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Product Description: Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz piano improvisation will free your creative sense of music. It begins with a review of chord symbol interpretation walks through bass line development and ends with how to play several melodic lines simultaneously in stimulating musical conversation...read more

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Offers text and audio instruction for playing blues and rock guitar, including tips on inflection and phrasing, chord progression, alternate tuning, and transcription and ear training.

This book presents ten of the best known and most prevalent Brazilian rhythms (maxixe,choro, samba, bossa,frevo, baiao, xote, afoxe, guarania and lambada) in studies for solo guitar.Each of these studies is accompanied by a detailed analysis defining its features in term of: form, harmony,melody and characteristic rhythmic motives, and commenting upon its historical and geographical origins,principal composers, typical instrumentation, and other aspects of the style. Including CD

Product Description: 50 Motown favorites packed onto one convenient CD-ROM! Each song is presented in piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. The CD-ROM lets you view and print the music, hear a MIDI playback, transpose to different keys, and substitute the instrument that plays the melody line...read more

A complete package for Class Piano under one cover-textbook and audio CD, plus a free Instructor's Resource Guide available on the book Web site. Written specifically for students in a group or class setting, this text offers an engaging step-by-step approach to playing the piano. Designed to help the student understand how music works, PIANOLAB develops keyboard skills-quickly.

Product Description: O Holy Night is a touching tribute to the holy night on which King of kings was born. Passages from the King James Bible recount the Christmas story; favourite hymns include O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Angels from the Realms of Glory...read more

Product Description: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). All the carols you love in one convenient collection! Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * The Boar's Head Carol * Bring a Torch, Jeannette,, Isabella * Carol of the Birds * Christ Was Born on Christmas Day * Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus * Coventry Carol * Deck the Hall * The First Noel * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslas * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * Joy to the World * O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) * O Holy Night * Silent Night * Sing We Now of Christmas * Still, Still, Still * What Child Is This? * and more...read more

Product Description: The 46 selected piano classics collected here include pieces from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. Masters including Chopin, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Schubert are brought together to delight enthusiasts of all ages...read more

Product Description: (Easy Piano Personality). Easy piano arrangements of 13 songs from these acclaimed British pop/rockers. Includes the mammoth hits "Yellow" and "Clocks" plus: Amsterdam * Don't Panic * Everything's Not Lost * Fix You * Green Eyes * In My Place * Rush of Blood (A Rush of Blood to the Head) * The Scientist * Speed of Sound * Trouble * A Warning Sign...read more

Product Description: Play rich piano solo arrangements of 20 Broadway favorites! This revised edition includes: All I Ask of You * And All That Jazz * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Edelweiss * The Impossible Dream * Memory * On My Own * Over the Rainbow * Put On a Happy Face * Seasons of Love * Singin' in the Rain * Some Enchanted Evening * Summer Nights * Tomorrow * Unexpected Song * and more...read more

Product Description: The waning years of the Russian Empire witnessed the development of a rich tradition of trumpet playing. Noted trumpet scholar and performer Edward Tarr's latest book illuminates this tradition which is little known in the West. Tarr's extensive research in hitherto inaccessible Russian archives has uncovered many documents that illuminate the careers of noted performers...read more

Provides instructions for playing metal guitar, including reading music, playing chords, scales, and improvising.

Product Description: (Essential Elements String Folio). A collection of patriotic songs which can be played by the entire string group or by individual soloists with optional CD accompaniment. Each song is correlated with a specific level in the Essential Elements series...read more

Product Description: The ancient Bards encoded their knowledge of the natural world of animals and plants and the power to heal, order and judge into teasing riddles that were told or sung, not written down. They believed they had powers of divination, shape changing and the ability to travel to the 'other world'...read more

Product Description: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A cost-saving collection of 53 favorites, including: Amazed * Angel * Beautiful * Breathe * Clocks * Come What May * Complicated * Cry * Don't Know Why * Drive * Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) * Fallin' * The Game of Love * Hanging by a Moment * Hero * I Hope You Dance * I'm with You * If You're Gone * In a Little While * Intuition * Landslide * A Moment like This * Only Hope * Smooth * Superman (It's Not Easy) * Thank You * This Kiss * The Way You Love Me * Underneath It All * and more...read more

Product Description: (Keyboard Instruction). The jazz idiom can often appear mysterious and difficult for musicians who were trained to play other types of music. Long-time performer and educator Rob Mullins helps players enter the jazz world by providing voicings that will help the player develop skills in the jazz genre and start sounding professional right away without years of study! Includes a "Numeric Voicing Chart," chord indexes in all 12 keys, info about what range of the instrument you can play chords in, and a beginning approach to bass lines...read more

Product Description: (Fretted). Presents scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes in an orderly and easily accessible fashion. Use this book as a reference guide or as the foundation for creating an in-depth practice routine. Includes multiple patterns for each scale, a lesson on scale construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck...read more

Product Description: (Fretted). Learn to play scales on the banjo with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. The Banjo Scale Finder contains more than 1,300 scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes, including multiple patterns for each scale...read more

Product Description: Print sheet music from your computer! This innovative CD-ROM for PC or Mac contains 30 of Nirvana's absolute best transcribed note-for-note for guitar with tab - over 140 pages of music! Includes: About a Girl * All Apologies * Aneurysm * Been a Son * Blew * Breed * Come As You Are * Downer * Drain You * Dumb * Floyd the Barber * Heart Shaped Box * In Bloom * Lithium * Lounge Act * The Man Who Sold the World * Mexican Seafood * Mr...read more

Product Description: (Signature Licks Keyboard). Explore the classic riffs and solos of rock's greatest keyboardists with this informative book/CD pack. Includes detailed instruction, transcriptions, and a CD with demos. 12 songs are analyzed: Bloody Well Right (Supertramp) * Cold as Ice (Foreigner) * Don't Do Me Like That (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) * Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John) * I'd Do Anything for Love (Meat Loaf) * Killer Queen (Queen) * Lady Madonna (The Beatles) * Light My Fire (The Doors) * Piano Man (Billy Joel) * Point of No Return (Kansas) * Separate Ways (Journey) * Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)...read more