Format : Sheet music + Audio access
SKU: AP.1-ADV14760
UPC: 805095147605. English.
A new and exciting way for alto saxophone players to learn and practice basic jazz style. Easy Jazz Conception: Alto Saxophone book & downloadable audio features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by Jim Snidero on alto saxophone along with a world-class rhythm section: Mike LeDonne, piano; Peter Washington, bass; and Kenny Washington, drums. The recording features two separate versions of each etude: one with the soloist and rhythm section, and one with the rhythm section only. See and hear how the soloist phrases, play with or without the soloist on the downloadable audio tracks and learn basic jazz style first-hand. Titles include: Basie's Blues * Bird's Backyard * Bossa at Night * Caliente Blues * Duke's Convoy * Hot and Humid * Important Events * Love Is Easy * Mist and Grits * Morning Calm * Prince Charming * Rock On * Shufflin' in F * So Long Birdie * Us.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14825
UPC: 805095148251. English.
An easy way to improvise with 10 great tunes. Tunes include *Baby Blurred My Boogie *Funkasaurus Rex *Funk 'n Dunk *Eat Your Greens *Ace Fighter *and many others.
SKU: BT.MUSBM11517
ISBN 9781846091360. English.
The DVD edition of this hugely popular series of tutors gets you even closer to your instrument with a set of real music lessons right there on your screen! A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure that those vital practice hours are never boring! The book includes: Advice on your instrument and the equipment you will needInstructions for effective technique and comfortable playing Explanatory pages on reading and understanding music Tests to check your own progress and comprehension The accompanying audio CD features a virtuoso performance and backing track for each pieces, as well as recorded examples to support the lessons. The DVD features lessons on: Basic techniques Putting the instrument together Posture Looking after your instrument Basic music notation How to approach your first piece.
About A New Tune A Day
Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The A New Tune A Day books have the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD-with actual performances and backing tracks-will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. This book contains: easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; tips for technique; improvising hints; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks, and audio examples; great music, including duets and ensemble pieces; useful pull-out fingering chart
SKU: AP.1-ADV7162
ISBN 9783954810352. UPC: 805095071627. English.
Essential Play-Alongs for alto saxophone includes 12 easy to intermediate pieces in popular styles---from jazz and blues, to funk and Latin Music. The accompanying CD includes full versions as well as play-along tracks where you may take the lead. All tracks have been recorded by some of the world's best musicians: Jim Snidero and Fred Lipsius and their heavily swinging jazz bands from New York, Ed Harlow and The Boston Horns, or Fernando Brandão, accompanied by outstanding musicians from Cuba and Brazil. Listening to and playing the music becomes a delightful experience. This volume is suitable for beginners that have a basic knowledge of the saxophone.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14780
ISBN 9783892212102. UPC: 805095147803. English.
Intermediate Jazz Conception is another addition to the popular series of etude books created by Jim Snidero, featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in the world. This book/audio-download set includes 15 solo etudes based on standards, modal tunes and blues, demonstrated by Jim Snidero on alto sax with the incredibly swinging rhythm section of Dave Hazeltine on piano, Peter Washington on Bass and Kenny Washington on Drums. New to Intermediate Jazz Conception is an appendix dedicated to style and improvisation, including a scales syllabus, nomenclature, and over 95 lines and ideas extracted for the study of improvisation! The recording features two separate versions of each etude; one with the soloist and rhythm section and one with the rhythm section only. Hear how the soloist performs the etudes, play with or without the soloist on the audio recordings, and learn about both jazz style and improvisation from some of the best. Other series available by Jim Snidero: Easy Jazz Conception and Jazz Conception.A talented musician, musical advocate and educator ... a genuinely significant figure in jazz composition Penguin Guide to JazzA master musician Down Beat Magazine.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14768
UPC: 805095147681. English.
A new and exciting and unique way for bassists to learn and practice how to play in a jazz rhythm section and how to accompany a jazz soloist.This book/audio set features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by different soloists along with a world-class rhythm section: Dave Hazeltine, piano; Paul Gill, bass; and Kenny Washington, drums. The recording features two separate versions of each etude: one with the complete rhythm section and one without the piano. Sit in for Paul and comp for Jim Snidero, alto sax; Eric Alexander, tenor sax; Ryan Kisor, trumpet; Slide Hampton, trombone; or Joe Cohn, guitar.Compatible editions are available for alto and baritone, tenor and soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, guitar, piano comping, and drums making it invaluable for larger ensemble instruction.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14827
UPC: 805095148275. English.
