Fiddling Handbook (Book/Online Audio) A valuable and handy reference text for any fiddler. Contains scales and studies, modes, chord studies, bowing, vibrato, introductions, endings, patterns, licks, and etudes in the keys of G,A,B,C,E,F,B-flat,E-flat,A-flat,D-flat, and F sharp. Audio download available online is split-track. SEK 293.00 1
Jazz Accordion Solos (Book/Online Audio) The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between classical/traditional Accordion solos and professional jazz-styled solos. The accompanying recording follows the music as written but with added rhythm, rubato and slight improvisation. Audio download available online. SEK 273.00 1
Rock Harmonica (Book/Online Audio) The blanket term 'rock' is used to describe a musical genre that covers over six decades of musical diversity. The question for this book is, "What does rock mean to Harmonica players?" This book is for Harmonica players who have a basic grasp of the instrument and are looking to study the rock style in greater detail. You'll learn greater control of bends; speed licks; high-end licks; how to play bluesy notes and textures; how to play and construct hooks; how to deal with and play over the common chord progressions used in rock; and, music theory relative to playing rock Harmonica. Concepts are presented through original tunes as well as staples of rock Harmonica repertoire such as Magic Dick's "Whammer Jammer!". Includes access to online audio. SEK 301.00 1
Advanced Jazz Guitar Improvisation (Book/Online Audio) Written for the intermediate to advanced jazz guitarist, this book assumes an adequate knowledge of chord scales and jazz theory. The topics include playing modally, chord substitutions, Coltrane substitutions, diminished and melodic minor scales as well as dealing with pentatonics. Companion audio download available online. SEK 273.00 1
Exploring 1st Position (Book/Online Audio) The Exploring series of books within the Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Series walks you through each of the most commonly played positions on the ten-hole diatonic Harmonica. This volume for 1st Position focuses on the basic principles of what makes 1st Position work, scales that help maneuverability and speed within 1st Position, and interactive jamming with David Barrett and the David Barrett Blues Band. The book contains the most extensive catalog of 1st Position blues licks and phrases ever written. The carefully sequenced lessons will walk you through both modern licks and classic licks and solos in the style of great masters of 1st Position playing like Sonny Boy Williamson II and Jimmy Reed. This book and audio is a must for the dedicated blues Harmonica player! Difficulty level is intermediate to advanced. Written in notation and Harmonica tablature. Audio download available online. SEK 231.00 1
Deluxe Anthology Of Fiddle Styles (Book/Online Audio) A critically acclaimed book covering old-time, bluegrass, Irish, blues, Scandinavian, Cajun, Texas, swing and jazz, and twin fiddling styles. This book also covers bowing, chords, chord progressions, kickoffs and endings, and improvisation. The audio recording available online features David Reiner's solo performance of all the tunes in the book. SEK 301.00 1
Old-Time Fiddle Style (Book/Online Audio) This book presents transcriptions with detailed bowings in tandem with three recorded festival versions (played very slowly, at a modest tempo and up-to-tempo) of 35 Appalachian Fiddle tunes. A clearly written description of old-time style focuses on developing a rhythmic bow by presenting default bowing systems (Nashville shuffle, 3-1 bowing, bow rocking, ghost bows) and other techniques and topics such as anticipations, left-hand ornamentation, drones, chording, dissonances, altered tunings, the concept of swing, tips on learning by ear and more. This book and accompanying online audio are designed to be accessible and appropriate for all levels of players. SEK 355.00 1
Getting Into Guitar Improvising (Book/Online Audio) For all guitarists interested in improvising, the material in this method can apply to any style of music. This integrated approach to soloing provides numerous musical examples, promotes an understanding of the theory behind improvising, and also promotes better visualization of shapes on the fingerboard through the use of fingerboard diagrams. The material presented in this comprehensive book ranges from fundamental concepts such as understanding modes and scale and chord relationships, to the application of various scales, arpeggios, and chromaticism. In addition, more advanced areas are explored, such as combining scales, using extensions, and superimposing. Includes standard notation and tablature as well as fingerboard diagrams. The audio download available online demonstrates many of the examples in the book. SEK 301.00 1
Flamenco Guitar Solos, Volume 2 (Book/Online Audio) This book will appeal to any guitarist intrigued by the soulful and magical sound of the flamenco Guitar. It presents 10 engaging, intermediate to advanced flamenco Guitar solos in traditional forms in standard notation and tab with performance notes. All selections appear on the book's companion audio download available online. So grab your Guitar and get into flamenco, the musical heart of Spain. SEK 301.00 1
Quiero Tocar La Bateria Book With Online Audio Quiero Tocar La Bateria by Victor M. Barba is a fantastic book for the drums. From a simple hi-hat to a full rock beat, this book explains how to play the drums in a very simple and easy to understand way. The rhythms, beats and patterns comes with nice drum graphics, showing where to play, and as you listen to the included online audio you'll find this book is a simple yet powerful tool for learning how to play the drums. It features many beats and rhythms for rock, ballads, garage, hip-hop, funk, reggae, motown, heavy metal, country, jazz and latin jazz. At the end of the book it has a summary of all the rhythms for easy review. "Quier Tocar La Bateria" is a must have book from the series of Easy Music School and Mel Bay Publications! Includes access to online audio of examples included. SEK 231.00 1
