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Bastien Piano Basics ENHANCED editions combine the time-tested, best-selling Bastien Basics pedagogy with innovative technology to take learning to a whole new level! Each book includes eBook access, new play-along accompaniments, a personal recording studio, writing tools, flashcards, and much more - all powered by the INTERACTIVE Practice Studio(TM) (IPS) app!

Piano is the main lesson book in the Bastien Piano Basics course. The carefully graded, logical learning sequence assures steady, continual progress. Original music by the Bastiens includes a stimulating mixture of pop, folk, classical, and contemporary styles. Full-colour illustrations throughout entertain and reinforce musical concepts along the way. The gradual multi-key approach takes students through all 12 keys -- 3 in each of Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each page is carefully correlated page-by-page with Theory, Performance, and Technic. All in all, a dynamic way to introduce students to the marvellous world of music!

 Level 3 presents relative minor scales (a and d), octaves, minor key signatures, major-minor triads, primary chords in minor, various bass styles, triplets, the chromatic scale, and the kyes of D-flat, A-flat, and E-flat.

The Sight Reading series is a valuable new addition to the Neil A. Kjos Piano Repertoire Library. As they say, “You learn to sight read by doing it!”

This series includes piano music of various textures and styles to be used to improve student sight reading, as well as overall reading skills beginning at the elementary level. The series is useful as a supplement to any course of study and includes original music by Diane Hidy (Prep. to Level 2) and Snell editions of works (Levels 2 to 4) by composers of the 17th through early 20th centuries. The works are brief enough for students to quickly read during their practice. They are also useful as “short study” pieces that can be practiced, but only for a few days, or at most a couple of weeks. The music is not intended for performance, but rather to improve students’ ability to learn new music quickly and efficiently.

A new piano course by Keith Snell designed especially for adults! This new course is designed with adult capabilities in mind. It will navigate students through the process of becoming musically literate and technically proficient, with the ultimate goal of achieving the competence to play whatever music they like.

The course is comprised of two books, divided into 10 units in each book. Each unit consists of three sections:

Through a variety of musical styles, students will learn about scales, chords, and key signatures, and how these elements are used as the building blocks of music. Combined with a solid foundation in reading notes and rhythms, the skills acquired from this course are fully transferable to many types of music and music making, and will ensure a lifetime of enjoyment at the piano.

For added enjoyment and instruction each book includes FREE access to online resources such as audio accompaniments, YouTube demonstration videos, answer keys, and more!

This book is a useful supplement to Book 1 of the Keith Snell Piano Course for the Adult Beginner (KJGP691). The material is designed for class settings with multiple students and keyboards. In may be used equally well with small, medium, or large classes, or even only two students in tandem lessons. It enhances the development of reading skills, aural skills and general musicianship through class participation. Each or the ten units in the book is divided into four sections to develop solid musicianship: Rhythm, Sight Reading, Ear Training, and Ensemble. In tandem, these section improve students' aural skills and critical listening.

Vibrato Basics is the newest member of the String Basic™ curriculum! Specially written for string classrooms, students of all instruments will learn step-by-step exercises ultimately preparing the left hand for a healthy vibrato motion. As vibrato starts to settle in, the exercises will segue into familiar melodies and excerpts from folk songs and orchestral literature. Vibrato Basics also features the popular Interactive Practice Studio (IPS) where students can view short videos featuring essential exercises introduced throughout the book. Vibrato Basics is an ideal companion with String Basics™ Book 3 or any traditional level 3 method book. Shifting and position work is required for all students. 

Learn the fundamentals of jazz! The flexible, modular Total JAZZ THEORY approach allows you to study in a way that best fits your time and goals. Ear Training exercises in the free INTERACTIVE Practice Studio offer even more opportunities for enrichment.

Complete all 36 lessons for a total jazz theory experience, or choose the pages and exercises labeled as Basic for an introduction to the nuts and bolts of jazz. Whatever path you choose, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a total jazz musician!

Dean Sorenson is Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota. A former trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, he is frequently featured at festivals and conventions around the United States and abroad as a Yamaha performing artist, and is highly sought-after as a commissioned composer and arranger for jazz ensemble, symphony orchestra, concert band, and chamber ensembles. Mr. Sorenson is the author of the Excellence in Jazz Pedagogy series, First Place for Jazz, Jazz Combo Session, and First Jazz Performance. He is also co-author, with Bruce Pearson, of the Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method and Advanced Jazz Ensemble Method.

