If you've been learning vibes for a little while, you are probably eager to put your new skills to work and learn some familiar songs. This book includes a wide variety of favorite songs, from pop hits and movie themes to classical melodies and folk songs. Songs include: All of Me • Birdland • Clair De Lune • Desafinado • Friend like Me • Havana • How Far I'll Go • Misty • On Green Dolphin Street • The Pink Panther • Sway (Quien Sera) • Sweet Caroline • Walkin' on the Sun • and more.
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Easy to difficult arrangements of snare drum solos that have long been standard items on contest lists. Excellent practice material.
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One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales, arpeggios, technical studies, studies for musicianship, articulation studies, solos, duets, and studies devoted to the special needs of each instrument, this series provides a fantastic wealth of material for all student musicians.
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Here is the definitive guide to chordal playing for the contemporary vibraphonist. Includes material on: voicing selection, chord-member selection, use of extensions and alterations, voice leading, inversion selection, and more. The accompanying audio contains demos and play-along tracks with notated charts featuring standard chordal progressions in the following styles: fast & medium swing, ballad, jazz waltz, bossa-nova, and samba. This book is the most complete – and fun! – way to learn four-mallet voicings and comping patterns for jazz vibes.
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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Rudimental Drum Solos for the Marching Snare Drummer provides the advancing percussionist exciting solo material in the rudimental style. Meant as a study for developing the rudiments in a musical manner, it is designed as a progressive lesson supplement and as performance material for recitals, contests, and solo competitions. Includes: solos featuring N.A.R.D., P.A.S., and hybrid drum rudiments; warm-up exercises; suggested stickings, dynamics, and articulations; a music glossary; and more.
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This collection of solo drumset music will provide the practicing drummer with interesting ideas to explore through a varied selection of musical styles and degrees of difficulty. It will also help drummers acquire a better knowledge of form, dynamics, music terminology and overall musicianship. For use as a lesson supplement, or as performance material for recitals and solo competitions.
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This book contains beat fill combinations from basic to advanced levels. It is a comprehensive learning guide with hundreds of fill and solo ideas.
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Grammy-award winning conga player Poncho Sanchez and Chuck Silverman have joined forces to produce this book of riffs for beginning conga players or percussionists who want to incorporate Latin or conga techniques into their playing style. This unique book/online audio pack covers all the essential styles you'll need, including many of the grooves that have made Poncho one of the world's most in-demand congueros. The tracks on the accompanying audio, available for download or streaming online, are performed by a world-class band – members of the Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band – with and without conga parts, so after you learn the material in the book, you'll be able to practice by playing along. Plus – there is a tasty bonus. Not only does the music have a decidedly Latin flavor, but so do the spicy hot cooking recipes from Poncho that are interspersed throughout the book!
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A great collection of 15 Beatles songs arranged for vibraphone, including: And I Love Her • Blackbird • Day Tripper • Eleanor Rigby • Here Comes the Sun • Hey Jude • I Feel Fine • I'll Follow the Sun • In My Life • Lady Madonna • Let It Be • Michelle • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • Strawberry Fields Forever • Yesterday.
Click here for a YouTube video of ?And I Love Her? from the Beatles for Vibraphone
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Increase your beat vocabulary with this cool book/CD pack featuring 600 funk grooves, 10 solos, and 66 fills in an easy-to-read format. Everything here is crafted to increase your funk chops and provide excellent material for performance. The CD includes demo tracks of the solos and fills to make learning easy.
“When I was studying drums and percussion in college, Dave Lewitt was like a living legend to me. Watching Dave play was like watching some kind of a mad scientist or sorcerer on top of a mountain conjuring thunder and lightning! Always playing on a unique setup, Dave plays with a sense of orchestration. With this book he helps us explore countless ways to orchestrate funk grooves between the bass and snare. With over 600 grooves and ideas, this is a treasure trove for the intermediate drummer and beyond!” –Michael “Leroy” Bram, drummer for Jason Mraz
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This book deals with the principles, techniques, rhythms, and concepts of progressive jazz. Topics include improvisation, interaction of parts, meter-within-meter phrasing, cymbal rhythms, triplet performance patterns, independent performance patterns, and much more.
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Matching folio to their critically acclaimed self-titled album. Includes: Enter Sandman * Sad But True * The Unforgiven * Don't Tread On Me * Of Wolf And Man * The God That Failed * Nothing Else Matters * and 5 more metal crunchers.
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This wonderful collection for solo four-mallet vibraphone features 17 concise, beautifully written-out arrangements of favorite jazz gems geared toward the skilled intermediate and seasoned student/professional performer alike. Performance ntoes for each song are included to enhance your knowledge and technical ability. Songs include: Autumn in New York • Footprints • I Got Rhythm • Lullaby of Birdland • Night and Day • On Green Dolphin Street • Satin Doll • Summertime • (There Is) No Greater Love • Waltz for Debby • and more.
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This book provides the advancing percussionist with interesting solo material in all musical styles. It is designed as a lesson supplement, or as performance material for recitals and solo competitions. Includes: 40 intermediate snare drum solos presented in easy-to-read notation; a music glossary; Percussive Arts Society rudiment chart; suggested sticking, dynamics and articulation markings; and much more!
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