Mark Dziuba helps you become a great blues guitarist by expanding your groove palette. You'll learn about shuffle and straight rhythms, the 12/8 feel, triplets, blues forms, the minor blues, and various blues rhythm tricks, including chord fills, using accents and mutes, sliding into chords, and open-string drones. Additionally, Dziuba explores harmonic concepts, like chord extensions and advanced…

Par SENFTER JOHANNA. The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leipzig, first privately, then in his composition class at the conservatoire and valued her 'extraordinary compositional talent'. The strict teacher more and more became a committed p…

The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser: Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano v…

Par WATTS SARAH. Bassoon Hub is a collection of colourful and quirky new pieces, studies, duets and trios for bassoons. The book will inspire elementary and intermediate players, providing new music that will support exam preparation, as well as fun arrangements of well-known tunes. There are also duets and trios to play with other bassoonists. Bassoon Hub is a highly useful resource with plenty o…

A musical tour for young players. Par RAE JAMES. Although written for beginners (Grade 0-2), James Rae's 'City Snapshots”, for clarinet(s) and piano manages, even at this level, to capture the essence of music from around the world. Amongst the twelve pieces, we find a waltz in Viennese style that could have been written by Johann Strauss himself, a dreamy blues from Manhattan, a Cossack Dance f…

Born in Erfurt, the composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) achieved success in America as a soloist and teacher. His best-known pieces for young violinists are 'The Infant Paganini? and 'The Boy Paganini?.Both appear here in their original version for violin and piano and, for the first time, in a transcription for cello and piano by Christoph Sassmannshaus.The Mollenhauer fantasia 'The Infant Pa…

Pieces, exercises and tips for the beginner. This step-by-step tutor can be used by beginners of all ages and is suitable for use either with a teacher or by self-learners, taking you from your very first lesson up to the standard required to begin Trinity College London’s Electronic Keyboard exams (Initial level). Each stage introduces a mixture of keyboard functions, playing techniques and music…

Par WEDGWOOD PAM / LUMSDEN C.. Jurassic Blue follows on directly from Jackaroo , it begins with a revision of the first finger and then moves on to second and third fingers. Each piece introduces a new rhythmic or technical point, with useful suggestion boxes for the teacher. There's also the chance to create you own dinosaurs too, inspired by Drew Hillier's wacky illustrations. Monstrous pieces f…

The long awaited Sassmannshaus method ?Early Start on the Double Bass? is now here. At last students of the largest instrument in the string family can make use of this tried and tested method for beginners, developed by Egon Sassmannshaus for the other string instruments and applied here to the double bass by Holger Sassmannshaus and J. Peter Close. This method will meet the needs of the growing …

Par BOGUNIA ADAM. As a tuba teacher in primary and secondary schools of music and a lecturer on the Instrumental Department of Cracow Academy of Music for many years, I have encountered considerable difficulty in acquiring sheet music for this instrument. Hence I have prepared my own exercises, studies and arrangements suitable for teaching the tuba to pupils and students. Some of that material is…