Harmonic Ear Training - DVD

Harmonic Colours for Bass is designed add style and dimension to your grooves by providing a combination of technical training and musical examples. Music examples are written in standard notation and tablature and are demonstrated on the included play-along recording.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Children Series : Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Number of pages : 48 Youth Harmonica Method is an exciting harmonica course that teaches reading and playing music for the person looking to study at home or with a school harmonica band. Whether the student stays with the harmonica or moves on to another instrument, the music studies in this book will prepare them for a fruitful lifetime of music making. The recording contains all the music examples with piano accompaniment for the popular melodies and a full size blues band for the Rhythm and Blues songs. The most exciting part of this book is the harmonica band arrangements. Imagine an orchestra of harmonicas playing four and five part harmonies! This book is a natural for school music startup programs and any community based groups that want to introduce music into young peopleâ''s lives.

Have fun playing the Cello. Par KOEPPEN GABRIEL. The second lesson book in the trailblazing new Koeppen Cello Method, putting the emphasis on having fun with your cello! Taking a playful and effective approach to learning the cello, the Koeppen Cello Method breaks new ground, sprucing up the usual Baroque and Classical repertoire by adding pieces in popular styles: rock, bossa nova, reggae, swing and more! Exciting pieces and exercises in these styles illustrate specific musical concepts and techniques, whilst teacher-pupil duets feature throughout, encouraging strong ensemble skills right from the get-go. Structured in an easy and understandable way, the Koeppen Cello Method lays the foundation for a solid technical and musical training. There is a core Lesson Book and a supplementary Tune Book at each level. All books are accompanied by a CD which will help motivate and inspire. For players from around the age of 10 right up to adult learners. / Méthode / Méthode / Violoncelle

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Authentic Big Band swing style music for the concert band! You know this one will be a crowd pleaser, and SO much fun to play! Stephen Bulla works his magic with the great Jazz sounds of the 40s and 50s in such a way that your band will be able to put it together and make it happen. Lots of great jazz style articulation and harmonic considerations ensure that your students are doing more than just playing the piece. They are learning Big Band Jazz style interpretation in the bargain, and loving it as they do. This is a great opportunity to study the historical American roots of Jazz! / Niveau : 3 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band

Arr. Frederik Kampstra. Par BULLA STEPHEN. Authentic Big Band swing style music for the concert band! You know this one will be a crowd pleaser, and SO much fun to play! Stephen Bulla works his magic with the great Jazz sounds of the 40s and 50s in such a way that your band will be able to put it together and make it happen. Lots of great jazz style articulation and harmonic considerations ensure that your students are doing more than just playing the piece. They are learning Big Band Jazz style interpretation in the bargain, and loving it as they do. This is a great opportunity to study the historical American roots of Jazz! / Niveau : 3 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Fanfare

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Authentic Big Band swing style music for the concert band! You know this one will be a crowd pleaser, and SO much fun to play! Stephen Bulla works his magic with the great Jazz sounds of the 40s and 50s in such a way that your band will be able to put it together and make it happen. Lots of great jazz style articulation and harmonic considerations ensure that your students are doing more than just playing the piece. They are learning Big Band Jazz style interpretation in the bargain, and loving it as they do. This is a great opportunity to study the historical American roots of Jazz!Swing it! / Niveau : 3 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Tim Richards introduces the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic aspects of the Blues - now for the first time in French! The book features over 30 pieces, including well -known favourites such as 'Blueberry Hill', 'C-Jam Blues', 'Back in the Alley' and 'See See Rider', together with a number of compositions by the author designed to teach:- Authentic patterns and bass lines for the left hand- Professional chord voicings, blues scales, licks and riffs- Exercises in coordination for both hands- Suggestions for further listeningEach chapter is arranged in progressive order of difficulty, with a few more demanding pieces towards the end. Improvisation plays an important part throughout the book, with exercises and guidance. The accompanying CD was recorded by Tim Richards and contains all the pieces and play-along tracks for both volumes. / Piano

The late Lenny Breau was admired throughout the world for his complex fingerstyle jazz stylings. The first part contains Breau's Guitar workshop dealing with Building the Blues; Three Against Two and Harmonicsat Work. Section 2 presents three great Lenny Breau solos (Five O'Clock Bells; Little Blues and Freight Train). Written in notation and tablature. Contains Breau's 'master class' on fingerstylejazz Guitar. 3 songs from book are not included on the audio files. Includes access to online audio.

