Instructional

This book is an exploration of modern compositional devices and their interaction with jazz harmony and phrasing. This is not just one more exercise book! Most of the traditional exercise books are ba...

This 24-page instrumental method/supplement for tenor and alto sax players was written by jazz player and composer Ted Nash and edited by Jeannette Delisa.

12 of his best for the beginning player, including: Forever In Love, Silhouette, Songbird, The Wedding Song, and more.

Finally - a method that teaches violinists how to improvise! Plug in and take your violin on a journey beyond the world of classical music with Mark Wood and Electrify Your Strings. With instruction r...

Let your technique soar to new heights with eight solos and dozens of exercises tailor-made for intermediate and advanced players in pop, funk, and R&B! Improve your independence; find your groove in...

This collection consists of two acclaimed series of study material for trumpet: Orchestra Etudes (which takes excerpts from the trumpet parts of well-known orchestral scores and develops them into stu...

This book is a continuation of Musical Calisthenics for Brass, authored by Carmine Caruso. This new edition compiled by Caruso's student Dominic Derasse should be approached only after the completion...

This book of exciting original trumpet solos has a Spanish flair that will entice young students to want to perform. The melodies will make practicing more fun while at the same time introducing vario...

The Hal Leonard Handbell Method is designed for anyone just learning to ring handbells. Whether you're an experienced musician or you don't read music at all yet, this step-by-step guide will teach yo...

Preface by Jay Ungar, composer of Ashokan Farewell. A Festival of Violin & Fiddle Styles presents 23 styles and is chock full of right- and left-hand techniques, exercises, and advice designed to help...

Preface by Jay Ungar, composer of Ashokan Farewell. A Festival of Violin & Fiddle Styles presents 23 styles and is chock full of right- and left-hand techniques, exercises, and advice designed to help...

Find out what's missing in your musical toolbox and bring your playing up to date. Modernize your capabilities to reflect the music and work opportunities of the 21st century. Classical pedagogy and c...

Preface by Jay Ungar, composer of Ashokan Farewell. A Festival of Violin & Fiddle Styles presents 23 styles and is chock full of right- and left-hand techniques, exercises, and advice designed to help...

Finally a chord chart that's easy to read! 98 beginner and advanced versions of the most popular chords with fingering and note construction of each chord, plus key chart showing the principal and rel...

The first book of its kind in the world, The Creative Band & Orchestra provides conductors, directors and educators with over one hundred ideas, techniques, exercises and musical examples. Through thi...

A continuation of Basic Rhythmic Training, this collection of progressive rhythmic drills is designed to increase a music student's proficiency in executing and understanding Rhythm. The exercises beg...

A continuation of Basic Rhythmic Training, this collection of progressive rhythmic drills is designed to increase a music student's proficiency in executing and understanding Rhythm. The exercises beg...

This book assumes no prior knowledge and begins with elementary rhythmic notation. It provides a comprehensive understanding of basic rhythm and its components: the beat, pulse, time signatures, notes...

Designed for band, choir, orchestras or private study, this book teaches how to read basic rhythms from the printed page. This practical, daily step-by-step guide is suitable for all instruments and l...

Learn how to sight-read any rhythm instantly! Wouldn't you like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds? If so, then this book is for you. You'll discover: how to mem...

Perfect pitch - also called absolute pitch - has been a source of endless fascination for hundreds of years. The ability to recognize musical tones with no reference is often viewed as a kind of magic...

This complete reference guide takes you through StaffPad, the music notation and composition app available for Microsoft Surface and Apple iPad tablets. This phenoenal app allows you to write music no...

Perfect for musicians, teachers or anyone looking for solid info on scales, chords, and how they work together. Provides right- and left-hand piano fingerings for scales, chords, and complete inversio...

This book for all instruments explores the possibilities of this must-know chord progression, covering major and minor II-V-Is in all keys, turn-arounds, scale mixtures and materials and more, with lo...

These book/CD packs present a proven approach to practicing and are, in essence, woodshedding in book form. Rehearsing with this method daily will improve technique, reading ability, rhythmic and harm...