for beginners and slightly advanced players, with online videos. Par GIORDANI DANIEL. With their soft and gentle tones, handpans must be one of the most interesting, newly developed musical instruments around today. For anyone wishing to find out more, this book by Daniel Giordani provides a great way to get started. A full range of exercises enable the various playing techniques to be developed step by step. Thanks to the simple and easy-to-follow notation, you will very quickly be able to play different rhythms and to combine them with beautiful melodic sequences.Numerous exercises to improve coordination and independence of the hands together with lots of Afro, rock and hip-hop grooves make learning how to play really energising. With its exercises for chords, cross-rhythms and double strokes, the book has plenty of challenges in store for slightly advanced players as well. What?s more, seven engaging practice pieces will provide a little repertoire for the first performances.Together with the musical notation, the linked online videos are also a very good additional aid to learning. All the exercises can be played with the wide variety of handpan scales. You can find a short video introduction to the book following the link: https://vimeo.com/696103590 / Date parution : 2022-05-03/ Méthode / Handpan

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Percussions