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This book will teach you how to play erhu, the Chinese violin, at the beginner level. No prior knowledge in Chinese music is needed. In addition, you will know the erhu's structure, the ways to choose a good erhu and the numbered music notation. A number of sheet music are also provided for your own practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the erhu and can play some simple songs by yourself.
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The idea for this book series is to give instrumentalists the opportunity to practice solo improvisational techniques while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, guitar, bass, drums/percussion in various different Latin styles including Calypso, Mambo, Salsa, Songo, Bossa, Guaracha, Samba and Latin-Blues.
Memorable melodies along with more Bluesier sounding melodic lines have been created over the various chord progressions used in these various...
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10 Fingerstyle Etudes for Ukulele was written as an extension of our previously published Fingerstyle Ukulele Book (also available in our store). This book is specifically geared towards players who have a basic understanding and execution of fingerstyle technique, but need more of a challenge in their playing (ideal for intermediate and advanced players).
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Our newest ukulele book and vital for every ukulele player. The Ukulele Handbook starts right from the basics: chords, strums, melodies, tablature, songs, music theory and more. Perfect for beginning and intermediate players and a great gift to give to your ukulele pals. All content is paced according to Aaron and Nicole's extensive experience as music educators and ukulele players. All 44 pages are handwritten and illustrated by Nicole, of course....
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A celebrated instructor explains his philosophy of teaching and practice methods, including the appropriate combination of technique and interpretation. Ivan Galamian, a longtime Juilliard professor, incorporates aspects of both the Russian and French schools in a system both ingenious and logical. His tutelage has produced astonishing results with students, many of whom rank among the world's most acclaimed concert artists and orchestral concertmasters....
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Of the many books written about the violin, none offers the breadth and scope of this renowned reference. First published in 1925, it remains unsurpassed as a source of essential information on all aspects of the instrument. It traces the evolution of technique from the 1800s onward, in addition to examining the violin's construction and manufacture, listing American and European makers, and offering a biographic section on chamber music ensembles....
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This book will teach you how to play pipa, the Chinese lute, at the beginner level. No prior knowledge in Chinese music is needed. In addition, you will know the pipa's structure, the ways to choose a good pipa and the numbered music notation. A number of sheet music are also provided for your own practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the pipa and can play some simple songs by yourself.
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Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While much of the work focuses on the technical aspects of playing the pre-chinrest violin, these approaches are also applicable to the viola, and in many ways to the modern violin. Before the Chinrest...
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This rare collection features violin parts with separate piano reductions of works by Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Herbert, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Massenet, Elgar, and others. Contents include Dvorak's Humoresque, Anton Rubinstein's Melody in F, Mendelssohn's Spring Song, Schubert's Serenade, Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms, Love's Greeting by Elgar, and Handel's Largo from Xerxes.
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This book will teach you how to play erhu, the Chinese violin, at the advanced level. Various fingering and bowing techniques, the uncommon key signatures, as well as the ways to maintain an erhu will be taught in this book with illustrations and external videos. Likewise, a number of sheet music will be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should know more about erhu and can play songs with greater difficulty by yourself.
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Smooth Jazz covers a wide variety of different styles and I have combined elements of Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Latin, Gospel, Funk and R&B, Classical, Folk, New Age styles into the examples in the book.
Smooth Jazz" is a genre of music that is predominately instrumental, usually very melodic in nature and in most cases features some jazz improvisation. and is usually performed at a medium tempo and tends to feature piano /keyboards, saxophone, trumpet,...
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A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt... stopped playing and started singing a Russian song.... Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello.... Only Roisman went quietly on with his part, untouched...
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This book will teach you how to play guzheng, the Chinese zither, at the beginner level. No prior knowledge in Chinese music is needed. In addition, you will know the guzheng's structure, how to choose a guzheng, as well as the numbered music notation. A number of sheet music are also provided for your own practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the guzheng and can play some simple songs by yourself.
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If you study nature closely, you will understand the strategies and techniques that the natural world has developed over millions of years! Many of these strategies can be applied to the banjo. With practice, your banjo playing will become enjoyable, natural and effortless!
Nature flows. Wind and water move effortlessly through an environment filled with obstacles. Observing plants and animals can teach us how they accomplish amazing feats with minimal...
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One of the most beloved pieces in the modern violin repertoire, Elgar's Concerto in B Minor is among the composer's longest orchestral compositions and one of the last of his works to achieve popular success. This practice and performance edition contains a piano reduction and a separate insert for the violin part.
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Fender's Stratocaster is arguably the number-one instrument icon of the guitar world. When introduced in 1954, its offset space-age lines, contoured body, and three-pickup configuration set the music world on its ear-it was truly unlike any guitar that had come before. In the hands of the world's most beloved players, the Stratocaster has since become a popular weapon of choice among rock, blues, jazz, and country players and, not coincidentally,...
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Este libro es la perfecta introducción al Ukelele para niños de todas las edades. ¡Sin partituras, los niños pueden seguir fácilmente los claros y simples diagramas y fotos para aprender sus primeros acordes, tocar canciones divertidas y ganar confianza tocando su primer ukelele! •Instrucciones e ilustraciones fáciles de seguir. •Ejercicios simples para seguir y practicar. •Aprenden a su propio ritmo. •Canciones fáciles y divertidas,...
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The Fiddle Handbook is a treasure trove of information spanning the whole range of fiddle playing. It looks in detail at the most commonly played styles among today's fiddlers. From America, there's old time, bluegrass, Cajun, Western swing, country, blues, rock, klezmer, and jazz, while from the British Isles there's Irish, Scottish, and English. There is also a quick romp through Eastern Europe and beyond, from the spike fiddles of Africa and Asia...
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Why do pegs continuously slip or stick making it difficult to tune? Or endpins become stuck or keep sliding down? What about fine tuners that malfunction; strings that break, become false or fray; bows that warp or need rehairing; chin rests that won't stay on; bridges or sound posts that lean or fall; strings that are either so high they injure fingers or so low they buzz? What can be done to prevent wood scratching or cracking or students from getting...
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Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author's studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the...
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