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Bach E Major Prelude Transcribed For Mandolin: Book/CD Set

Bach E Major Prelude Transcribed for Mandolin: Book/CD Set makes one of J.S. Bach's most enduring and fascinating instrumental works accessible to Mandolin players.The book and audio includes fingerings, tablature and a slow performance of the piece. These materials are intended to make learning the virtuosic piece an attainable goal.

FIDYK STEVE MODERN DRUM METHOD GRADE 1 DRUMS BOOK/CD/DVD

FIDYK STEVE MODERN DRUM METHOD GRADE 1 DRUMS BOOK/CD/DVD

Mark "Kailana" Nelson: Favorite Fingerstyle Solos For Ukulele (Book/Online Audio)

From the author of Mel Bay's best-selling book, Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele, we are proud to present, Favorite Fingerstyle Solos For Ukulele . This book and accompanying audio offer a variety of fingerstyle solos for the Ukulele. The music stretches across several styles, including Hawaiian, ragtime, bossa nova, and classical. The solos progress in difficulty, and tips on technique are included along the way. More advanced arrangements introduce chord inversions and different rhythmic approaches for the right hand. Thirty-three arrangements are presented in standard notation and tablature. Transposition charts are included for baritone ukulele. Includes access to online audio.

Jack Hatfield: Old-Time Gospel Banjo Solos (Book/Online Audio)

This book presents 31 of the most-loved old-time gospel songs arranged in the three-finger style, complete with musical notation, Banjo tablature, chords and lyrics. Each song is presented first as a beginner-intermediate arrangement, played in the first position in Scruggs style. Most songs are then presented in an up-the-neck arrangement. The audio download available online features five-string Banjo solos played in three-finger style and accompanied by Guitar, Mandolin and Bass. This is a split-track recording, the lead Banjo is on one channel and the accompaniment instruments on the other. Includes access to online audio that can be used as a solo recording, a teaching recording or a play-along recording.

Arr. Joe Carr: Great Mandolin Picking Tunes (Book/Online Audio)

A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of Fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for Mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. The accompanying audio download features all 30 tunes. The tunes include a variety of styles including bluegrass, Texas style, Old Time, Irish reels, some underplayed gems and even a Joe Carr original! This tune book is perfect for building your repertoire.

Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method - Grade 3 (Book/Online Audio)

Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method - Grade 3 has been created to help improving guitarists develop further skills to a grade 3 standard. This book begins with the key of A major and immediately introduces right-hand accompaniment concepts before moving on to the relative minor key of F#. Notes in the first position on the first four strings are reviewed before approaching scales, chords and etudes in the keys of B-flat major/G minor, E-flat major/C minor and A-flat major/F minor. Theory lessons are also included, covering intervals, harmonized scales, triads, expression marks and syncopation plus techniques of glissando, ascending and descending slurs and tremolo. Audio tracks are included to download online and these present selected Guitar solos and studies from the book with accompaniment in split-track format. The split-track format allows the listener to hear and play along with the backup and solo part together or separately. An audio player with a balance control knob is required to take full advantage of this feature.

Comping Styles for Guitar - Funk

This volume teaches the student how to play guitar in a funk style. Thirty-six progressions are presented: 12 keys of a Major and Minor Blues, plus 12 keys of rhythm changes. A different groove is presented for each exercise giving the student a wide range of funk rhythms to master. A companion audio CD is included so the student can play along with each example and really ?get into the groove?. Play-along CD contains ?trio? versions of each exercise with guitar, bass and drums.

Corey Christiansen: Guitar Journals - Jazz (Book/Online Audio)

Mel Bay's series, Guitar Journals , is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This incredible volume for jazz includes a wonderful collection of arrangements by jazz greats Joe Diorio, Johnny Smith, Gene Bertoncini, Bucky Pizzarelli and many more. Covering a wide range of areas including Latin, comping, rhythm changes, blues, etc. This is a must-have and is perfect for everyday use for the student to the professional musician. Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for years to come! Includes access to online audio of examples.

Steve Eckels: Mel Bay's Modern Fingerstyle Guitar Method - Grade 1 (Book/Online Audio)

The Modern Fingerstyle Method gets the student up and playing within the first few pages, it was designed for the absolute beginner with absolutely no experience whatsoever. Students are directed toward reading lines, not notes. Steve Eckels introduces the tools necessary to construct fingerstyle Guitar solos. Each piece utilizes musical tools that will be used over and over again throughout the book. Written in standard notation and tablature. Audio download available online.

