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Want to play the clarinet? No problem This hands-on guide teaches you all the fundamental techniques you need to play this popular woodwind alone or in a group setting.

"Clarinet For Dummies" gives you the ideal introduction to play clarinet. You?ll begin by learning how to properly hold a clarinet and move on to getting a consistent sound, reading music, and playing songs in a variety of styles, including classical, pop, and jazz.Step-by-step instruction on finger placement, posture, and basic up-keep for the instrumentTips on how to buy or rent a clarinetAccompanying CD offers play-along recordings of every exercise featured in the book

Whether you?ve never held a clarinet or are looking to brush up on skills from your youth, "Clarinet For Dummies" is packed with friendly, easy-to-follow instructions to have you playing this versatile instrument with ease

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This book contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for ABRSM's Flute exams at Grades 6-8. It features sample sight-reading tests for the new requirements from 2018, written in attractive and approachable styles.

Contains exercises in intonation, scales, keeping the fingers down, bowing styles, crossing strings, sixths, octaves, ninths, tenths, triads, the chromatic scale, arpeggios and double stops. Part 1: First position.

The Baroque Clarinet is a sourcebook for the historical study of the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. The book is based on a comprehensive study of the theoretical, musical, and iconographical evidence, and many conclusions are presented here for the first time.

A convenient collection of 80 favorite carols for guitarists who just need the lyrics and chords. Songs include: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Deck the Hall * The Friendly Beasts * Good King Wenceslas * The Holly and the Ivy * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * Irish Carol * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Holy Night * Rocking * Silent Night * Up on the Housetop * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Welsh Carol * What Child Is This? * and more.

This book gives detailed and authoritative guidance on the mastery of this rewarding instrument. It is a practical manual offering beginner and expert alike a thorough and systematic treatment of every aspect of performance. There are many parts of the body employed in playing the bassoon - abdomen, mouth, tongue, fingers, and not least brain - and are described in turn and their proper use discussed both from a theoretical and practical perspective. Each section is followed by highly original practice routines. There is also advice on maintenance, how to practise, how to teach, and how to cope with the challenges of audition and competition. There are hints given on the performance of concertos by Mozart and Weber, a list of recommended solo repertoire and an extensive bibliography.

More Graded Studies for Flute Book One, by Sally Adams and 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 One begins at Elementary level and progresses to Intermediate (approx. Grades 1-5). 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. **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): American Pye **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Study in D minor **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Chromatic Polka **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Tarantella **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Jasmine Flower **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Study in G **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Under the Rainbow **ABRSM selected piece (Flute 2018-2021): Study in C or Study in G

(Artist Transcriptions). More than 50 Coltrane classics, transcribed exactly from his recorded solos. Includes: All Blues * Blue Train (Blue Trane) * Body and Soul * Bye Bye Blackbird * Countdown * Cousin Mary * Giant Steps * Impressions * India * Lazy Bird * Lush Life * Mr. P.C. * Moment's Notice * My Favorite Things * Naima (Niema) * Spiral * Syeeda's Song Flute * Witches Pit * and more.

This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and provides a series of case studies including major works from the horn repertoire by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. It includes chapters on the historical background of the instrument, its design and development, and choice of instrument today.

(Instrumental Folio). 12 Disney favorites with a CD that lets you play along with a full band Titles include: Be Our Guest * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Colors of the Wind * Friend like Me * Let's Get Together * Under the Sea * You've Got a Friend in Me * Zero to Hero * and more.

This guide, written by one of the foremost interpreters of early clarinet music, is intended for all clarinetists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the acquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while performers on modern instruments will find much advice on style, approach and techniques, which combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation. Most importantly, case studies that include the music of Handel, Mozart and Brahms help recreate performances as close as possible to the composer's original intention.

Humanity has blown horns and trumpets of various makes and models, lengths and diameters since prehistoric times. In Horns and Trumpets of the World, the eminent scholar Jeremy Montagu surveys the vast range in time and type of this instrument that has accompanied everything in human history from the war cry to the formal symphony, from the hunting call to the modern jazz performance. No work on this topic offers as much detail or so many illustrations-over 150, in fact-of this remarkable instrument. Montagu's examination starts with horns constructed from such unusual materials as seaweed, cane, and bamboo, and continues the journey of exploration through those of shell, wood, ivory, and metal. The chronological scope of Horns and Trumpets of the World is equally vast: it looks at instruments of the Bible and from the Bronze and Iron Ages respectively before diving headlong into those from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, and, following the Industrial Revolution, those that have appeared in the modern era. Drawing on the many instruments from the author's own extensive collection, Montagu offers details, including measurements, at levels rarely seen in other surveys of this world of instrumentation. Horns and Trumpet of the World should appeal to not only scholars and collectors, but professional brass players and manufacturers, as well as museums and institutions with a vested interest in our musical heritage.

(Instrumental Folio). 15 favorites from this Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter, including: Back to December * Change * Fearless * Fifteen * Love Story * Mine * Our Song * Picture to Burn * Should've Said No * Sparks Fly * Speak Now * Teardrops on My Guitar * Today Was a Fairytale * White Horse * You Belong with Me.

Exercises in position changes and scales throughout 3 octaves for relatively advanced pupils. The Sevcik Viola Studies are a superb collection of exercises to help develop a student's bowing style, accuracy, rhythms and wrist speed/strength.

(Artist Transcriptions). Complete scores to 14 of his best, featuring separate pull-out section with complete saxophone melody and solos transcribed. Songs include: Songbird * Silhouette * Going Home * and more.

(Music Sales America). This recorder course by John Pitts is written for 7-11 year olds no previous knowledge of music or recorders is necessary. It is carefully graded with clear explanations at every stage, enouraging children to develop musical skils as well as recorder techniques. Book 3 introduces the remaining eight notes plus seven new notes with familiar fingerings (enharmonics).

(Music Sales America). This version of Handel's Air and Rondo is edited and arranged by Evelyn Rothwell. 'Air' is grade 3 standard, while the 'Rondo' is grade 5 standard.

(LKM Music). Daily studies for developing resonance and the embouchure.

The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for prospective instrumental music teachers. What sets this book apart is its focus on how to teach the instruments. Preparing students in the how of teaching is the ultimate goal of the woodwind class and the ultimate goal of this book, which organizes information by its use in teaching beginning instrumentalists. In developing performance and understanding, pre-service teachers are positioned to learn to teach through performance-contrasted with an "old-school" belief that one must first spend much time tediously trying to understand how things work before playing the instruments. The book is organized in three parts: Preliminaries, Teaching the Instruments, and Foundations. Chapters in Teaching the Instruments are organized by instrument (flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and, within each instrument, according to how an effective teacher might organize experiences for novice learners. Basic embouchure and air stream are covered first, followed by instrument assembly, then hands and holding. Embouchure coverage returns in greater depth, then articulation, and finally "the mechanism," which includes sections on the instruments of the family, transposition, range, special fingerings, tuning and intonation, and reeds. In Foundations, topics are situated in big picture contexts, calling attention to the broad applicability of information across instruments.

(Instrumental Folio). Play 50 of your favorite pop tunes on your instrument of choice This collection features arrangements written in accessible keys and ranges with lyrics and chord symbols. Songs include: All My Loving * Blowin' in the Wind * Clocks * Don't Stop Believin' * Every Breath You Take * Fireflies * Hey, Soul Sister * In My Life * Love Story * My Girl * Nights in White Satin * Sweet Caroline * Unchained Melody * Viva La Vida * What a Wonderful World * You've Got a Friend * and more.