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This is the centerpiece of the Ron Carter Library. (He refers to it as THE book when talking to his students)
While other bass lesson books teach you arco techniques and how to audition for a classical orchestra, this book is completely different.
It shows you how the bass functions, and the hand positions and locations on the instrument so you can find those beautiful notes too. And it has QR codes that link to video demos so you can watch the Maestro play the exercises himself.
With this book you can do what Carter does every night. Play rhythm changes all the time, make wonderful blues choruses, or in the Maestro's case, play Little Waltz for 25 years. And have it be new and fresh every time.
You've started learning a song you love. You've practiced and practiced, but for some reason it's not sounding like you want it to. Sound familiar? If so, the problem isn't a lack of talent or dedication; it's the fact that your fingers aren't doing what you're telling them to. The best way to overcome that problem is with a strong set of warm-up exercises. Once you can control every movement, you can go beyond playing the so-called right notes and instead start playing what you feel.
Finger strength and dexterity is something that develops naturally over time, but having a great set of warm-up exercises can get your fingers in shape much more quickly. Technique Master has everything you need to get you started adding meaningful warm-ups to your practice routine.
With over twenty years of teaching guitar, plus degrees in both guitar (bachelor's in jazz studies) and education (master's in education), Christian J. Triola has used that experience to create a focused technique building book series that gives you plenty to practice without making you feel overwhelmed or intimidated. And in the end, you'll be a better musician for it.
If you are new to the guitar, this step-by-step approach to warming-up will help you build the strength and coordination you need to play more accurately than ever before. If you've been playing for a while, working on your technique will keep your fingers in shape, ready to take on any new challenge
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Pentatonic Master: 97 Warms-ups to Revolutionize Your Guitar Playing
Hailed the Trumpet Bible for over 150 years, this complete pedagogical method contains hundreds of exercises for brass instruments, beginning with basics and progressing to advanced compositions, including the author's famous arrangement of The Carnival in Venice.
Sharing the knowledge he acquired from many years of experience as a performer and teacher, Arban discusses every aspect of playing with emphasis on articulation, tonguing, slurs, tone, and range. He offers an appreciation of all the instrument's inherent difficulties as well as instructive points that touch upon all possible musical questions.
Whether you are a beginner or an old master, this is an essential asset to trumpet, French horn, and cornet players.
This book is an introductory violin method for the absolute beginner. Starting with open string letters and songs with simple finger numbers, the book progresses to short exercises and familiar songs with large, easy-to-read notes to get the student to play as much as possible. Useful for all ages, Learning the Violin, Book One is especially helpful with younger beginners or students who struggle with note-reading. This book can be studied in private lessons, in single-string classes, or in mixed-string classes, along withLearning the Viola, Book One, Learning the Cello, Book One, and Learning the Bass, Book One. A Score and Piano Accompaniment is also available. This book could be studied along with The Open String Book for Violin and could be followed by Learning the Violin, Book Two.
Have you ever felt like you lacked musical talent? Becoming Talented is here to help.
Becoming Talented contains an unprecedented self-guided method to rewire your brain so that understanding musical sound and notation becomes easy. With Becoming Talented, you can achieve the musical mastery you have always wanted. Whether you are a professional musician, an amateur hobbyist, or a complete novice, Becoming Talented will completely change the way you play, write, hear, and understand music. This method can make a profound impact on your musical abilities, regardless of your primary instrument or preferred genre, be it classical, jazz, R&B, metal, pop, or any other style.
If you have ever struggled with music reading, ear training, improvisation, sight singing, sight reading, dictation, transcription, score reading, or any other musical task, Becoming Talented will equip you with the necessary tools to conquer these challenges, enabling you to master musical skills that may have previously seemed impossible.
This comprehensive method will help you develop high-level musical abilities, such as:
-Vastly improved sight reading.
-Rapidly learning pieces of music by ear and easily transcribing them as music notation.
-Writing/composing music directly onto a score (or into music production software), knowing what it will sound like without the need to play/hear it first.
-Fluent sight singing (in seven different clefs!)
-Easier memorization of music.
-Effortless improvisation, knowing what every note will sound like before you play it.
-Improved rhythm reading and rhythmic accuracy, i.e., playing more in the pocket.
-The ability to look at music notation and hear it in your mind, whether it is a simple melody or a massive orchestral score.
-Playing pieces of music by ear from memory.
-A deeper understanding of diverse musical styles, allowing you to easily mimic the style of your favorite composer, songwriter, arranger, improviser, etc.
