Originally published in 2003 and now revised and updated The Songwriting Sourcebook is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling How to Write Songs series. This easy-to-use book will help you write better songs by explaining the art of writing effective chord sequences. It shows:How three and four chords can lay the foundation for a simple song and how to move on to progressions using five and six chordsHow to give your chord sequences additional color by adding chords that are not strictly in key including blues chordsHow to write chord sequences for songs in minor keys as well as major keys and how totake progressions into new territories by changing keyHow to fine-tune the color of your chords by understanding the emotional potential of sevenths sixths and ninthsAll examples come with easy-to-read guitar chord boxes and the accompanying 20-track audio CD features original recordings that illustrate some of the points made in the book.

The second of 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.

Learning to read music is much like learning a language. There are three basic elements: listening, reading, and writing. This well-organized book provides step-by-step sequential lessons for developing these skills. Rhythm, note, and interval concepts are taught in the following way: first, hear and echo a short musical example - second, read and perform a notated exercise - and third, notate musical phrases as demonstrated on the CD. Worksheet-style student pages are included as reproducible PDFs. Ten-minute activities for teaching or assessment, recommended for 4th through 9th grade ensembles or music classes. / Tout Instrument

Songpack is one of the most successful resources for classroom music-making on the market. The song-based package actively encourages participation and offers ideas on performing listening and inventing thus fulfillingrequirements of the Programmes Of Study and GCSE syllabus. Forty songs ranging from pop and folksongs to film and show tunes. Titles include ‘Sailing’ ‘When I’m Sixty Four’ Morning Has Broken’ ‘Rivers Of Babylon’ and many more.Each song is prefaced by teacher’s notes giving helpful hints on rehearsal and performance project work and listening activities. In addition to the songs and keyboard accompaniment there are easy parts for recorder and tunedpercussion plus melody parts in Bb. The pupil’s book gives the melody line optional counter-melody plus guitar chords.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 88 Sight Reading: The Rhythm Book is a graded workbook for instrumentalists and vocalists designed to develop sight reading and rhythmic skills by presenting a course of progressive lessons and studies specifically aimed at these areas. Many different rhythmic groupings and writing styles and clearly presented and analyzed. This book will provide invaluable assistance to all musicians and lead to a greater understanding of the fundamentals of rhythm. Through the development of the counting method employed in this book and the analysis of rhythmic structure-identification of the various notes, rests, groups and signs used-the student will attain greater ease and facility when approaching sight reading material.

A Musician's Guide to Recognizing Pitches by Ear (Book/3CD with Online Audio)-Perfect pitch also called absolute pitch has been a source of endless fascination for hundreds of years. The ability to recognize musical tones with no reference is often viewed as a kind of magical power a gift that only a select few musicians are born with a skill that cannot be learned. But perfect pitch is largely a misunderstood phenomenon. The Hal Leonard Perfect Pitch Method is designed to help you develop a sense of perfect pitch. In the process your overall musicianship will benefit and you'll start listening to music on a deeper level and getting more satisfaction from it. At the heart of this book is a series of 49 ear-trainingsessions one per day for seven weeks using the included CDs or the online audio. Many of the lessons include three separate drills. You can do just one and save the others for later or all three at the same time. Take your time advancing to the next session only when you're satisfied with your results on the previous session. Pretty soon you'll notice a marked improvement in your pitch acuity.

An excellent book of exercises which are tailored toward the Solfege method for sight-singing. This book has been translated into English by J.H. Cornell.

The main objective of this handbook is to make Kodály's 333 Reading Exercises accessible to those unfamiliar with the Kodály approach, showing them how to use the 333 in accordance with the approach. The handbook offers step-by-step strategies for guiding practice of songs from the 333, which is written in the favourable D-B vocal range for children to learn musical reading in solfa and staff notation.Alfred Music UK, as agents for Poco Studio in Europe, are delighted to see this new collaboration between the world's foremost Kodaly specialist, Sarolta Platthy, and Ying Ying Ng, whose spectacularly successful theory books adorn many a teacher's library, but we are not the only ones?. / Formation Musicale

Beginning Notation and Sight-Reading for All Instruments-Rhythms are certainly the largest challenge in reading and writing music. This book makes learning to read and write rhythms easy teaching you in a step-by-step method starting from the very basics.Supported by recordings of the exercises and worksheets that help you practice the material you will have all you need to learn quarter note eighth note and triplet eighth rhythms including syncopations. Whether you are an experienced musician who has never learned notation a total beginner a vocalist or student of any instrument or interested in playing or composing any style of music with The Rhythm Book you can build a solid foundationin reading and writing rhythms.

Because a fine orchestra depends on fine players, Solo Time for Strings emphasizes individual accomplishment, progress, and achievement while preparing young students for participation in a school orchestra. The series teaches reading in conjunction with note learning, enabling students to start playing melodies as soon as possible, and is appropriate for class or individual instruction. The solos assist in a progressive technical development from 'twinkle, twinkle' in Book 1 to music by Vivaldi in Book 5. / Formation Musicale

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.

This book by Ernest Van De Velde is a method for learning Solfège efficiently and quickly. Solfège Populaire focuses on the treble clef and requires students to study rhythm note-reading and intonation separately and quickly but also gradually to avoid any difficulty. Theoretical concepts are denoted briefly and clearly making this a great book for learning that essential practice of Solfège.