Ten Little Studies

Easier Piano Pieces 43-Benjamin Godard was a French composer and violinist who wrote a great many pieces for the piano. This is a splendid instructional album of studies that provides some interesting contrasts of styles for Piano solo.

The thirty studies compiled in The Little Czerny are a huge complement to Piano education. Creating stimulating exercises Chaumont''s studies cannot be missed by aspiring pianists. The Little Czerny introduces the key principles of technique including mechanism of the fingers repetition transposition as well as musical features such as articulation phrasing intervals chords variety of note values and variations in time signatures and tempos among other aspects. For all intermediate pianists Chaumont''s The Little Czerny is an essential aid to progression.

The product of a 14 year research project this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four fingertechnique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords arpeggios tremolos and harmonics beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers.The studies are played over easy yet interesting left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your own right hand studies by including examples from standard classical guitarrepertoire pieces by Fernando Sor Federico Moreno Torroba and Heitor Villa-Lobos at the end of the book. This book is a companion to MB 98711 - HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS and other compositions (music composed transcribed arrangedand edited by Charles Postlewate for the guitar using five fingers of the right hand) and its accompanying 60-minute CD HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS (MB 98711CD). Spanish Description [Este libro es el resultado de unproyecto de investigación de 14 años de duración. Este incluye más de 350 estudios para entrenar la mano derecha del guitarrista clásico a usar los cinco dedos-añadiendo el dedomeñique a la técnica actual de cuatro dedos. Estos estudios desarrollan una técnica de cinco dedos para tocar acordes arpegios trémolos y armónicos empezando con combinaciones del pulgar y undedo y aumentando en complexidad al uso del pulgar con los cuatro dedos. Los estudios se tocan sobre progresiones fáciles pero interesantes de la mano izquierda por el diapason. Postlewate le muestra cómodesarrollar sus propios estudios para la mano derecha a base de ejemplos del repertorio tradicional de la guitarra clásica por Fernando Sor Federico Moreno Torroba y Heitor Villa-Lobos incluídos al final del libro.

James Rae presents 42 More modern studies for flute complementing the established Favourite: '40 Modern Studies'. Again Pieces are from elementary to more advanced levels varying from modern Classical to Jazz and Rock. As the studies are technically demanding, they are all written in comfortable flute-orientated keys to allow the student to focus on interpretation. Each study is designed to improve the student's musical as well as technical abilities. Snow Walk Tiny Waltz Swingin' Joe Little March of the Soldier Ants Rock Buster Distant Shores Coconut Calypso Twilight Suede Shoe Blues Leaping Labradors Mouse Dance Highland Stroll Window Shopping From Another Planet Blue Sky Interlude Walk and Talk Haggis and Thistle On the Road The Cat on the Corner Candle in the Window Tick, Tick, Tick ... Brain Teaser Return Flight November Colours Syncopation Rag Round and About Nice, but Naughty! Hot Noodles Breakaway One-Part Invention Golden Threads Oddness Scherzetto Loops Coastal Reflections The Funkmeister Tongue Twister Box of Frogs The Devil's Jig Staccato Toccata Hocus-Pocus Rocket Science

Finger Fitness 3 is an ideal supplement to The Classical Piano Method: Method Book 3 (ED 13536). It contains easy to intermediate technical exercises, suitable for pianists who have completed Method Book 2 of the series, or for those returning to the instrument after a break.This book includes 44 elementary finger exercises, studies and etudes for developing finger strength and independence, evenness, accuracy and speed of playing, as well as articulation and general musicality.The pieces are presented in a progressively graded format, providing you with relevant repertoire as your playing develops. / Piano

Charles Dancla (1817-1907) is considered to be the last great representative of the French Violin School. He knew, in a special way, how to implement the principle no music without technique, no technique without music in his teaching material. This is the case in his easy melodic studies. These studies are perfectly suited for young beginners after the second year, but also for adult players, refreshers or outsiders. Most of them can be effectively used as little performance pieces, providing an excellent foundation for every advanced étude or concert piece. Each study is preceded by new or revised exercises which either deal with specific problems relating to the playing technique or present the tonal material of the respective study in a condensed, playful form. Those who prefer Dancla's somewhat easier original preliminary exercises will find them in the appendix.

With few study books exisiting for the Vibraphone Emmanuel Séjourné ensures that this gap is filled with his excellent 19 Musical Studies for Vibraphone. The fifth volume contains 19 little pieces of increasing difficulty. Each piece is in a differing style from jazz swing funk and blues to contemporary music neo-classical and imitations of composers such as Erik Satie and J. S. Bach. Moreover each short piece tackles a different technical problem. All these features of Séjourné's 19 Musical Studies combined make for an excellent study book for Vibraphone players.

Easy Little Peppers is the second book in a series of five. Each book is filled with fun jazz pieces that can be used both as pedagogical studies and as repertoire pieces. 'Easy Little Peppers' is around Grade 2 standard and each of the pieces has been written with the young pianist in mind avoiding leaps that are difficult for small hands and incorporating relatively short lighthearted pieces. Technique is developed alongside musicality helping young players to move towards grade exams and the other books in the series.

'Little Peppers' is the third book in a series of five. Each book is filled with fun jazz pieces that can be used both as pedagogical studies and as repertoire pieces. 'Little Peppers' is around Grade 3 standard and each of the pieces has been written with the young pianist in mind avoiding leaps that are difficult for small hands and incorporating relatively short lighthearted pieces. Technique is developed alongside musicality helping young players to move towards grade exams and the other books in the series.

The 29 etudes in this book are taken from Carl Czerny's The Little Pianist Opus 823. These engaging etudes are comparable to their famous “older brothers ” the studies found in The Art of FingerDexterity but are written for students at an earlier stage of study. They encompass a wealth of technical and music instruction from this master teacher of the Classical period indeed the world's first great pianopedagogue. The etudes focus on developing both technical and music skills providing an excellent stylistic and technical resource for the intermediate pianist. Preceding each etude or group of etudes is a worksheet divided intothree sections: Practice Tips Quick Quiz and Creative Corner. These worksheets help students focus on the important technical features in each etude apply practical music theory to their study of the music and vary the etudesin creative ways. Czerny – Selections from The Little Pianist Opus 823 is available in book/CD format (00296363) or as a book alone (00296364). A separate General MIDI accompaniment disk is also available (00296365).CD and GM accompaniments were created by Phillip Keveren.Also see Hanon for the Developing Pianist in the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Technique Classics series.