-More creative freedom when composing or improvising.
-Playing keyboard reductions of full orchestral scores, string quartets, etc.
-Easily transposing notated music into other keys.
-Improved sense of pitch and intonation.
-...and much more!
Becoming Talented is more than just a few hints and tricks for becoming a better musician.
Unlike other methods, Becoming Talented gives you a concrete approach to ear training that really works. Becoming Talented presents dozens of unique exercises to help you develop three fundamental skills that lead to musical fluency. These fundamental skills will help you directly associate music notation with sound, making any musical task feel natural and easy. All of the exercises are scalable with your prior musical experience-you can supercharge your musical abilities even if you are an experienced professional musician.
This revolutionary method will help you develop incredible musical abilities by changing the way your brain processes musical sound and notation.
The exercises in Becoming Talented are designed to force your brain to create specialized cognitive tools for understanding music-the same tools used by naturally talented musicians. Musical talent is not a fixed gift from nature; with the proper strategies and exercises, your level of musical talent can be enormously improved. This method will not just make you a better musician; it will help you become talented.
Ready for a more mindful, creative way to develop your technical guitar skills and creativity?
Kurt Rosenwinkel stands as one of the most pivotal figures in modern jazz guitar, renowned for his groundbreaking approach that has redefined the genre. His influence extends far beyond his virtuosic playing: his innovative take on composition, harmony, and improvisation has left a lasting imprint on the jazz world, and continues to push the boundaries of what jazz guitar can be.
In Creative Exercises for Modern Guitar, Rosenwinkel guides you on a more engaging, creative, and mindful approach to practicing guitar. It brings together all of Kurt's shedding video courses into a single pathway, and is packed with over 150 exercises that won't just improve your guitar technique, they'll help you build a deeper connection with your instrument.
What You'll Learn:
Mindful Practice: Engage in meditative exercises that focus on achieving a state of total immersion with your music.
Fretboard Mastery: Play carefully tailored exercises for scales and triads across multiple positions, and master fluid movement with diagonal techniques like sliding on half steps and hand throws.
Rhythmic Phrasing: Progress through exercises that increase in rhythmic complexity, helping you to build strong timing and precision.
Essential Scales: Develop fresh ways to creatively explore major, pentatonic, and melodic minor scales - the core tools for any contemporary jazz guitarist.
Effortless Key Changes: Develop the skill to switch tonal centres using nearest note concepts around the Circle of Fourths/Fifths.
Kurt's Personalised Concepts: Delve into triad pairs, syncopation, cross rhythms, symmetrical diminished patterns, and the Lydian mode to expand your musical vocabulary.
Each exercise is crafted to build a strong foundation of technique while also promoting mindfulness and musicality. By practicing with great attention to each note's integrity, you'll develop the precision and control needed to execute even the most complex ideas with ease.
Playing Takeaways:
Enhance Technique and Creativity: Strengthen your technical skills while nurturing your musical creativity
Visualize the Fretboard: Improve finger memory and fretboard navigation
Expand Your Rhythmic and Harmonic Knowledge: Incorporate advanced concepts into your playing to enhance your improvisation and composition
Engage Fully with Your Music: Practice in a way that connects you physically, mentally and spiritually to your instrument
Practice with Kurt: Use the included audio files to practice effectively and apply what you've learned in real-time.
Creative Exercises for Modern Guitar is carefully structured to masterfully build your technical abilities, while emphasizing musicality and relaxation during practice.
Audio Exercises for Enhanced Learning
Creative Exercises for Modern Guitar comes with over 100 downloadable audio tracks, which serve as an invaluable resource for your practice. They allow you to work with the exercises in a truly musical context, and help you to internalize the rhythms, melodies, and articulations central to Rosenwinkel's approach.
In Creative Exercises for Modern Guitar Kurt Rosenwinkel will not only enhance your guitar technique and fretboard skills, he'll open the door to a new, creative exploration and mastery of your instrument - all through mindful, meaningful practice.
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Struggling to Build Perfect Bass Technique?
Complete Fingerstyle Bass Technique will teach you step-by-step, how to fret and pluck your way to electric bass mastery. It's packed full of musical exercises and expert advice that will help you develop flawless fingerstyle technique, quickly and easily.
In no time at all, you will...
