Beginner Level. 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Trombone, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ?riffs? that make up Blues Trombone playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book series, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale, in Andrew?s opinion, the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ?straight? and ?swing? rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book, section 1 contains basic Blues riffs, section 2 contains Rhythm

12 intermediate to advanced classical solos for trombone and piano with a CD of performances by The Canadian Brass member Eugene Watts and piano accompaniment tracks.

Jazz Conception is a new and exciting way for players at all levels to learn the language of jazz! Each book/mp3 CD 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 CD. 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 usuallymore complicated and involved. Learn melodies and lines that will give you a solid jazz vocabulary and musicality. Use the book/CD 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 CD (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.Please note that mp3 CDs may not work on some (older) CD players.

Composed by Jean-Michel Defaye in 1954  Deux Danses is the piece that put him under the international spotlight. Written for Trombone and Piano it quickly became standard for the Trombone repertoire and would fit advanced players? skills. The first part called ?Danse Sacrée? is a slow lyrical melody that is re-used through the piece until the cadenza and the second ?Danse Profane? has a samba rhythm with a really cheerful end. These two pieces both contain some basics of Jazz. As a pianist composer producer and arranger Jean-Michel Defaye mainly createdpieces for brass and wind instruments. He won the Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1958 and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth composition competition in 1959.

Par HERING SIGMUND. Hering's etudes are the fruit of his 20 years of teaching experience. Students will develop musicality in the classical style. These are beginning to intermediate level etudes, each one page long, and each introduces a different concept. They also progress in difficulty throughout the book. This slim book is a good companion and for advanced players, will provide handy material for warm-ups and brushing up on technique./ Etude / Trombone

French professional trombonist André Lafosse (1890-1975) was a professor at the Paris Conservatoire during the early 20th Century. His Complete Method of Slide Trombone is compiled from a wealth of experience and expertise. With detailed instruction in French English German and Spanish the second volume is immediately accessible to all aspiring trombonists. Volume two of Complete Method of Slide Trombone comprises exercises in scales arpeggios chromaticism and ornaments. Exercises and studies are based on pre-composed works by much-loved composers including J. S. Bach Rameau and Mozart. Suitable for intermediate to advanced level Trombone players Lafosse's second volume of Complete Method of Slide Trombone is essential to the progression of technique to a high standard.

Composed as a competiton piece for the Paris Conservatoire René Duclos' Doubles Sur Un Choral is a challenging yet exciting work for Trombone and Piano. Dedicated to Monsieur Couillaud a professor at the conservatory  Doubles Sur Un Choral was published in 1939. Duclos' work addresses features including complex rhythms variations in time signatures modulations use of chromaticism and accidentals differing articulation various performance directions and dynamics and lyrical expressive passages among other aspects. For all aspiring advanced trombonists Duclos' Doubles Sur Un Choral is a sublime addition to the repertoire.

Free To Solo is a unique publication designed to be a fun play-along book for students who want to enjoy soloing freely instead of having to cope with too many scale changes. With interesting heads and long open sections the tunes encourage creativity over the inspiring contemporary material. Free to Solo is suitable for intermediate students seeking a challenge as well as more advanced players requiring additional material to explore.On the included CD there are 'minus one' tracks to play along with as well as complete performance versions of all the instruments in the series (Alto / Tenor sax Flute / Violin Clarinet Trumpet Guitar andTrombone) so that the reader can draw upon different interpretations of the improvised material.

Five solos for trombone (BC) with play-along CD for performers of a moderately advanced standard who want to try their hand at fusion. The CD also contains full performances of the pieces by Jiggs Whigham and his jazz band.

Concerto In F Minor by G.F. Handel is a piece transcribed for Trombone and Piano by André Lafosse soloist at the Paris Opera. Quite difficult for it to be played well this piece will require the skills and abilities of advanced players. This concerto is a really melodious piece to play in recitals. It is divided into four sections: I. Grave II. Allegro III. Sarabande – Largo IV. Allegro The Piano introduces first and the third parts which are quite slow compared to the second one and the final. G.F. Handel was a German composer famous for his operas oratorios and concertos.

Internationally-renowned jazz trombone player director/conductor and master teacher Jiggs Whigham shares his experience and expertise with trombone and jazz enthusiasts. For intermediate to advanced players this book offers a fascinating insight into the professional world of trombone playing. Featuring the BBC Big Band there is a set of demonstration and play-along tracks which are available as a free download and provide the opportunity to listen to and play along with some of the finest musicians in the world. In the accompanying videos (found at www.schott-music.com/jiggswhighamtrombone) Jiggs demonstrates various playing techniques and presents an invaluable commentaryto help students develop their own playing.

French composer and musicologist José Berghmans (1921-1992) studied at the Brussels Conservatory and at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen. His La Femme A Barbe remains popular within the Trombone repertoire. Berghmans was a significant composer of film music and therefore much of his music was dramatic and expressive. La Femme A Barbe comes from Berghmans' Fairground Tables. La Femme A Barbe is dramatic and expressive containing much variation in articulation rhythm range tonality and performancedirections amongst other aspects. For all intermediate to advanced trombonists Berghmans' La Femme A Barbe provides an exciting addition to the repertoire.

10 great etudes for playing and improvising on the blues-This new method provides beginners and moderately advanced musicians with an introduction to the language of blues. In 10 solo studies which can be accompanied by professionally performed and recorded playbacks the musician learns to master the essential basics step by step: Each piece comes with appropriate scale exercises tips for studying and practicing suggestions for own improvisations as well as recommended listening.The accompanying CD provides a unique band feeling with top-notch musicians:Steve Davis (trombone) Mike LeDonne (piano/organ) Peter Washington (bass) and Joe Farnsworth (drums).