Classic and Modern Ballads You've Always Wanted to Play

Guest Spot-Ten great contemporary Love Songs in melody line arrangements by Simon Lesley with specially recorded backing tracks included on the CD. These new pop tunes from the past ten years sound absolutely fantastic whenplayed on the vivacious Violin while you will sound even better with the instrumental backing tracks. These brilliant pop tunes were performed by some of the most popular artists of the early Millennium.Featuring Evergreen by Will Young Emotion by Destiny's Child and the amazing What If sung by Kate Winslet these excellent songs all made their impact on the charts in the early 2000s. If you've everwanted to play a song like Hero by Enrique Iglesias on the Violin with Guest Spot you can. Not only can you learn these top Love Songs of the past few years you'll also be able toperform them for your nearest and dearest who will no doubt appreciate your fresh new take on these familiar romantic songs. Not only can you learn from the sheet music within this book you can alsolisten to the CD which features full performance versions of every song that also omits the instrumental part allowing you to play along with some professionally recorded accompaniments. This will make sure you sound even betterwhen you're serenading your sweetheart with a classical-pop rendition of Whole Again or a Violin version of Robbie Williams' Eternity. Even with the pedigree of love songs already out there these modern onesprove that great ballads can still be written.  If you want to learn to play and perform ten really great contemporary love songs by some of the best pop artists of the early 2000s look no furtherthan this New Love Songs Playalong For Violin collection allowing you to learn the songs then play along!

Instrumental Play-Along features fifteen great pop hits specially arranged for Trombone with play-along accompaniments on CD. All of these contemporary tunes sound just great on a Trombone and are bound toimpress your friends and family with their catchiness and expertly-crafted melodies. Some of the biggest pop songs of the past few years are included in Instrumental Play-Along like You'reBeautiful by James Blunt Hey Ya! by Outkast Rihanna's Unfaithful and many more. The solo arrangements of these tunes are a joy to play and listen to while the CD accompaniment allows you to playalong with backing tracks as if you've got your own band behind you! The Instrumental Play-Along series has been loved by many players for bringing contemporary pop to classicalinstruments reinvigorating Flutes Cellos Trombones and many other traditional instruments with some pure pop perfection. Other tunes from this Pop Hits sheet music book include No Doubt's It's MyLife and Dido's White Flag proving that there's something for everyone whether you like those traditional ballads or more upbeat party anthems all of these tunes are sure to bring the house down when theybring out the best of that characteristic Trombone sound. So for solo arrangements of fifteen modern tunes for Trombone with a fantastic CD accompaniment check out Instrumental Play-Along: PopHits to get the sound of these huge hits from your Trombone.

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