Steve Eckels: First Lessons Fingerstyle Guitar (Book/Online Audio)

This book provides the perfect introduction to playing fingerstyle Guitar. National Board certified educator Steve Eckels has carefully designed each lesson to allow for smooth progression. Each of the ten lessons contains the four pillars of practice: scales, reading, progressions and repertoire. Developed in the classroom, this book provides arrangements of beautiful Guitar pieces in a basic form, and instructions for how to embellish them in your own way. Included are shortcuts for learning to read music, and fingerstyle accompaniment patterns such as the famous "Travis" pattern. Those seeking further study will also enjoy Eckels ' "Modern Fingerstyle Guitar Method Grade 1" and other acclaimed folios. This book includes access to online audio.

Grey Larsen: 150 Gems Of Irish Music For Tin Whistle (Book/Online Audio)

Grey Larsen , in the 150 Gems collection, has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications, 2003) and The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox (Mel Bay Publications, 2004). The Gems feature not only meticulously-selected tunes, but represent the first major offerings that use Larsen 's innovative system of notating Irish ornamentation. This book with access to online audio will help players gain a deeper understanding of the Irish musical tradition as well as provide new material to enhance the experience of the solo player and Irish session participant alike.

The Complete Balalaika Book (Book/Online Audio)

The Balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In The Complete Balalaika Book , concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the Balalaika as taught in Russia today. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Foreword, the Tutor, A Brief History of the Balalaika, and a Repertoire Section.  Unlike many method books, The Complete Balalaika Book does not begin with the rudiments of music notation.   Rather, the 20-page Foreword offers insights on the tunings of all the instruments in the Balalaika family, hand positions, string sources and height adjustment, and chord shapes. The author even describes how to make a bass Balalaika pick from shoe leather.   The Tutor or instruction segment is written for the 'prima Balalaika' which is correctly played with the fingers only rather than with a pick. The Tutor jumps right in with exercises and tunes in quarter, eighth, and sixteenth-note values with occasional dotted notes and syncopation.  Perhaps half of the music in this section is shown in both standard notation and tablature. A glossary of musical signs and Russian musical terns is included.   A Brief History of the Balalaika is well written and nicely illustrated. Very few method books contain such a comprehensive historical overview of the subject instrument. The Repertoire Section offers a valuable resource of Eastern European folk tunes. All but two selections in this section are written in both notation and tab with suggested guitar chords, the exceptions being an arrangement for Balalaika and Piano, and a Balalaika orchestra score.    More than simple melody chord leadsheets, these are the author's own arrangements of tunes for solo Balalaika and Balalaika orchestra. Access to online audio with selections performed by the author completes this highly effective instructional book.

Romane/Derek Sebastian: L'Esprit Manouche

This massive book offers a comprehensive study of the Gypsy jazz or Manouche guitar style as perceived by French guitarists Derek Sebastian and Romane, two of the finest modern day practitioners of the Django Reinhardt style.Each of the book?s thirty-six progressive chapters consists of four parts: A.) Technique developed through exercises, chord progressions/diagrams, and illustrations of fingerboard positions; B.) A harmony lesson with leads in the Manouche style; C.) Soloing techniques based on the harmonic structure of a given theme; and D.) Self-testing materials with answers provided at the close of the book.The companion CD for L?Espirit Manouche is unique in that it provides 98 play-along MIDI files that exactly parallel the order of the exercises, examples and pieces in the book as well as audio tracks of excerpts from eighteen Romane favorites from the Gypsy jazz repertoire. The MIDI tracks, which can be accessed via most audio players on PC or Macintosh computers, allow the student to play along with both short phrases and extensive rhythm tracks- at any desired tempo; The audio tracks on the companion disc can be played on any CD player.L?Espirit Manouche not only makes Gypsy jazz accessible; it offers an opportunity to master the Manouche style. While many exercises and tunes appear in both standard notation and tab, not to mention chord or fretboard diagrams, standard notation is predominant.

Dan Levenson: Old-Time Favourites For Fiddle And Mandolin (Book/2 CDs)

Dan Levenson 's Old-Time Favourites For Fiddle And Mandolin contains 62 more tunes to play at festivals and jams or just sittin' at home with a friend or two. The songs in this book are written in both basic and advanced standard notation, with suggested chords as well as a Mandolin tablature line to get you going in the right direction when playing these old-time favorites. As in 'Old-Time Festival Tunes For Fiddle And Mandolin' (MB21023BCD), you will find some of the tunes to be straightforward while others promise to be genuine finger twisters. The book revisits some of the author's old favorites, as well as some time-tested standards. The accompanying audio includes each tune on both Fiddle and Mandolin, with a separate CD for each instrument. There is also a Clawhammer Banjo companion to this book titled 'Old-Time Favorites For Clawhammer Banjo'(MB30224BCD), which shares the same basic standard notation line with this volume.

