(Piano Solo Songbook). Method book with repertory for the beginning pianist by renowned teacher, arranger and musicologist, Denes Agay. CD tracks demonstrate how the pieces should sound and, in some cases, provide a piano part with which the student can play along.

Transformational Piano Teaching: Mentoring Students from All Walks of Life examines the concept of the piano teacher as someone who is more than just a teacher of a musical skill, but also someone who wields tremendous influence on the development of a young person's artistic and empathic potential, as well as their lifelong personal motivational framework. The specific attributes of today's students are explored, including family and peer influences from interpersonal relationships to social media. Additionally, students from specific circumstances are discussed, including those with special needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, and Depression. Finally, motivation of a teacher's students is related to a teacher's own motivation in their work, as a cycle of positivity and achievement will be recommended as a way to keep an instructor's work fresh and exciting.

In Learning to Listen, Gary Burton shares his fifty years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy award winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, has toured and recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names, and is one of only a few openly gay musicians in jazz. Burton is a true innovator, both as a performer and an educator. His autobiography is one of the most personal and insightful jazz books ever written.

This four-volume anthology contains a sparkling selection of pieces and represents all the major composers of the period. It includes pieces in all the main genres, with Cornet and Trumpet Voluntaries, Echo Voluntaries, fugal works with slow introductions, and Full Voluntaries; as such, the collection offers a wide range of attractive music suitable for both church and recital use. Each volume contains an extended Introduction, with information on instruments of the period, registration, ornamentation, and notes on the composers. An important feature of the collection is an editorial realization of the cadenzas which occur at key points in some of the pieces; these complete the works and demonstrate how they would have been performed at the time. With extended historical information and a wonderful array of pieces carefully edited from original sources, this is a major collection that will be of interest to organists of all abilities.

For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its basic strengths - and limitations. But, once a guitarist gets beyond basic skills, the desire to play in different styles and achieve individual sounds leads inevitably to exploring alternate tunings.
"Guitar Tunings: A Comprehensive Guide" is the first book to offer practical advice for how to use the most common special tunings for the greatest creative and musical effect. Illustrated throughout with examples in standard notation and guitar tablature, the author introduces different musical styles through the use of appropriate tunings. Including an audio CD, this book gives clear and concise instruction for the guitarist who has mastered basic skills but wants to go beyond them. It will appeal to guitar students of all ages, and can be used for individual self-instruction or in one-on-one or group teaching situations.
In short, "Guitar Tunings: A Comprehensive Guide" offers a comprehensive approach for all guitarists to enhance their playing skills and creative music making.

(Easy Piano Songbook). Easy piano arrangements of 13 tunes from the acclaimed Broadway musical, based on the Disney movie and inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. Songs: The Bottom Line * Brooklyn's Here * Carrying the Banner * I Never Planned on You/Don't Come A-Knocking * King of New York * Once and for All * Prologue (Santa Fe) * Santa Fe * Seize the Day * Something to Believe In * That's Rich * Watch What Happens * The World Will Know.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). FunTime Studio Collection will spark the imagination of students in Level 3A-3B This motivating collection features ten terrific pieces, including student favorites and some of the Fabers' personal favorites. Students will enjoy exploring musicality across a wide variety of sounds and styles: Theme from Scheherazade * The Phantom of the Opera * Hound Dog * Howl at the Moon * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * In the Mood * Misty * Chopsticks * Glad Cat Rag * The Addams Family Theme. Students will love the expressive arrangement of the Special Bonus Hit from the pop charts: Home.

These pieces are of tremendous charm, and make ideal tutorial material as they are very easy, with simple pedal parts. They are ideal as quiet voluntaries for liturgical use.

Pianists and aspiring media composers will delight in this officially licensed sheet music collection, which features piano renditions of 14 selections from Howard Shore's brilliant score to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Shore masterfully expands upon the musical palette of Middle-earth, blending familiar motifs from the The Lord of the Rings trilogy with an exciting array of memorable new themes. In addition to the piano arrangements, this beautifully produced souvenir folio features an array of colorful photos from the film. Titles: My Dear Frodo * Old Friends * An Unexpected Party * Axe or Sword? * Misty Mountains * The Adventure Begins * Radagast the Brown * Warg-scouts * A Good Omen * Song of the Lonely Mountain * Dreaming of Bag End * A Very Respectable Hobbit * Erebor * The Dwarf Lords.