French composer and teacher Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a prolific composer of the 20th century as a member of 'Les Six'. His compositions remain highly regarded the Ballet  Le Train Bleu being no exception. Milhaud's compositions are influenced by jazz and polytonality as exemplified in Le Train Bleu. Composed in 1924  Le Train Bleu is a Ballet based on a scenario by Jean Cocteau and composed for the Ballets Russes. The title is taken from a night train called The Blue Train which transported wealth passengers from Calais to the Mediterranean Sea. In hisreduction for Piano Milhaud makes use of variation in articulation complex rhythms chromaticism accidentals harmonics altering tempos variation in dynamics and a wide tessitura amongst other aspects. Milhaud's Le Train Bleu is essential to all advanced pianists seeking modern and exciting repertoire.

Revised-The Con Brio Teacher Guide is the ideal partner for the teacher working through the creative Theory Gymnastics curriculum of music theory and ear-training.This TeacherGuide contains everything you will need to teach level D of Theory Gymnastics so is intended for those teachers whose students have progressed past Con Moto and are ready for a greater challenge.Concepts taught at this level include simple and compound meters the circle of fifths and a deeper level of rhythmic harmonic and melodic ear-training. The comprehensive and well-organised nature of the book means that teachingwhat is normally a difficult and boring topic becomes easy and entertaining. With features like answers to all the student workbook activities notated listening examples and reproducible testing resources ConBrio enables you to efficiently teach theoretical concepts while effectively tracking your student’s progress.So if you are looking for a creative and original way to teach music theory and ear-training make sureyou pick up the Con Brio Teacher Guide as a companion to the student workbook. You will quickly find that teaching becomes simple easy and even fun for you. Furthermore you are able to access free recordings ofthe ear-training units at the Kjos Music Company website.

Excellence in Theory is especially designed to creatively enrich the curriculums of beginning Instrumental Choral and General Music classes! It's all here - Theory and Ear Training Notation Composition and History complete inthree volumes.Progressive Theory concepts and skills are reinforced and reviewed through both written and aural exercises. Ear Training examples and exercises are accessible by teach or student via the Kjos MultimediaLibrary at www.kjos.com. History pages come alive with vibrant colour images and comprehensive quizzes to help put events styles and details into perspective.Separate Theory and History sections are presented offeringmultiple teaching possibilities. Theory and History can be taught together or separately depending on your class objectives and scheduling considerations. A Keyboard illustration glossary and blank manuscript pages are alsoincluded as convenient study tools.The Theory section in Book Two begins with a review of concepts previously learned then moves forward into more advanced lessons. Key signatures and the circle of fifths/fourths areintroduced and music reading progresses with new technique and expression markings. Students are introduced to challenging new rhythms and melodic and harmonic intervals are explored. Each lesson is carefully reinforced throughspecific Review pages.Ear Training continues to play a vital role in Book Two with aural exercises appearing throughout the book wherever new theory concepts are learned. These aural exercises reinforce studentunderstanding and immediately put new theory into practice.The History section of Book Two presents more detail on each of the musical eras from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Composers performers andimportant musical events are presented in the historical context of their day. A greater understanding of the historical context in which music was created sets the course for a lifetime of music appreciation.

This superb book provides all the resources needed for aural training at GCE Advanced Level in a single volume with 2 CD's included. It is packed with examples of dictation and discrimination exercises which are carefully graded in difficulty. This extenstive text provides a systematic approach to aural training melody and two-part dictation harmonic recognition identifying errors in performance frequent hints and tips All combine to enable the student to develop increasing skill and confidence in the tests. This book also provides a complete recorded anthology of thecompositional techniques with which students are expected to be familiar at Advanced level. A huge variety of extracts have been specially selected from British folk song world music pop jazz and the main periods of art music from the late Renaissance to modern times. A detailed commentary shows how to recognise periods styles structures instruments and techniques in this music with all these features copiously illustrated in the examples on disc. The complete work provides an invaluable resource not only for the A-Level syllabus but also for any study of style and analysis in the wide variety of music that is encountered today. David Bowman was for 20 years director of music at Ampleforth College and a chief examiner for the University of London Schools Examination Board (now Edexcel) from 1982 to 1998. His publications include Sound Matters (co-authored with Bruce Cole Schott 1989) Aural Matters (co-authored with Paul Terry Schott 1993) Aural Matters in Practice (co-authored with Paul Terry Schott 1994) Analysis Matters (Rhinegold Volume 1 1997 Volume 2 1998) and numerous articles for Music Teacher. He is a contributor to the Collins Classical Music Encyclopedia (2000) and author of the Rhinegold Dictionary of Music in Sound (2002).