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The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians
Model: 00695579

Master chord theory ... in minutes! The Chord Wheel is a revolutionary device that puts the most essential and practical applications of chord theory into your hands. This tool will help you: Improvise and Solo – Talk about chops! Comprehend key structure like never before; Transpose Keys – Instantly transpose any progression into each and every key; Compose Your Own Music – Watch your songwriting blossom! No music reading is necessary.

“This is the kind of device that players of any instrument can use to enhance their musical understanding. Chord and key relationships are inseparable, and learning these relationships is a must in becoming a successful musician.”

– Alan Remington, Orange Coast College Music Dept.
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Reharmonization Techniques
Model: 50449496

When you reharmonize a tune, you give the melody new color by changing its underlying harmonies. Whether you direct a band or choir, play piano or guitar, or write film scores, you will find simple and innovative techniques to update songs and develop exciting new arrangements by studying the hundreds of copyrighted examples throughout this book. Reharmonization techniques covered include: simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, and others. Includes examples and exercises on such tunes as: Black Orpheus • Blue in Green • The Girl from Ipanema • Isn't It Romantic? • Misty • Over the Rainbow • Stella by Starlight • and more.
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Song Charting Made Easy: A Play-Along Guide to the Nashville Number Sy
Model: 00311820

Here's your personal introduction to the most versatile song charting system ever created, the Nashville Number System. Used for decades by the world's top studio musicians, the Number system allows you to chart an entire song for the whole band on a single sheet of paper in about five minutes! Whether you are a musician trying to break into the competitive world of session playing, a songwriter looking for a quick way to document your songs, or you're just looking for a better way to communicate musically with your band, this system is exactly what you need. The book includes access to online recordings of more than 90 musical examples recorded by some of the world's best session musicians. They will guide you through the Number system from its basic concepts to the most intricate nuances. Along the way, you will have the opportunity to take what you have learned and jam along with fully-produced tracks that have been custom-mixed for guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums.

Written by Jim Riley, the drummer for Rascal Flatts! Song Charting Made Easy will very simply change the way you think about music.

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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Music Reading for Bass - The Complete Guide: Essential Concepts Series
Model: 00695203

A comprehensive source for sight-reading fundamentals, including notes, rhythms, keys, positions, and scale forms. Also teaches reading from chord symbols, following charts, creating walking bass lines, slides, ghost notes, and other techniques.
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Encyclopedia of Reading Rhythms: Private Lessons Series
Model: 00695145

A comprehensive guide to: notes, rests, counting, subdividing, time signatures, triplets, ties, dotted notes and rests, cut time, compound time, swing, shuffle, rhythm studies, counting systems, road maps and more!

“Provides a Britannica-like benefit to players whose reading skills are underdeveloped or in need of a good polishing.” – Rich Watson, Modern Drummer magazine
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Improvisation for Classical Musicians: Strategies for Creativity and E
Model: 50449637

Learn the creative mindset and acquire the technical tools necessary for improvisation. These concepts and exercises will help you to discover a deeper source of music making, a greater quality of authenticity, and a discernable change in sound and phrasing that will enhance your performances of written music. You will learn to play by ear, apply musical theory to your instrument, and engage creatively with the elements of music, giving you a long menu of musical options. The accompanying recording includes demonstration and play-along tracks. You will learn: tools to connect melodic imagination to your instrument, with an enhanced sense of physicality; how to use scales, chords, modes, progressions, and other structures in your improvisation; a broad rhythm vocabulary; improvisation techniques for standard progressions, such as blues and II V's; to create richer lines by using approach notes, neighbor tones, and embellishments into an improvised melodic line.
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Pieces and Processes (Teacher's Book)
Model: 49013585

In Pieces and Processes, the author has brought together a collection or original songs, exercises, instrumental pieces, and arrangements in an attempt to provide fresh examples of elemental music. The works represent a wide variety of styles which draw upon the musical models of the Orff Schulwerk for inspiration. Along with each piece is a detailed teaching procedure designed to give music educators a collection of instructional techniques that can be used in all aspects of their work. A “Process Teaching Toolbox” organizes these techniques by musical element.
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You Can Ta Ka Di Mi This!: Improve & Expand Your Rhythmic Sense and Pr
Model: 14036522

This book presents a clear and direct path to experiencing the feel of pulse and rhythm. The exercises are fun and mentally challenging while incorporating the use of our physical selves for a whole body experience of music. Todd Isler has found a way to illuminate the logic and beauty within even the most complex rhythmic system, and this guide will be invaluable for vocalists and instrumentalists alike. 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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Essential Songwriter: Craft Great Songs & Become a Better Songwriter
Model: 50448051

The Berklee in the Pocket Essential Songwriter is an accessible reference guide that will quickly lead songwriters to ideas that are at the heart of countless hit songs. The tips and strategies jam-packed into this concise guide will help you tackle writer's block and gain fresh insight into the songwriting process. Includes: the 17 chord progressions that are at the heart of the most popular hit songs, guitar charts and keyboard chords showing how to play progressions in all 12 keys, tips to customize essential chord progressions to suit your own songs, contact info for businesses and organizations most important to the working songwriter, and more!
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O'Neill's 1001 - The Dance Music of Ireland (Facsimile Edition)
Model: 00634049

Here is a facsimile edition of Francis O'Neill's classic 1907 collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other dance tunes. The Dance Music of Ireland has proved so valuable to musicians and has been circulated so widely that it has become known simply as “the book” – a virtual bible for many traditional players. Songs include: Kitty's Rambles • Off to the Hunt• The Highway to Dublin • The Eavesdropper • Have a Drink with Me • The Maid at the Well • Cherish the Ladies • Galway Tom • The Mountain Boy • Katie's Fancy • O'Sullivan's March • The Priest's Leap • The Humors of Whiskey • A Night at the Fair • Out on the Ocean • Courtney's Favorite • The Merry Old Woman • A Trip to the Cottage • Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part • Wellington's Advance • The Old Man's Delight • Willy Walsh's Jig • The Boys of the Town • and more.
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Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Le Sacre du Printemps The Masterworks
Model: 48011779

Full-score of the re-engraved 1967 edition of the revised edition from 1947.
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Lead Sheet Bible: Private Lessons Series
Model: 00695130

This book/audio package is for the singer, songwriter, or musician who wants to create a lead sheet or chord chart that is easy to follow. The audio includes over 70 demo tracks. The instruction covers: song form, transposition, considering the instrumentation, scales, keys, rhythm, chords, slash notation, and other basics, beaming, stemming, syncopation, intervals, chord symbols, sample songs, common terms, and important tips for anyone putting music on paper!

The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes 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 Snowman (Full Score)
Model: 14041277

Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story of the boy who builds a snowman who comes to life has become a children's classic. Its popularity has been further enhanced by television broadcasts of the award winning cartoon film The Snowman. In this songbook, composer Howard Blake recreates the story in words and music. Includes the songs: Dance of the Snowman • Walking in the Air • Music Box Dance.
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