(Ukulele). The Ukulele from the Beginning Pop Songs The Blue Book is a great collection of 15 favorite pop songs, specially chosen and arranged for primary school-age and early secondary school-age children. The songs are simplified, and annotated with easy chord symbols, strumming and picking patterns. This is a truly accessible pop songbook, combing a great deal of contemporary repertoire with a selection of true pop classics. Songs include: Bleeding Love * Call My Name * Fireflies * Locked Out of Heaven * Love Story * Mad World * and more.

More Graded Studies for Clarinet Book Two, by Paul Harris, brings together saxophone study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique from the 19th Century onward, and provides a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core studies alongside specially composed pieces by Paul Harris, this comprehensive collection applies the Simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Book Two takes the student from Intermediate to Advanced level (approx. Grades 6-8). The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to a carefully planned technical progression, and each study comes with a list of Simultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preparation for the music.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 14 favorites from one of the founders of outlaw country, including: The Best of All Possible Worlds * For the Good Times * Help Me Make It Through the Night * Just the Other Side of Nowhere * Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) * Me and Bobby McGee * Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down * Who's to Bless, and Who's to Blame * Why Me? (Why Me, Lord?) * and more.

This book, originally developed under National Science Foundation grant support, was written to bridge academic disciplines and areas of practice that include music production, audio engineering for theatre and film, and computer science. Apart from the first and the last chapters, each chapter is divided into three sections. The first section covers general concepts, the second discusses applications, and the third delves into the mathematics and algorithms that underpin digital audio processing. It is not intended that a single course would cover all the material in this book. Rather, portions of the book could be used in college-level courses such as the following: - Theatre or film sound design and production. - Digital music production - A course covering sound in a New Media or Digital Media or Digital Arts program (particularly in programs that are interdisciplinary between computer science and music). - A computer science course introducing digital signal processing. - A computer science course which engages students in programming through audio applications. The special value of this book is that it provides a broad context for students. In academic programs that emphasize applications, students are still able to ""look under the hood"" to have a deeper understanding of audio processing at a lower level of abstraction. For students of computer science, physics, or mathematics, the relationship between science and applications provides interest and motivation. The book also serves as a reference for anyone interested in digital audio processing. This includes hobbyists, those who are "self-taught" in music production, and even those already in the audio processing or music production industry who want a deeper understanding of their art and craft.

(Beginning Solo Guitar). 15 Beatles classics arranged in beginning chord melody style in standard notation and tab: All My Loving * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Here, There and Everywhere * Hey Jude * Let It Be * The Long and Winding Road * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Michelle * Norwegian Wood * Something * Yesterday * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one full-sounding arrangement that can be played with a pick or fingers. Includes lyrics.

(Percussion). Hudson Music has teamed up with Turn It Up & Lay It Down creator Spencer Strand to bring you this series of books to accompany the popular and critically-acclaimed Turn It Up and Lay It Down CDs. Each book in the series represents a custom-tailored appraoch to learning grooves, fills and concepts that can be applied to learning different styles and playing along with the accompanying CDs. This is a complete instructional play-along package with a unique twist The included minus-drums CD features 11 tracks that gradually step up in tempo from 100 to 310 BPM. Based on classic jazz standards, these play-along tunes give the drummer the opportunity to work on increasing his/her jazz drumming facility in a real-world musical fashion. The package contains drum charts and suggested patterns for each song, as well as a lead sheet for each song, helping the drummer to understand what he or she may encounter on a real jazz gig. Written by two jazz pros, Peter Retzlaff and Jim Rupp, this book/CD pack also includes a complete instructional method for learning how to play jazz, covering such topics as developing your jazz ride cymbal patterns, feathering the bass drum, learning comping patterns, and playing with brushes. All of the songs and educational topics are accompanied by clear text that explains the concepts, along with an extensive recommended listening discography.

(Educational Piano Library). Here are 8 great Disney hits expertly arranged as intermediate duets: The Bare Necessities * Belle * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Hakuna Matata * I See the Light * Kiss the Girl * When She Loved Me * You've Got a Friend in Me.

(Instrumental Folio). 12 Coldplay favorites arranged for instrumentalists to enjoy. The CD includes accompaniment tracks so you can sound like a pro while playing Songs include: Clocks * Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall * Fix You * In My Place * Lost * Paradise * The Scientist * Speed of Sound * Trouble * Violet Hill * Viva La Vida * Yellow.

(Sitar). The Hal Leonard Sitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the sitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to sitar and its technique, as well as the practice, theory, and history of raga music. The accompanying CD includes 42 tracks for demonstration and play-along. Lessons include: choosing an instrument; tuning; postures; right- and left-hand technique; Indian notation; raga forms; melodic patterns; bending strings; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; changing strings; recommended listening; and much more

The Hofner violin bass guitar is one of the most instantly recognisable musical instruments ever made. Its fame was assured when a certain young English guitarist walked into a shop in Hamburg in 1961, saw exactly what he was looking for, and ordered a left-handed version. The rest, as they say, is history. This book charts the complete history of the Hofner violin bass, beginning with the rebirth of the company after the Second World War and the conception of the bass in 1955."

(Guitar Educational). Turn your acoustic guitar into a full band with this comprehensive book/DVD set by guitar virtuoso Chris Woods. Providing detailed, step-by-step instruction on a variety of percussive guitar techniques, this book includes warm-ups, exercises, full pieces, and pracitcal "how-to" training that will get you slapping, tapping, and enjoying your guitar like never before. The high-definition DVD reinforces all the material in the book and features Chris Woods himself as your personal instructor. No matter what style of music you play, Percussive Acoustic Guitar will change, enhance, and progress your entire approach to the guitar Covers: string slapping, body percussion, tapping, harmonics, alternate tunings, standard notation and tab, and more, with lots of exercises and full pieces to play

(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.

A Systematic Approach to Voice: The Art of Studio Application is a professional resource presenting a framework for the integration of science-informed principles of voice production and pedagogical application in the training of singers. Author Dr. Kari Ragan has spent years using this organizational template of the five voice systems - respiration, phonation, registration, articulation and resonance - to identify technical challenges and design corrective vocal exercises to enable efficient singing. Each of the voice system chapters contains a brief overview of the mechanics as well as key points for teachers, or "teacher takeaways." The book's core offering is vocal exercises which, framed within a systematic approach, provide strategies for the art of studio application. The intent is that this approach leads to technically proficient singing with the ultimate goal of serving great artistry. Key Features: Over 85 vocal exercises for studio application framed within a systematic approach Brief overview of the mechanics of each voice system Introduction of several kinesthetic singing tools Extensive discussion on semi-occluded vocal tract (SOVT) exercises Sample warm-up protocols

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). This highly anticipated blockbuster stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. Our songbook features easy piano arrangements of 16 songs from the film, including the new title "Suddenly," plus notes by the composers and a special section of fantastic full-color photos from the film Songs: At the End of the Day * Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * Empty Chairs at Empty Tables * I Dreamed a Dream * A Little Fall of Rain * Master of the House * On My Own * Stars * Who Am I? * and more.

(P/V/G Composer Collection). The first definitive collection of Sondheim's songs, with selections from Anyone Can Whistle, Assassins, Company, Dick Tracy, Evening Primrose, Follies, The Frogs, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific Overtures, Passion, Road Show, Saturday Night, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd. Includes detailed notes about the shows and films.