Hal Leonard

While many extant photos of string band artists show members holding a mandolin, it often can barely be heard in most period recordings because the most important instrument to capture was usually the...

From the trenches of No Man's Land in France to the home fronts all across the American heartland, these are the songs and tunes of a fighting nation and her beleaguered Allies. This book includes son...

This book contains tips, suggestions, advice, musical examples, and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of Hammond organ study and professional gigging. Included in the book are dozen...

20 classic rock hits to strum and sing, including: Against the Wind - Beautiful Loser - Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight - Feel like a Number - Fire Lake - Hollywood Nights - Like a Rock - Mainstreet -...

Leading Tones is a glimpse into several aspects of the musical world. There are portions devoted to Leonard Slatkin's life as a musician and conductor, portraits of some of the outstanding artists wit...

Martin the Guitar has been purchased by the famous folk singer Robert, and is now on the road performing for audiences everywhere. Martin loves to make music with his new friends, Tthe Harmonica Famil...

Monty Python's Spamalot Young@Part® is the authorized 65-70 minute edition of the Broadway musical for elementary and middle schools, and youth theatres. Through a series of workshops with industry pr...

Learn the essential practices of contemporary conducting. This book will teach you to use the motions, cues, patterns and practices used to lead ensembles, whether for orchestra, band, musical theater...

After the Civil War, the up picking finger style of playing the 5-string banjo came into vogue - eventually finding its way into the Victorian parlor and, later, college glee and music clubs. The orig...

The most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market! Features more than 30, 000 words encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and more, all organized cross-phonetically...

Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of Elvis Presley or the everyman toughness of Johnny Cas...

10 songs from the world's fastest banjo player featuring Taylor's amazing renditions of well-known rock, classics, blues as well as many originals are included in this songbook: Back Home in Carolina...

Why do pegs continuously slip or stick making it difficult to tune? Or endpins become stuck or keep sliding down? What about fine tuners that malfunction; strings that break, become false or fray; bow...

Learn to engage, excite, captivate and expand your audience! These practical techniques will help you to communicate with your listeners on a deeper, more interactive level. As you do, the concert exp...

This biography begins in 1967 as Frank L. Battisti concludes a celebrated 14-year career as Director of Bands at Ithaca High School, followed by a move to Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory. Later,...

89 golden oldies for individuals, small groups and orchestras are presented in standard notation and tablature with large chord diagrams and symbols for ukulele in this collection. These fabulous favo...

This book contains tips, suggestions, advice, and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of home and pro studio recording adventures. Included in the book are dozens of entries learned f...

Proven successful in private lessons and in the classroom, this planner is a must-have for all musicians. Teachers can use it to set goals and assignments, and students can montior their progress, tim...

Here's a fun and easy way to learn the ins and outs of effects - compression, delay, distortion, filters, reverb, looping, vocoder and many more. You'll learn when, how and why to use them, and how to...

The Ukalaliens Songbook & CD teaches you to play ukulele in minutes. It includes twenty folksongs (including 'I've Been Working on the Railroad,' 'Home on the Range,' 'Guabi, Guabi,''These Are My Moun...

It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and p...

Throwing caution to the winds, I assert that A Little Night Music comes as close as possible to being the perfect romantic comedy musical. -Brendan Gill, The New Yorker Heady, civilized, sophisticated...

A Performer Prepares is a 13-part master class on how to perform on any stage from bleak rehearsal room to the Palace Theatre. The class covers the basic Broadway song numbers, from show ballad to sho...

Three editors, each associated with theatre, collaborated on this book of monologues for actresses. What they discovered, besides bravura pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study, was the pulse...

Before the revolutionary rock musical Rent, Jonathan Larson had another story to tell... his own. tick, tick... BOOM! is a three-chapter pop rock musical about facing crossroads in life and holding on...