Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan?The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sigh-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams.Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to a specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulouslygraded sight-reading pieces.New edition devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.Paul Harris is one of the most respected music educationalist known for his innovative Simultaneous Learning approach. He has over 500 publications to his name including the highly-acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your scales! Improve your aural! and Improve your practice! series. Paul writes frequesntly on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

A workbook for examinations including over 100 practice tests for Associated Board exams supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012.The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams.Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to a specific technical issues then by studying preparedpieces with associated questions and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.This new edition has been devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.Paul Harris is one of the most respected music educationalists known for his innovative Simultaneously Learning approach. He has over 500 publications to his name including the highly-acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your scales! Improve your Aural and Improve your Practice! series. Paul writes frequently on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

A workbook for examinations including over 100 practice tests for Associated Board exams supporting the new syllabus requirements from 2012.The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams.Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to a specific technical issues then by studying preparedpieces with associated questions and finally 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.This new edition has been devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.Paul Harris is one of the most respected music educationalists known for his innovative Simultaneously Learning approach. He has over 500 publications to his name including the highly-acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your scales! Improve your Aural and Improve your Practice! series. Paul writes frequently on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

10 Easy Compositions With Creative Performace Ideas. Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Aleksey Igudesman has always enjoyed writing pieces inspired by animals. His latest collections 'In the Zoo” and 'In the Zoo 2” were great fun and had the bonus of concealing useful technical studies in the music so that young players could improve their technique without knowing they were working hard! Aleksey wondered how he could follow these books and decided to choose animals that few people even knew existed. So, in 'Funny Animals”, for violin and piano, we meet such creatures as the Panda Ant, the Aye-Aye and the Dumbo Octopus! The animals are introduced with texts and pictures by his friend Magdalena Hoffmann. Aleksey says that, if you only want to play the music, that's great but he provides lots of theatrical instructions for a stage performance. You might find yourself blowing kisses to the audience or playing while standing on one leg! If you have the nerve to do this and film yourself for YouTube he says you should mention his name and tag him and you will find yourself featured on his own homepage. Do this, he says, and your route to stardom is guaranteed! The music does not demand great technical ability from the player but maybe… on one leg? / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Violon et Piano

Over 200 of your favorite pop/rock songs, all in one book! The Ultimate Song Pages: Piano Volume 1 provides the lyrics along with piano and chord arrangements for some of the greatest pop and rock hits ever written. Artists featured: 50 Cent * ABBA * Aerosmith * Avril Lavigne * the Beatles * the Bee Gees * Bruce Hornsby * Bruce Springsteen * Celine Dion * Cher * Chicago * Coldplay * Cream * Diana Ross * Dixie Chicks * Elvis Presley * Eric Clapton * Grateful Dead * Green Day * Hall

Par IRON AND WINE. Iron and Wine: The Songbook contains songs from albums and EPs by American singer-songwriter Iron and Wine. The artist-approved chord songbook includes lyrics and chords with short picking patterns in tab and notation and is full colour throughout with artwork, photographs and tour posters, a song index and index of first lines. Sam Beam is a singer-songwriter who has been creating music as Iron and Wine for over a decade. Through the course of seven albums, numerous EPs and singles, and the initial volumes of an Archive Series - Iron and Wine has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with distinctly cinematic songs/ Recueil / Accords de Guitare et Paroles

Turn the first page of THE FUNKMASTERS and you enter a domain of unrivaled musical feeling and groove as you become acquainted with names like Jab'o Starks Bernard Odum Clyde Stubblefield Sweet Charles Sherrell Bootsy Collins jimmy Nolen Country Kellum and the rest of the legendary bassists guitarists and drummers who ignited the Godfather of Soul's records and live shows of over three decades. Twenty-three James Brown classics have been transcribed broken down into individual lessons and meticulously re-created on two one-hour CDs' for drums bass and guitar. Also included is a full history of the James Brwon band along with rare photos. THEFUNKMASTERS will inspire and enlighten you as your groove takes new direction and finds primeval levels of rhythm you never knew were possible. It will challenge your musicianship your sense of time and most of all your soul. Are you bad enough to handle it?

The durable and practical Gig Book contains 101 Hits from the past 60 years. Some of the greatest songs ever are included here with lyrics chord boxes and melody line so that you can startplaying and singing straight away. The great thing about a book like this Gig Book is the sheer scale of the songs inside. These are the songs that were written over half a century ago andare still everyone's favourites today. Also included are those songs that were written in the past few years and immediately clicked with everybody instantly joining the ranks of the all-time greats. In here you'll find songslike God Only Knows Son Of A Preacher Man Stand By Me and Your Song. These are the tunes that are the eternal crowd-pleasers the ones that everyone loves and everyone wants to hear. Now with thisclassic hit song book you can sing and play them for all to enjoy. These Gig Books are a really handy size for just stuffing in your gig bag and each features a PVC cover thatis strong and tough meaning no matter how much you use the book (and with this selection it's going to be a lot!) it'll always be there for you whenever you need it. Looking at the size of the Gig Book itscreams convenience and practicality so it's a wonder we've actually managed to condense the biggest names the most monumental singers and such gargantuan songwriters into such a portablebook.  Names like Roy Orbison Paul Simon The Beatles and Prince rub shoulders with contemporary greats like The Killers Coldplay and Justin Timberlake making the contents list of this song book read like a rundown of probably the best musicians ever. For singers guitarists keyboardists and many other instrumentalists this hit song book will be a staple of your repertoire

