The piano solos in this delightful collection aptly portray the carefree, fun-filled atmosphere of a three-ring circus: clowns, elephants, tumblers, camels and nimble, performing animals each get their turn to amuse the crowd! These late-elementary pieces will appeal especially to younger students who want to sound great, and they are all excellent recital pieces - full of sparkle and flair. Level: Late-Elementary piano solos (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Level 3); Keys: C, G minor; flats/sharps written as accidentals; larger print music; Range: full staff - leger low C to leger high C; Meters: 3/4+2/4, 3/4, 4/4; Technical features: chromatic patterns, staccato/legato contrasts, swing eighths, 8va, simple pedaling. Length: 2-3 pages. Average performance time: 1 minute. 5 solos: Camel Ride * Circus Tricks * Clowns on Unicycles * The Elephant Parade * Tumblers.

(Book). With enough hot licks to set the whole Lone Star state afire, this book details the solo styles of legendary guitarists, complete with essential stylistic details that make the music come alive. You get it all, from pioneers like T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, and Lightnin' Hopkins, through the next generation of innovators like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, and Johnny Winter, and on to latter-day explorers like Eric Johnson. You'll learn more than 100 licks in the authentic style of each player, each lick with its own mini-lesson, performed by the author at half and full tempo on the accompanying CD. Also features: a rundown of each player's guitars, amps and effects * lists of must-have tracks, albums and videos * revealing quotes from dozens of 6-string notables * essential tips on tone and style * insight-filled lessons.

(Book). The exercises in this book teach you new scales, new fingerings, new patterns and new ideas helping you master phrases that seemed impossible on the bass. Bunny's unique approach will get your fingers "thinking" in new ways on the fretboard, and you'll explore different modes and arpeggios in new patterns and positions. As you work through the lessons, you'll find your "finger intelligence" expanding.

The Concert Performer Series brings you 18 well-known piano pieces, beautifully presented on strong, high-sheen card, complete with a special CD-Rom which contains both audio and MIDI to help you practise for a truly great performance. About the CD: Track 1 contains an audio concert performance. This track is playable on any CD player or computer equipped with a CD-Rom drive and audio CD player software. Track 2 is a special audio 'study track', on which you'll hear the same performance as Track 1 at a slower speed. Listening to and playing along with this track can help you resolve questions of rhythm and interpretation as you are learning the piece. MIDI data is provided for both Macintosh and PC. In order to use these files, you must have software and hardware designed to play and/or edit MIDI files. The file is a type 1 standard MIDI file (SMF) and is completely compatible with most current hardware and software sequencers and players. The instrument assignments conform to the General MIDI Standard. Mute one of the channels to practise one hand alone. Change the tempo or even transpose the whole piece to a new key. Add an orchestral or rock background - the possibilities are endless!

(Musicians Institute Press). Now available with a CD A comprehensive source for learning rhythm guitar in a variety of musical styles. It covers: open chords, barre chords, and other movable shapes; strumming, fingerstyle, flatpicking and arpeggiation; common progressions and basic chord theory; triads, sixth, seventh, ninth, and many other chords; and much more, with standard notation and tab. The included CD contains 85 audio tracks.

(Guitar Educational). Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Jazz volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus 2 full audio CDs featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book A huge variety of jazz guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: modes, arpeggios, basic comping, blues comping, turnaround improvisation, chord tones, tritone substitution, scale sequences, pentatonics, sus chords, polyphonic harmony, and much more

This Berklee Workshop is designed for serious guitarists who want to sharpen their high register reading skills and take their playing expertise to the next level. It introduces studies in all keys, using positions 8 through 12 and all major, minor and symmetric scales. Individual studies consist of scale passages, arpeggios, intervals and notated chord sequences in various time signatures.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This super songbook contains six hits penned by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from this imaginative movie, a perennial favorite for kids and adults alike. Includes: The Candy Man * Cheer Up, Charlie * I Want It Now * I've Got a Golden Ticket * Oompa-Loompa Doompadee-Doo * Pure Imagination.

You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar. This updated twentieth-anniversary third edition of the bestselling songwriting handbook shows you how. Learn the techniques and tricks used in two thousand great songs by everyone from the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie to Kings of Leon, U2, Amy Winehouse, and Ed Sheeran. Explore and understand the four main elements of a song-melody, harmony, rhythm, and lyrics-and learn how to use them in exciting new ways. Master song structure, intros, bridges, chord sequences, and key changes. Make the most of your guitar, with innovative chords, scales, modes, tunings, and recording techniques. Use the skills and insights of the great songwriters to create better, more memorable songs. The book gives many examples of classic chord sequences that can be used straight off the page. It explains the basic architecture of most songs. It contains an effective two-part chord dictionary for guitar, providing a set of basic shapes. A second section provides some chords for altered tunings. There are some examples of finger-picking patterns and strumming rhythms. There are chapters on lyric writing, rhythm, melody, and making a demo recording. There are inspirational quotes from famous songwriters, and a gallery of thirty notable albums from which much can be learned. It is everything you need to get started.

The Classical Guitar Companion is an anthology of guitar exercises, etudes, and pieces organized according to technique or musical texture. Expert author Christopher Berg, a veteran guitar instructor, bring together perspectives as an active performing artist and as a teacher who has trained hundreds of guitarists to encourages students to work based on their own strengths and weaknesses. The book opens with "Learning the Fingerboard," a large section devoted to establishing a thorough knowledge of the guitar fingerboard through a systematic and rigorous study of scales and fingerboard harmony, which will lead to ease and fluency in sight-reading and will reduce the time needed to learn a repertoire piece. The following sections "Scales and Scale Studies", "Repeated Notes", "Slurs", "Harmony", "Arpeggios", "Melody with Accompaniment", "Counterpoint" and "Florid or Virtuoso Studies" each contain text and examples that connect material to fingering practices of composers and practice strategies to open a path to interpretive freedom in performance. The Classical Guitar Companion will serve as a helpful companion for many years of guitar study.

Album for the Young/Scenes from Childhood.

(Guitar Personality). Following on from the previous four successful Rory Gallagher books ( Essential Rory Gallagher, Volumes 1 & 2, The Complete Taste, and Play Guitar With Rory Gallagher ), comes this all-new acoustic collection. Eighteen songs arranged for guitar tab complete with full lyrics.