Introduction

This book/CD pack by Canada's premier guitar and DobroŽ player introduces beginning to intermediate players to many of the basics of folk/roots guitar. Topics covered include: basic theory, tuning, reading tablature, right- and left-hand patterns, blues rhythms, Travis picking, frailing patterns, flatpicking, open tunings, slide and many more - everything necessary to become a true roots guitar player! The CD includes 40 helpful demonstration tracks.

The capo is one of the most useful devices ever invented for guitarists. Whether you're a capo novice or a pro looking for new ideas, this book will have you clamping your way to guitar heaven in no time! It covers: choosing your capo, with a listing of the benefits and drawback of all the most popular brands; essential capo effects; capos and tunings; advanced techniques; and much more. Fully illustrated with over 100 photos and diagrams, the book also includes a CD with 64 tracks demonstrating the cool sounds you can make with a capo.

An essential manual for getting the best sounds from electric guitars, amplifiers, effect pedals and digital processors! This book/CD pack features easy-to-follow instructions, with more than 75 photos, to teach the basics of guitar tones and effects. The accompanying CD provides audio examples. Readers will learn: anatomy of the electric guitar; controlling the electric guitar; getting a good clean tone; overdrive, distortion and fuzz; using equalizers; compressors and limiters; noise reduction; modulation effects; reverb and delay; special effects; multi-effect processors; getting a good tone through your PC; famous effected guitarists; and much more!

This unique guide helps all musicians: open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; overcome performance anxiety, general tension, and muscular injury; and increase learning skills and facilitate more effective motor coordination.

Eartraining is a vital (and sometimes neglected) skill that enables musicians to 'hear ahead' in their playing and writing. These unique, modern courses have been used by hundreds of students (from beginners to working pros) at the acclaimed Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. These methods use SOLFEG (the syllables Do, Re, Mi, etc.) to apply the techniques within a key-center based 'relative pitch' framework. Level One works on hearing and transcribing melodies, rhythms, intervals and bass lines and moves on to identify triads and simple progressions. Level Two covers hearing and transcribing triad and four-part chord progressions, key changes, chromatic tones, modal scales, and combining melodic and harmonic dictation.

The Associated Board's Jazz Syllabus is a comprehensive introduction to the world of jazz. A pioneering set of publications and a structured learning program provide the building blocks needed to play jazz with imagination, understanding, and style and to improvise effectively right from the start. Jazz Trombone Tunes is a series of graded folios providing a wealth of jazz repertoire representing the breadth and diversity of jazz, from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant and multicultural sounds of jazz today. Each book includes a CD that provides minus-one backing tracks as well as recordings of full performances. Level 2 includes: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen • Blues for Pat • A Caddy for Daddy • A String of Pearls • Grand Street • Don't Tell Me Now • more.

This progressive new series is intended to enable the developing pianist to cross the often artificial 'border' between classical and popular music. Most of the pieces are in a popular idiom, but a classical spirit of framework can also be recognized in much of the music.

Lista utworów:
The show begins
Cool Cat
Big Top
Shining
Merry - go - round
The Good Old Days
On tour
Piano bar
Up country
Why not?
Gliding
Come on, then!
Nothern lights
Orange Tango
Whirligig
Michel

"Pasja według św. Mateusza" jest jedną z dwóch pasji Bacha, które zachowały się w całości. Powstała ona w późnym okresie jego twórczości, gdy kompozytor był kantorem w kościele św. Tomasza w Lipsku. Pierwsze wykonanie "Pasji według św. Mateusza" miało miejsce w Wielki Piątek 15 kwietnia 1729 roku. Ten monumentalny, złożony z 24 scen, utwór stawia współczesnych dyrygentów oraz instrumentalistów wobec wielu różnorodnych problemów wykonawczych. Publikacja "Johann Sebastian Bach, St. Matthew Passion, Introduction and Instructions for Study" Helmutha Rilinga jest skierowana szczególnie do dyrygentów. Zawiera ona wiele przydatnych wskazówek (m. in. odnośnie artykulacji, tempa, dynamiki, frazowania) w odniesieniu do każdej ze scen pasji. Zawarty jest w niej także opis pierwszych wykonań tej kompozycji w czasach współczesnych Bachowi.

From the selection and preparation of the raw materials to the fine-tuning and finishing of the final product, 88 Keys follows the creation of a piano in the Steinway & Sons factory in Long Island City, New York-a process that has changed little in the one hundred years that Steinway, the world's premier paino manufacturer, has been in bursiness. An introduction relates the history of the piano and traces the history of the Steinway itself. The Story follows step by step the creation of the concert grand piano from 12,000 individual parts. The exquisitely detailed Five levels of exciting and highly effective games that reinforce students' learning of lines and spaces, key signatures, rhythmic patterns, five finger tune-ups, chords, and more. An invaluable resource for teachers as well as parents!