Learn to use strings in your compositions and arrangements! From romantic chord pads to powerful grooves to gut-wrenching passionate melodies strings do it all.This book presents time-tested techniques and contemporary developments in writing and arranging for strings. You'll learn strategies for authentic writing in many different styles and find ideas to take your personal sound forward. Discover voicings that work best for each project and explore the intricacies of bowing. Hear articulation approaches from pads to chopping in the online audio examples. See how other composers have used strings to heighten the impact of their music in the written examples. Make yourwork stand out with the drama and depth that well informed string writing can bring.You will learn:? The tunings range and timbres for the violin viola cello and bass including standard instruments and common variations including acoustic electric and synthesized string instruments and sections.? Bowing techniques and possibilities.? Characteristic articulations and sounds such as vibrato pizzicato sul tasto trills tremolos and harmonics.? Timbral and rhythm effects such as chop technique ponticello/feedback portamento and falls.? String-section arranging techniques such as melody/countermelody fills pads and comping.? Stylistic nuances of genres such as American roots Celtic jazz rock klezmer eastern European Gypsy jazz and swing.? Mic recording and live sound techniques for capturing the best string sounds for both acoustic and electric instruments.

This is the first book in the fantastic series How To Play Bebop in which methods for learning memorising and utilising bebop tunes are explored and discussed. This book looks especially at The Bebop Scales and other scales and their use. Suitable for all instruments.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 80 Hundreds of musical components related to melody, harmony, and rhythm are blended together to make music. The study of these elements is called music theory. This book explains basic music theory as it relates to the needs of the average musician. It covers basic music reading with note names and time values, accidentals, ties, and other symbols and terms, as well as the theory behind the most common scales and chords. Quizzes throughout the book reinforce key concepts.

Intermediate Notation and Sight-Reading for All Instruments-If you are already good at reading and writing quarter note and eighth note rhythms and want to up your game this is the book for you. Supported by recordings of the exercises and worksheets that help you practice the material you will learn 16th notes through triplets of all rates syncopations triple meters odd meters and even 32nd notes and beyond. Whether you are a vocalist a student of any instrument or a composer this step-by-step method will prepare you to read and correctly write nearly any rhythms you will ordinarily encounter.

An Introduction to Music-Have a great time learning music with your favourite Peanuts characters. The Peanuts Music Activity Book is a fun introduction to music through songs games puzzles and other music activities. Including dozens of kids' favourites and Vince Guaraldi tunes this book can be used by beginning pianists Keyboard players Guitarists vocalists and other C-instrument players. It's perfect for learning music at home daycare preschool or with family and friends.

Volume 1 - Clé de sol et fa-Yves Le Monnier compiles Simultaneous Reading for beginners in a three volume series. The first of these Simultaneous Reading of Treble and Bass Clef is a helpful aid for all instrumentalists. The understanding of reading the treble and bass clefs simultaneously is imperative to the harmonic knowledge of any musician. Simultaneous Reading of Treble and Bass Clef enables students to become confident in reading both clefs develop essential keyboard skills understand octaves recognise ascending and descending harmonies and comprehend all types of intervals among other aspects. For all beginnersto any instrument or voice Yves Le Monnier''s Simultaneous Reading of Treble and Bass Clef enables students to develop and progress in their musical understanding and knowledge.

French composer and musicologist Jacques Chailley (1910-1999) studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He was passionate about reviving medieval music and this inspired his detailed study book of modes  L'Imbroglio Des Modes. Chailley''s saw him teach musical history harmony and the notation and sight reading of medieval music as well as publish many books on the subject. Chailley''s L'Imbroglio Des Modes begins by explaining what a mode is before addressing the different modes intervals chords medieval tones and modern tones among other aspects. For allancient music enthusiasts Chailley''s L'Imbroglio Des Modes provides brilliant detail and expertise to ensure complete understanding of all modes.

