A must-have guide for all brass students and teachers relating to the total physical output that goes into playing any brass instrument. Caruso covers the same techniques atheletes use to develop their physical control, and applies them to musicians.Click On Each Image to Zoom. Click the larger image to close. Use the arrows on your keyboard to scroll left and right.Highslide JS Highslide JS Highs…

My Violin Concerto is scored for a Classical-sized orchestra, with the addition of a harp and celeste, and lasts around 17 minutes. Although the work sets out to explore the lyrical characteristics of the solo instrument, it is only gradually that the violin finds its full, lyric voice, and thence, as the work progresses, a more dominant role. This, in one sense, is the 'journey' of the piece.The …

The Bluesier Side of Jazz for Tenor Saxophone and Bb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca was inspired by the piano students he teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon, Yumiko, Yoko, Eunice, Sooji, Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background it is a difficult transition to learn to…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted vio…

Par WATTS SARAH. Laid out in a clear, simple way, Red Hot Recorder Tutor introduces the notes and the basics of music theory in digestible stages. With the free accompanying CD the children can play along and quickly make progress. They can clap along to the rhythm sessions, and copy the patterns played in the listening exercises. There are specially priced tutor packs for class teaching. The Red …

Urtext edition with articulation markings - Soft-cover performing editionWhen you think cello, you think of Bach's immortal cello suites.The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They are timeless and beautiful and accompany cellists from their student years up through their professional career at the highest level. Appropriately and not surprisingly there are countless editions of the…

KT Tunstall has had a recurring dream since she was a child. She sees a tiger in her garden and goes outside to stroke it. She returns indoors and is seized by the fear that she could have been killed. Over the years, it has occurred to her that the reason the tiger responds so passively is that she herself is disguised as a tiger. That she is wearing a tiger suit.The Brit Award-winning singer has…

Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the Bass Guitar? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your Bass playing quest, then All About Bass is it.Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing your favourite so…

Par GORDON ANDREW D.. Due to the high demand of two of Andrew D. Gordons blues piano/keyboard books, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs and the 12 Bar Blues Bible, he has adapted examples from the two books along with new examples into a blues organ book and Ultimate Blues OrganRiffs is the result. There is an increased interest in playing the organ these days as many keyboard players are adding organ modul…