Music Theory Puzzles and Games-Packed with puzzles and games with helpful hints from a motley crew of characters this book will be enjoyed by everyone. Great preparation for theory exams and helpful for your music lesson: ideal for instrumentalists as well as pianists.

If you would like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds then this book is for you. The only way to sight-read rhythms fluently is to think not in terms of how long notes last but in terms of what rhythmic sound might occur within each beat. This book shows you how to memorise the sound of each of the various combinations of notes that commonly occur within one beat. If you think in terms of beats you can sight-read rhythms successfully because the beat remains constant. You'll discover the difference between duple and triple time simple and compound time and how to instantly play odd groupings.

Suitable for young beginners this book by S. J. Townshend provides short exercises in the elementary rudiments of music including questions on clefs and staves notes and values accidentals rests tones and semitones introduction to major scales key signatures tonic triads time-signatures and musical terms.

Includes CD-ROM-A Study Guide for Developing Soloists - 260+ page Spiral Bound Book and 3 CD's. By George Bouchard. New expanded edition.All aspiring jazz players find themselves at a point in their development where they are ready to go from playing 'right notes' to actually playing meaningful solos. Making this transition can be as frustrating as it is essential. Intermediate Jazz Improvisation is for everyone wishing to bridge the gap between playing scales chords and licks to playing realistic flowing jazz lines! It's specifically designed to build upon the knowledge you already have and to improve your understanding and skills as a soloist.The 2Play-A-Long CD's include selected tracks from Aebersold Play-A-Longs coordinated with exercises and solo examples played on a separate channel and notated in the book. All parts in the book are transposed for all instruments. Useful for both private and classroom settings. Expanded version includes a 3rd CD (CD ROM) with PDFs of over 150 pages of additional transcribed solos from the CD's transposed for C Bb Eb and bass clef instruments. This popular book has become a classic! Testimonials are many about how this book is helping musicians who feel they're on a 'plateau' in their development! Highly recommended.

In this groundbreaking book prize-winning Pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience psychological insight and wisdom ancient and modern Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example playing a wrong note can be constructive useful even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that hastransformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing in Westney's view is a lively honest adventurous and spiritually rewarding enterprise and it can (and should) meet with daily success which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers professionals and students of any instrument will feel the benefit from this unique guide which brings artistic vitality freedom and confidence within everyone's reach.

From basic musical concepts to harmonizing a melody Volume 1 contains basic tools to get you started in this field.Enric Herrera attended classical studies of harmony counterpoint fugue composition orchestration and piano at the Conservatory of the Lyceum and the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Barcelona.

This two CD set contains over two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instruction before each exercise. Starts with basics and gradually increases in difficulty. The aural exercises are summarised in the 20 page booklet with all answers listed.New revised book contains transposed parts for C B Flat and E Flat instruments to allow you to play along.

This series is a fun way to begin to learn music. Books 1 and 2 contain theory lessons ear training lessons and worksheets. Students from ages 8 to 12 in their first year of lessons will reinforce their music reading skills and gain a better understanding of the building blocks of music. This thorough easy-to-use theory method includes lessons ear training (CDs included with books 1 and 2) and worksheets.

A creative self-teaching text which provides a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of music this book is essential reading for beginning instrumentalists and vocalists providing a comprehensive musical dictionary 'self-instructional' theory lessons designed to motivate and a wealth of historical information.