Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Instruction & Study - Exercises

In Mastering the Art of Performance: A Primer for Musicians, Stewart Gordon offers seasoned advice to musicians intent on meeting the challenges of performance. Through real-life examples and pre-performance exercises, this accessible manual gives musicians and other performers practical insights into every aspect of performance. While other books merely identify and describe the problems associated with performance, this book offers detailed suggestions for solving them.
First, Gordon tackles the critical planning and preparatory stages, helping performers to evaluate their...

Reach for the Top: The Musician's Guide to Health, Wealth and Success by Dr. Timothy Jameson, (author of Repetitive Strain Injuries: Alternative Treatments and Prevention) is a book specifically geared towards helping any musician master their mental, physical and spiritual well-being...

Are you considering a career as a musical artist? Are you a musician or vocalist reaching a plateau in your career? Do you have a nagging injury that is holding you back from excelling in your musicianship? Are you looking for the secret clues that the highly successful musicians already know? Then this is...

Noted pianist and Julliard professor, Paul Sheftel, asks, "When learning to play a C chord, why not also learn F and G chords, since they all use only white keys?"

The three modules presented in this book are all about groupings that concentrate on the 12 major scales, their perfect, major and minor intervals, and the 12 major triads in root position and first and second inversions. These are studied in logical groupings. There is a specific musical composition for each scale, chord, and interval.

Currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Professor Sheftel has served on the...

To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom. The book shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively...

Your one-stop guide to learning guitar

Whether you've been strumming the guitar since you were a kid or are just starting out, The Only Guitar Book You'll Ever Need will help you take your music to the next level. Filled with clear, step-by-step instructions and tons of professional tips, this guide teaches you everything you need to know about playing a guitar, from buying the right model to performing all your favorite songs. This book also includes helpful information on:

• Reading music
• Tuning any guitar
• Mastering scales and chords
• Alternating...

(Willis). A dozen delightful Gillock pieces have been re-engraved in this new collection that is guaranteed to become a staple of your library Renowned piano pedagogue Lynn Freeman Olson once wrote, "The Gillock name spells magic to teachers around the world ... In each Gillock composition, no matter what the teaching purpose, music quality comes first." Includes favorites such as Valse Etude, Festive Piece, Polynesian Nocturne, and Sonatine. To see other NFMC selections, click here.

The Sing Out Loud series is an innovative vocal training program designed specifically for kids, teens, and beginning singers. Each book is filled with pictures, illustrations and audio files, designed to function like a personal vocal coach, with easy, fun, step-by-step assignments that will help the beginning singer develop their singing voice. Sing Out Loud Book III: Owning Your Voice is where you'll discover the art of singing by mastering vocal tricks, such as vibrato and tone coloring, while developing your singing skills by learning how to break down the key elements of any song. This...

Volume 2 of Personal Trainer is the second book in a training program offering musical workouts and enrichment activities for piano students of many ages and skill levels. The overall structure consists of five books, each containing four sections dealing with specific issues. These four sections are entitled:

- Explorations - Eye-So-Metrics - Foundations - Repertoire

The authors believe the development of technique, sight playing and analytical skills are part of an integrated approach to total musicianship; all are stepping-stones to aesthetic expression and musical...

Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with which students can create, edit, save, and reproduce music. As Freedman demonstrates, technology allows a musical experience for all skill levels in opportunities never before available to compose manipulate, instantly listen to music electronically and even print...

Improves sight-reading skills through timed exercises and repetition 240 1-minute exercises covering over 30 notes on both staves Easy to track scoring system encourages self-improvement Fun, simple, and quick exercises so students of all ages (and attention spans) can benefit

NOTEBUSTERS is a music workbook designed to increase sight-reading skills. NOTEBUSTERS is intended for beginning to intermediate music students looking for a quick and practical way to increase the speed at which they read and play music notes. NOTEBUSTERS can be used for almost any instrument including the piano,...