Wedding Music For Flute & Guitar (Book/Online Audio) This collection provides Flute and Guitar duos with an effective repertoire for wedding ceremonies, and gives prospective brides and grooms a happy musical alternative to the venerable church Organ. Arranged in four sections: Prelude Music, Processionals, Meditations, and Recessionals. Many of the pieces in this volume are well-known works often associated with weddings; others, less familiar, were included for their musical content and mood. Guitar parts in notation only. A separate part is provided for the flutist as a 28-page PDF download online. SEK 230.00 1
Charlie Musselwhite/Power Blues Harp (Book/Online Audio) This book is designed for those who play diatonic or chromatic Harmonica or both. Whether you are a beginner or intermediate player, each chapter presents a new and distinct learning experience. The chapters may be approached in sequence or in a haphazard fashion, without even completing a given chapter - as long as a particular sequences of exercises is completed within that chapter. All tunes and exercises are shown in both standard notation and Harmonica tablature. The audio download available online contains 84 tracks with audio samples of all the music in the book. SEK 265.00 1
The American Fiddle Method Volume 1 (Book/Online Audio) This title provides a beginner with the foundations needed to become a proficient fiddler. Based on years of teaching experience, renowned Fiddle player Brian Wicklund introduces the concepts and techniques that yield solid results. By including variations to the tunes and illustrating how they can serve as a basis for improvisation, this method encourages creativity in the student. To assist in the development of ensemble skills, chords and lyrics, basic music theory, and demonstrations are included in this illustrated book. Access to online audio is also available for listening and play-along tracks capture the excitement of the music, aiding instruction. This book is beneficial for both Fiddle students and classical Violin students. Includes: Engaging illustrations Access to online audio Guitar chords and lyrics for accompaniment SEK 370.00 1
Learning The Tabla, Volume 2 (Book/Online Audio) The Indian Tabla is a difficult pair of hand drums, but by no means should it be considered inaccessible. For those who have gone through the introductory 'Learning the Tabla', this book/online audio set is an ideal next step. It contains much new material which is appropriate for an intermediate level student. This series introduces us to new material, concept, and techniques. Such material includes a discussion of the complementary nature of tabla bols/technique. It also introduces us to new compositional forms such as mukhada, rela, laggi, paran, gat, tihai and chakradar. There is an introduction to the concept of transitional bols and techniques. This set also expands upon material that was introduced in the first set by giving new tals, and their thekas, as well as a more advanced kaida. There is also a discussion of the ancient barrel drum known as the pakhawaj and a discussion of pakhawaj material that can be played on the Tabla. Audio download available online. Easy to use book/audio download to learn intermediate level Tabla. It continues where Mel Bay's 'Learning the Tabla' left off. Easy to use for Indians and Non-Indians alike. Introduces many new compositional forms as well as more advanced theoretical material. May be used with or without the guidance of a teacher. SEK 301.00 1
Mike Christiansen: Complete Jazz Guitar Method (Book/Online Audio) If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necessary for playing jazz Guitar. The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own compositions. Whether you're into traditional jazz or fusion, this book has it all. In notation and tablature. Online audio and video available. SEK 424.00 1
Drums From Day One (Book/Online Audio/Video) Basic drum set coordination can be learned very quickly using vocal sounds instead of written notes. Drums from Day One is an adaptation of the proven “solfege” technique to the drum set. “Solfege,” (singing musical notes with syllables) has been used for hundreds of years by teachers of virtually every other musical instrument. The traditional way of beginning the drums by studying and analyzing written drum notation and applying various notes to the four limbs is a complex task that takes a good deal of time. Although reading and writing music will also be covered in this book, beginners can get started much faster with the “solfege” system. This is not a “quick fix” or a promise to make you a drum expert in one day, but this method has been tested and proven with hundreds of students over the years and it is very efficient and offers immediate results. The student will learn to play 8 songs in all the basic styles: Rock, Blues, Shuffle and Funk. The songs are especially designed and graded for beginners, and are recorded with and without drums on the companion audio. Includes access to online audio containing recorded examples of all the exercises in the book. SEK 217.00 1
Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues For Trumpet (Book/Online Audio) This collection of jazz etudes with an accompanying audio download file gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. The audio tracks 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 the student's stylistic development, and an opportunity to play with a great band. Each of the 12 etudes provides a new challenge to master. Audio download available online. SEK 189.00 1
