This book will help you learn how to play the Shinobue. It has many exercises and songs that are designed to help you study and understand the fundamentals of playing the Fue. The exercises can be adjusted to the skill level of your playing ability.  Included in the book are Japanese folk songs as well as original compositions written by Marco  Lienhard. The etudes will help you work on improving your technique and en-riching your sound. The songs may be performed as solo Fue numbers or wi...

Teach yourself how to play tin whistle with our easy tin whistle lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"This is the only tin whistle book you'll ever need for learning the basics." - Nancy Braithwaite, Chicago ILProgressive Tin Whistle contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great tin whist...

Teach yourself how to play trumpet with our easy trumpet lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free trumpet videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and trumpet animation for easy music learning.***"Great for any beginner trumpet player. It teaches the basics for any style of music, ... If you're learning the trumpet, you need this book!"...

A comprehensive chromatic harmonica method by noted writer and clinician Phil Duncan. Contains excellent harmonica arrangements of 60 tunes ranging in style from light classics to folk and country. Comes with access to online audio and video.

A comprehensive text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, harmony, and technical studies leading to improvisation. For the flute student beginning the serious study of jazz and contemporary styles, this book will help in many ways. Phrasing and interpretation of rhythms are studied through exercises and original pieces. Scale and arpeggio studies will help the student learn both the music theory and technical skills needed to improvise.

After decades of experimentation, musicians have begun to utilize a strikingly colorful palette of sounds on woodwind instruments. Flute, clarinet, and saxophone players, in many different musical settings, regularly use sounds that were unheard of in the middle of the twentieth century. Oboists, in comparison, have lagged somewhat behind their more adventurous colleagues.In writing Oboe Unbound: Contemporary Techniques, author Libby Van Cleve opens up the tradition-bound assumptio...

Teach how to play recorder for kids with our easy recorder lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free recorder videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and recorder animation for easy music learning.***"Great teaching tool. I love the fact you can play just a note and get a great accompaniment to make it sound interesting. It ...

All the tools a beginner, novice, and intermediate tin whistle player needs to progress to a high level of competence in Irish music. Includes an "Orientation to Traditional Irish Music", that puts the music in context, with information on scales and modes, dance tune types, the historical roots of whistle playing, and advice for learning by ear. This comprehensive guide includes thorough instruction, exercises, musical examples, and fundamental techniques such as holding, fingering, breat...

Drawing from his highly praised French work, Une simple flute, distinguished flutist and teacher Michel Debost has compiled a useful and imaginative introduction to playing the flute. This alphabetically arranged compendium of advice and insight covers essential topics such as breathing, articulation, and tone, but also explores "jawboning," "finger phrasing," "the little devils," and other quirky and vexing aspects of flute playing. Full of practical advice on technique and axiom...

An in-depth instruction manual for the Arabic oud, the ancestor of the lute and guitar. Contents include: Holding the oud, Plucking the Strings, Basic Plucking Rules in Arabic Tradition, Positions of Left Hand Fingers, Basic Notes on the oud, Advanced Left-Hand Techniques, Maqamat, and much more. Over 40 tunes are included in the book. Standard notation only. Includes access to an online video showing key points of playing the oud.

A step-by-step method for playing harmonica solos. The format is simple and visually attractive. Through graded lessons, the student is taught to find and play the individual notes on the diatonic harmonica, as well as learning to read simple musical notation. Includes a diatonic note chart. The songs include chords for accompaniment.

Teach how to play flute for kids with our easy flute lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"I have used this book for several years for my young beginner groups and absolutely love it. The children thoroughly enjoy the pieces. The layout is excellent, the type face nice and big and the instructions well written." - Ano...