime too hot', to the wa…

Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Concord Recording Artist. Wayne is enjoying a career as one of the most active lead trumpet players in the world. With the Playing Lead Trumpet DVD, Wayne Bergeron discusses and demonstrates the essential aspects of lead trumpet playing for all levels, from students to professionals. Wayne clearly demonstrates a variety of concepts and tec…

George Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation , taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom experience. It is now published for the first time as Hal Leonard Harmony and Theory . This book is designed for anyone wishing to…