At First Sight - Book 1: 80 Progressive Pieces for Cello Sight-Reading, Pre-Grade 1-3

Méthode progressive, vol. 1 (franCais / english / español)64 p., Niveau 1Une nouveauté aux Productions d'Oz, forts actives dans le domaine de la pédagogie pour guitare. ConCue pour être utilisée avec un professeur, la Méthode progressive pour guitare de Claudio Camisassa se démarque des autres ouvrages pour guitaristes débutants. De très nombreux morceaux sur les cordes à vides (une quinzaine de pages) permettent à l'élève de se concentrer sur l'acquisition d'un bonne technique de main droite, seul le pincé étant abordé dans ce premier volume. La méthode qui s'appuie sur un répertoire original écrit par Claudio Camisassa, comporte de nombreux duos pour l'éléve et le professeur et, surtout pour l'éléve, un accompagnement optionnel en accord ou en arpèges des mélodies travaillées. Deux pages d'exercices journaliers simples mais réellement efficaces, accompagnées d'indications précises sur Ies techniques de jeu, complètent cette méthode au chemin pédagogique efficace et rigoureux.(FranCois Nicolas, Guitare Classique, 2e trimestre 2002)This well-presented volume takes students from the very beginning with four main objectives of Classical Guitar Magazine developing technique, sight-reading, basic chord accompaniments and duo playing, and assumes the student is working with a teacher. It is very methodical, beginning with photographs of hand positions etc, and gives explanations of both rest and free stroke from the start. The first musical examples are open string melodies with added chord symbols with plenty of varied exampIes, and blank staves are given for note-writing exercises and also for aural tests, both of which are useful ideas for reinforcing general musical understanding. Apart from chord symbols, the left hand is first introduced with natural harmonics at the twelfth fret in an effective two-part exercise Carillon, which requires right fingers and thumb. Combinations of open strings and right-hand arpeggios follow and the opening section is brought to a natural close with Valse des Harmoniques - nicely shaped and quite complex with its use of natural harmonics, but a bit over-long. Camisassa now introduces notes on each string, in turn, in first position, and more complex arpeggio patterns, illustrated by pieces utilising each new group of notes. 2-guitar arrangements of tunes including Frere Jacques and Au Clair de la lune and Alouette, gentille alouette work quite weIl with straightforward accompaniments. I liked Camisassa's Tango, and Recuerdo de mi infanta, a two-part milonga reminiscent of Cardoso. Favourites such as Greensleeves and Malaguena are also included, and there are many pieces by Camisassa included which aim to enforce musical ideas. I found the way this book progresses, and the technical and musical aspects it teaches, very good and very thorough. I found myself using it a lot as supplementary material to demonstrate technical points and for sight-reading. However, the majority of pieces written by Camisassa did not inspire me musically and would need to be supplemented with pieces of more characterful musical interest, particularly for young players, but this volume does have much to offer.(Linda Kelsall Barnett, Classical Guitar Magazine, June 2002) / Guitare

First Pop Hits is a collection of popular songs in simplified arrangements designed for Pianists working through parts two to four of the renowned John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.This repertoire book has been specially created to be complementary with the original and best selling Easiest Piano Course. The songs are ordered so that they progress in difficulty so that songs at the beginning like Fight For This Love and Let It Be are best suited to beginning Piano players just getting started with the course. As the book progresses songs like The Sound OfSilence and Let It Go are introduced reinforcing more advanced musical techniques through well-known songs. To see the full list of songs included in First Pop Hits scroll down.With 15 contemporary pieces this songbook is ideal for students who will be able to put what they've learned into practice with songs that are enjoyable fun and familiar. This will help to develop musicality since the student will know how the song is supposed to be played.Helpfully dynamics and phrasing are not included with some of the earlier pieces since these concepts are not introduced until part three of the course. Outline fingering is included with the hand assumed to stay in a five-finger position until a new position is indicated. The pieces can also be used as sight-reading practice for more advanced students making these pieces truly versatile and useful.Whether you or your student is working through John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course First Pop Hits is the perfect songbook to transform the newly-learned skills and techniques into the beginnings of a crowd-pleasing repertoire.

