Making Music Matter, Book 1 - Teacher's Edition

The Keyboard From The Beginning: Songbook is a fantastic collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument. The Keyboard From TheBeginning series is an ideal introduction to the instrument and this Songbook is a great companion selection of tunes that follow the same format ideal for those working through the bestsellingmethod.   If you've been working through the Keyboard From The Beginning book this songbook will be familiar to you with a similar structure and introduction of new skills and techniquesas you progress through the book. This is a selection of well-loved songs as well as classical favourites that have been notated with simplified arrangements and annotated with fingering guides ensuring you start making greatmusic no matter how much of a beginner you are.   Beginning with very simple tunes for one hand like Jingle Bells When The Saints Go Marching In and Skip To My Lou the book progressesto songs that can be swiftly mastered with both hands such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Swing Low Sweet Chariot and culminating with Spring (from 'The Four Seasons'). Not only has this Keyboard FromThe Beginning Songbook been designed as an ideal complement to the tuition method the songs contained within are matched to different techniques so it will simultaneously build musical technique and construct anexciting repertoire for the student.    As the pupil progresses through this book they will be introduced to techniques like shifting hand positions flats legato rests the pentatonic scales and different chords. Lyrics are included for most songs in the first part of this Beginner's Songbook  helping students with their rhythm as they progress to playing with an independent right and left hand.

Apple's Logic 8 has been completely redesigned from the ground up making this latest version of the feature-packed digital audio workstation application simply the best it's ever been. Forget what you know about previous versions Apple's Logic 8 Pro Studio and Express are all new and full of enhancements across the board. This new DVD from BCI Media and Hal Leonard Logic 8: Beginner Level explores all of the features of Logic 8 so that no matter which edition you choose you'll be able to use the powerful tools it provides to start making your music sound incredible! You'll learn how to quickly navigate the newly designed single-window interface and how Logic8's new Multitake Management and Quick Swipe Comping dramatically streamline the overdub process. Learn to master the powerful new audio editing features such as snap-to-transient and graphical time stretching and sample accurate editing in the Arrange window while learning to work faster and with greater precision. You'll even learn all about end-to-end surround production features in Logic 8 including multichannel tracks busses and support for True Surround software instruments and effects. This DVD will familiarize you with the features of Logic 8 Express while introducing you to even more features from the massive Logic 8 Pro Studio package.

With its highly attractive full-colour age-appropriate layout Poco Piano For Young Children encourages young children to take the first steps on a difficult but thoroughly rewarding journey. Together with the Music Theory for Young Children books the Poco Piano For Young Children series leads the child from the very beginning to grade 1 level.Poco Piano for Young Children includes exercises to help the child develop technique rhythm and reading and it involves the child in activities such as pasting colouring tracing circling and clapping.Book 4 reinforces and revises allconcepts learned in Books 1-3. It contains attractive repertoire in various styles and from different periods. Each piece has a comprehensive preparation section covering the musical technical and structural matters which will be encountered. The aim is to cultivate critical thinking and musical awareness in the student. As in previous books the child is actively involved through the use of writing colouring tracing and pasting thereby making the preparation an enjoyable activity. The standard of the repertoire approaches that of Grade 1.

The primary aim of this book is to help the reader to understand the language of music and how it works in relation to the guitar. It is not intended as a substitute for all other lines of study but it will provide a basicknowledge that can be expanded and developed. The reader is urged to read as wide a range of books as possible and to examine whatever music he or she possesses to identify further examples of the points discussed. The examplesshould be played and carefully listened to. The study of music is sterile if confined to making marks on paper no matter how well understood intellectually; no real value attaches to a theoretical study of music unless it isdirectly related to aural experience and its value is reduced further if it is not related to the music of one's instrument. Contents include Musical Sounds and Their Origins The Organization of single notes Melody Intervals The Beginning of Harmony-Triads Functional Harmony and Cadences Primary Harmony and Cadences Primary Triads and Substitution Modulation and Transition Secondary Sevenths Other Diatonic Secondary Sevenths TheCadential Six-four the Dominant Ninth Secondary Ninths Chords of the Eleventh and Thirteenth Chromatic Alteration of Diatonic Chords chromatic Harmony Remote Modulation Pedal Points and Steps Beyond

Let's face it: playing djembe as it's traditionally played can be really hard on your hands. This is the only DVD for beginning hand drummers???especially adult beginners???who want to experience the joys of playing djembe while goingeasy on their hands. It was created by Alan Dworsky the best-selling author of 'How to Play Djembe' and two-time winner of DRUM Magazine's readers' poll for 'Best Percussion Method Book.' Each of the seven step-by-step lessons onthe video starts like a private lesson and ends with Alan's entire class playing the rhythm so you also get a sense of what it's like to play in a group.Proper playing technique is covered in depth and African rhythms areadapted to a Gentle Djembe style so that you can play safely and comfortably no matter what your age. And each lesson has a matching play-along track making the DVD a complete learning tool. Shot in gorgeous wide-screen formatand endorsed by Arthur Hull as 'the most non-intimidating way for beginning beginners to get started.'

The collection Little Stories consists of 16 short expressively varied piano pieces. The interpretation is suggested by the title referring to the imagination the world of fairy tales everyday children's matters and observation of nature. The majority of the miniatures can be easily performed after few months of study; the level of difficulty corresponds to the last stage of learning with the hadbook by Agnieszka Lasko – First Class Piano. In some of them (Drowsy Cloud Sunrise Cuckoo Song The Princess and the Knight Winter Moon) an element of improvisation is used creatively engaging the young pianist; thanks to the composer's ingenuity any attempt at free music making shall be successful. The advantage of the pieces is their melody factor (memorable naturally wandering themes). The miniatures are also characterized by simplicity of texture and harmony (slightly colored with dissonant chords) a playful tone (e.g. playing with shifting accents in Little Monster Stomp) or dance-like-character (the waltz Ballerina Tarantela). The composer also took care of the fingering and the use of pedals which facilitates the playing. Sophisticated illustrations painted by Ma gorzata Flis help to develop the pupil's sensivity.