Solo Pieces For The Beginning Descant/Soprano Recorder (Book/Online Audio) Twenty-four solos for soprano (descant) Recorder based on famous classic melodies by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Corelli, Dvorak, Faure, Grieg, Mozart, and others as well as several folk songs and original pieces by the author. This music is specially arranged for the beginning-level pupil. Piano accompaniment included. The solo Descant/Soprano Recorder part is available as an online download. SEK 231.00 1
My Very Best Christmas, Cello Edition (Book/Insert/Online Audio) The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume, arranged in comfortable keys, can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin, Viola, and Cello) include two parts for either solo or duet performance and Piano accompaniment. The three books are all compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The audio provides the piano accompaniments alone. It can be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself. Includes two 24-page pull-out parts for Cello I and Cello II and access to online audio. SEK 301.00 1
My Very Best Christmas, Viola Edition (Book/Insert/Online Audio) The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume, arranged in comfortable keys, can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin, Viola, and Cello) include two parts for either solo or duet performance and Piano accompaniment. The three books are all compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The online audio available for download provides the Piano accompaniments alone. It can be used for back-up, improvisatory play-along, or for pleasant listening by itself. Includes two 24-page pull-out parts for Viola I and Viola II. SEK 301.00 1
Complete Accompaniment Method For Guitar (Book/Online Audio) This unique and effective method will help beginners and more experienced players develop both pick-style and fingerstyle accompaniment abilities with the Guitar. The streamlined approach is unique in its efficiency and comprehensiveness. The material encompasses a wide range of strumming and fingerpicking patterns that apply to an infinite number of songs in the rock, folk and country music styles along with ethnic, spiritual and children's music. Also included is a section on moveable chord forms that provides the means for a repertoire that embodies jazz standards, show tunes and beyond. Written using strum notation, standard notation, chord diagrams and tablature. Audio download available. SEK 355.00 1
You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin (Book/Online Audio) You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach-yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's word, "It is aimed at helping you get started immediately on your way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the Mandolin and Mandolin playing." With this informal, often humorous text, Dix Bruce will guide you step-by-step through the basics of learning this versatile instrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of Mandolin folk songs, and more. All musical examples and tunes are written in bothstandard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix, making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated with drawings and photographs of vintage instruments. This book has accompanying audio and video. SEK 301.00 1
First Lessons Folk Guitar (Book/Online Audio/Video) This beginning Guitar method is unique in that it teaches the basics of playing Guitar while focusing on the style of folk Guitar. Designed to teach students the fundamentals of playing chords and melody on Guitar, First Lesson Folk Guitar also provides lessons on correct posture, caring for the Guitar, proper right and left-hand technique, and tuning the Guitar to its self, a pitch pipe or a Piano. Subjects covered include strumming chords, accompaniment patterns, fingerstyle basics, reading standard notation, reading tab, and alternating bass strum patterns. Time tested folk standards with lyrics are included to teach playing fundamentals. Accompanying audio and video provides students a professional recording of tunes and exercises. SEK 231.00 1
13 Easy Brazilian Choros for Solo Guitar (Book/Online Audio) As one can easily imagine, it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire, most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It would be much better if they could start with some easier pieces - of intermediate level - in order to be presented to the choro language in a more gradual and appropriate manner. That is the main goal of this book. It has 13 studies (in the 13 more commonly used keys for the choro Guitar) written in a reduced form and in the principal stylistic choro variants: besides real choros, there are polkas, maxixes, Brazilian tangos and xotis. The more used and characteristic rhythmical figurations are present in each of the studies as the principal. Also aiming at the simplification of execution, all studies were composed with only two voices (melody and bass) and with no chords (although harmonies are quite evident due to the choro melodic particularities). An audio download available online contains all 13 studies. SEK 231.00 1
Alternate Tunings For Five-String Banjo Played Bluegrass Style (Book/Online Audio) Alternate Tunings For Five-String Banjo is the first three-finger style Banjo instruction book written specifically for the bluegrass banjoist wishing to explore alternate tunings. Written using standard tablature, the book takes the learner through the G modal, Standard C, Open C, Bb, D modal, Open D and E tunings. Students will learn new arrangements for such traditional pieces as Cumberland Gap, Shady Grove, Kansas City Railroad Blues, Pretty Polly and seventeen others. Audio download available online with examples of each tuning and song taught. The songs are played slowly and up to standard tempo on the audio. SEK 313.00 1