Discover the fundamentals of music theory with Hal Leonard's The Chord Wheel – the ultimate tool for musicians of all levels! Whether you're in a gigging band or just getting started, understanding chord theory is essential for mastering music.
The Chord Wheel simplifies this concept, making it easy to find chord relationships and key changes. Improve your improvisation, songwriting, and overal musicianship by discovering how chords and scales interact with practical applications – no music reading necessary. With thes concepts from The Chord Wheel, every practice, gig, or jam session becomes more dynamic and rewarding.
Don't just play music – understand it with The Chord Wheel!
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When you reharmonize a tune, you give the melody new color by changing its underlying harmonies. Whether you direct a band or choir, play piano or guitar, or write film scores, you will find simple and innovative techniques to update songs and develop exciting new arrangements by studying the hundreds of copyrighted examples throughout this book. Reharmonization techniques covered include: simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, and others. Includes examples and exercises on such tunes as: Black Orpheus • Blue in Green • The Girl from Ipanema • Isn't It Romantic? • Misty • Over the Rainbow • Stella by Starlight • and more.
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Here's your personal introduction to the most versatile song charting system ever created, the Nashville Number System. Used for decades by the world's top studio musicians, the Number system allows you to chart an entire song for the whole band on a single sheet of paper in about five minutes! Whether you are a musician trying to break into the competitive world of session playing, a songwriter looking for a quick way to document your songs, or you're just looking for a better way to communicate musically with your band, this system is exactly what you need. The book includes access to online recordings of more than 90 musical examples recorded by some of the world's best session musicians. They will guide you through the Number system from its basic concepts to the most intricate nuances. Along the way, you will have the opportunity to take what you have learned and jam along with fully-produced tracks that have been custom-mixed for guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums.
Written by Jim Riley, the drummer for Rascal Flatts! Song Charting Made Easy will very simply change the way you think about music.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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A comprehensive source for sight-reading fundamentals, including notes, rhythms, keys, positions, and scale forms. Also teaches reading from chord symbols, following charts, creating walking bass lines, slides, ghost notes, and other techniques.
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A comprehensive guide to: notes, rests, counting, subdividing, time signatures, triplets, ties, dotted notes and rests, cut time, compound time, swing, shuffle, rhythm studies, counting systems, road maps and more!
“Provides a Britannica-like benefit to players whose reading skills are underdeveloped or in need of a good polishing.” – Rich Watson, Modern Drummer magazine
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This book presents a clear and direct path to experiencing the feel of pulse and rhythm. The exercises are fun and mentally challenging while incorporating the use of our physical selves for a whole body experience of music. Todd Isler has found a way to illuminate the logic and beauty within even the most complex rhythmic system, and this guide will be invaluable for vocalists and instrumentalists alike. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Here is a facsimile edition of Francis O'Neill's classic 1907 collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other dance tunes. The Dance Music of Ireland has proved so valuable to musicians and has been circulated so widely that it has become known simply as “the book” – a virtual bible for many traditional players. Songs include: Kitty's Rambles • Off to the Hunt• The Highway to Dublin • The Eavesdropper • Have a Drink with Me • The Maid at the Well • Cherish the Ladies • Galway Tom • The Mountain Boy • Katie's Fancy • O'Sullivan's March • The Priest's Leap • The Humors of Whiskey • A Night at the Fair • Out on the Ocean • Courtney's Favorite • The Merry Old Woman • A Trip to the Cottage • Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part • Wellington's Advance • The Old Man's Delight • Willy Walsh's Jig • The Boys of the Town • and more.
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In Pieces and Processes, the author has brought together a collection or original songs, exercises, instrumental pieces, and arrangements in an attempt to provide fresh examples of elemental music. The works represent a wide variety of styles which draw upon the musical models of the Orff Schulwerk for inspiration. Along with each piece is a detailed teaching procedure designed to give music educators a collection of instructional techniques that can be used in all aspects of their work. A “Process Teaching Toolbox” organizes these techniques by musical element.
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Full-score of the re-engraved 1967 edition of the revised edition from 1947.
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The Berklee in the Pocket Essential Songwriter is an accessible reference guide that will quickly lead songwriters to ideas that are at the heart of countless hit songs. The tips and strategies jam-packed into this concise guide will help you tackle writer's block and gain fresh insight into the songwriting process. Includes: the 17 chord progressions that are at the heart of the most popular hit songs, guitar charts and keyboard chords showing how to play progressions in all 12 keys, tips to customize essential chord progressions to suit your own songs, contact info for businesses and organizations most important to the working songwriter, and more!