Emily Kelley presents a resource for educators to learn how to fully support and successfully engage students with exceptionalities in the instrumental music classroom. Accommodations and modifications for students with exceptionalities are offered to foster their success in the music education environment, along with descriptions, specific instructional strategies, and templates for assessments to facilitate progress toward inclusion. The ultimate goal of this book is for educators to learn how to create a learning environment in which ALL students feel successful, supported, and able to be the best musician they can be!

Vibrato Basics is the newest member of the String Basic™ curriculum! Specially written for string classrooms, students of all instruments will learn step-by-step exercises ultimately preparing the left hand for a healthy vibrato motion. As vibrato starts to settle in, the exercises will segue into familiar melodies and excerpts from folk songs and orchestral literature. Vibrato Basics also features the popular Interactive Practice Studio (IPS) where students can view short videos featuring essential exercises introduced throughout the book. Vibrato Basics is an ideal companion with String Basics™ Book 3 or any traditional level 3 method book. Shifting and position work is required for all students. 

Vibrato Basics is the newest member of the String Basic™ curriculum! Specially written for string classrooms, students of all instruments will learn step-by-step exercises ultimately preparing the left hand for a healthy vibrato motion. As vibrato starts to settle in, the exercises will segue into familiar melodies and excerpts from folk songs and orchestral literature. Vibrato Basics also features the popular Interactive Practice Studio (IPS) where students can view short videos featuring essential exercises introduced throughout the book. Vibrato Basics is an ideal companion with String Basics™ Book 3 or any traditional level 3 method book. Shifting and position work is required for all students.

Vibrato Basics is the newest member of the String Basic™ curriculum! Specially written for string classrooms, students of all instruments will learn step-by-step exercises ultimately preparing the left hand for a healthy vibrato motion. As vibrato starts to settle in, the exercises will segue into familiar melodies and excerpts from folk songs and orchestral literature. Vibrato Basics also features the popular Interactive Practice Studio (IPS) where students can view short videos featuring essential exercises introduced throughout the book. Vibrato Basics is an ideal companion with String Basics™ Book 3 or any traditional level 3 method book. Shifting and position work is required for all students.

Vibrato Basics is the newest member of the String Basic™ curriculum! Specially written for string classrooms, students of all instruments will learn step-by-step exercises ultimately preparing the left hand for a healthy vibrato motion. As vibrato starts to settle in, the exercises will segue into familiar melodies and excerpts from folk songs and orchestral literature. Vibrato Basics also features the popular Interactive Practice Studio (IPS) where students can view short videos featuring essential exercises introduced throughout the book. Vibrato Basics is an ideal companion with String Basics™ Book 3 or any traditional level 3 method book. Shifting and position work is required for all students.

With nearly 40 years of experience in the choral field, esteemed conductor and composer Bradley Ellingboe shares his wisdom, tips, and practical advice in an accessible and enjoyable style. His pragmatic approach will help you learn the right questions to ask for your own unique situation, and will help you learn to arrive at your own solutions. 

The interrelated chapters guide you through the necessary steps for preparing a successful concert or season, making effective rehearsal plans, efficiently preparing your scores and conducting gestures, problem solving issues of vocal technique, and much more. The appendix of correlated, reproducible worksheets, templates, music, and handouts will help you more easily organize your plans and apply the useful suggestions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             "In A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting Bradley Ellingboe insightfully addresses a full spectrum of topics essential to the development of a successful choir conductor garnered from his own long and distinguished career as a conductor, vocal soloist, and music educator.  Ellingboe’s topical approach is a comprehensive one, from selecting and performing repertoire to matters of rehearsal techniques, conducting gestures, vocal production, aspects of texts, working with an orchestra, etc., all crucial considerations for any choral conductor. As a composer who has concertized with Prof. Ellingboe and his choirs in the past, it is gratifying to see that which has brought him esteem now in book form to be shared with his conducting colleagues, all of whom are certain to be enriched by its contents.”    Morten Lauridsen  

Intonation Basics™ is a supplementary method designed to guide students and orchestras towards development of superb intonation. Author Jeremy Woolstenhulme shares a wealth of tips throughout the Teacher’s Edition, starting with establishing good posture, selecting solid open string tuning procedures, working on vertical format tuning with drone pitches, learning to blend as an ensemble, and more. The book supports Woolstenhulme’s pedagogy with a wealth of technical exercises and classical melodies specially prepared as rounds, duets, trios, quartets, and orchestra arrangements. Intonation Basics™ also includes access to 20 instructional videos demonstrating technique and ways to achieve good intonation. Although primarily designed for second year players and beyond, there are concepts and exercises that are quite appropriate for 1st year orchestras in their second semester. 