Real Easy Book 2 - C Version. Following on from the great success of The Real Easy Book Volume 1, The Real Easy Book Volume 2 is perfect for students with a few years of playing experience, right up to working professionals. From jazz classics like Four, Scrapple From The Apple, and Dear Old Stockholm to contemporary tunes like George Benson's Mimosa and Donald Fagen's Walk Between Raindrops this selection of songs will keep you and your audience smiling. The Real Easy Book Volume 2 will save band directors countless hours of writing out scales for soloing, chord voicings, Guitar diagrams and Bass lines - they are all included with each tune. The educational material in this book has been developed in conjunction with Stanford Jazz Workshop. It works.

More Graded Studies For Clarinet brings together Clarinet study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique and providing a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core works from established Clarinet writers alongside specially composed studies by Paul Harris these comprehensive study collections apply the simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Two study books arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to carefully planned technical progression. The studies develop key aspects of style found in in repertoire from the 19th century onwards. Each study comes with a list ofSimultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preperation for the music. Book One begins at elementary level and progresses to intermediate (approx. grades 1-5); Book Two takes the student from intermediate to advanced level (approx. grades 6-8). Paul Harris is one of the UK's most respected music teachers and educationalists known for his innovative Simultaneous Learning approach. He has over 600 publications to his name including the highly acclaimed Improve your teaching! Improve your sight-reading! Improve your aural! and Improve your practice! series. Harris writes frequently on music education and is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader around the world.

Durkle Bandrydge is the name of the composers imaginary world but it could very well be anyones invisible dream world with a different name. In this very versatile suite by Bruce Fraser 8 characters are featured each with its ownpeculiarities making Durkle Bandrydge such a colourful place. Do these characters differ that much from us? That is for you to find out! In the last part all characters come together in a special way.Durkle Bandrydge exists at the end ofyour street. It is invisible to humans but Durkle Bandrygators can watch us with great interest. The music will introduce you to some of the characters who live in this unusual place. The parts: Somnanbulyss who is a giant trollguarding the entrance to Durkle Bandryde. At least he is supposed to but he tends to sleep most of the time. His music is therefore very slow moving and sleepy. Long Gwysteen is a tall mysterious and somehow sophisticated character who walls around with a shell on his back. His music glides along rather gracefully. Squelfitch is a rather unpleasant and smelly character who lives in a bog which is why his music sounds rather slimy and a bit like trying to walkthrough quicksand. Perfydlia is a meddling old woman who gossips about everybody and squeals with sudden delight at the small exciting bits of tittletattle about others in the village. In the music you can hear her sudden little squealsof delight. Maryann Lovely is a beautiful young lady graceful gorgeous absolutely devine and her music is obviously just the same. Thistledoo Nicely is a lively character who spends and spends and spends with her credit card buying the latest fashion and never worries about having to pay the bills. Her music reflects her excitement when shopping and het ‘happy go lucky’ approach to life. Marsyn Edginton is the Lord of the manor the richest man in town the‘big cheese’ the man with all the power and of course the biggest house. He is very grand and his music like he could be a king. Jimmy McScotsmyn is a red haired scotsman wearing tartan cap. He misses his home country terribly and eatslots of shortbread oatcakes scotch eggs porridge and drinks an enormous amount of Scotch Wisky which helps him to have fond memories of the kind of music he would like to dance to when he was a younger man. His favourite dance is a Jig andthis is the music he remembers. Grand March of the Durkle Bandrydgators. We hope that you have enjoyed meeting these characters from Drukle Bandrydge and would invite you to listen to all the villagers now march along in a grand parade -it is a pity that you can not see them what is a wonderful sight. If you listen carefully you will hear the melodies which belong to the characters as they march past. Oh what a grand spectacle!

Secrets of the Great Contemporary Players-Learn to play the Piano styles of today's top rock pop and jazz artists with Piano Styles Of 23 Pop Masters: Secrets Of The Great Contemporary Players. Great for beginner to intermediate Piano players and including the melodic and harmonic techniques of 23 iconic performers including Ray Charles Herbie Hancock Norah Jones Alicia Keys Elton John and Stevie Wonder to name just a few. The accompanying audio tracks are designed to allow maximum flexibility when practicing: you can highlight the Piano part the rhythm section or both ? according to your needs. A must for players who really want to getinside the styles of their favorite artists.