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Par PERRIN ROLAND. Imagine turning on the radio, hearing a good song and being able to write the whole thing down ? tune, chords, bassline and drums. That is what you will learn with this course. Real Ear Training is the ultimate book for learning to hear, write down and understand melodies, chords, basslines, rhythms and drum kit grooves. No instrument is required and only basic music notation knowledge is needed. With step-by-step instructions, packed with exercises and accompanied by online audio, this unmissable book is suitable for all levels. Real Ear Training is ideal for rock and pop musicians and teachers, for teaching yourself, and for improving GCSE, A Level, college and university dictation skills. ?This is the book I?ve been looking for all my life ? it contains the secret to having a good ear!? Ed Balls, economist and pianist  ?Help is finally here for today?s music students! This course brilliantly develops the essential ability to hear and transcribe music.? Darius Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer Roland Perrin has gained a reputation both as a jazz and world music composer/pianist and is a sought-after music educator. He is a senior lecturer at the cutting-edge London College of Creative Media where he has taught many students now working in the music industry. / Methods and Tutors / Solfège/Formation Musicale / Ecoute

Creative Connections is an outstanding resource for general music teachers, compiling specially crafted games, songs, and lesson plans to actively connect new material to prior knowledge. Fully reproducible and designed for grades 2--6, the activities utilize the art of play to introduce, explore, review, apply, transfer, master, and assess musical concepts. The innovative lesson plans are easy to use and enjoyable for teachers and students alike. The activities offer inventive ideas for inexpensive yet creative manipulatives, such as large boxes and small rhythmic dice, beat boards, rhythmic value-sized rhythm cards, stuffed animals, small play tents, and a giant, floor-sized music staff. Also included is a Data CD of the book with templates and visuals for easy projection, classroom sharing, and immediate use. Help your students make the Creative Connection today! / Formation Musicale

A collection of one hundred fantastic songs including classic hits from the 1960s to today! With full melody line arrangements in their original keys, this is an ideal resource for buskers everywhere and suitable for any occasion. The book features melody line, lyrics and guitar chord boxes as well as vocal harmonies, instrumental cues and solos. Specially designed 'distressed' cover. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Recueil / Ligne de Mélodie, Paroles et Accords

The Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series. Par RICKER RAMON. A new Play along system for learning to play jazz. Each set contains a book with transposed parts for all instruments and a play along CD with Ray playing many of the book examples on his saxophone. Volume one is for the absolute beginning jazz student who knows his/her major scales. Subjects covered in this book include: VOCABULARY: Intervals, Roman Numerals, Scales, Modes, Diatonic Seventh Chords, Major, Minor, Dominant, and Suspended Chords, Chord/Scale Relationships, The Blues Progression, Using Pentatonic Scales with Blues, Pentatonic Chord/Scale Relationships, The II-V-I Progression, Rhythm Changes, The Circle of Fifths, and The Circle of Fourths, and Steps for Playing on Changes. STYLE: Swing Eighth Notes, Use of the Metronome, Scale Practice, and Scat-Singing Solos. EAR TRAINING: Specific examples and suggestions with recorded tracks for practice. REPERTOIRE: A suggested basic repertoire. This improvisation method is more than just another play-along. It is a series of books and CDs that progress step by step, offering concrete suggestions and advise that shows you how and what to practice. Drawing on twenty-five years of teachingexperience at the Eastman School of Music, Ramon Ricker uses text, recorded demonstrations by him and his students, and practice and play-along tracks that present the material in a clear and concise manner. Most of the play-along tracks feature the rhythm section of the 1980 Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band with Harold Danko on piano, Rufus Reid on bass and the late, great Mel Lewis on drums. Since they performed and recorded together consistently over aperiod of several years, they played as a unit - a true jazz rhythm section. The recordings were brought up to meet todays higher CD standards and served as an inspiration for Ramon Ricker to write three entirely new books. In addition, new demonstration, ear training, and play-along tracks were added. / Niveau : Débutant / Jazz / Recueil / Tout Instrument

The reliance upon technology in today's musical world means the demand for drummers to be comfortable working with backing tracks and programmed loops is greater than ever before. Just listening for a few moments to a commercial radio station will clearly demonstrate the vast proliferation of sampled breakbeat phrases as well as the enormous popularity of combining loops with the 'natural' feel of a live drummer.In this unique book and double-CD set Donny Gruendler provides a full guide to the rigours of modern technology-driven drum techniques offering you a special chance to master skills that will not only transform your playing but may also open up a new world ofperformance possibilities for you as a working drummer. Discover how to play to a loop and how to choose the perfect pattern to work with rather than against the loop. Learn how to use fills breaks and drop outs in the styles of the great Hip Hop / Dance / Metal innovators. Master the art of playing to an instrumental loop as well as how to play against backing track effectively - a vital requirement of the contemporary musician.Drum notation is fully explained and the two CDs are overflowing with examples and exercises to support each and every lesson.