Single and group use. Easy Funk Play-Along by Ed Harlow contains 10 catchy riffs and tunes for beginners! You can play the melodies along to the fantastic play-along tracks, provided by The Boston Horns. The background parts and rhythmic hits can be played by your teacher or up to three more friends. For group use, combine the editions for flute, clarinet, alto sax, trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone at will, and set up your rhythm section with additional parts available for guitar, piano, electric bass, and drum set. For beginning improvisers. Each piece has a written solo which can be played to the play-along tracks or with a live rhythm section. If improvising is new to you, this is the ideal book to work with. Learn the pentatonic scale provided for each piece and your solos will sound great!
SKU: AP.1-ADV14828
UPC: 805095148282. English.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14769
UPC: 805095147698. English.
A new and exciting and unique way for drummers to learn and practice how to play in a jazz rhythm section and how to accompany a jazz soloist.This book/audio set features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by different soloists along with a world-class rhythm section: Dave Hazeltine, piano; Paul Gill, bass; and Kenny Washington, drums. The recording features two separate versions of each etude: one with the complete rhythm section and one without the piano. Sit in for Kenny and play along Jim Snidero, alto sax; Eric Alexander, tenor sax; Ryan Kisor, trumpet; Slide Hampton, trombone; or Joe Cohn, guitar.
SKU: HL.49003183
ISBN 9790220116124. UPC: 841886021365. 9.0x12.0x0.069 inches.
The Dance Suite for alto saxophone and piano is an arrangement of selected pieces from Matyas Seiber's Easy Dances, originally composed as piano pieces on the popular dance-styles of the 1920s and 30s and focusing particularly on the rhythmic characteristics of each. Seiber's life and work linked and developed many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartok and Kodaly, to Schoenberg and Serial Music, to jazz, folksong, film and lighter music (rewarded by an Ivor Novello Prize for 'By The Fountains of Rome'). A late collaboration with John Dankworth produced the 'Improvisations for Jazz Band and Orchestra'. Tango 1 * Tango 2 (Habanera) * Waltz * Blues * Charleston * Foxtrot * Cake-Walk.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14774
UPC: 805095147742. English.
Easy Jazz Conception: Saxophone Section or Combo includes substitute parts for first alto (trumpet or flugelhorn) and for second tenor (trombone). The disc with play-along tracks for all eight charts features the rhythm section only. Titles include: Basie's Blues * Bossa at Night *Mist and Grits * Prince Charming * Rock On * Shufflin' in F * So Long Birdie * Us.
SKU: HL.14062586
SKU: HL.14062612
SKU: HL.14071901
SKU: HL.50486070
ISBN 9781423403449. UPC: 073999539172. 9.25x12.0x0.169 inches.
The Fancy Mix - from Baroque to World Music project aims to widen the repertoire specifically composed for saxophone beginners by also extending it to folk music and non-Western styles. The authors, both professors at music conservatories, have combined their respective experiences as composers and performers of classical, jazz and contemporary music in order to create 14 short original compositions for alto sax and piano accompaniment. These pieces are grouped in two volumes and ordered according to their degree of difficulty: the easiest and easy pieces for beginners on academic courses and at secondary schools as well as for amateurs (Vol.1); medium difficulty pieces for pupils on higher courses (Vol.2). Each piece, focused on one or more specific aspects of the instrumental technique, combines the gradually mastering of these together with an in-depth look at the musical interpretation, introducing the student to the practice of improvisation (Vol.2). Each of them is preceded by some performance notes and preparatory exercises focused on specific technical aspects.
SKU: HL.50486069
ISBN 9781423403432. UPC: 073999249170. 9.25x12.0x0.09 inches.
SKU: AP.1-ADV14720
UPC: 805095147209. English.
Jazz Conception is a new and exciting way for players at all levels to learn the language of jazz! Each book/audio set features 21 solo etudes based on chord changes to standards and blues.The same 21 etudes transposed and adapted for the main jazz instruments.See and hear how a well known soloist phrases and articulates and play along with or without the soloist on the audio recordings.Play along with one of today's finest, swinging New York rhythm sections: Mike LeDonne on piano, Dennis Irwin on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums.Start out fairly easy, then get progressively more difficult.Use the etudes as a bridge to solos of the masters that are usually more complicated and involved.Learn melodies and lines that will give you a solid jazz vocabulary and musicality.Use the book/audio sets for private lessons, for self-study, or in any combination up to a full jazz ensemble, including flute and clarinet.If you are more advanced you may want to use the book to develop your sight reading abilities, for transcribing the etudes off the recordings (then check against the book) or for just having fun playing along with a great jazz rhythm section.Use as an improvisation study, learning how to construct a swinging, logical solo - works especially well in combination with the Study Guide.The Jazz Conception Series is also perfectly suited for the class room. It can be used to develop younger students' jazz style in a big band or small group. In an improvisation class the teacher can use the etudes as studies in improvisation. The Study Guide provides an analysis of each etude, along with practice assignments for each etude.
