Hal Leonard Flowers & Gifts

How can the Piano help a singer? Developing Piano skills will help you learn repertoire, gain self-sufficiency, rehearse and perform by yourself, understand music better, be more creative with it, and teach others.And you don't have to be a great sight-reader, play scales all day, or become a classical pianist who can perform Bach and Mozart.It's much simpler than that. You can be on your way quickly.Topics include:sheet music and formsplaying melodiesharmonystylesarrangingmuch more!

A piano method to please students, teachers and parents! The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library is clear, concise and carefully graded. Perfect for private and group tuition.Piano Lessons Book 3 covers quaver notes, 6ths, dotted crotchet-quaver notes, major 5-finger patterns and major triads, minor 5-finger patterns and minor triads. With CD.

The Hal Leonard Adult Piano Method has been devised specially for the older beginner, offering direct tuition with engaging music to inspire your first steps into Piano playing.Combine lessons, solos, technique and theoryMoves comfortably through new concepts and materialEncourages the student to become immediately engaged in playing the instrumentMaterial is well-planned and free of technical jargonProvides opportunities for student improvisationBeautifully-realised teacher duets and richly-orchestrated CD and MIDI accompaniment disks provide a rewarding musical experience

A piano method to please students, teachers and parents! The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library is clear, concise and carefully graded. Perfect for private and group tuition.Piano Lessons Book 2 covers playing C D E F and G, 4ths, 5ths, sharps, flats, naturals, and playing G A B C and D. CD also available.

A great supplement for any method or as a stand alone tutor book. This book and CD pack contains fifty must-know lessons for all Guitarists, beginner to pro. Covers topics including: arpeggios, chord voicings, exotic scales, fills, fingerpicking, harmony and theory, pentatonic scales, soloing and so much more!

Culled from the DownBeat archives - includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! Features classic photos and magazine covers from DownBeat's vast archives.In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat.This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul.The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words.

This edition combines the contents of both books of the timeless Bach/Carroll Schirmer Library Volume.Includes a companion CD recorded by the editor and performance notes on the individual pieces.The series is designed for Piano students and their teachers as well as professional pianists.Includes suggested fingering, performance suggestions together with historical commentary prepared by renowned artists/teachers.

A piano method to please students, teachers and parents! The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library is clear, concise and carefully graded. Perfect for private and group tuition.Piano Lessons Book 1 covers sitting at the piano, feeling the beat, keyboard structure, black-key groups, white-key groups, playing on all white keys, moving in 2nds and moving in 3rds.

The world's most famous guitar celebrates 50 years! Fully authorized by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and written by best-selling author/historian Tom Wheeler, this remarkable book showcaes the worldwide cooperation of photographers, magazines, musicians and museums to produce this beautiful and inspiring book this milestone deserves. This Book/CD offers the best photos,quotes, facts & sounds to celebrate this achievement. With a forward by Eric Clapton and a CD featuring musical examples of famous Strat sounds and styles.

With this new dedicated UK edition, teachers can introduce the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library method to their students by using just one book.All-In-One Piano Lessons Book B combines selected pages from the Piano Lessons, Technique, Solos, Theory Workbook, and Practice Games into one easy-to-manage book.A perfect choice for beginning group or private instruction, this book/CD offers students a variety of styles and moods, and includes the 'best ever' teacher accompaniments. The CD is enhanced so besides working in any CD player, Windows and Mac computer users can also access MIDI files for each song!

All three volumes of the world-famous Hal Leonard Guitar Method are now available in one convenient paperback-sized edition! Designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric Guitar, this method is based on years of teaching Guitar students of all ages, and reflects the best Guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Covers tuning, Playing position, Notes in first, second, and fifth position, Strumming and picking, Chords and scales, Rhythms, Tablature, and more!

The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library meets the needs of teachers and pupils in new and exciting ways, combining solid pedagogy, exceptional music and a fresh approach to creativity. Not only will students be playing great-sounding music from the very first lessons, they'll also be improvising, composing and learning.This CD contains fully orchestrated accompaniments to Piano Lessons Book 3

The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along.The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!Guitar Play-Along Volume 47 - Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits is a fantastic collection of backing tracks, with supporting book, to play along to - you'll being playing your favourite songs in no time!

In Piano Lessons Book 5, students are introduced to sixteenth notes in various rhythm patterns. The wide variety of student selections includes 3 folk, 4 jazz, 13 classical and 8 contemporary original pieces. Scales (in both 8th and 16th note patterns) with their cadences are presented in five major and five minor keys. Root, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, and open position chords for each key centre are introduced. This package includes both a Piano Lessons Book and CD featuring wonderful tracks to accompany the student during practice or performance.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the world's best-loved drum magazine, Modern Drummer, here is the first book to tell the complete tale of the modern drumset masters. A century of drumming is covered: from the founding fathers of jazz to today's athletic, mind-altering wizards - and everyone in between. Buddy Rich, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Ringo Starr, Levon Helm, Neil Peart and dozens of other drum gods are featured.