Take Your Playing from Ordinary to Extraordinary!. Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book/audio package. Whether you play acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers - or all three - you'll receive valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments, equipment, soloing techniques, music theory and more. Includes access to audio tracks onlin…

Find Your Unique Voice on the Drumset. Par MC LEAN CARTER. Acclaimed drummer and instructor Carter McLean brings you his invaluable Four Hands Drumming video series with accompanying book, featuring over 3 hours of high-quality drumset lessons. Carter covers myriad concepts, practice ideas, sticking patterns, grooves, and creative workouts, including the Kaleidoscope - a giant notated exercise gua…

Beginner\'s Pack: Method Books 1 and 2 Plus Online Audio and Video. A complete guide to the basics! This self-teaching method offers quality instruction, terrific songs, professional-quality full-demo audio tracks and video lessons online. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher or watch the videos. Topics covered include: how to assemble and care for your instr…

Brilliant trumpeter Randy Brecker, a Grammy® Award-winning composer, arranger, and leader of his own jazz groups, has shaped the sound of jazz for more than three decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists such as George Benson, David Sanborn, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Chaka Khan. For this book, Randy has selected 12 of his jazz works t…

Just like Book 1, Book 2 of The Hal Leonard Mandolin Method is designed for anyone just learning to play Mandolin. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. The tracks provide an audio demonstration of each example in the…

This handbook is primarily intended for candidates preparing for the Grades 1 to 5 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…

Raising the curtain on Christopher Norton's Micromusicals - exciting and accessible musicals for schools based on popular classroom teaching topics from the creator of the internationally-acclaimed Microjazz series. Designed for children aged 6-12, each production lasts around 30 minutes and can be learned, rehearsed and performed in as little as 2 days.Stage a real class act with this comprehensi…

The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano - from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in …

Rolly Brown has been practicing the Guitar for 50 years, and, in that time, he's developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students.In this two hour DVD, starting with his rule of 'half work, half play?, he shares many of these ideas, interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple 'nuts and bolts? point of v…

This indispensable theory workbook is packed with everything the intermediate-level student needs to know about scales. Pianists and non-pianists alike will benefit from the written exercises covering everything from the major and minor scales to pentatonic scales, modes, blues scales, synthetic scales and more. Concepts are explained in easy-to-understand language and are immediately applied in a…