Book 1A-Mastering the Classical Guitar - Book 1A is the first in a progressive series using a wide variety of musical repertoire and educational material to provide a solid technical foundation for Classical Guitar students exposing the full range of the instrument???s potential and repertoire.Book 1A is most appropriate for students with no prior knowledge of the Guitar or music theory or for those who simply want a fresh start with theClassic Guitar. It is written in three broad sections: Progressive Studies and Pieces Technical Exercises and Rhythmic Reading. Tips on how to integrate the three sections are provided throughout the book. Every chapter beginswith exercises written specifically to improve a certain aspect of one???s playing followed by various examples from the classical music repertoire and traditional songs from various cultures.While every aspect of ClassicalGuitar technique is clearly described and illustrated students using this book would still benefit from the advice and constructive feedback of a competent teacher. Consequently teachers will find opportunities to assert theirindividual teaching perspectives within this method making it a perfect road map for the instructor and student???s musical journey.Written in standard notation only Mastering the Classical Guitar - Book 1A comeswith extensive online audio examples. Fingering is kept to a minimum to encourage effective sight reading allowing teachers and students to annotate their own ideas about digitation and contribute to their own learning process.Includes access to online audio.

These melodies are what all sight-reading should be about but usually are not. They use easy notes and rhythms in a most methodical imaginative and pleasurable way concentrating on single-line melodies in first position only.This book has one hundred melodies which could be introduced to the student from almost the very first lesson and as the melodies get progressively more complex the book will be useful for higher-grade students. Although thebook is aimed at the grade 1-2 player more experienced students may also find it useful to try playing the studies in higher positions.

This edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course introduces a number of First Hit Songs to the beginner pianist providing easy-to-play hits in the well-loved John Thompson style with simplified arrangements and large notation. A number of the most popular chart songs are included in First Hit Songs which have all been simplified so that pupils working through parts two to four of the Easiest Piano Course are able to play some familiar and famous tunes. The songs are ordered progressively so as pupils learn more challenging theory and techniques they can put that intopractice by getting to grips with more advanced songs. All the songs included here are well-known hits with most being modern chart-toppers. The 15 hits in this songbook include Piano-based ballads like Tom Odell's Real Love and Sam Smith's I'm Not The Only One as well as more upbeat pop tunes arranged for Piano like Style by Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor's Lips Are Movin'. Other hits like See You Again Hold Back The River Blame It On Me and Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud are included along with two all-time classics Love Is All Around and We Are The Champions. Popular songs like these enable pupils to enhance their learning by using the techniques to play songs they know and love helping them to develop deeper musicality. Because dynamics and phrasing are not introduced until part three of the Easiest Piano Course  some of the songs early in First Hit Songs do not feature this while some outline fingering is included throughout helping pupils at this level. As well as being a fun and enjoyable complement to learning the book can also provide invaluable sight-reading practice for advanced students.  For a

This latest classically-flavoured songbook for John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course introduces easy works by one of the greatest composers ever to have lived Ludwig Van Beethoven. Featuring some very fine compositions First Beethoven?is perfect for pupils reaching parts 2 to 4 of the world-renowned Piano course. These fun repertoire books contain some amazing pieces that have been specially collected and graded to be used in conjunction with the Easiest Piano Course. Pieces like Minuet In G Major Rondo In C the sublime Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement?and the classicFür Elise?will reinforce essential technical ability while simultaneously enhancing a general sense of musicality and melodic playing. First Beethoven?is therefore ideal for pupils who've worked through the course at levels 2 to 4 but it's also a great set of pieces for sight reading practice for more advanced students. The pieces in this songbook become progressively more difficult and to this end dynamics and phrasing have been omitted for the earlier pieces since they're not introduced until Part 3 of the course. Early pieces like Ode To Joy?and Turkish March?help to reinforce what pupils learn in the beginning of the?John Thompson Method with a focus on playing notes and rhythms accurately. Towards of the end of the songbook more challenging pieces like Eroica Symphony and Sonata Pathétique?will help pupils to enhance their technical skills play more melodically and most importantly enjoy playing! Generally these pieces stay in the 5-finger position with handy hints and suggestions when a different fingering is called for. The pieces in this songbook are beautiful to hear and to play making First Beethoven?a really great beginner's