Jean-Pierre Couleau (b. 1948) studied at the Aix-en-Provence Marseille and Versailles Conservatoires before devoting himself to teaching music particularly jazz. He compiled Le Matin Des Musiciens to aid music theory beginners. This Couleau volume contains exercises on performance directions dynamics range intervals rhythm chromaticism articulation and time signatures among other aspects. Couleau's Le Matin Des Musiciens is ideal for all beginners of music theory. Furthermore with detailed instruction in Japanese  Le Matin DesMusiciens is accessible to many.

This volume follows on from Volume 1 of How To Play Bebop and covers the bebop language patterns formulas and other linking materials. Ity also introduces chord progrssions and cycles and gives a listing of pieces to memorise for a greater understanding of the bebop feel.

The last of the three?Solfege Des Solfeges books this is an excellent set of exercises tailored towards the Solfege method of sight-singing and remains a popular method for teaching aural musicianship to beginner singers. First published in 1891 this edition has been translated into English by J.H. Cornell. Adolphe-Leopold Danhauser (1835-1896) was a French musician composer and pedagogue. His name was often Germanised to Dannhäuser. Having been appointed as Professor of Solfeggio at the Paris Conservatory he is best known for his pedagogical works such as the 1878 text book Théorie de la Musique but also composedseveral operas and other choral pieces.

This wall chart gives a complete easy-to-understand graphical overview of the most important elements of music: note names intervals note and rest values and counting clefs and other elements of notation as well as thenotes on the staff and their location on the keyboard. Note: The sample for this product is an image of the entire chart. It may take a while to load.Dimensions: 24' x 35'.

Covering Electric & Acoustic-Denny Rauen is a nationally acclaimed master luthier whose clients include many top musicians and collectors from around the world - Keith Richards Buddy Guy Leo Kottke Roger Glover and many others.In this must-have instructional DVD Denny personally teaches: installing a pickup; shielding a Guitar (taming the single coil hum); wiring modification (Telecaster); adjusting the truss rod; adjusting intonation; tools of the trade; tech secrets; and more.Includes printable wiring schematics!

Being a fascinatingly unique composer Olivier Messiaen pushed the conventions of composing to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and The Technique of my Musical Language provides the key and necessary knowledge into the study of his delightful music. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11 where he won many prizes. As a passionate ornithologist as well as organist and composer many of Messiaen's works depict bird song. His music is rhythmically complex and harmonically and melodically distinct often using modes of limitedtransposition. It is for these reasons that the composer compiled The Technique of my Musical Language. The book contains text with musical examples describing unique elements of his music such as ametrical music his rhythmic notations and his modes of limited transposition among many others. For all fans of Messiaen The Technique of my Musical Language is essential to the understanding of the composer's much loved music.

The Essential Handbook for Musicians Who Teach is an accessible guide to instrumental and singing teaching with a wealth of practical advice and information. It covers a comprehensive range of topics from employment status,safeguarding and health and well-being to planning, teaching strategies and continuing professional development. Written by experts in the field, this is a blueprint for teaching music that is essential reading for all musicianswho teach. Teaching is a very important part of the portfolio careers of professional musicians, and while they have a high level of knowledge about the practicalities of playing their instruments and working with othermusicians, they need backup in many other matters. This book fills an important gap in the literature in this area and is a vital guide and companion for all instrumental and vocal teachers./ Méthode / Tout Instrument

Reinforce Fundamentals with Boomwhackers and Other Classroom Instruments-Grab your Boomwhackers« for loads of whacky fun while reinforcing steady beat high/low fast/slow and loud/soft! Easy-to-follow read and play instrument parts will keep students actively involved for hours of basic boomin' fun. Beginning readers follow full color song charts of instrument pictures while more advanced readers play from musical notation. This ten song collection features a variety of musical styles from folk and spirituals to blues reggae rock and more! Five of these songs also include vocal parts. All parts are reproducible and projectable! Features DIGITAL ACCESS to audio recordings with and without classroom parts and PDFs of the instrument and vocalparts for a variety of classroom and performance options. All you need is a C Major Diatonic Scale set of Boomwhackers] and a few classroom instruments and you're ready to go! Your students will love boomin' the basics all year long! Suggested for Grades K-5. ScorePlay - click to view score with recording.