Intonation Basics™ is a supplementary method designed to guide students and orchestras towards development of superb intonation. Author Jeremy Woolstenhulme shares a wealth of tips throughout the Teacher’s Edition, starting with establishing good posture, selecting solid open string tuning procedures, working on vertical format tuning with drone pitches, learning to blend as an ensemble, and more. The book supports Woolstenhulme’s pedagogy with a wealth of technical exercises and classical melodies specially prepared as rounds, duets, trios, quartets, and orchestra arrangements. Intonation Basics™ also includes access to 20 instructional videos demonstrating technique and ways to achieve good intonation. Although primarily designed for second year players and beyond, there are concepts and exercises that are quite appropriate for 1st year orchestras in their second semester. 

Intonation Basics™ is a supplementary method designed to guide students and orchestras towards development of superb intonation. Author Jeremy Woolstenhulme shares a wealth of tips throughout the Teacher’s Edition, starting with establishing good posture, selecting solid open string tuning procedures, working on vertical format tuning with drone pitches, learning to blend as an ensemble, and more. The book supports Woolstenhulme’s pedagogy with a wealth of technical exercises and classical melodies specially prepared as rounds, duets, trios, quartets, and orchestra arrangements. Intonation Basics™ also includes access to 20 instructional videos demonstrating technique and ways to achieve good intonation. Although primarily designed for second year players and beyond, there are concepts and exercises that are quite appropriate for 1st year orchestras in their second semester.

Intonation Basics™ is a supplementary method designed to guide students and orchestras towards development of superb intonation. Author Jeremy Woolstenhulme shares a wealth of tips throughout the Teacher’s Edition, starting with establishing good posture, selecting solid open string tuning procedures, working on vertical format tuning with drone pitches, learning to blend as an ensemble, and more. The book supports Woolstenhulme’s pedagogy with a wealth of technical exercises and classical melodies specially prepared as rounds, duets, trios, quartets, and orchestra arrangements. Intonation Basics™ also includes access to 20 instructional videos demonstrating technique and ways to achieve good intonation. Although primarily designed for second year players and beyond, there are concepts and exercises that are quite appropriate for 1st year orchestras in their second semester.

Intonation Basics™ is a supplementary method designed to guide students and orchestras towards development of superb intonation. Author Jeremy Woolstenhulme shares a wealth of tips throughout the Teacher’s Edition, starting with establishing good posture, selecting solid open string tuning procedures, working on vertical format tuning with drone pitches, learning to blend as an ensemble, and more. The book supports Woolstenhulme’s pedagogy with a wealth of technical exercises and classical melodies specially prepared as rounds, duets, trios, quartets, and orchestra arrangements. Intonation Basics™ also includes access to 20 instructional videos demonstrating technique and ways to achieve good intonation. Although primarily designed for second year players and beyond, there are concepts and exercises that are quite appropriate for 1st year orchestras in their second semester.  

Technique for Advanced String Players is an advanced-level supplement, part of the String Basics Method Book complete curriculum. This resource benefits students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3, or any level 3 comprehensive method book. It is a technique book designed for players in an advanced orchestra or in a private studio environment. Features:

Technique for Advanced String Players is an advanced-level supplement, part of the String Basics Method Book complete curriculum. This resource benefits students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3, or any level 3 comprehensive method book. It is a technique book designed for players in an advanced orchestra or in a private studio environment. Features:

Technique for Advanced String Players is an advanced-level supplement, part of the String Basics Method Book complete curriculum. This resource benefits students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3, or any level 3 comprehensive method book. It is a technique book designed for players in an advanced orchestra or in a private studio environment. Features:

Perfect for advanced orchestra or private studioFor students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3 or any level 3 method bookIntroduces and reinforces all finger patterns across the entire fingerboardIntroduces and reinforces half position through upper positions, including shifting workFeatures 12 major keys, 8 minor keys, and the chromatic scale80 pages are filled with short exercises, scales, arpeggios, rounds, chorales & classical themesFingerboard charts for every instrument

Technique for Advanced String Players is an advanced-level supplement, part of the String Basics Method Book complete curriculum. This resource benefits students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3, or any level 3 comprehensive method book. It is a technique book designed for players in an advanced orchestra or in a private studio environment. Features:

Perfect for advanced orchestra or private studioFor students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3 or any level 3 method bookIntroduces and reinforces all finger patterns across the entire fingerboardIntroduces and reinforces half position through upper positions, including shifting workFeatures 12 major keys, 8 minor keys, and the chromatic scale80 pages are filled with short exercises, scales, arpeggios, rounds, chorales & classical themesFingerboard charts for every instrument

