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Easy to Play Flute Solos is a lively collection of 56 well-known favorite melodies arranged in solo form for the flutist wanting fun pieces to play. Selections include ragtime blues Scottish music spirituals hymns seachanties folk songs and more. A handy flute fingering chart is included.

A comprehensive 96-page pocket/case sized perfect-bound book of over ninety all time favorite Flute tunes. Includes folk songs sea shanties gospel songs spirituals hymns patriotic songs and more; fingering chart and Guitarchords included.

An easy-to-understand basic instructional text for the fife. Presents wonderful fife tunes and carefully written studies. Tunes include: Albina; Aldridge's Allemande; All Through the Night; and many more fun titles! Audiodownload available online.

A collection of intermediate level solos arranged for various instruments so that the Piano parts can serve as the accompaniment for many different instruments. A number of players on like or unlike instruments may practicetogether in preparation for solo performances or for fun.

Easy Duets is a collection of very easy classical melodies composed by Handel Mozart Beethoven Schubert Schumann Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Berlioz Frank Brahms Dvorak Tchaikovsky Puscoiu and then completed with a fewbeautiful international folksongs. These duets are especially arranged for the beginning flutist.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Number of pages : 72 The primary emphasis of this method book is developing the three essential concepts for learning to play the flute which are: 1) Learning the names of the notes on the music staff, 2) Learning the value of the notes and how to count them, and 3) Learning how to finger the notes on the flute. As new notes are introduced on the lines and spaces of the music staff, the note name, note value, method of counting, and fingering of the note on the flute is clearly illustrated. Each of the essential music elements is presented clearly and sequentially. Each presentation is followed by several exercises and original melodies that are specifically designed to develop reading ability, technique, and musicianship. Students will understand and develop each newly learned music concept as they progress from lesson to lesson. Every lesson builds on those that came before, giving students a chance to practice what they have learned and reinforcing skills that will be used over and over. The unique feature of this flute method book is that the lessons progress in a logical manner conducive to learning to play the flute.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Celtic/Irish Series : Complete Number of pages : 192 While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.

Description New owners of the Native American Flute are often told to go sit on a rock and teach themselves how to play. Through eight lessons introducing the technique and theory of both the outer and inner game of Native American Flute improvisation, players of all levels learn to express the music growing inside themselves. The exercises in this volume are presented in fingering diagrams and Nakai TAB-an easy-to-learn derivative of standard music notation most commonly used for Native American Flute. Audio included.

Description The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissman's mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune, Cripple Creek, and wanted the trombone to take a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart, Dick realized that - in addition to the many musicians who do not improvise - there are even jazz musicians who don't know how to improvise outside the limits of their own stylistic backgrounds. The non-jazz improvisation series mostly includes new original tunes that are intended to show how to improvise in many musical styles, including; Blues Country American folk Latin-American World music including South American, Eastern European and Asian Odd meters (playing in a variety of time signatures) New Age Classical Folk-Rock In short, the books are an encyclopedia of virtually every musical style, excluding jazz.