12 Lessons

First Lessons Cajon has been specially designed to guide beginning players through all of the necessary steps to becoming a proficient Cajon player in a pop and rock context. Basiclessons in rhythm will help you learn mainstream beats for the Cajon that you can use in your favorite songs. Lessons in hand position posture and sound are also included to ensure the best Cajon playing experience possible. Whether you are a beginner or have a little experience with the Cajon this book will help you master the fundamentals of this unique instrument. First Lessons Cajon includes access toonline audio tracks.

Ten Lead Guitar Lessons from The Registry Of Guitar Tutors the world’s leading authority on Guitar education. Lesson subjects include: choosing a scale major scales pentatonic scales slurring vibrato jazz soloing and much more. Each lesson is shown in both standard notation and easy-to-read tablature. This book includes a free accompanying CD making Guitar easier to learn than ever before. Every example is demonstrated on CD. Many lessons also include backing tracks to play along to. This volume of Guitar Lessons is suitable for early stage and intermediate level players.

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome!The bass guitar book features lessons on: bass fundamentals music reading tuning the 1-5 pattern arpeggios grooves position shifts scales syncopation chromatics swing/shuffle feel and blues funk and rock styles. Includes full bass lines from five real songs: Get Ready (The Temptations) ? I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley and The Wailers) ? Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) ? Smooth (Santana) ? Super Freak (Rick James).

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Bluegrass Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome!This banjo book features video and print lessons by author and banjo master Kristin Scott Benson on: banjo fundamentals; music reading; tuning; three-finger Scruggs style;bluegrass banjo rolls; chords and scales; and slides hammer-ones and pull-offs. Includes lead and backup banjo parts for these bluegrass songs: Boil Them Cabbage Down ? Cripple Creek ? Oh! Susanna ? Old Joe Clark ? When the Saints Go Marching In.

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of singing and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Each book in the series features must-know instruction so you can start performing right away with a free online metronome! The voice book features lessons on: full-body singing breathing finding your voice vocal warmups the vocal break caring for your voice diction musicliteracy building skills working on a song dealing with nerves and more. Includes vocal lines from 12 songs: At Last ? Cups (When I'm Gone) ? Danny Boy ? Georgia on My Mind ? Give My Regards to Broadway ? Hallelujah ? Hard Times Come Again No More ? Homeward Bound ? I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) ? Scarborough Fair ? The Skye Boat Song ? You Raise Me Up.

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs! The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! This mandolin book features video and print lessons by world-renowned author Fred Sokolow on: mandolin fundamentals, music reading, tuning, chords, scales and basic theory, strumming, arpeggios, double stops, moveable chop chords, sawing and tremolo, and chord/melody playing. You also get to strum and pluck along with 28 songs including: Ain't Misbehavin' · Hallelujah · Hey Jude · I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Maggie May · Rocky Top · Stand by Me · Wayfaring Stranger · and many more.

Piano Town: a method for beginning piano students ages six and up. The course of study is divided into five levels with each level having four correlated books:Lessons - the core of Piano Town. Each concept ispresented in a consistent reliable format helping the student to focus on new skills and information. Theory - provides page by page support for each concept introduced in Lessons so that theoretical knowledge keeps pacewith performance skill. Technic - provides page by page support for the technical skills introduced in Lessons. Each new exercise isolated one element of piano technic giving the student a chance to focus on each specificskill. Performance - offers students an opportunity to apply what they have learned in Lessons. The variety of folk songs familiar tunes original music and classical literature are ideal for use in recitals andfestivals.

Mel Bay's First Lessons Flute is an easy method for beginning players of all ages. From the first tones to a full two-octave chromatic scale this book and downloadable online audio will introduce the beginnerprogressively to the foundations of flute playing and musicianship. Proper assembly playing position and embouchure formation are carefully introduced along with simple songs and rudiments of music. Beginning players are taughta set of basic skills from which they can build performance technique. Lively rhythmic backgrounds on the accompanying online audio will generate student interest from the very beginning. Practice loops will encourage students tolearn through repetition. The First Lessons audio is perfect for use with group lessons and for energizing practice sessions from start to finish. Latin and jazz accompaniments make even the simplest exercises an enjoyable musicalexperience. Assemble your flute turn on the First Lessons audio and have fun while you learn to play. Easy method for beginning players. Progressive step-by-step introduction to fundamentals.Online audio available for download.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : First Lessons Number of pages : 32 First Lessons Bass is intended to introduce beginning students to the fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. The material covered in this book is approximately the material covered in the first 8 lessons of private bass instruction. This book makes use of the 3-finger left hand position commonly found in double bass technique. The emphasis on left hand technique allows the student to develop a consistent fingering approach to the fingerboard, reduces unnecessary strain on the left hand, and makes the bass more accessible to younger students or students with small hands. After the left hand technique has been established, the book introduces the student to important elements of bass line construction including blues patterns, the root-fifth relationship, and common rhythmic patterns. - Introduction for beginning students to the - fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. - Book is approximately the material covered in the - first 8 lessons of private bass instruction. - Makes use of the 3-finger left hand position - commonly found in double bass technique. - Offers student important elements of bass line - construction: blues patterns, root-fifth relationship, - and common rhythmic patterns. - Companion CD included.