Best Voice Music
Vocal Technique: A Guide for Conductors, Teachers, and Singers is the first book to connect the disciplines of vocal pedagogy, vocal science, and choral technique. As a voice teacher, I'm particularly pleased to see an integrated approach to vocal technique for both soloists and choral singers. --Karen Brunssen, Northwestern University. "Resonance strategies, choir positioning, cambiata voices, hypothyroidism, vibrato--all in one book! Written in a remarkably approachable style, the book balances keen observations with understandable technical explanations.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have read many books on vocal technique but this has become the guide I refer to most frequently."
"Vennard, Sundberg, McKinney, Miller, Titze, Flemming, Caruso, et al....all in one beautiful book!"
"fabulous... really helps you visualize what is going on during singing... the audio attachments are hugely helpful but more of this would always be better."
"The refers to other methods, but fails to explain the methods mentioned."
"Addressing choral conductors' needs compatibly with goals of the voice teacher, Vocal Technique is an excellent, practical guide for singers and is the text for the pedagogy course at my university."
"that balances scientific research with descriptive imagery when talking about technique."
"This is an excellently concise book about vocal technique with detailed exercises allow you to feel the areas target for improvement."
"Don't seem to be able to turn off the simulated page turning in the Kindle edition."
This most recent revision also adds much material for comparisons of speech sounds; suggestions for accurate, efficient and conversational ways of combining the sounds into connected utterance; indications that foster a working knowledge of two dialects of speech (General American and what Mrs. Skinner called Good Speech for classic and elevated texts); and beginning material to show application of the principles of Good Speech to well-written texts.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Indispensable for those who want to improve their speech."
"it is an amazing book, to correct the English accent, but without the teacher, I do not know how can it help."
"Good presentation of a huge amount of topics, dry read though."
"This has been great but I really need to partner with a vocal coach to get the most out of it."
"The best training book for ESL learners and native American speakers alike."
"It is a classic in the field."
"This book is truly AMAZING!"
"I recommend it for the CD and booklet that come with it if you don't know how to read the symbols that will get you started."
Includes piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of: Auld Lang Syne * Blue Christmas * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Coventry Carol * Frosty the Snow Man * Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer * Grown-Up Christmas List * Happy Holiday * A Holly Jolly Christmas * I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * It's Beginning to Look like Christmas * Jingle-Bell Rock * Let It Snow! We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"bought this for my granddaughter who loves to sing xmas songs and plays piano, it's a great collection of standards, and 3-4 carols unknown to me overall a good deal glad i got it."
"Lots of Christmas standards (with a few random ones), that are moderately challenging."
"The chord selections seemed like direct translations from the piano music without consideration of playability on the guitar."
"LOVE this songbook!"
"I'm learning the piano so this book was very easy to play."
"Contains every classic you can think of and a few newer songs that are great."
"Good deal."
"This The Best Christmas Songs Ever Songbook is a huge book it will be hard to pick which Christmas Songs to play first I can't wait to play Little Saint Nick from the Beach Boys and I'll be also be playing this Christmas Songbook in October as well."
Best Piano Music
Titles: * Alouette. * Alpine Melody. * Amazing Grace. * Au Claire de la Lune. * Aunt Rhody. * Auld Lang Syne. * Aura Lee. * The Bandleader. * Beautiful Brown Eyes. * Blow the Man Down! * Largo (Dvorak). * Lavender's Blue. * Lightly Row. * Little Brown Jug. * Liza Jane. * London Bridge. * Lone Star Waltz. * Love Somebody. * Lullaby. * The Marine's Hymn. * Mary Ann. * Merrily We Roll Along. * Mexican Hat Dance. * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore. * Money Can't Buy Everything. * My Fifth. * Ode to Joy. * On Top of Old Smoky. * O Sole Mio. * Raisins and Almonds. * Rock Along. * Rockets. * Rockin' Intervals.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It took me about 1 1/2 months to work through the book and I rate it as excellent instruction for anyone wanting to learn or re-learn the piano."
"A little background before I get into the real review: My 14 y/o trumpet player daughter has been wanting to learn the piano for years. Her trumpet teacher disagreed and recommended she start with the Suzuki method as she has and incredibly good ear and quite a bit of natural musical talent. I bought this book to help rectify that, knowing that I'll be sitting in on her weekly lessons and absorbing a lot of information there. It's pretty exciting to go from not knowing where middle C is located to playing Jingle Bells with a bit of harmony in 2 days! I do plan on adding scales and such to my practice sessions, as these are truly the things that will help you progress and give you a more fundamental understanding of how music is put together. I feel like I'm able to grasp the concepts that are introduced and will be able to help my daughter along once her lessons start in a couple of weeks."
