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Have you ever wanted to play in a full orchestra? Surrounded by top class musicians and the awesome sound of all the instruments together? With the Carl Fischer Playing With the Orchestra Series you can and in style! This unique series presents the kind of pieces that String players want to play with a fabulous Play-along CD of a real orchestra popular pieces which will become a valuable part of your repertoire. Best of all you are always playing the melody! This will add hours of fun to playing your instrument alone and is a great way to show off to family and friends! This is a versatile series it is possible to use these arrangements in a varietyof situations such as solo performance and practice concerts or simply for fun. The series also caters for Viola and Cello or Bass and are all compatible so can be played together with friends as an ensemble. This Classics collection contains ten of the most popular classical themes of all time by the great composers Beethoven Brahms Handel Mozart and others. It is your chance to play the melody whilst being accompanied by an orchestra for some of the most famous tunes that have become an important part of our musical culture.

This remarkable three-disc set - two DVDs and a play-along CD - takes a unique look at the art of playing with brushes. Brush masters Billy Hart Eddie Locke Joe Morello Chari Persip and Ben Riley join drumming greats Adam Nussbaum and Steve Smith as they demonstrate and discuss their distinctive brush styles. All seven artists were filmed playing the same tempos and feels including 4/4 and 3/4 swing at several different tempos as well as ballads and Latin feels and each was then interviewed about each performance. By watching these performances back to back viewers will gain insight into the approaches and techniques of each drummer and will be able to applythese concepts to their own brush playing. The third disc a 17-track play-along CD includes ten tracks that each artist played with plus seven additional tracks allowing you to practice with the same music. Conceived and co-produced by Nussbaum and Smith this timeless document is an educational and inspirational resource that will never go out of date and is certainly one that belongs in every drummer's library!

Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour '74 has gone down in history as one of the greatest series of rock concerts ever. Now, you can Play Guitar With the Irish blues legend with these accurate Guitar Tab transcriptions, as well as a convenient download card for instant access to backing tracks mixed from the original masters. With an exclusive foreword by one of the countless guitarists that Rory Gallagher influenced, Joe Bonamassa, this Irish Tour '74 Guitar Tab is more than just a book of songs. It's also a tribute to an incredible blues man, a memento of a seminal, ground-breaking tour, and a way for you to put yourself in Gallagher's shoes by learning his songs and playing with his band. The newly-transcribed Guitar Tablature brings you the best available way to learn 10 blistering blues tracks from the 40th anniversary re-issue of the album. With true classics like Messin' With The Kid, Laundromat and Cradle Rock, you can learn every delicious lick and smoking riff with confidence. What really sets this book apart is the bundled download card with gives you access to over 100 minutes of awe-inspiring instrumental mixes of the original live masters for seven of the ten tracks included. This means you really can put yourself up on those stages with Gallagher's band to back you for songs like I Wonder Who, A Million Miles Away and Hands Off.Each sensational song is presented in Guitar Tablature, standard notation with chord symbols and full lyrics. This makes it really easy to Play Guitar With the Irish Tour '74 by learning Gallagher's Guitar work in all its glory. For fans of Rory Gallagher himself, or Guitarists wanting to learn the blues, this album is a masterpiece of the genre and is essential listening for everyone. This Irish Tour '74 Guitar Tab songbook is a piece of music history and would be a wonderful thing to own for guitarists the world over. / Guitare

Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical horizons of young players. The pieces use effects such as glissando and tremolo and allow opportunities to explore chromaticisms, swing rhythms and syncopation. Available for string quartet or string orchestra, violin duet or viola duet. Titles are: Chromatic Tango * Soft Shoe * Hoedown * April Rag * Hopak * Mellow Moment.

Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical horizons of young players. The pieces use effects such as glissando and tremolo and allow opportunities to explore chromaticisms, swing rhythms and syncopation. Available for string quartet or string orchestra, violin duet or viola duet. Titles are: Chromatic Tango * Soft Shoe * Hoedown * April Rag * Hopak * Mellow Moment.