Improvising is easier than ever with this new series for beginning jazz musicians. The Hal Leonard Easy Jazz Play-Along Series includes songs with accessible chord changes and features recordings with novice-friendly tempos. Just follow the streamlined lead sheets in the book and play along with the professionally recorded backing tracks on the audio. Volume 1 includes 18 songs: All of Me • All the Things You Are • Autumn Leaves • C-Jam Blues • The Girl from Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema) • On Green Dolphin Street • Satin Doll • There Will Never Be Another You • and more.
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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| List | $22.99 |
For use with all Bb, Eb, C and bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
8 songs: Bark for Barksdale • Dragonfly • Elevation • Idol Gossip • Jeru • The Lonely Night (Night Lights) • Rock Salt a/k/a Rocker • Theme for Jobim.
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| List | $16.99 |
For use with all B-flat, E-flat, C and Bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 classic tunes: Byrd Like • The Core • First Light • Lament for Booker • Little Sunflower • Red Clay • Straight Life • Suite Sioux • Up Jumped Spring • You're My Everything.
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This book by Bass Drum Control (06620020) author Colin Bailey is written for drummers with limited experience in playing jazz and the kind of soloing it requires. Colin helps drummers become more comfortable with phrasing drum solos, and teaches stock phrases (licks) around which to build effective solos. The online audio features tracks of Colin playing and soloing with guitar and bass, then the same tracks with no drum parts so drummers can play along. Also available by Bailey: Bass Drum Control Solos (06620068).
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| List | $19.99 |
Christmas Classics is a collection of arrangements featuring new, fresh and dynamic settings of many traditional carols. The arrangements can be used as solos or duets, with any combination of instruments. Works include: Angels from the Realms of Glory, The First Noel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, He Is Born, In the Bleak Midwinter, Infant Holy, Infant Lowly, Joy to the World, Mary Had a Baby, O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Westminster Carol.
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A superb collection of Scottish songs and ballads! “This is by far the best collection of Scottish songs in one book ... with a delightful CD so you can listen to a verse of each song.” – Sarah McQuaid, Evening Herald. The CD includes the first verse and chorus of 90 songs from the book. Songs include: A Peer Rovin Lassie • Sound the Pibroch • The Banks O'Red Roses • The College Boy • The Gallowa' Hills • Loch Lomond • The Bleacher Lass O'Kelvinhaugh • The Dowie Dens of Yarrow • The Lea-Rig • Van Dieman's Land • Wae's Me for Prince Charlie • Boat Me O'er to Charlie • Cam' Ye By Athol • Coulter's Candy • and more.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, Bass Clef, and C instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along Series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. With easy-to-read lead sheets, and other split-track choices on the inlcuded CD, these first-of-a-kind packages will bring your local blues jam right into your house! Each song on the CD includes two tracks: a full stereo mix, and a split track mix with removable guitar, bass, piano, and harp parts. 8 songs: Built for Comfort • Forty-Four • How Many More Years • Killing Floor • Moanin' at Midnight • Shake for Me • Sitting on Top of the World • Smokestack Lightning.
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With three fabulous volumes of Instruments in Praise already perennial favorites, this Christmas collection is sure to be a hit! Lloyd Larson has taken some of the great Christmas carols and songs of the church – such as “Away in a Manger,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “We Three Kings,” to name a few – and arranged them for solo instruments and piano. The parallel voicings make this collection available to all instrumentalists who enjoy sharing their gifts in worship.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C and bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: I Never Knew • Kansas City • Moon River • Moonlight Becomes You • On the Sunny Side of the Street • One Mint Julep • Polka Dots and Moonbeams • She's Funny That Way • Teach Me Tonight • These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You).
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| List | $16.99 |
Improvising is easier than ever with this new series for beginning jazz musicians. The Hal Leonard Easy Jazz Play-Along Series includes songs with accessible chord changes and features recordings with novice-friendly tempos. Just follow the streamlined lead sheets in the book and play along with the professionally recorded backing tracks on the CD. The audio CD is playable on any CD player and for PC and MAC computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Volume 2 includes 18 songs: Don't Get Around Much Anymore • Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) • Honeysuckle Rose • Moon River • My Favorite Things • Speak Low • The Way You Look Tonight • and more.
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| List | $19.99 |
This fascinating jazz instruction book for all instrumentalists offers an innovative, scholarly approach to the art of improvisation. It includes in-depth analysis and lessons about: cycle of fifths; diatonic cycle; overtone series; pentatonic scale; harmonic minor scale; melodic minor scale; polytonal order of keys (P.O.O.K.); blues and bebop scales; Ionian, Dorian and other modes; Byzantine and Arabian scales; and much more! A must for all musicians who want to hone their improv chops.
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| List | $22.99 |
For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Doodlin' • The Jody Grind • Nica's Dream • Opus De Funk • Peace • The Preacher • Senor Blues • Sister Sadie • Song for My Father • Strollin'.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C, and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultiimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Bennie and the Jets • Candle in the Wind • Crocodile Rock • Daniel • Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road • Honky Cat • I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues • Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) • Your Song.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
Songs: Dizzy Atmosphere • Manha De Carnaval • On a Slow Boat to China • Samba Dees Days • Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most • Sweet Lorraine • Tootsie Roll • Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) • When the World Was Young.
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| List | $16.99 |
For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Ah-Leu-Cha • Barbados • Bird of Paradise • Bongo Bop • Dewey Square • Funky Blues • If I Should Lose You • Klactoueededstine • Quasimodo • Star Eyes.
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| List | $16.99 |