(Guitar Educational). Finally, a guitar method designed specifically for girls that teaches how to play using real songs by the world's most popular female artists and songwriters This fun and easy-to-use book/CD pack will get you strumming chords and singing your favorite songs in no time, without even having to read music. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a budding songwriter, you'll gain many valuable tools as you progress through the book, which is loaded with inspirational quotes and words of encouragement. Topics covered include: guitar basics, tuning, basic chords, strumming techniques, chord alternatives, power chords, tab, single-string picking, palm muting, using a capo, creative songwriting ideas, and more Songs include: Angel * Back on the Chain Gang * Beautiful * Come to My Window * Girls with Guitars * I Love Rock 'N Roll * Landslide * Mean * We Got the Beat * You Oughta Know * and more.

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg's Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared towards the intermediate guitar player, not only to teach fingerstyle blues technique, but also to approach the music creatively and with feeling and rhythm. Part One teaches you the preliminaries, such as reading a chord chart and working out a 12-bar blues in different keys. Part Two teaches you touch, timing, and basic fingerpicking technique. Part Three teaches you how to play stylistically, with lessons on how to incorporate bends, vibrato, alternating bassnotes, and rhythmic variations into your playing. All musical exercises are presented in both standard notation and tablature, and are supported by audio tracks. Customers purchasing the eBook version of this title will be able to download the supporting audio tracks. Instructions on downloading the files can be found on the contents page.

Fans of Dances for Two, Books 1 and 2 will be thrilled to have this third volume of exciting duets. Five different dance styles are featured, from a spirited paso doble to an elegant French valse, each piece written effectively to show off the performers as well as the musical style. Students will enjoy the added rhythmic effects of snapping, clapping and tapping in two of the pieces, creating a fun-filled experience for all. Titles: Danza Havana * Double Digit, Finger Snappin', Jazz Dancin' Fun * Paso Doble Noble * Toe Tappin' Showstopper * Valse Bleu.

With the Harry Potter film series now complete, Alfred Music and Warner Bros. Entertainment are proud to present easy piano arrangements from the eight epic films together in one collectible volume. For the first time ever, 37 sheet music selections by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat are collected along with eight pages of color stills from The Sorcerer's Stone to The Deathly Hallows, Part 2. By popular request, "Leaving Hogwarts" from The Sorcerer's Stone appears in print in this collection for the first time. It's a perfect gift for pianists of all ages who love the music of Harry Potter. Titles: Diagon Alley * Family Portrait * Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Leaving Hogwarts * Nimbus 2000 * Voldemort * The Chamber of Secrets * Fawkes the Phoenix * Buckbeak's Flight * Double Trouble * Hagrid the Professor * Harry in Winter * Hogwarts March * Potter Waltz * This Is the Night * Dumbledore's Army * Fireworks * Loved Ones and Leaving * Professor Umbridge * Dumbledore's Farewell * Harry and Hermione * In Noctem * When Ginny Kissed Harry * Farewell to Dobby * Godric's Hollow Graveyard * Harry and Ginny * Obliviate * Ron Leaves * Snape to Malfoy Manor * Courtyard Apocalypse * Harry's Sacrifice * Lily's Lullaby * Lily's Theme * A New Beginning * Severus and Lily * Statues.

(Guitar). The 2,000 licks in this book are organized into 36 chapters. These chapters explore the different pitches, rhythms, techniques, and methods of phrasing found in blues and blues-influenced guitar solos and fills. Use these licks to deliver heavy, yet ear-catching riffs. These can be played along with the 43 backing tracks included on the 3 CDs that come with this book. They are all written in the key of a C blues, while the backing tracks are played in the keys of E, A, D, G, C, F, and Bb. A handy table is included that shows how to transpose up or down from C to other blues keys. The backing tracks (performed by a live band in a studio) are all in the 12-bar blues form, but the licks do not necessarily have to be played over specific chords in the progression.

(Fretted). Classical ukulele player Tony Mizen has arranged 22 of the best-loved pieces from the Baroque era for reentrant GCEA tuning. This includes well-known works by J.S. Bach, Corelli, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell and even an entire concerto by Vivaldi. All arrangements feature ukulele tablature and standard notation. Includes an overview of the music of the Baroque era and notes on each of the individual pieces. The CD contains beautiful performances of all of the arrangements by Mizen.

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

With a host of accessible, quality new settings, and with pieces based on all the major hymn tunes, these volumes are a must for every church organist's library.

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Grade 6 Piano exams. The book is written in attractive and approachable styles and representative of the technical level expected in the exam.