A must-have collection of well-known songs from pop hits and movie themes to jazz tunes and classical melodies all expertly arranged for early-level xylophone players and presented in progressive order from simple to more challenging! Songs include: Billie Jean · Chim Chim Cher-ee · Dancing Queen · Fever · Game of Thrones · God Bless America ® · A Hard Day's Night · He's a Pirate · Heart and Soul · Live and Let Die · Misirlou · Mission: Impossible Theme · Nola · The Rainbow Connection · Roar · Rolling in the Deep · Shake It Off · Skating · Star Wars (Main Theme) · Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious · William Tell Overture · and more.

The most comprehensive method for keyboard percussion ever written. A complete course of 50 lessons including ragtime improvising blues and exercises for individual hand development.

With few study books existing for the Xylophone Jacques Delécluse ensures that this gap is filled with his excellent Twenty Studies for Xylophone. French percussionist and composer Delécluse studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the mid-1900s winning many prizes. The exercises in Twenty Studies for Xylophone are technically challenging intended for advanced students of the instrument. Aspects addressed include complex rhythms accidentals scales tempo dynamics ornamentation key signatures among other features. For all aspiring Xylophone players Delécluse'sTwenty Studies is essential having been compiled by a master of percussion himself.

A friendly and inventive guide to the weird and wonderful instruments that you find in the music cupboard. Maggie Cotton along with some wonderful diagrams and illustrations by Alison Dexter helps to demystify the strange and exciting world of percussion. Each common classroom instrument from bells to blocks and whistles are fully explained with their secret playing techniques revealed for the class to learn. Not only will you discover how to hold Claves correctly or how to perform a Tambourine Thumb-Trill you will also receive advice on safety and care and even how to restore broken instruments.With advice and guidance on instruments for those with specialneeds this is an invaluable resource for every school to take advantage of their long-forgotten Percussion collections.