Techniques, Sight Reading and Improvisation Books and DVD/Videos

Your students will stretch, breathe, move, and make noise along with Pat and Sam on the video/DVD. These fun exercises help them to increase airflow and stamina, improve tone and breath control, reduce body tension, and raise energy level and focus. Using The Breathing Gym in your rehearsal is easy! Just include a few breathing exercises in the warm-up, or do an exercise or two between pieces for a change of pace and a chance to refocus. Beginnin...

Your students will stretch, breathe, move, and make noise along with Pat and Sam on the video/DVD. These fun exercises help them to increase airflow and stamina, improve tone and breath control, reduce body tension, and raise energy level and focus. Using The Breathing Gym in your rehearsal is easy! Just include a few breathing exercises in the warm-up, or do an exercise or two between pieces for a change of pace and a chance to refocus. Beginnin...

Great Breathing = Great Music! Learn the breathing exercises in the Breathing Gym first, and then join Sam and Patrick in their NEW DVD: Breathing Gym Daily Workouts. Practical Applications for Musical Improvement Enjoy and Learn with Sam and Patrick as they present sequences of Breathing Gym exercises specifically designed to address: Warming Up Tone Phrasing Articulations Dynamics and Advanced Training Special Bonus! 2 Pre-Perf...

All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in real books. You will learn how to analyze the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add sub...

Book & CD Package This book and double CD pack takes you step by step through MI's well-known Ear Training course. Complete lessons and analysis include: basic pitch matching - singing major and minor scales - identifying intervals - transcribing melodies and rhythm - identifying chords and progressions - seventh chords and the blues - modal interchange, chromaticism, modulation - and more! Learn to hear and to visualize on your instrument. T...

Play at First Sight is a unique and comprehensive approach to help improve sight reading skills. It will strengthen your ability to recognize rhythms quickly and perform them as confidently as possible. The more you practice the exercises and variation possibilities on each page, the more at ease you will become at sight reading rhythms. The enclosed play along CD incorporates a variety of musical styles and can be used with many of the exercises...

Scales andTuning Exercises for Superior Bands is a great resource for thoseseeking to improve their development in scale studies, intonation,and balance through chorales and harmonized studies. This book can beused as a daily warm-up for intermediate or advanced ensembles.Included is anin-depth explanation of how major and minor key signatures and scalesare constructed, as well as exercises for the students to complete.In addition to major and mi...

THIS GROUND-BREAKING BOOK/CD package will show you (or your students) how to use the Major and Minor Blues Scales to improvise meaningful solos?without having to first master all the scales and chords of a tune. GOOD FOR ALL LEVELS - Essential for beginners, perfect for intermediate students, and even useful for professional players to hone their skills on this crucial?and often neglected?part of the jazz language. ACCOMPANYING CD by author...

Finally someone has written a book on what jazz musicians need most - a way to approach practicing that actually makes the best use of your valuable time! In this landmark book, cutting-edge NY pianist and recording artist David Berkman shows you how to make practicing interesting and enjoyable by breaking problems into manageable tasks that you can easily master! Filled with hundreds and hundreds of concrete things to work on, along with f...

Not only does Malte Burba rank among the most versatile brass players of our time, he is also considered to be one of the best brass teachers worldwide. Many of his students play in leading orchestras or teach at major conservatories. One of the pillars of his pedagogy is the pioneering method developed by him for playing brass instruments which, in an absolutely logical manner, elminates all technical and embouchure-related problems. This compre...

Series: DVD Publisher: Artists House Medium: DVD Artist: Clarence Gatemouth Brown Part of being an artist is being a teacher. Directly or indirectly, through their work or their words, artists teach. In this series of DVDs, some of the most important jazz artists are presented in a unique master class setting. They perform, they talk about their lives and work, students play for them and they comment and instruct those students. Students di...

Series: DVD Publisher: Hal Leonard Medium: DVD ISBN: 0634066692 Artist: David Friesen This exclusive DVD captures one of the highly acclaimed clinics presented by celebrated jazz musicians and educators David Friesen (bass) and Jerry Hahn (guitar) during their 2003 tour sponsored by high-end handmade string manufacturer Thomastik-Infeld. The workshop aims to broaden students' vision of music by explaining: practice techniques, how to liste...