Best-selling author Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play blues on the banjo with this instructional book and audio pack! You'll learn: how to play the blues in several banjo tunings- how to play in the styles of blues greats like Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopins, B.B. King, Skip James, and many more- licks, scales, chords, turnarounds and boogie backup- several approaches to soloing- how to…

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. I have created various Blues riffs and has transposed them into all 12 keys along with backing tracks to practice with giving you the student a fun way of learning how to play in all keys. We all learned how to play our scales in all 12 keys so I have taken that concept and applied it to learning to play the Blues so that you can try to become equally adept at playing in as m…

Percussion Section Feature. Par CURNOW JAMES. A vibrant and attentive Percussion section is crucial to the success of any concert band. However, the Percussionists play a supporting role so much of the time that it can be difficult to keep your best players excited about their music. One of the best ways to beat that problem is to program an occasional feature piece. James Curnow’s BLOCKBUSTER PER…

Par NILLES ANIKA. If you don’t have access to your drums regularly, travel a lot, or have neighbors with sensitive ears, you will already have a PRACTICE PAD. But practicing without a drum kit is special! To keep your hands agile and dive deeper into EFFECTIVE METHODS that really improve your pad technique, ANIKA NILLES‘ PAD BOOK is JUST THE THING!  Anika gives plenty of options WHAT AND HOW to pr…

The Rockschool Popular Music Theory Guidebook (Grades 6 – 8) is a music theory handbook for students taking Rockschool’s new Level 3 (Grades 6 – 8) theory exams. Use it along with the accompanying Popular Music Theory Workbooks (Grades 6 to 8) to ensure success in your exams. Rock and pop music is analysed in depth, making this essential reading for students of all contemporary music styles. Rocks…

Write for a horn section!
In this book, you will learn how to add saxophones and brass to a rhythm section ensemble. You will learn the capabilities and characteristics of the most common instruments, and how to order them effectively. You will also learn the different roles that a horn section can serve in your ensemble. Online audio tracks demonstrate the key concepts, as exemplified in a c…

Sing eight of the finest songs to emerge from the Great White Way! Man of La Mancha hit Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony for Best Musical. Chicago came to Broadway in 1975 and was later revived, to great success, in 1996. The rock musical Rent won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. Oliver, a musical based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, got its start on…

Gregory Stone has transcribed these three selected preludes for one piano-four hands.For much of his life George Gershwin sought to integrate the worlds of jazz and classical music. These pieces are not jazz improvisations but they do show something of the style of his own playing. Gershwin had intended to compose a set of twelve, a sort of jazz Wohltemperierte Clavier, but his unexpected death fr…