A musician's life is filled with many stressful situations: passing auditions, rehearsing and performing with difficult partners, sitting for long hours in uncomfortable chairs, going on stage to face audiences large and small, who may or may not be receptive to the performance they are presented. And yet many musicians are able to surmount these looming obstacles with grace and balance, to find satisfaction and artistry in their music and build productive and lasting careers. Indirect Procedures will guide you around these obstacles and along that path to becoming a balanced and...

Volume 3 of Personal Trainer is the third book in a training program offering musical workouts and enrichment activities for piano students of many ages and skill levels. The overall structure consists of five books, each containing four sections dealing with specific issues. These four sections are entitled:

- Explorations - Eye-So-Metrics - Foundations - Repertoire

The authors believe the development of technique, sight playing and analytical skills are part of an integrated approach to total musicianship; all are stepping-stones to aesthetic expression and musical...

Unleash Your Creative Mindset is a simple, daily method designed to reprogram your mind by tapping into your creative mindset, which will unleash an unlimited supply of new ideas, eliminate writers block, motivate the user to overcome procrastination, to see their vision to completion. Learn the secret to turning on the creativity switch within your own mind, stay motivated 24/7, and become successful doing what you love. This is the same program used by author, Jaime Vendera has used to author and produce dozens of books, set a glass-shattering world record, and appear on television shows...

In Reclaim Your Voice, vocal coach Jaime Vendera presents simple steps for maintaining a healthy voice and keeping the vocal cords in top shape. If you've suffered from vocal loss, hoarse voice, bad vocal habits that are creating vocal issues that lead to cancelled gigs, or you just want to learn better vocal habits and ramp up your vocal training game, then Reclaim Your Voice is the answer. This book is the compilation of four of Jaime's eBooks:

Voice RX - A simple system for regaining your voice after a night of shouting or over-singing. The...

Volume 4 of Personal Trainer is the fourth book in a training program offering musical workouts and enrichment activities for piano students of many ages and skill levels. The overall structure consists of five books, each containing four sections dealing with specific issues. These four sections are entitled:

- Explorations - Eye-So-Metrics - Foundations - Repertoire

The authors believe the development of technique, sight playing and analytical skills are part of an integrated approach to total musicianship; all are stepping-stones to aesthetic expression and musical...

From Salt Lake City, J D Moffat writes,
"As a jazz educator and professional jazz guitarist for over 40+ years, I have not had more than a handful of students "know" the fingerboard. This book presents a logical approach to overcoming that gap. All of my students are using your book and are making good progress. Your book is a must for any serious thoughtful player who wants to be comfortable with the neck of the guitar.. ....an ongoing pursuit for us all.
As you'll agree with me (I'm sure) the ear is the final dictator. As Count Basie once said," If it sounds good, it is good" Your...

A new edition of this popular trumpet tutor, ideal for home practice. It has a bright new cover giving it a fresh and contemporary new look, and is the perfect book for pupil and teacher. This tutor book is carefully graded to take the student from the earliest stages to competence, and includes includes duets, trios and teacher's parts for tunes that children will know and want to play. Abracadabra Trumpet offers a ride range of repertoire pieces which can be used for group or whole class lessons. Used alone, they remain ideal for individual tuition.

Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with which students can create, edit, save, and reproduce music. As Freedman demonstrates, technology allows a musical experience for all skill levels in opportunities never before available to compose manipulate, instantly listen to music electronically and even print...

A musician's life is filled with many stressful situations: passing auditions, rehearsing and performing with difficult partners, sitting for long hours in uncomfortable chairs, going on stage to face audiences large and small, who may or may not be receptive to the performance they are presented. And yet many musicians are able to surmount these looming obstacles with grace and balance, to find satisfaction and artistry in their music and build productive and lasting careers. Indirect Procedures will guide you around these obstacles and along that path to becoming a balanced and...