Berklee Practice Method : Get Your Band Together

Get Your Band Together-This is the first-ever method that teaches you how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively – how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. The book and play-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability. Become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band!Lessons throughout the book guide you through technique that's specific to learning to play Cello in a contemporary ensemble complete with daily practice routines. The CD features outstanding Berklee players and covers a wide variety of styles: rock funk jazz blues swing and bossanova!

Get Your Band Together-This is the first ever method that teaches you how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively - how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. The book andplay-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability. Become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band. Examples are given in full bass tablature.

Get Your Band Together-This is the first ever method that teaches you how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively - how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. The book andplay-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability. Become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band. Lessons throughout this book guide you through technique that is specific to playingthe trumpet in a contemporary ensemble.

Play great rock while you learn from one of the most revered guitar methods of all time! These songs map directly to the lessons of William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar Vol. 1 (GS49404) the basic guitar text at BerkleeCollege of Music. Carefully overseen by Scotty Johnson of Berklee's Guitar Department these arrangements are crafted to Leavitt's time-proven approach giving you the chance to apply what you learn to the music of theBeatles the Rolling Stones the Who Creedence Clearwater Revival Santana and many others.The accompanying CD demonstrates all tunes and offers play-along tracks for practicing the duets. Songs include: Beast ofBurden • Day Tripper • La Bamba • My Girl • Oye Como Va • Pinball Wizard • Smooth • Sunshine of Your Love • and more!

Anne Peckham:-The vocal workouts in this much-anticipated follow-up to Peckham's bestselling The Contemporary Singer are based on Berklee College of Music's highly effective vocal method. This volume will help vocalists develop thevoice through good vocal health warm-up exercises advanced techniques stage performance advice and more. Includes acces to online audio for ultimate interactive education! Contains: Twenty-six exercisesfor warming up and developing your voice Basic and advanced workouts for high and low voices 2- and 3-part exercises for harmony practice Routines to help you organize your practice time according toyour level and schedule Includes online audio to support your workout for all voice types: male/female and high/low Detailed descriptions and helpful tips for how to warm up and develop your voice discussingbreath control practice strategies and specific technical advice for improving your control over vibrato range and belting Essential advice for vocal study voice maintenance and auditioning

Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by Piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz Piano improvisation will free your creative sense of music. It beginswith a review of chord symbol interpretation walks through bass line development and ends with how to play several melodic lines simultaneously in stimulating musical conversation. You'll learn how to develop solos thatembellish and support the melody and use lead sheets to help you generate your own musical ideas.Twenty-one lessons present techniques practice exercises and tunes based on jazz standards. Notated transcriptions ofsample improvisations illustrate each lesson's technique and the accompanying CD lets you hear a master improviser put these ideas to work. Packed with hundreds of ideas that will teach you the art of improvisation.

A Comprehensive Resource for the Developing Saxophone Musician-This well-structured Saxophone method will help you develop your technique to a professional level. It includes scale exercises chord exercises modes do's and don'ts of practicing the Saxophone sound quality exercises tips for auditions an analytical listening guide worksheets copy templates and more. Chapter tests will help you check the quality of your learning experience and research assignments will make sure you are exposed to the most influential Saxophone players to broaden your musical horizon.

Producing Music with Digital Performer is a comprehensive guide to the features and strategies behind one of the most powerful pieces of music production software.By learning the ins and outs of Digital Performer'sintuitive interface and powerful tool set you'll learn why it is the tool of choice for so many msuic makers. You'll learn many techniques for making your MIDI productions sound more natural your working methods more efficient and your command of Digital Performer's capabilities more complete.Beginning users will learn basic skills and a practical approach to digital music making and more seasoned users will learn efficient strategies shortcuts and advanced techniques to help them get the most out of this powerul software. Learn how toSet up your Digital Performer StudioRecord and edit bothy MIDI and audioMake your MIDI productions sound musicalMix andmaster your recording onto a CDSynchronize your music to videoSong files included! The accompanying CD-ROM provides audio recordings and project setups that illustrate many of the effects and working strategies beingdiscussed. Guided hands-on-projects help you practise the presented techniques.

If you've heard jazz guitarists like Joe Pass play chord melody you may think that the style requires an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory musical super-powers or making a deal with the devil. But fear not! This bookwill show you how to create your own satisfying chord melody arrangements on the Mandolin...and will do so in a practical applicable way.'Aaron Weinstein has many musical accomplishments. I am very proud to have playeda small part with some of them. When he was only 12 he made his first recordings and asked me to play Mandolin on them. I was knocked out to encounter someone that young that was conversant in both old-time or contest fiddling andJoe Venuti style jazz. Not long after that Aaron became interested in the Mandolin and chords and he came by every so often to play and discuss voicings improvisation and the like. I showed him some of the Jethro Burns chordmelody arrangements that Jethro showed me. I've been teaching those for decades in hopes of one day playing them smoothly myself!Fast forward a few more years and Aaron has a Berklee degree traveled the worldplaying hot Violin music and is hobnobbing with the greatest NYC jazz stars. And oh yeah one other thing: he took the art of chord-melody Mandolin style to an entirely new level! The rich harmonies of the standard jazz and showtune repertoire the swinging bass lines and connecting chords and independent voice movements (doing more than one thing at a time) are all present in Aaron's style thanks to his great ear open mind and gift at locating thingson the fretboard. And now Aaron has documented explained and shared his discoveries and approach with all of us in this book. Thank you Aaron!This is truly a step-by-step method that you will enjoy. You'll findyourself saying 'oh of course!' as the author gets you playing and understanding things that sound very detailed and complex. The first section I would call the mandolinistic stuff: the how-to on getting things moving and