Play Along

Techniques such as time-keeping, soloing, effective filling, phrasing, and chart reading are all studied, demonstrated, and presented in a play-along format. This book will challenge, inspire, enlight...

The Hot Rock series is about playing the music you love. Each grade book contains 8 classic rock tracks with specially edited exam pieces and the full transcription. Rockschool grade exams have an ele...

A Cross-Cultural Curricular supplement. In just five short years, WORLD MUSIC DRUMMING has become the hottest new addition to the school music curriculum in years. In thousands of classrooms (grades 3...

The Absolute Beginners course has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your instrument. With this superb book you get a comprehensive course featu...

Playing jazz takes practice... but with this great play-along book, it will be pure fun. The basic structure and the harmonic framework of the pieces are easy to follow, while the diversity of rhythmi...

The Swinging Beginning is a collection of easy play-along pieces in a variety of pop, latin and dance styles all with the emphasis on swing. The CDs contain a live backing band with an excellent latin...

This book contains ten songs in jazz, latin and swing styles all based on the chord progressions of well-known jazz standards. It covers a wide range of jazz idioms and periods ranging from Dixie-Rhyt...

Seven solos with written improvisations. Suitable for players of a moderately advanced standard, this album comes with a CD which includes play-along backing tracks together with complete versions of...

Take a nostalgic trip back to the era of Count Basie, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington. In this book you will find eight wonderful new pieces written in the big band tradition. The play-along CD contai...

Play-along with your very own swing band with this jazzy new book that contains fairly easy melodies varying in styles from Jazz Waltz to Boogie. The pieces can be used as solos with the backing CD or...

A collection of jazzy warm-up exercises and solos for players of a moderate standard. Warm up exercises are an essential aspect of daily practice, preparing you both physically and mentally for a grea...

Antonio Carlos Jobim made bossa nova socially acceptable in the 'old' world with The Girl from Ipanema. In the same style, Leslie Searle now presents twelve bossa novas. By specifying chord numbers ab...

There are many ways of explaining exactly how you should perform swing music but of course it's most fun to learn as you play. With Swing Starters you will become acquainted with the idea of swing fee...

For many musicians playing in a big band is an ultimate high point. The special line-up of the big band guarantees amazing tuttis but equally allows the opportunity to perform quiet ballads. Playing i...

This book is a compilation of the best pieces from the series Play 'em Right!. The series features six separate books in jazz, rock and Latin styles, the best of which have now been combined into one...

With accompaniment CD for a perfect playback - the right band and orchestra feeling is thus possible even without your own piano. 12 Standards - All notes of the piano accompaniment are also as PDF fi...