The Perfect Start For Finger Exercises: Book 3: Piano: Instrumental Tutor

This innovative collection of technical exercises features four-measure patterns that reinforce note reading and challenge students to play in an assortment of ways. Icons and check-off boxes encourage students to play with a rounded hand shape and varying tempos dynamics and touch. Simple intuitive graphics make this book unique and user friendly. Students will benefit by listening to the variations as well as develop finger strength and dexterity. It is correlated with The Perfect Start for Note Reading Book 1 or can be a companion to any beginning book. Fun and useful!

to the intermediate Student-This best-selling instruction book along with CD is the perfect start for an Absolute Beginner to Intermediate student of any age on the Bass. The many melodies plus short warm-up exercises and study pieces advance students technically in an easy and enjoyable way. Simple duets scales a note-reading worksheet glossary and practice chart are also included along with many graphs to show left-hand finger placement. The included CD consists of three components: 49 performance pieces of bass with piano accompaniments piano accompaniment tracks by themselves for play-along and a printable PDF file of the Piano accompaniments. This book covers first second third and half positions.

Perfect for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their skills and technique, this revised book and DVD package starts with exercises for developing speed and agility and moves on to jazz chords, advanced techniques like slapping and tapping, modes, and alternate tunings. It also features thorough lessons on composition and arranging. The new DVD is hosted by Jared Meeker, one of today's hottest guitar players. If you have completed Beginning Acoustic Guitar and Intermediate Acoustic Guitar, this is your best next step. Second Edition Features: * Updated examples in the styles of acoustic guitar masters * New companion DVD demonstrating the examples in the book * Improved instruction on acoustic guitar techniques and theory, covering flatpicking, fingerstyle, and strumming / Guitare

Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day is designed to help students achieve an impeccable sense of rhythm which is the first step in successful sight reading and to develop their skills with key recognition time signature recognition pattern identification interval recognition and intermediate response to articulation and dynamics.This series will help the student to develop an internal sense of pulse so that the underlying rhythm in a sight-reading example becomes second nature. This allows the student to concentrate on the other elements of music making. As the books progress four-measure sight-reading drills for one hand progress into longer pieces for bothhands. Students learn the concept of playing from beginning to end without stopping and every unit ends with a teacher-student duet to reinforce the idea that when sight readers start to play they do not stop.Throughout the series new concepts are gradually introduced to provide adequate reinforcement of each concept. Every day students are asked to count rhythms analyse and circle patterns and play sight-reading examples. The manageable task size and carefully structured format of each unit make progress immediately noticeable which helps to motivate students.The carefully crafted musical examples and exercises effectively develop eye ear and hand coordination. This series guides students in a simple straightforward way to develop into students who sight read with ease accuracy and musicality.In the Every Day plan for Book 3A students learn and practice different rhythmic activities with accent markings focusing on the dotted quarter note rhythm followed by eighth notes. Tonic and dominant chords are explored as well as melodic and harmonic intervals of major and minor 2nds and 3rds and perfect 4ths and 5ths. Extending the usual five-finger pattern by crossing the second finger over the thumb is taught as well as learning transposition up a fifth interval as well as to the nearest key. Students will

New Edition-Trumpet Basics is a landmark method by one of the leading figures in trumpet education. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to about Grade 2.There are 20 stages each section includes a wonderful variety of concert pieces from the great composers traditional tunes and fun original exercises 'finger gyms' and 'warm ups' to help establish a sound technique 'factfiles' and 'quizzes' to teach notation and general musicianship helpful clear 'fingering charts' and 'rhythm boxes' and great illustrations.This Book/CD edition is the perfect resource as the CD contains all the accompaniments to all the pieces as well as providing additional partsfor the duets and trios. It is most suitable for those wanting to teach themselves.