Four-Hand Favorites for Christmas

Famous and Fun Christmas Duets, Book 4 contains 6 carefully selected Christmas favorites. The duets are arranged in equal parts for early intermediate pianists, and are written for one piano, four hands. For easier reading, each part is written using both treble and bass clefs, with directions for the primo to play up an octave and the secondo down an octave. Additionally, the melody often shifts between primo and secondo, creating interesting parts for both players. Book 4 features arrangements in the keys of F and D major, as well as A minor and E minor. Students are sure to enjoy their experience with these fun duets! / Piano 4 Mains

For Fingerstyle Guitar. Par MILLER JOHN. Fingerstyle guitar provides the perfect medium for capturing the beautiful chords and unforgettable melodies of Christmas Carols and Holiday Standards. In this collection John Miller has put together arrangements of twenty such songs designed to appeal to guitarists with a wide range of fingerstyle skill and experience. What a range of expressions and moods these songs communicate! From the ancient-sounding O Come, O Come Emmanuel to the high spirits of Deck the Halls, the uplifting quality of Go Tell It on the Mountain and the serenity of Silent Night, you?ll find it all here. The arrangements also cover a lot of ground in terms of the keys and tunings. You?ll be playing pieces in C, A, A minor, D, D minor, G, and B minor in standard tuning; D and A minor in dropped-D tuning and four in Open G tuning. You?ll be building your chordal vocabulary at the same time you?re building your repertoire. All of the arrangements are notated in standard notation and tablature, and links to downloadable sound samples of the arrangements are provided so that you?ll be able to hear how the arrangements sound when played. Lyrics for the songs are provided, too, along with: ? An explanation of the TAB used in the book ? Guidance on how to go about selecting and learning the arrangements ? Playing tips that describe the most efficient ways to finger the songs in the fretting hand ? An appendix, which offers diagrams indicating fingering for the chord shapes you?ll encounter most often in the book. Here?s an opportunity to build the skills that will enable you to boost everyone?s spirits at the next holiday gathering. People really respond to a beautiful fingerstyle performance of a favorite Christmas Carol or Holiday Standard, and it could be you doing one at the next party. / Date parution : 2022-01-14/ Recueil / Guitare

Add some spicy Latin excitement to your holiday concert this year! James Hosay's setting of four yuletide favorites is almost too hot to handle. Up on A Housetop Good King Wenceslas Jolly Old St Nicholas and Jingle Bells combine to make a rhythmically complex playful and unique new holiday number.

In Book Four of In Recital with Christmas Favorites? students will learn to play pieces with numerous changes of tempo articulations and moods. This book reinforces octave passages; playing pieces with modulations from one key to another key; playing hand-over-hand arpeggios; and much more. Featuring arrangements by Bober Brown Costley McLean Olson and Schultz.