Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : You Can Teach Yourself Number of pages : 136 A creative self-teaching text, which provides a through 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.

Il Dettato Musicale features a number of ear training exercises to help musicians recognise harmonic and melodic intervals identify rhythmic and melodic errors as well as to reconstruct a melody by putting the beats indicated in the correct order all helping to encourage full development of a pupil's musical ability. Volume 1 aims to gradually strengthen the ability to memorise a piece of music through the recognition of melodic harmonic and rhythmic elements. The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of all the exercises.

The Harmonic Approach. Beginning where the previous book finished, the acclaimed tutor Barry Finnerty has created yet another classic Serious Jazz Book for jazz soloists of all instruments. Barry Finnerty has worked as a recording artist with jazz legends like Miles Davis, The Brecker Brothers and the Crusaders. Taking the musical talents of virtuosi like these as his inspiration, he explains the key to better improvisation through a melodic approach to chord changes, how they interact and how they are used in context. Finnerty describes the possible uses and harmonic functions of a single note, not just to enhance your playing ability, but to show you the possibilities inherent in a different, harmonic approach to looking at particular notes. He also goes into detail on how to achieve melodic command of all the possible extensions and alterations of chords, as well as variations on common chord progressions. The Serious Jazz Book 2 will also help you effectively and practically apply the harmonic knowledge that you learned in the first volume. Not only this, but Finnerty features a great number of melodic examples that use all the chords and progressions previously learned. In this way, Finnerty expands upon and develops his previous edition to create an acclaimed guide to playing Serious Jazz as a solo musician

Neil and Anna Butterworth. Based on musical extracts taken from the works of important composers this book is designed to provide pupils of all stages with aural training. The purpose is two-fold; when familiarity has diminished their value as aural tests students will have some acquaintance with themes from a number of major works.

In book zero of Edmond Mayeur's Devoirs De Musique a number of questions exercises practices and tasks help to develop a good understanding of music in a series that gets progressively more difficult. Perfect for private work or as part of lessons.

A Practical Approach to Teaching Pitch and Rhythm-Kodály in the Classroom is a series of children's songs and teacher lessons sequentially organized to teach the basics of pitch and rhythm through singing and games for elementary students. The song material consists ofAmerican folk and well-known children's songs. Teacher lessons are easy to follow and do not require previous training in Kodály methodology. Also included are reproducible singer sheets and activities and a companion CDwith vocals and accompaniment only tracks. Primary (Set I) includes 30 songs for lower elementary students including: Charlie Over the Ocean Engine Engine Number Nine Michael Finnegan Who's That Tapping At The Window? LittleSally Water Hot Cross Buns and more! Available: Teacher Edition Performance/Accompaniment CD. For Gr. 1-3.

In book one of Edmond Mayeur's Devoirs De Musique a number of questions exercises practices and tasks help to develop a good understanding of music in a series that gets progressively more difficult. Perfect for private work or as part of lessons.