"No CD, but Youtube is better than the CD anyway."
"So far, helping me learn the piano."
"A little bit hard if you are teaching yourself."
"I love this book!!!"
"This is a wonderful book for adult learners and my instructor agrees with me."
"This is a really great book on beginning piano playing."
Best Guitar Music
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great product, very complete and effective guitar instruction book...terrific seller, very fast shipment, exactly as advertised... thanks!"
"Great product to learning guitar methods."
"If you try to learn guitar yourself, it is not an easy book, it needs more detail for beginner."
"My daughter's music teacher recommended this book and it has helped my daughter learn the basic skills she needs to get to the next level."
"Generally a good book to teach out of."
"Arrived way ahead of scheduled and was in excellent condition."
Best Woodwind Instrument Music
With Harmonica For Dummies , you can learn to master the harmonica faster than you ever thought possible, even if you have little to no playing experience. Start your harmonica experience — find expert guidance on shopping for a harmonica, making your first sounds, finding the key of a song, and exploring rhythm basics Craft your skills — start playing chords and single notes, shape your sound with your throat and hands, enhance your notes with your tongue on the harp, and bend notes down and up Take position — discover how positions help your playing, develop flair and speed, master new songs, and start playing along with music to master your skills Find your style — whether it’s blues and rock, country tunes, or fiddlin’ the night away with folk and Celtic songs, discover the many musical styles you can play on the harmonica Put it all together — put your music out into the world with guidance on arranging and adding vocals to your tunes, working with a band, and amplifying your sound.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I play chromatic only and, although its focus is directed more towards the diatonic harmonica, I have found much in this book that has helped me and that applies to chromatic players."
"Great book."
"If you are just getting into harmonica this is the book for you."
"Found this book to be informative, funny and just what I was hoping for to get started with my harp."
"Incredible!!!"
"A great book for beginning harmonica players recommend it highly."
"Looks good."
"THe book was wrinkled/damaged and was a gift - lucky the person was understanding about it."
Best Brass Instrument Music
Songs include: Amazing Grace * Camptown Races * D-I-V-O-R-C-E * Frankie and Johnny * The Gambler * Home on the Range * Kum Ba Yah * Make the World Go Away * My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean * Oh! Instant Harmonica is a totally new way of teaching yourself to play the harmonica in as short a time as possible.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"They were a gift and the kids loved them."
"An instrument that can be learned by almost anyone."
"Definitely helps in learning the Harmonica...takes much practice though as does any music instrument you learn."
"Very basic with humor."
"Pretty good book for learning, surprisingly very few plot twists."
Best String Instruments
Bayly). * Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki). * Perpetual Motion (Shinichi Suzuki). * Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki). * Andantino (Shinichi Suzuki). * Etude (Shinichi Suzuki). * Minuet 1, Minuett III from Suite in G Minor for Klavier, BWV 822 (J.S. 10 (R. Schumann). * Gavotte (F.J. Gossec). Revised edition features: * New engravings. * New editing of pieces, including bowings and fingerings. * Additional exercises, some from Dr. Suzuki, plus additional insight and suggestions for teachers. * Glossary of terms in English, French, German and Spanish. * Musical notation guide. * Fingerboard position. * New photos.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Same music as they used way back in the 80's when I took violin but an updated book."
"One should work through the lower volumes before tackling an advanced level."
"I have noticed that after listening to the music repetitiously, my child has begun experimenting with her own ideas."
"Great book to learn from--love it."
"If I had purchased these separately I would have paid up to $35.00 this is a great way to purchase both the CD and the book together."
"Great book, my daughter is enjoying it a lot!!"
"This is perfect for beginners who just started playing violin."
Best Percussion Instruments
This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"', this book answers that question with pages upon pages of exercises that steadily increase in complexity."
"They don't call it the Drummer's Bible for no reason."
"A must for any drummer for developing stick control whether you play snare drum or timpani."
"My left is catching up to my right very quickly!"
"Yes, I'm begining to use it, practicing the exercises, it will be a lot of fun!!"
"Go through the Bibles of drumming, properly, like everybody else, and you too can get anywhere you want in drumming. Contact me if you want more information on how to study the drums properly."
"And once you start to build up speed, the exercises actually start to sound and feel really cool!!"
"Very professional, good book."