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Charlie Parker was arguably one of the most influential jazz musicians to have ever lived. This text presents numerous jazz lines in Charlie's style, grouped by their application in a given harmonic c...

This collection of jazz etudes by Jack Wilkins gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues comes with audio tracks, available to d...

This book was written specifically for beginning students working with a private teacher or in an entry-level clarinet class. The author emphasizes correct hand positions, breath control, and tone pro...

Being a student of the clarinet is exciting. If you invest time at the beginning learning the basics of clarinet playing, you will reap rewards for many years to come. Practicing the exercises in this...

Here's yet another book that should be in every serious classical and flamenco guitarist's library; this time, Ioannis Anastassakis (The Art of Rasguedo) eliminates the guesswork on how to practice an...

Scholarly editions, which serve different purposes than performance editions, are not often designed with the modern guitarist in mind. For instance, Renaissance vihuela tablatures are usually transcr...

Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Werke stammen von Francisco Tárrega (1854–1909) und Fernando Sor (1778–1839). Seit Jahren ist das ernsthafte Gitarrenspiel in zwei unterschiedliche Lager gespalten: Fing...

Written during the 1970s, the etudes featured in The Art Of Two-Line Improvisation were composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble 's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord m...

Presented in this informative text is a concise, clear picture of the fingernail, its anatomy, what affects its health, how to combat weak nail problems, how to obtain strong, healthy nails and what p...

Mel Bay is pleased to present the long-awaited publication of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's 'loose' arrangement of the Pachelbel Canon for four Guitars. Originally intended as an inside joke for th...

Nestor Ausqui hails from the picturesque Argentinian city of Santa Fe: a robust and vibrant city catering to the arts and culture, most notably music. Definitive de Falla is Ausqui's second book from...

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, incl...

This second volume of The Classical Guitarist's Gig Book contains 63 intermediate to advanced solo arrangements of pieces in various styles. From "The Water Is Wide" and Christmas and patriotic favori...

O'Carolan for Classical Guitar is the fourth and final volume of Guido Böger's classical guitar arrangements of the 214 compositions of the itinerant blind Irish harper, Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738)...

Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the r...

Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995) belongs to an elite group of Brazilian/American guitarists, who by composing important works for the guitar reinstated the instrument in his native country as worthy of se...

This collection of compositions for piano solo spans four centuries, including a rarely heard piece by Gottchalk's sister, Clara, as well as a charming piece by Marie Antoinette. Other composers inclu...

A unique assortment of 40 short pieces written for soprano recorder with suggested guitar chords. Selection include: Trouvere (Or la Truix); Estampie; La Rotta; Saltarello; Der Neve Villancico; Basse...

This volume focuses on the medieval period from approximately the sixth to fifteenth centuries. The music of this era was traditionally performed as plainchant (sacred) or monophony (secular), that is...

Zwar ist die klassische Gitarre in erster Linie ein Soloinstrument, doch bietet das Spielen im Ensemble – sei es als Duo, Trio, Quartett, gemischtes Ensemble oder Orchester – zahlreiche Vorteile. Dazu...

Dr. Lawrence Golan's edition of Bach's masterpieces for solo violin combines the authenticity and accuracy of a Scholarly Urtext Edition with the practicality and helpfulness of a Performing Edition....

Easy Classics für Tenorsaxophon ist Teil der Easy Classics-Reihe, die Anfängern und Fortgeschrittenen eine unterhaltsame Einführung in einige der größten klassischen Melodien bietet. Dieses Buch enthä...

As one can easily imagine, it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire, most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It woul...

Popular Guitar Styles: Samba and Bossa Nova reflects recent popular Brazilian styles as played with classical or fingerstyle technique. This collection of original pieces will delight both listeners a...