Expand the creative breadth of your soloing! The step-by-step exercises and explanations in this tried-and-true resource will help you develop your ear and improve your technique.
This book discusses the best use and layout of music notation in today's music industry. Topics include pitch and rhythm, lead sheets, articulation, instrument-specific notation, scores, parts, and more.
This book/DVD pack teaches expressive, virtuosic, and healthy piano technique for contemporary and classical styles. Through integrated written directions and video examples, you will see exactly how to move your fingers, wrists, arms, feet, body and breath to achieve maximum expressive effect and technical facility. Developed by Berklee Piano Dept. Chair Stephany Tiernan as a continuation of the groundbreaking work of Mme. Margaret Chaloff, t...
(Berklee Guide). Learn the ukulele! Berklee Basic Ukulele is an easy-to-follow, funintroduction to the ukulele--the perfect guide for the beginning ukulele enthusiast! The book begins with the basics of reading music notation (traditional notation, ukulele tablature, and chord diagrams), which can serve as a review or a handy primer for those with noprior reading experience. You will then learn a variety techniques for playing melodies, strumm...
A Total Vocal Workout in One Hour or Less!. The Berklee in the Pocket Singer's Handbook is a must-have guide that sets a perfect 45 to 60-minute practice routine for you.
Belting' picks up where the author's first book, 'Your singing voice' left off. It teaches how to sing loud, powerful vocals that won't hurt, crack, sound bad, or stop your vocal chords from functioning properly.
(Guitar Method). This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord form...
Learn the essential tools and skills for playing jazz guitar. This practical guidebook will help you master the theory, technique, and conceptual framework for how to play jazz.
Learn deep funk/R&B, guitar! These hands-on exercises, licks, and technical discussions will help you play in the style of Kool and the Gang, Prince, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Soulive, and other great artists, spanning from old school to contemporary funk/R&B, grooves. The CD features demonstration and practice tracks, played by the Boston-based R&B, /funk group the Thaddeus Hogarth Band. Guitar tabl...
This essential method features rigorous, hands-on, "ears-on" practice exercises that help you explore the inner working of music, presenting notes, scales, and rhythms as they are heard in pop, jazz, and blues. You will learn and build upon the basic concepts of music theory with written exercises, listening examples, and ear training exercises. The included CD will help reinforce lessons as you begin to build a solid musical foundation. Now a...
Learn to play traditional Irish melodies on the cello. The Irish Cello Book covers traditional articulations, concepts, and practices of Irish music, many traditionally for fiddle, but here adapted to the cello.