Grade 5-The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books including this volume for Grade 5 have been specifically written to reflect Trinity’s parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout.Designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems these books follow the same progressive format as previous editions: technical aspects are introduced step by step firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises then by studying prepared pieces with associatedquestions and finally ‘Going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

(Trinity Edition)-The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books including this volume for Grade 4 have been specifically written to reflect Trinity’s parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout.Designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems these books follow the same progressive format as previous editions: technical aspects are introduced step by step firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises then by studying prepared pieces with associatedquestions and finally ‘Going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

Offering insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering and historical and stylistic commentary, the Schirmer Performance Editions series is designed for Piano students and teachers, as well as professional pianists.This volume contains 22 pieces by 14 composers, including Berens, Beyer, Burgmüller, Duvernoy, Ellmenreich, Gurlitt, Heller, Kullak, Kunz, Oesten, Reinecke, Schumann, Streabbog and Tchaikovsky.Complete with online access to recorded performances, this book provides the early intermediate level pianist with a newly-engraved collection of pieces from the Romantic Era, accompanied by historical notes and performance suggestions. / Piano

inspiring confidence to play by touch-Richard Smith's Don't LOOK At The Keys! teaches students how to play by touch feeling their way around the keyboard using various 'signposts' whilst keeping their eyes on the music. Designed to make sight reading easier and more effective the books in this innovative series contain a progressive set of imaginative pieces to take students and teachers step by step through the technique. This is not just another sight reading book. Don't LOOK At The Keys! contains actual practice pieces as well as instructions that demonstrate how toplay Piano by touch. It instructs and develops the skill and confidence to look at the music instead of the hands and helps those students who commit pieces to memory or play by ear then wonder where to look while playing. This is the first of three books in the series. Book One is in two parts; hands separate and hands together all pieces have both hands in a five finger position each of which is illustrated at the top together with the key (all keys are on the Grades 1 & 2 sight reading syllabus). The pieces in Book Two are within an octave in both hands and Book Three beyond this range.  

For Flute-100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Flute 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 Flute playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint.Due to the continued success of his more advanced 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 readingexercises 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 and Blues influenced riffs section 3 contains Blues/Boogie Woogie riffs section 4 contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section 5 contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. Included with this book is an audio CD that contains all the riffs recorded twice: first sax melody piano guitar bass and drums and second just the rhythm track of piano guitar bass and drums so you can play-a-long.Review of the Sax version of the book by Skip Spratt of The Sax Shed https://saxshed.comAndrew D. Gordon of ADG Productions has recently updated and added to his popular series of books with 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs The Beginner Series. The original publication by the same title is geared toward intermediate to advanced students. Both books feature a companion CD and optional midi files that will help in the practice of these 100 blues riffs.I had the opportunity to preview the tenor saxophone books from the series; however the same books are published for other instruments as well. Saxophonist Frank Villafranca of the Super Groovers demonstrates each riff with the rhythm section first with and opportunity for play-along following each demo track. Andrew Gordon writes ???For people who want to improve their

Bags Of Fun For Cello is packed with imaginative pieces for absolute beginners: try chattering with skeletons making a gate creak admiring an octopus trampolining and watching frogs doing high jump! Written by leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen this book is gently progressive yet always entertaining with plenty of material on the open strings and a gradual introduction of first and third fingers. Ideal for consolidation alongside any tutor for sight-reading practice.