Improve Your Teaching! - Text Book (HARRIS PAUL)

Teaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge but also reaps enormous rewards Today there are a host of colourful tutors to choose from but none tells us how to teach beginners. It can be a hit and miss affair! Energising and inspirational Teaching Beginners is a 'must have' handbook for all instrumental and singing teachers. Written by the UK's leading music educationalist Paul Harris it is packed full of comprehensive advice and practical strategies it offers creative yet accessible solutions to the challenges faced in music education. Written in an approachable style and distilled from years ofpersonal experience and research Paul Harris looks at the issues concerning the teaching of beginners outlining a series of principals advice and strategies discussing: How to approach the first lesson Practice ideas for beginners introducing the tutor book and notation Taking stock and moving forward Inheriting pupils Improvisation and composition for beginners. A companion to the best-selling Improve Your Teaching this book is guaranteed to challenge affirm and energise your teaching!

More Graded Studies For Clarinet brings together Clarinet study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique and providing a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core works from established Clarinet writers alongside specially composed studies by Paul Harris these comprehensive study collections apply the simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Two study books arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to carefully planned technical progression. The studies develop key aspects of style found in in repertoire from the 19th century onwards. Each study comes with a list ofSimultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preperation for the music. Book One begins at elementary level and progresses to intermediate (approx. grades 1-5); Book Two takes the student from intermediate to advanced level (approx. grades 6-8). Paul Harris is one of the UK's most respected music teachers and educationalists known for his innovative Simultaneous Learning approach. He has over 600 publications to his name including the highly acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your sight-reading! Improve your aural! and Improve your practice! series. Harris writes frequently on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

Par HARRIS PAUL. Improve your scales!' is a new method for learning scales that form an integral part of playing an instrument. It will encourage a methodical and thoughtful approach and provide some solutions to common memory problems. This tutor is ideally used in conjunction with 'Improve your sight-reading', to give these often neglected areas of learning a more central role, making pupils more musically aware and allowing the teacher to concentrate on teaching the music. / Date parution : 2002-04-11/ Etude / Piano

Instructional DVD on Live Sound-Your Sound is a comprehensive 90-minute instructional DVD showcasing live sound made easy. Join Dave 'Mighty Mouse' West as he takes you on a tour of his world. Here he will show you some of the best techniques in both concert and theatrical sound. Whether you are in your garage or in a house of worship these tricks of the trade are sure to help you improve your skills.Do you have trouble hearing the vocals? How about the instruments? Does the band complain that they can't hear as well? With easy to understand analogies and hands on demonstrations you will see how to solve these problems yourself.Is that pesky feedback... back? You don'thave to be a seasoned sound person to restore peace to the stage. Your Sound is an ultimate teaching tool and is a must-have for schools houses of worship theaters clubs studios or even the garage. The DJ and karaoke scene are sure to benefit as well.Musicians are you having trouble speaking the same language as your engineer? Then this video is also perfect for you. A good gig is a 50/50 split between tech crew and talent. Knowledge is a key to success and Your Sound is a master key.West has over 25 years of experience in the business of live entertainment spanning from his garage to the fair and festival circuit. He has also worked with international touring dance and theatrical companies as well as some of the biggest names in music.

Everything you need to know to get started. Features beats and fills in all your favourite styles as well as technique builders and daily workouts to improve your playing step by step.

Available for more than a dozen instruments these coordinated method books teach how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. This book and play-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability to become the great Viola player that everyone wants to have in their band! Topics in the Viola book include: warming up practice routines learning by ear theory & technique rhythmic interpretation reading improvisation interpreting lead sheets and more. The accompanying CD features Berklee players and coversa wide variety of styles.

Welcome to the world of Keyboards! Whether it’s folk songs pop or blues the styles covered in this book make learning easy fun and entertaining! In addition to having fun there are many graphics and diagrams teaching you the music theory behind all of this great music. The exercises in this book provide you a greater understanding of music theory. The Audio-CD will not only help you improve your playing but will help make your playing come alive!

Rolly Brown has been practicing the Guitar for 50 years, and, in that time, he's developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students.In this two hour DVD, starting with his rule of 'half work, half play?, he shares many of these ideas, interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple 'nuts and bolts? point of view. Whatever style of music you play, you want ways of practicing rhythm, harmony, and melody, the 3 building blocks of music.Whether you flatpick or fingerpick, play bluegrass, jazz, or folk music - whether you're trying to learn your first F chord, or looking for a method of practicing arpeggios to inform your jazz solos, this video offers tools and advice to improve your playing.The topics covered include:On Creativity and Structuring Your TimeScales and ModesHow To Rapidly Master New ChordsArpeggios: Bridging the Gap Between Chords and MelodyRight Hand TechniqueUsing a MetronomePracticing with Rhythm TracksSample Practice Routines / Guitare

15 awesome solos from ABBA to Aladdin. This volume features 15 songs in a range of styles from pop and classical to film and musical theatre. The pieces have been carefully selected and arranged to provide the perfect light relief from exam practice. The songs in this collection appear in order of difficulty, for students at Grade 1 level. Each song is presented with teaching notes to help you improve your performance. The price includes fully orchestrated backing and demo tracks, available to download or stream online, and rich, playable piano accompaniments, which can be downloaded as A4-size PDFs. To help you practice, the audio tracks can be sped up, slowed down and looped using Playback .