Ballade for Organ and English Horn-Written in 1949 for English hornist Louis Speyer the beauty of this piece is just as obvious today. With varying tempos and frequent modulations this piece takes on a life of its own. Optional parts for violin viola andclarinet are included adding to the richness of the setting. This is an excellent concert choice.

The Easiest Keyboard Collection contains some of today's biggest hits, in easy melody line arrangements for all electronic Keyboards, including Happy, Let It Go and Story Of My Life . Ideal for the beginner, each song has chord symbols, lyrics, suggested registration, rhythm and tempo. Easy-to-follow Keyboard diagrams are grouped together at the start of each song and show all the left-hand chord voicings used. / Claiver

22 jazzy arrangements of Irving Berlin gems, including: All by Myself - Be Careful, Its My Heart - Blue Skies - Cheek to Cheek - How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) - Ive Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Its a Lovely Day Today - Let Yourself Go - Lets Face the Music and Dance - Puttin on the Ritz - Say It with Music - Steppin Out with My Baby - They Say Its Wonderful - Whatll I Do? - (I Wonder Why?) Youre Just in Love - and more. / Piano

The clarinet method op. 63 by Carl Baermann from 1867 is still a standard work in classical clarinet education today. The thoroughly revised new edition aims at reviewing the educational concept, which is still valid today, for modern lessons, adjusting the music and texts, and sensibly complementing the teaching contents.The editor who draws on many years of experience as a clarinettist in an orchestra and university lecturer of clarinet has succeeded in adapting the valuable teaching material to the requirements of today while maintaining the basic methodology. The result is a total of 7 volumes:Clarinet Method Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (ED 21761, ED 21762)Clarinet Method Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, with 2 CDs each (ED 21761-50, ED 21762-50): The CDs contain the piano accompaniment for the performance pieces, with and without clarinetTune Book 1 and 2 (ED 21763, ED 21764): piano score of the method's performance pieces, with additional inserted clarinet partDaily Exercises (ED 21765): systematic scale, interval and chord exercises in all keys, complemented and published separately from the original methodDue to trilingual nature of all editions (German, English, French), they can be used universally.About the revision:The musical text is based on the first edition of the method. Only a few differences concerning the articulation as well as some misprints and typographical errors were revised. By deleting the historical fingering instructions for the German fingering system, the clarinet method not only has a clean and, compared to the original, more clearly structured layout, but can also be used universally. The content of the text and the performance directions of the original were linguistically modernized and occasionally extended by further ideas from the teaching practice, such as concepts for warming up, breathing exercises, literature suggestions or tips for daily practising. Further additions of scale and triad studies in all major and minor keys make this method a comprehensive and thorough work of study which not only serves as teaching material for young and adult beginners, but is also a valuable compendium of scale exercises and studies for advanced musicians and is ideal for training velocity and dexterity.The Clarinet Method Vols. 1 and 2 contain not only scales and technical fingering exercises but also Baermann's popular performance pieces, like Romanze (No. 14), which are ideal as performance pieces, yet at the same time train both technique and musical expressiveness. The systematic scale, interval and chord exercises in all keys, however, were removed and are published separately in the volume Daily Exercises (ED 21765) for reasons of clarity.The two textbooks are available with or without CDs. The editions with CDs contain two audio CDs each which were recorded live by the editor and which contain a classic audio version of each performance piece as well as a pure piano version for playing along. / Clarinette

In Cool Jobs in the Music Business industry veteran and chair of NYU's Clive Davis Recorded Music program Jeffrey Rabhan explains career options within – and connected to – today's music business through theexperiences of some of the industry's top DJs educators engineers executives journalists managers music supervisors producers promoters publicists publishers and technicians. Starting from his own experience helping toguide the careers of such artists as Kelly Clarkson Lil' Kim Michelle Branch DMX and Jermaine Dupri Rabhan outlines the essentials of today's business while looking into the future. Conducting dozens of exclusive interviews he draws unique insights from the people currently in the business who detail their own paths to success and offer career and educational advice specifically targeted at young people. Rabhan starts with an overview of variouscategories in the industry then details all of the jobs within that category from entry level to top executive. The DVD includes audio and video footage of the author and additional interviews.