The Music Lesson

Guitar Lesson Goldmine Series-The Guitar Lesson Goldmine series contains a wealth of educational material for music in a range of different genres. Whichever style you want to learn there's a Guitar Lesson Goldmine book for you.  Guitar Lesson Goldmine: 100 Classical Lessons features 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics. Each lesson includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids and more to reinforce your learning experience plus over 100 tracks of audio for all of the examples in the book.This volume covers a huge variety of classical Guitar styles and techniques including articulations slurs tone color tremolo vibrato fingering decisions open-position playing circle of fifths and so much more.

Learn to play the ukulele and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about the history of the ukulele, its components, how to hold and tune it, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and playing a variety of well-known songs. You will learn different strumming techniques to help you play in a variety of musical styles. The book also contains a section teaching you how to play by ear. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key and know how to read music. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Transposition chart * Dictionary of tablature techniques * Ukulele fingerboard chart * Complete ukulele chord dictionary The accompanying DVD provides live performances that demonstrate how the music should sound, on-screen music and MP3 audio for every song and lessons hosted by performer and educator, Julia Jordan. This book teaches entirely in C tuning. The D tuning edition of Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele (item 14135) is available from your favorite music retailer and at Alfred.com. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way. / Ukulélé

Never lose valuable lesson time when circumstances conspire against you! Minimum preparation maximum learning: this pack supports Music Departments faced with providing emergency absence cover often by non-specialist teachers. Music Cover Lessons provides ten valuable learning experiences focused on the need for stylistic awareness understanding of key terms and appreciation of musical traditions: Flexibility designed for the non-specialist – the mixed-ability activities can be delivered easily regardless of the teacher’s musical ability or equipment available and with a minimum of preparation. Multi-purpose – the lessonsare designed for KS3 and 4 in school or as homework revision or bridging activities. Relevant and purposeful – the activities are focused on providing a valuable learning experience. Complete with a CD-ROM offering further flexibility the lessons cover a range of styles from Baroque and British folk to African music. A YouTube playlist has been prepared to help the teacher access suggested listening extracts with a minimum of fuss.

Keyboard Lesson Goldmine Series-Perfect for Keyboard students who want to expand their knowledge the Keyboard Lesson Goldmine series contains four books: Blues Country Jazz and Rock. 100 Blues Lessons includes 12-bar blues 8-bar blues 16-bar blues; right-hand fills left-hand patterns; stylings of the great blues pianists; chord voicings; dominant 7th chords dominant 9th chords and much more. Each volume features 100 individual modules that cover a giant array of topics. Each lesson includes detailed instructions with playing examples. You'll also get extremely useful tips and more to reinforce your learning experience plus online audio featuringperformance demos of all the examples in the book.

Keyboard Lesson Goldmine Series-Perfect for Keyboard students who want to expand their knowledge the Keyboard Lesson Goldmine series contains four books: Blues Country Jazz and Rock. 100 Country Lessons includes the Floyd Cramer Slip-Note Technique; left-hand comping styles; special techniques; blues scales pentatonic scales et. al.; the country ballad and much more.Each volume features 100 individual modules that cover a giant array of topics. Each lesson includes detailed instructions with playing examples. You'll also get extremely useful tips and more to reinforce your learning experience plus two audio CDs featuring performance demos of all the examples inthe book.

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome!The bass guitar book features lessons on: bass fundamentals music reading tuning the 1-5 pattern arpeggios grooves position shifts scales syncopation chromatics swing/shuffle feel and blues funk

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Bluegrass Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome!This banjo book features video and print lessons by author and banjo master Kristin Scott Benson on: banjo fundamentals; music reading; tuning; three-finger Scruggs style;bluegrass banjo rolls; chords

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs! The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! This mandolin book features video and print lessons by world-renowned author Fred Sokolow on: mandolin fundamentals, music reading, tuning, chords, scales

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome! This uke book features video and print lessons on: ukulele fundamentals - music reading - tuning - strumming - arpeggions - open and movable chords - fingerpicking - scales - syncopation - shufflefeel - and more. Strum and pluck along with popular songs including: Band on the Run · Evil Ways · Free Fallin' · Happy Together · Let It Be · Ode to Joy · The Sound of Silence · Summertime · You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet · and more.

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online metronome! The drum book features lessons on: drumset fundamentals counting

Par . The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! Lessons included in this fingerstyle volume include: tab reading · scales

Ten Guitar Lessons from The Registry Of Guitar Tutors the worldâ??s leading authority on Guitar education. Lesson subjects in Chord Playing include: strumming patterns changing chords barre chords sliding chords chord riffs chord variations and much more. Each lesson is shown in both traditional notation and easy-to-read tablature. This book includes a free accompanying CD making Guitar easier than ever to learn. Every example is demonstrated on the CD with many lessons also including backing tracks to play along to.

The Violin Lesson offers players of all standards the opportunity to immediately ? and dramatically ? improve their technique and understanding of violin playing. Presented in twelve comprehensive and highly accessiblelessons filled with more than 500 music examples and over 350 photographs, it provides fresh approaches to neglected aspects of playing whilst covering all the major areas of violin technique, including: toneproduction intonation avoiding aches and pains changing position improving bow strokes vibratoWhether outlining a basic concept or anadvancedtechnique, each topic is handled with the clarity and attention to detail for which Simon Fischer is so highly regarded. Fundamental exercises, principles and practice methods sit alongside case studies and practicalquestion-and-answer sections to present a truly rounded volume ? essential reading for both students and teachers alike. / Violon / Edition Peters