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Complete Edition with critical report, clothbound
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Brahms Complete Edition, Series 7, Volume 6
Clothbound
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Published in response to many requests for a book containing imaginative and singable descants, this indispensable collection contains 24 set to the most popular of all hymn tunes.
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One of America's top bluegrass guitarists teaches a variety of flatpicking solos for twenty favorite songs and instrumentals. Played slowed-down and up-to-speed for learning players, with rhythm tracks availble for download or streaming online for great practice sessions. Songs: 'Liberty,' 'Soldier's Joy,' 'Forked Deer,' 'Eighth of January,' 'Hot Corn, Cold Corn,' 'Down Yonder,' 'John Henry,' 'Blackberry Blossom,' 'Leather Britches' and more. Level 3
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Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story of the boy who builds a snowman who comes to life has become a children's classic. Its popularity has been further enhanced by television broadcasts of the award winning cartoon film The Snowman. In this songbook, composer Howard Blake recreates the story in words and music. Includes the songs: Dance of the Snowman • Walking in the Air • Music Box Dance.
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Shakespeare's England comes alive once again in this delightful and much needed collection of songs. Here are the words and music for 70 songs from Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and several other plays, plus other popular songs of the time. Each song is chorded for guitar in the musical style of the Elizabethan era. Songs from Shakespeare's plays consist of songs whose texts were written by William Shakespeare; popular songs and ballads quoted or referred to by characters in the plays; songs of contemporary poets and musicians; and popular songs, folk songs, ballads, rounds and street cries known to have been current at the time and included to add to the overall setting in which Shakespeare wrote and performed. This is a practical, useful, and informal book, making no pretense to prove anything except, as editor Tom Kines says, that “the songmakers of Shakespeare's time were a skillful lot and the combination of the golden flow of poesy with the silver flood of melody and harmony will perhaps never again be equalled.”
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Even if you have never read a note of music before, this fifty-one minute DVD will teach you how. It's also an excellent refresher for those who had learned to read music but have now forgotten how. The book guides the reader through rhythm, scales and intervals, keys, and tonality, right through to score reading.
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Twilight Shadows • Remember Me • Thoughts at Eventide • Chatterers • Two Artists • Reminiscences of Youth • Two Butterflies • Conversation • Boatmen • Witches' Frolic • In Days of Knights • Bat of Monterey • Memories of the Ballet • Shepherd's Dance • Tenderness
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This fun, creative and necessary resource will help your students understand and appreciate music history! With your busy teaching schedule, this budget-stretching book is filled with important facts, games, quizzes, worksheets, timelines, and more. The reproducible chorals are indicative of each era, selected and edited to reflect the key elements discussed about each historical period in music. Grades 3-12.
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Four works from a popular series of brass & percussion pieces that celebrate the achievements of extraordinary American women. Includes Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and Celebration Fanfare, arranged by Daniel Forlano. Instrumental parts available on rental. Total duration ca. 16 minutes.
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Flute/oboe/clarinet/bassoon/horn/piano.
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This basic guide takes the reader through rhythm, scales and intervals, keys, and tonality, right through to score reading.
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...this very exciting tone poem depicts both the vast, bleak expanses of the Russian plains and the vigor and energy of a peasant folk dance
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This updated and expanded edition of the essential instruction book provides more than 450 exercises, including hundreds of melodic and rhythmic ideas. The book is designed to help improvisors master the cycle of fifths, one of the primary progressions in music. Guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!
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Preface -.- Scheherazade: • I. The Sea and Sindbads Ship • II. Die Geschichte vom Prinzen Kalender • III. Der junge Prinz und die junge Prinzessin • IV. Das Fest in Bagdad-Das Meer-Schiffbruch
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A complete musical analysis of one of the greatest jazz masters of all time. This comprehensive text studies and analyzes the works, provides transcriptions of the solos, and much more. For all music enthusiasts. Songs covered include: All Blues • Four • Freddie Freeloader • My Funny Valentine • Nardis • So What • Solar • Stella by Starlight • Tune Up • and more!
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Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work “Vers la flamme” op. 72. The poème opens with static, rough chords, and then slowly but steadily rises from the depths to the bright light above. Diverse levels of sound in changing rhythms gradually move above one another and create a suction-like tension. At the close, tremolos and fanfares tower up to a blazing conflagration of orchestral intensity. The Scriabin expert Valentina Rubcova knowledgeably sheds light on this suggestive work in the accompanying texts to this Henle Urtext edition.
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Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by C. M. von Weber
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