instruction and study

Contains step-by-step instructions, with pictures, on how to purchase, tune, and play the guitar, including picking styles and blues techniques, as well as tips on electronic aids and recording. Includes interactive DVD.

A guide to creating a viable, participatory music program for middle school students that offers strategies and lessons that meet the nine National Standards for Music Education.

Presents a guide to playing the guitar for young readers, explaining how to hold a pick, find each chord, and improvise.

An overview of music theory that covers topics such as music notation, scales and modes, melody harmonization and counterpoint, chord progressions, and song form and structure, and includes notated music examples for piano, guitar, bass, and drum. Includes CD.

Covering every aspect of learning how to play the guitar, from choosing an instrument and using a pick for the first time to starting a band and writing your own music, The Complete Guitar Manual is a complete course of professional lessons that works both as a personal tutor and a comprehensive textbook. The Complete Guitar Manual is the ultimate self improvement guide for all aspiring guitar players great for aspiring guitarists and professionals alike, the book includes techniques and step by step photographic instructions that help you build new skills or hone existing ones. Includes a DVD with video sequences showing how to play and how it should sound.

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.

This volume of the best-selling Teaching Music through Performances in Band series sets new standards as a comprehensive and indispensable resource for band directors. Containing current perspectives on the wind band world from internationally respected leaders, together with analyses of 100 significant works for band from grades 2 through 6, this book gives band directors essential tools for success in the profession.--[book jacket].