This book provides the pianist with an amazing assortment of easy, essential exercises. Players of all experience levels can utilize this method: beginners will learn to play music through creative exercises, while advanced pianists can add new exercises to their routines. With this book, you will be able to practice scales and chords without the usual monotony. The exercises focus on three 5-note…

Piano Playbook: Blues and Soul includes superb new Piano arrangements of 45 blues and soul classics, complete with Vocal line and Guitar chords. Chosen to reflect a variety of moods, this selection has been produced to the highest standards and comes in a handy 6 x 9 in. format that combines convenience with durability. The spiral binding ensures that the Piano Playbook sits flat on a Piano or oth…

Par MCMEEN EL. Authors El McMeen and Sandy Shalk love the sound of a guitar when played like a harp! Rather than a bouncy, alternating-bass picking pattern, the notes flow and ring out in an atmospheric and evocative way. This book explores the application of that approach to tunes in several different genres, to show the range of possibilities: hymn music, Irish, Scottish, and English traditional…

This tribute contains twenty-two of Chet's greatest solos and duets along with interviews with his daughter, Merle Atkins Russell and close friends such as Jerry Reed, Vince Gill, Eddy Arnold, Don Mclean and many others. This book offers touching insight

and Folk Favorites For Piano. Par RUSSELL BRYCE. This collection presents 25 classic and original tunes arranged as piano solos in a unique impressionist style reminiscent of Debussy or Ravel. The rich harmonies and pianistic character of each piece also reflect the author?s own musical personality.These arrangements provide a brand-new perspective of classic ballads, spirituals, airs, and folkson…

Par HENIGAN JULIE. This book is an extension and expansion of the previously released Mel Bay book, DADGAD Tuning. It includes a number of additional instrumental solos in DADGAD for beginning-intermediate guitar players, while introducing DGDGCD, a related open tuning. Although many of the selections are traditional Irish dance tunes, the book also includes an American dance tune, two traditional…

Par ADELSON STEVE. A comprehensive exploration of revolutionary Chapman Stick and it's accompanying tap techniques. A primer on theory will explain all the musical logistics enabling the student to fully gasp the concepts in this book. Mr. Chapman's unique approach to his 12 string invention will be explained by Steve Adelson in respect to chords, melody, improvisations, rhythmic capabilities, cou…

Par PIGA DARIO. Sardinian flamenco guitar virtuoso, Dario Piga, delivers 18 intermediate to advanced exercises in this progressively arranged book addressing: arpegio, pulgar, picado, rasgueo, alzapua, and trémolo techniques. Dario himself studied in Spain with several prominent guitarists and singers, so is fluent with the authentic rhythms and techniques essential to effective flamenco guitar so…