Learn your scales with the help of 53 well known tunes. Each page in the first part of this book starts with a scale and its arpeggio. The rest of the page is full of tunes that use that scale and arpeggio. As you play the tunes, you will find out why learning scales and…
This book of studies has been designed by W Stanley Smith as a link between a simple tutor and the more difficult books available to advanced students. The keys employed have been graded as far as three sharps and three flats, with scales up two octaves.
These carefully graded solos are combined with effective and sympathetic accompaniments. CONTENTS; Go Down Moses I Dreamed A Dream Bright Eyes Summertime Nobody Knows I Got Rhythm Pick A Pocket Or Two Someone To Watch Over Me Swing Low Sweet Chariot Send In The Clowns If I Were A Rich Man I’m Getting Married in…
A New Tune A Day features the same logical,gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone,technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds…
Abracadabra Brass – Tuition is the beginners tutors series for all the brass instruments. It contains carefully graded pieces and exercises, enough flexibility to suit individual teaching, and ensemble skills taught through duets and trios.Abracadabra French Horn leads the learner from the earliest stages to competence, introducing the basic range of the instrument. The material is carefully…
The Horn Prep Test is an ideal introduction to the ABRSM exam experience: it gives students a goal to work towards and a certificate on the day – something to be really proud of. The test covers many elements that beginner Horn players will be working on, including pitch, time, tone and performance. This Horn Prep Test book has…
A collection of 16 pieces, with piano accompaniment, commissioned to provide useful core material for the ABRSM Trumpet syllabus.The appealing variety of rhythms, styles and moods and the progressive introduction of new technical accomplishments will provide invaluable repertoire-building material for players from Grades 3 to 6.
With essential examination material for the ABRSM exams, this book includes contributions from highly experienced teachers on good fingering and other aspects of technique. This book covers all the scales and arpeggios from grades 1-8.
The volumes in this series provide much practice material for candidates preparing for the Associated Board examinations. The tests in each grade have been carefully written to explore as fully as possible the parameters of that grade, and for Grades 1-5 there is a logical progression of technical aspects (rhythm, time signatures and so forth)…
A suite of five miniatures providing the young trumpeter with a variety of entertaining pieces that remain true to the spirit of early and classic jazz comprises a rag, a blues, a stomp with a Latin flavour, a slow and sentimental. CONTENTS: Everyday Rag Millhouse Blues Sombrero Stomp When You Were Here The Station Dash
Charming set of pieces written to meet the needs of relative beginners to the trumpet. Comparatively easy piano accompaniments, contrasting in style, all the pieces remain within the range of b-e making them ideal preparatory material for the grades. CONTENTS: Procession  Performed by Jacques, Michael Melancholy Dance  Performed by Jacques, Michael Lullaby  Performed by Jacques, Michael Galop  Performed by…