Welcome to the wonderful world of ocarina! Whether you're a complete beginner or have some experience with this enchanting instrument, this method from Hal Leonard is designed to help you unlock your musical potential and explore the captivating sounds of the ocarina. From learning the basics of hand positions and breath control to playing beautiful tunes, this method will take you step by step towards becoming an ocarina virtuoso.
The Hal Leonard Ocarina Method is a comprehensive, easy-to-use beginner's guide, designed for anyone just learning to play the ocarina. Written by ocarina soloist, designer, educator, and popularist Cris Gale, you'll learn loads of techniques, tips, and fun songs to learn and play. The accompanying online video, featuring the author, provides further instruction as well as demonstrations of the music in the book.
Topics covered include: a history of the ocarina • types of ocarinas • breathing and articulation • note names and key signatures • meter signatures and rhythmic notation • fingering charts • many classic folksongs • and more.
Video files are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed.
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Ocarina players of all ages will love this collection of 30 Disney favorites, including: Be Our Guest • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Colors of the Wind • Do You Want to Build a Snowman? • Hakuna Matata • How Far I'll Go • I Just Can't Wait to Be King • Kiss the Girl • Mickey Mouse March • When You Wish upon a Star • Whistle While You Work • A Whole New World • You've Got a Friend in Me • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah • and many more. Arranged for 10-, 11-, and 12-hole ocarinas.
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The Hal Leonard Bouzouki Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the Greek bouzouki. This easy-to-use guide provides step-by-step lessons with many fun songs and examples to learn and play. Video tutorials and demonstrations by author Greg Herriges are also included! Includes: bouzouki basics; tuning; reading music and tab; single-note melodies; chords and accompaniment; alternate picking; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; scales and modes; position playing; tremolo picking; double stops; traditional Greek songs; time signatures in Greek music; video lessons; standard notation and tablature; and more!
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The Hal Leonard Steelpan Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the steelpan. This easy-to-use beginner's guide takes you through the basics of the instrument and its technique. The accompanying audio includes demonstration tracks for all the examples in the book. It covers: stance • holding the mallets • types of strokes • tone production and volume control • stickings • rolls • scales • calypsos • many songs and exercises • basic music reading • steelpan anatomy and maintenance • steelpan history • and more. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book.
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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The Hal Leonard Sitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the sitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to sitar and its technique, as well as the practice, theory, and history of raga music. The accompanying audio includes 42 tracks for demonstration and play-along. Lessons include: choosing an instrument; tuning; postures; right- and left-hand technique; Indian notation; raga forms; melodic patterns; bending strings; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; changing strings; recommended listening; and much more! The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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20 studies for the classical guitar written by Beethoven's contemporary, Fernando Sor, revised, edited and fingered by the great classical guitarist Andres Segovia. These essential repertoire pieces continue to be used by teachers and students to build solid classical technique. Features 50 minutes of demonstration tracks accessed online for download or streaming.
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Arranged for 10-, 11-, or 12-hole ocarinas, this collection features 30 pop hits even beginners can play! Lyrics are also included for maximum musical enjoyment. Songs include: Believer • Candle in the Wind • Every Breath You Take • Hallelujah • Hey, Soul Sister • I'm Yours • My Girl • Perfect • Roar • Shake It Off • The Sound of Silence • Sweet Caroline • Uptown Girl • Yesterday • and more.
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Play 40 folk songs on the unique wind instrument, including: Amazing Grace • Auld Lang Syne • The Banana Boat Song • Danny Boy • Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) • Greensleeves • Home on the Range • Kumbaya • Little Brown Jug • My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean • My Wild Irish Rose • Shenandoah • Simple Gifts • Song of the Volga Boatman • This Little Light of Mine • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star • When Johnny Comes Marching Home • and many more. Arranged for 10-, 11-, or 12-hole ocarinas. Lyrics also included for each song.
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These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable blues boxes, chord-based licks, blues scales and double-note licks; play boogie woogie licks and turnarounds; and much more! Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it, and provides helpful playing tips. Great for beginning, intermediate and advanced players. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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The most thorough blues guitar book yet. Over 35 blues tunes covering electric blues, blues rock, country blues, fingerpicking and bottleneck blues, B.B. King and Chuck Berry styles, jazzy blues, and more. Plus positions, scales, chords, discographies and an overview of styles from Robert Johnson to George Benson. Written in music tablature with chord grids. All tunes are played on the 42-minute recording that comes with the book.
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A must for every slide guitarist, this book with online audio files teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks and slide techniques; play in open G tuning, open D tuning, open A tuning, open E tuning, and standard tuning; and more. The book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instruction for beginning to advanced players, and the audio includes 47 demonstration tracks.
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ASAP Bluegrass Guitar is designed for folks wishing to become highly proficient bluegrass players. You'll be able to combine sophisticated left-hand fingerings with both simple and intricate right-hand picking patterns. Appropriate for beginning guitar players or more experienced players wishing to learn specifics and songs in the bluegrass style. With this book and the accompanying 2 CDs you'll learn the basics, single-note melodies, how to embellish basic melodies, embellish melodies by adding notes from the major scale, embellishing melodies with added chords strums, Carter-style playing, shuffle rhythm patterns, alternate bass strumming, the blues in bluegrass, intros, turnarounds and endings, using the capo, cross picking, improvising a solo, practicing effectively, and much more!
Some of the more popular bluegrass songs you'll learn are: Billy in the Lowground • New River Train • Wildwood Flower • Foggy Mountain Blues • Clinch Mountain Blues • Red Haired Boy • Forked Deer • Bill Cheatham • All the Good Times Past and Gone • Blackberry Blossom • Temperance Reel • Salt Creek • Devil's Dream • June Apple • Black Mountain Rag • Saint Anne's Reel • Banks of the Ohio • Beaumont Rag • Salty Dog Blues • John Henry • and many more. Start playing bluegrass guitar...ASAP!
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This book with online audio will get guitarists playing lead & rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key! It teaches a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable patterns, double-note licks, sliding pentatonics and more, through easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced players. The audio includes 54 full-demo tracks and is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Learn the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use! This book with online audio will have you playing lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. You'll learn chord-based licks, moveable major and blues scales, major pentatonic “sliding scales,” first-position major scales, and moveable-position major scales. The book includes easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced players. The audio includes 41 demonstration tracks to help you perfect your new skills.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Now available with a CD! This is the ultimate resource guide for any Dobro owner, collector or fan. It begins with the history of this unique guitar and then moves into teaching the techniques used in playing it. The entire book is illustrated with photos of popular players. A prior knowledge of music is not required since the book presents, in detail, the complete essentials for playing the Dobro. Tablature is used throughout and the CD features helpful accompaniments. Using the techniques taught here, almost any song can be played Dobro-style!
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