The celebrated and award-winning series continues with a selection of pieces in a wide range of styles and varieties chosen to give you a superb repertoire of music at an early stage.From well-known classical melodies andshowstoppers of the stage to jazz hits folk songs and film themes - the diversity of these accessible arrangements will provide vital early experience in all manner of performance styles. The music includes full accompanimentsfor Piano Keyboard or Guitar making this volume the perfect companion to A New Tune A Day Book 1. Furthermore a professionally produced audio CD packed with stunning recorded accompaniments and demonstrations willallow you to develop your confidence and skills at home as well as offering spectacular backing tracks for your showcase performances.Take your playing to a new level with this superb collection.Voted Best InShow at NAMM 2006 by Music Inc. Magazine.

With jazz being the most popular genre for the Tenor Saxophone learning the art of improvisation is imperative. Therefore Charlie Sourisse 's Improvisation for beginners and advanced players is an essential guide for progression. Sourisse and his musical partner Pierrick Pédron saw the need for a comprehensive tool to aid jazz method progression and Improvisation for beginners and advanced players provides explanatory notes and explores chord symbols basics of tonality and basics of modality. The accompanying CD aids with tuning and supplies accompaniments. With a significant amount of written instruction in French English German and Spanish Sourisse 'sImprovisation for beginners and advanced players is highly accessible to a range of Tenor Saxophone players making for an essential and helpful guide.

This collection of ten jazz etudes with accompanying audio provides intermediate to advanced tenor sax students with a fun and effective way to learn to play in the specific odd meters: 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, and 9/4. Each etude is based on the chord progression of a different jazz standard, and includes an in-depth analysis of the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic devices used. The addition of the odd-time ingredient, along with completely original melodies and improv lines, converts what would be mere academic etudes to a delightful jazz listening and playing experience.If you want to improve your fluency in reading, performing, and improvising in odd time signatures, this is the book for you! A generous number of preparatory exercises gradually introduce the student to not only reading music, but also ?hearing how phrases land within a measure? of odd time. Play-along audio tracks featuring a professional rhythm section (piano, bass, and drums) minus the sax track allow you to play as the soloist. Includes access to online audio.

With Online Audio-This collection of jazz etudes by Jack Wilkins gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines.Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues comes with audiotracks available to download that provide a professional rhythm section (Piano Bass Drums) to play along with plus recordings of professional jazz musicians playing each etude. The recordings help to provide a model for thestudent's stylistic development and an opportunity to play with a great band. Each of the 12 etudes provides a new challenge to master.