Professional Grade Bass Technique... From the Ground Up
Most bass students make the mistake of not addressing the fundamental techniques early enough, and end up building their playing on shaky foundations - full of bad habits. With Complete Fingerstyle Bass Technique, you can rest assured that this will not be the case for you!
Perfect for the beginner or early intermediate player, this book fills in all the gaps in your knowledge. All the essential components of fingerstyle playing are isolated, developed, then combined to form formidable and reliable technique.
Complete Fingerstyle Bass Technique is not simply a random list of exercises and lines. It is a complete course in fingerstyle bass playing that, once completed, can be used as a sourcebook of techniques and exercises for years to come.
From the most basic plucking patterns, right through to rich, textural chordal ideas, you will be guided in small friendly steps that leave no gaps in your ability. Throughout, there is an emphasis on mastering the practice process, developing good habits, understanding what makes great technique and playing music instead of exercises.
Essential Electric Bass Skills You'll Learn:
Alternate plucking, three-finger plucking, chordal playing, raking, rest strokes and more...
Expressive techniques such as legato, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and ghost notes
Advanced left-hand bass techniques to help conquer tricky melodies, such as rolling, barring, muting, and pivoting, etc.
How to develop speed on bass quickly and correctly, keeping your powerful progress pain-free!
Hear it and See it!
Learning basslines from tab and notation is one thing, but once you hear them in context, they take on a life of their own.
Complete Fingerstyle Bass Technique comes with supporting audio examples for every exercise that you can download for free. You can hear and feel exactly how every example is supposed to sound. As a professional session bassist, Dan Hawkins has played each example with stunning groove and feel for you to copy as you practice along. And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of backing tracks and even two bonus video lessons to accompany some of the exercises.
If you're ready to build perfect technique, great tone, and a deeply grooving feel on bass, then scroll up to buy Complete Fingerstyle Bass Technique now...
A graduated series of lessons for teaching the reading of music at sight in both Sol-fa and Staff notation. Teachers should use their own discretion as to when to go on from one lesson to the next, since for some children, the same lesson may have to be worked through several times. A short time (say 15 minutes) spent on these lessons every day will be found more valuable than a longer time once or twice a week. Ear-tests of a series of notes to be written down in the children's notebooks are given regularly. The use of well-known folk songs for practice is highly recommended.
Have you always wanted to play a guitar solo but didn't know how?
Do you feel like you just play the same solo every time?
Lead Guitar Level 1 is a music based method to teach you the basics of how to play lead guitar. Ten lessons to help you not only play a great guitar solo but start to become a musician that understands the basics of the music language. This is the first of a series of method books to help you grow with confidence and understanding as a musician and a guitar player. Built from the ground up, through years of teaching hundreds of students, this method helps beginning lead guitar players build a solid foundation.
These books are the cumulative result of thirty five years of playing guitar, professionally playing for over twenty eight years, and performing over two thousand shows nationally. These books were developed over seventeen years while teaching in NYC averaging over fifty students a week in small groups and private lessons. Hundreds of students all having the same goal to learn lead guitar and so many of them having similar issues and misunderstandings about guitar and music.
What would piano lessons be like if we didn't teach reading in lesson one?
Right now, we find ourselves at a critical crossroads where traditional piano teaching methods are no longer sufficient to engage and inspire young learners. How do we innovate our lessons for beginner students while still providing the fundamental training we know is essential?
That's precisely what No Book Beginners is all about. Whether you're an independent teacher seeking a better approach, a classically-trained instructor seeking creative ideas or a seasoned educator needing a refresh, No Book Beginners will enrich your teaching and open new avenues for creativity.
Imagine a world where your students explore music through creative activities, discover the fundamentals of rhythm and harmony and develop a passion for musical expression, all in their first few lessons. With No Book Beginners, you'll guide your students on a journey of self-discovery, building their confidence and fostering a lifelong love of music.
String Theories is the book every modern guitarist needs for a lifetime of inspiration and growth.
In String Theories, renowned guitarists Adam Levy and Ethan Sherman offer a comprehensive and practical guide to boundless musical growth for the dedicated guitarist, as well as on-the-job lessons learned from both of their many years of experience as players and teachers.
Originally adapted from Adam Levy's popular YouTube series Guitar Tips, the essays and lessons in String Theories cover topics including effective practice strategies, fretboard technique, playing with other musicians, composition, improvisation, listening and reading recommendations, and more. Concepts are followed by practical exercises and plans of action-things you can do today, throughout the week or month, or even all year.
