SKU: BT.MUSAM988691

ISBN 9781846098475. English.

Step into the spotlight and play along with the superb backing tracks on the specially recorded CD. Includes sixties hits by Van Morrison, The Beach Boys and Louis Armstrong.

Ten fantastic arrangements of popularsixtieshits arranged for Alto Saxophone. The Guest Spot books include a practical playing guide and a CD of backing tracks and accompaniments to play along with. There is a full performance version of the music on the first set oftracksand the Alto Saxophone part is then omitted from the second set, allowing you to play along with the recorded accompaniments.

SKU: BT.MUSBM11517

ISBN 9781846091360. English.

The DVD edition of this hugely popular series of tutors gets you even closer to your instrument with a set of real music lessons right there on your screen! A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure that those vital practice hours are never boring! The book includes: Advice on your instrument and the equipment you will needInstructions for effective technique and comfortable playing Explanatory pages on reading and understanding music Tests to check your own progress and comprehension The accompanying audio CD features a virtuoso performance and backing track for each pieces, as well as recorded examples to support the lessons. The DVD features lessons on: Basic techniques Putting the instrument together Posture Looking after your instrument Basic music notation How to approach your first piece.

About A New Tune A Day

Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune A Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The A New Tune A Day books have the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of an audio CD-with actual performances and backing tracks-will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone. This book contains: easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; tips for technique; improvising hints; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks, and audio examples; great music, including duets and ensemble pieces; useful pull-out fingering chart

SKU: BT.DHP-1185906-404

ISBN 9789043154666. English.

Look, Listen and Learn has set the standard for contemporary brass and woodwind teaching. These exciting method book/CD packs for beginners engage students and develop their understanding of music and their instrument through songs, puzzles, games and lots of fun pieces to play. Three progressive method books form the basis of the series, enhanced by several corresponding supplementary volumes.

With Play The Beatles, students will embark on a journey through time to the 1960s to get to know one of the most important bands in the history of rock. This pack includes fifteen of the best-known songs by The Beatles, arranged in increasing order of difficulty in such a waythat they can be used in conjunction with all three volumes of Look, Listen and Learn. Authentic-sounding accompaniment tracks are also provided online to download or stream directly.