Improve Your Scales! Grade 5 (HARRIS PAUL)

A Proven Method to Increase Technique and Become a Complete Saxophonist. Par MAINELLA NICK. Your warm-up time is a precious thing. It can get you off to a great day of practicing or it can set you back every time you pick up your instrument. Learning the correct way to warm up will benefit every part of your playing and send you on your way to mastering the saxophone! This book is the product of the last 10 years of building my warm-up routine and will teach you my proven method guaranteed to improve your playing by leaps and bounds. The exercises in this book are designed specifically for the range of the saxophone and address some of the most common problems that people who play this instrument run into. The main areas of study in this method are: 1. Sound Concepts 2. Scales and Arpeggios 3. Working with a Metronome 4. How to Structure Your Time A good day starts off on the right foot and a good practice session starts off with a quality warm-up. Treat your warm-up time with the care and precision that a brass player or drummer does, and turn a repetitive routine into a new one which challenges you every day. / Niveau : 3 / Formation musicale / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Etude / Saxophone

Avrahm Galper Clarinet Series-Practicing the exercises in this book can help you master the clarinet. The exercises will help refine your tone improve your technique and enhance your musical expression these are the cornerstones of great clarinet playing. The studies in this book evolved from the Baermann Scale studies. For impetus and melodic direction each exercise begins on the upbeat. The studies are written using eighth notes in Alla Breve. All studies are re-ordered fromthe original to a more logical sequence staying within a given key for each exercise. The studies cover a broad range of musical forms including simple interrupted and returning scales; major minor and broken chords; dominantsevenths thirds and sixths; fifths and octaves and diminished sevenths. Includes many diagrams to aid in learning new fingerings.

Modes on the Mandolin: Improve Your Improvisation is a collection of exercises for the mandolin student to work through to better understand the fretboard and expand their musicality.The collectionincludes scales modes arpeggios patterns intervalic and rhythmic exercises and progressions. It will serve as a valuable resource and a supplement to but not a substitute for a good teacher. You do not need to follow thechapters in order as all of them will help you play and improvise over progressions.The exercises are tools to help you build muscle memory and musical ideas anywhere on the fretboard. Connect the physical with thetheoretical. There are examples of common tune chord progressions with ideas applied to them. By creating your own musical ideas over the same progressions you will find that the practical information given (exercises) turns intofunctional use (playing and improvising).Once you gain a better understanding of the fretboard you will notice more fluidity and creativity in your playing.

Want to be a classical guitarist but never had a lesson? No problem ? this hands-on guide teaches you all the fundamental techniques you need to play scales melodies and full-length pieces in the classical style.  You get plenty of practice exercises to stretch your skills selections from the classical repertoire and a bonus audio CD that helps you play along with the music pieces from the book!   Get acquainted with your guitar ? familiarize yourself with the unique make-up and parts of a classical guitar Start making some music ? play melodies on individual strings move on to arpeggios and getyour fingers in shape with scales Ramp up your technique ? play barres slurs and trills; handle harmonics; master right-hand tremolo; and venture up the neck to play in the higher positions Build yourclassical repertoire ? from Renaissance and Baroque to Classical Romantic and Modern play pieces from the major eras in classical music Practice makes perfect ? improve your performance with expert guidancethrough each exercise and piece in the book Open the book and find: Tips and techniques for playing beautiful pieces How to read music notation andtablature Basic finger and thumb strokes Right- and left-hand techniques Musical examples charts and photos Music pieces from the guitar greats The best ways to care for yourguitar A step-by-step tutorial on changing your strings Bonus CD Includes More than 140 recorded performances of the exercises and pieces featured in thebook Pieces performed using a count-off allowing you to play along in time with the music Tuning notes to help you tune up your guitar

A Proven Method to Increase Technique and Become a Complete Saxophonist-Your warm-up time is a precious thing. It can get you off to a great day of practicing or it can set you back every time you pick up your instrument. Learning the correct way to warm up will benefit every part of your playingand send you on your way to mastering the saxophone! This book is the product of the last 10 years of building my warm-up routine and will teach you my proven method guaranteed to improve your playing by leaps and bounds.The exercises in this book are designed specifically for the range of the saxophone and address some of the most common problems that people who play this instrument run into. The main areas of study in this method are:1. Sound Concepts 2. Scales & Arpeggios 3. Working with a Metronome 4. How to Structure Your Time A good day starts off on the right foot and a good practice session starts off with a quality warm-up. Treat your warm-up timewith the care and precision that a brass player or drummer does and turn a repetitive routine into a new one which challenges you every day. Contained Inside: Sound Concepts • Articulation Patterns • Full RangeMajor and Harmonic Minor Scales • Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Thirds • Full Range Major and Minor Arpeggios • Staggered Major and Minor Arpeggios • Major and Minor Seconds • Full Range ChromaticScale Exercises • Combining Keys with Both Scales and Arpeggios • Full Range Major and Harmonic Minor Fourths and Wider Intervals

Get the tools you need to express your musical ideas as you study scales arpeggios and their related theory all attributed to the prestigious Berklee College Of Music.Beginning with basic concepts and advancing tomore challenging ideas this invaluable tutorial will serve as a reference for many years to come. Discover chord progressions dynamics phrasing and other aspects of Piano technique that will transform your performances. Thecourse provides a solid foundation for advanced keyboard studies with exercises in all twelve keys that will help you to: Advance your performance skill and build fluency Increase your speed and agility atthe keyboard Internalise common chord patterns Improve your sight-reading skills Memorise new material in less time Improve your tone rhythm and sense of dynamics The onlineaudio provides all the examples and play-along tracks you will need. Suitable for piano students of all levels.

The second tutorial from David Gross will improve your musical knowledge and make you an all-round versatile Bass master! Gross concentrates on the knowledge and skills that you need to create great basslines in any situation. He introduces a wealth of scales chords and modes all over every position of the fretboard including all the possible combinations of chord tones with playalong bass line examples. You will learn techniques to help recognise intervals more efficiently and exercises to improve your arpeggios.