String Theories will offer something different yet equally useful to the student, hobbyist, or pro-and everyone in between. Offering a framework for lifelong growth on the guitar, it's a book you can return to year after year as you evolve as a musician.
Practice, practice, practice to play like Chopin or the Piano Man
The piano will help you add a touch of fun to your life, impress your friends at parties, and even reduce stress. It even makes you better at math (really!). Piano Exercises For Dummies is at your service as you learn to make those 88 black and white keys sing. You'll get a quick overview of the basics before diving into practice routines and sample songs that you can use to improve your skill, whatever your level. This book gives you online access to audio files of the exercises along with digital access to the sheet music shared in the book. Learn from an experienced pianist, composer, and arranger, and start making beautiful music, the Dummies way!
Piano Exercises For Dummies is for new and experienced pianists alike, and useful for improving your skill in any musical style.
In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. Through clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with numerous examples of working systems, the book equips readers with everything they need to know in order to design and complete meaningful music projects. The book also discusses ways to interact with software beyond the mouse and keyboard through use of camera tracking, pitch tracking, video game controllers, sensors, mobile devices, and more. The book does not require any prerequisite programming skills, but rather walks readers through a series of small projects through which they will immediately begin to develop software applications for practical musical projects. As the book progresses, and as the individual's knowledge of the language grows, the projects become more sophisticated.
This new and expanded second edition brings the book fully up-to-date including additional applications in integrating Max with Ableton Live. It also includes a variety of additional projects as part of the final three project chapters.
The book is of special value both to software programmers working in Max/MSP/Jitter and to music educators looking to supplement their lessons with interactive instructional tools, develop adaptive instruments to aid in student composition and performance activities, and create measurement tools with which to conduct music education research.
About THE SAXOPHONE BOOK...
THE SAXOPHONE BOOK comes from the innovative and creative mind of 3x Grammy winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band/Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, the Mu'tet). This 3-volume set is an extraordinarily thoughtful dissection and presentation of the musical fundamentals that Jeff calls The Big 5.
1) Listening
2) Tone/Dynamics
3) Articulation
4) Rhythm/Time
5) Harmony
Why FUNDAMENTALS?
Jeff believes that fundamentals are the 'roots' of musical learning and, in order for the student to grow, they need strong roots. These books help develop and/or strengthen the fundamentals using a variety of creative and fun musical concepts, exercises, and ideas. From developing life long practice habits to sharing personal and philosophical ideas about music and musical spirit, Coffin has codified, and now made available, the wide array of materials that have made him one of the most recognized and sought after players, and educators, on today's scene.
How to USE THE SAXOPHONE BOOK...
It's very simple. A metronome, tuner, patience, and good practice habits are all you need. These books are designed to allow students to 'self-progress'. However, Jeff always recommends some kind of consistent private instruction when possible.
To get started, read through the intro pages. Then, start with Book 1, exercise #1. Choose a slow tempo on your metronome and start playing. Move your tempo up as you get more comfortable with each exercise. These exercises should be repeated. Many times. Remember, it's a PROCESS. Through repetition comes magic...
The RESULTS...
The results are many and will occur rapidly Superior listening, tone, dynamics, intonation, articulation, rhythm, time, and a deep understanding of harmony are all results of working on fundamentals. Every musician i know continues to work on the fundamentals throughout their career. It's a never ending process. When the student has made a thoughtful study of these 3 volumes, they will have a much deeper understanding of the fundamentals as well as a high level of technical proficiency and musical competency on their instrument.
These are also great books for a more seasoned player looking for different ways of approaching material they have already studied. This is a tried and true method
A little HISTORY...
For well over 15 years, since the early Bela Fleck & the Flecktones days (late 20th Century), Coffin has worked on and developed this material. He began compiling exercises for his students in Finale, and later Sibelius, so as to avoid writing the same things out time and again. This snowballed into Jeff entering hundreds of pages of his personal exercises into the computer. What you see here is the result of that work. Literally, hundreds, and likely, thousands of hours have been spent putting these books together in as concise and clear a way as possible to benefit the student. But, what to call it? After hours of deliberation, brainstorming, looking up words in the dictionary, writing down combinations of words and phrases on paper, and mumbling to himself through a closed hand so as to not be heard mumbling to himself, Coffin finally came up with an astonishingly brilliant title...THE SAXOPHONE BOOK - Ok, maybe it's not so astonishing but it seems appropriate since every time Jeff talked about it he would start off by saying So, I'm writing this saxophone book...
