The Swing

Lista utworów:
Soft Winds (Benny Goodman)

Lista utworów:
Stay Loose
Keep on Moving
Why Bother?
It's for Real
It's Nice to Be Here
Happy Talk
The Swing Along Blues
Get It Right
A Blues A Day
Stamp Your Feet
Quiet, Please

The music of Benny Goodman was the driving force in launching the swing era in the mid 1930s. With the familiar hits Let's Dance; Stompin' at the Savoy; Moonglow and Sing, Sing, Sing, this energetic and well-scored medley pays a fitting tribute to the King of Swing.

This book/CD course on improvisation for all instruments and all styles will help players develop monster musical skills! Book One presents Lessons 1 through 26 of this unique instructional course that imparts a solid basis in technique, rhythm, chord theory, ear training and improv concepts. Covers: common chord voicings, basic chord progressions, the swing feel, and much more. The CD can be used as a listening and play-along tool.

Go one on one with MI instructor Ross Bolton to get that funk groove with your guitar! This book/CD pack covers: movable 7th, 9th, 13th and sus4 chords; 16th-note scratching; straight vs. swing; slides; single-note 'skank' and palm muting; songs and progressions; and more. The CD includes 70 full-band tracks.

A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books and CDs in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow • Delia • Frankie and Johnny • The Girl I Left Behind Me • House of the Rising Sun • Ida Red • In the Pines • Little Sadie • Man of Constant Sorrow • Sally Goodin • Scarborough Fair • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • and many more.

Broadway by Special Arrangement is a collection of eleven songs arranged for the instrumentalist wanting to play in a Jazz style -without the need to learn to improvise. The 'classically' trained amateur or professional performer, or the intermediate-level student (III-IV), will enjoy playing these expertly arranged Broadway melodies just for fun or to include as a light piece on a recital or solo-feature concert performance.
The ballads and medium-tempo and up-tempo swing tunes are arranged with a play through of the melody followed by a written-out 'variation chorus, a return to the melody, and an earcatching ending.
The piano, bass, and drum accompaniment CD will put you right in the band. The CD includes both the solo instrument with the accompaniment track and an accompanimet-alone track for each selection. The inexperienced performer can learn the appropriate style of playing and be comfortable playing in the jazz style before playing along with the rhythm section track.
All of the instrument books are for the most part compatible, with only minimal changes in the 'variation' section to accommodate the ranges (sometimes including octave options) and unique characteristics of the instruments -but all can be played together.
The three-line piano accompaniment book provides a rhythmic 'comping' with chord voicings written out plus the flute part to help in following the soloist, or even for the pianist to take a chorus.
For the jazzer, here is a chance to learn Broadway tunes and to explore playing ballads and the swing style of popular standards. Chord symbols are included to allow for improvistation.
By combining his jazz-keyboard chops, his 25 years as an instrumental instructor, and his superb composing and arranging skills, Carl Strommen presents a fully playable, exciting, and tastefully arranged collection of these immortal and memorable Broadway titles.

Lista utworów:
Ain't Misbehavin (Waller Thomas)
All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern)
Bewitched (Rodgers Richard)
Have You Met Miss Jones (Rodgers Richard)
Its All Right With Me (Porter Cole)
Ive Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Frederick Loewe)
Just In Time (Styne Jule)
My Funny Valentine (Rodgers Richard)
My Ship (Weill Kurt)
Summertime (Gershwin George)
Thou Swell (Rodgers Richard)

Aram Chaczaturian (ur. 6 czerwca 1903 w Tbilisi, zm. 1 maja 1978 w Moskwie) to kompozytor muzyki poważnej, pedagog i dyrygent pochodzenia ormiańskiego. Wykształcenie muzyczne zdobył w konserwatorium w Moskwie pod kierunkiem M. Gniesina i N. Miaskowskiego. Do najbardziej znanych utworów z jego dorobku należy "Taniec z szablami" z baletu "Gajane". Publikacja "Dźwięki z dzieciństwa" to kolekcja dziesięciu miniatur dla zaawansowanych pianistów, wśród nich m. in.: "Good-Night Story" i "Rhythmic Gymnastics".

Lista utworów:
Deck The Hall (Nat King Cole)
Joy To The World (David Lanz, Mannheim Steamroller, Mariah Carey, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Steve Green, Three Dog Night, Whitney Houston)
O Holy Night (David Lanz, John Denver, Kathleen Battle, Mariah Carey, MercyMe, Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, The Carpenters)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (David Lanz, Harry Connick, Jr., Johnny Mathis, Mannheim Steamroller, Rosemary Clooney, Steven Curtis Chapman, The Carpenters, Vince Gill)