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Shapes, Patterns And Lines For Jazz Guitar

With the help of this book Jim Ferguson, who is one of the foremost names in jazz guitar instruction, helps you unleash the improvisational power of the same fingerboard shapes that are utilized by many guitar greats.Material includes numerous major, minor, and dominant chord-based patterns and superimpositions, along with a host of ideas and concepts to help you assemble them into dynamic solos. Four complete solos on common song forms/progressions are included along with a 28-track CD. Presented in standard notation and TAB.

My Very Best Christmas, Violin Edition

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume, arranged in comfortable keys, can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin, Viola, and Cello) include two parts for either solo or duet performance and piano accompaniment. The three books are all compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The CD provides the piano accompaniments alone. It can be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself.

20 Pieces from Brigg's Banjo Instructor for Uke

Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs in Southern plantations, and are the sound of a new, vibrant America. Mixing early Black banjo music, with European dances, a new popular music was born, which, in the following decades, would to mature into ragtime and jazz. Rob MacKillop arranged these pieces for fingerstyle ukulele. They sound great on either a standard uke or on a banjo ukulele. The CD recording contains performances of all 20 pieces by Rob MacKillop on a banjo ukulele.

Beyond Stick Control

Beyond Stick Control is the book that offers the snare and drum set player various eight bar solos to develop hand technique and hand/foot coordination. The book is divided into four sections: Part A: Hand Technique Development Studies, Part B: Hand/Foot Development, Part C: Ostinato Foot Pattern Development, and Part D: Linear Jazz Studies. The hand technique solos in part A serve as the foundation for the subsequent section B, C, and D. Through the use of accents, single and double strokes, paradiddles, paradiddle-diddles, swiss army triplets and their respective inversions (sticking displacement), the beginning to advanced drummer will greatly improve hand technique, stick and foot control and feel for their instrument. The companion CD contains recordings of the eight bar solos. This is a must for snare and drum set players who want to take their playing to a higher level.

Essential Jazz Lines: In the Style of Clifford Brown-B Flat

Clifford Brown was one of the most influential jazz trumpeters and was a true master of jazz. His fantastic tone, time, feel and command of the jazz language have been inspiring jazz musicians on all instruments for decades. This book breaks down many of the one and two-bar phrases played by Clifford and helps students apply them to their own playing. Lines played over minor, dominant, and major chords as well as short, long and minor ii-V material can be mastered by practicing with the accompanying play-along CD. Chapters on Guide Tones, Bebop Scales, Targeting, and Playing the Upper-Structure will help students analyze and memorize the lines presented in the book. There is also a chapter with further insight in Clifford?s style which discusses his phrasing as well as other musical devices he used to get his sound. A must have for aspiring students wanting the master the jazz language.

Dave Stryker's Jazz Guitar Improvisation Method

Dave explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses, learned from years of playing with the greats - after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such as Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords, and then includes several solos over often-played jazz standards, using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas, the melodic minor scale, and whole-tone and diminished scales and patterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Dave's own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players, Dave's concise way of explaining his approach will open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Dave plays the examples and solos on the companion CD including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along.

Bach's Cello Suites I-III Arranged For Tenor Banjo

Bach's Cello suites are among the most famous solo instrumental works of all time. The Cello and the Tenor Banjo share the same tuning, and Banjo players might be surprised at how well this great music fits on the fretboard. Rob MacKillop has provided tablature for the first three suites. Here is a chance for Tenor Banjo players to explore Bach on their instrument, which could be tuned to either regular, CGDA, or Irish tuning, GDAE. Accompanying audio is included, using three different Tenor Banjo's: a regular tenor (Deering Eagle II), a gourd tenor (Jaybird Banjos), and a Cello Banjo (Gold Toner) which has the same low pitch as the Cello. A `suite' is a collection of dances of varying speeds and time signatures, conceived to be performed as a whole, and preceded by a prelude. Bach's Prelude to the 1st Suite is magnificent and justly famous. The Bourree from the 3rd Suite is also very popular.