Technique for Advanced String Players is an advanced-level supplement, part of the String Basics Method Book complete curriculum. This resource benefits students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3, or any level 3 comprehensive method book. It is a technique book designed for players in an advanced orchestra or in a private studio environment. Features:

Perfect for advanced orchestra or private studioFor students who are working in or have completed String Basics Book 3 or any level 3 method bookIntroduces and reinforces all finger patterns across the entire fingerboardIntroduces and reinforces half position through upper positions, including shifting workFeatures 12 major keys, 8 minor keys, and the chromatic scale80 pages are filled with short exercises, scales, arpeggios, rounds, chorales & classical themesFingerboard charts for every instrument

Bastien Piano Basics ENHANCED editions combine the time-tested, best-selling Bastien Basics pedagogy with innovative technology to take learning to a whole new level! Each book includes eBook access, new play-along accompaniments, a personal recording studio, writing tools, flashcards, and much more - all powered by the INTERACTIVE Practice Studio(TM) (IPS) app!

Piano is the main lesson book in the Bastien Piano Basics course. The carefully graded, logical learning sequence assures steady, continual progress. Original music by the Bastiens includes a stimulating mixture of pop, folk, classical, and contemporary styles. Full-colour illustrations throughout entertain and reinforce musical concepts along the way. The gradual multi-key approach takes students through all 12 keys -- 3 in each of Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each page is carefully correlated page-by-page with Theory, Performance, and Technic. All in all, a dynamic way to introduce students to the marvellous world of music!

The Primer Level is for average age beginners (7-11). It uses pre-staff notation before introducing the grand staff. Reading is presented with steps, skips, and repeated notes. Music includes a variety of original works, folk songs, and pop styles, many with duet accompaniments.

Bastien Piano Basics ENHANCED editions combine the time-tested, best-selling Bastien Basics pedagogy with innovative technology to take learning to a whole new level! Each book includes eBook access, new play-along accompaniments, a personal recording studio, writing tools, flashcards, and much more - all powered by the INTERACTIVE Practice Studio(TM) (IPS) app!

This Primer series for young beginners (ages-5-6) begins with pre-staff notation, and proceeds to reading on the grand staff. The combination of original, folk, and seasonal songs, and full-colour artwork makes learning a treat. Students who complete both Primers A & B are ready for study in Level 1 of Bastien Piano Basics.

Primer A is for beginners ages 5-6; traditional middle C approach begins with pre-staff notation; grand staff is introduced on page 28.

Bastien Piano Basics ENHANCED editions combine the time-tested, best-selling Bastien Basics pedagogy with innovative technology to take learning to a whole new level! Each book includes eBook access, new play-along accompaniments, a personal recording studio, writing tools, flashcards, and much more - all powered by the INTERACTIVE Practice Studio(TM) (IPS) app!

This Primer series for young beginners (ages-5-6) begins with pre-staff notation, and proceeds to reading on the grand staff. The combination of original, folk, and seasonal songs, and full-colour artwork makes learning a treat. Students who complete both Primers A & B are ready for study in Level 1 of Bastien Piano Basics.

The Primer B Level is a continuation of the method for students who have completed Primer A.

Piano Party is the core book at all four levels of the Bastiens' Invitation to Music Series (A, B, C, D); new concepts are introduced in the Piano Party books. Along with Piano Party, the companion books, Theory & Ear Training Party and Performance Party, provide the formula for a well-balanced music education. Colorful illustrations in all the books are used to reinforce concepts and styles, to maintain interest, and to motivate.

The Sight Reading series is a valuable new addition to the Neil A. Kjos Piano Repertoire Library. As they say, “You learn to sight read by doing it!”

This series includes piano music of various textures and styles to be used to improve student sight reading, as well as overall reading skills beginning at the elementary level. The series is useful as a supplement to any course of study and includes original music by Diane Hidy (Prep. to Level 2) and Snell editions of works (Levels 2 to 4) by composers of the 17th through early 20th centuries. The works are brief enough for students to quickly read during their practice. They are also useful as “short study” pieces that can be practiced, but only for a few days, or at most a couple of weeks. The music is not intended for performance, but rather to improve students’ ability to learn new music quickly and efficiently.

The Sight Reading series is a valuable new addition to the Neil A. Kjos Piano Repertoire Library. As they say, “You learn to sight read by doing it!”

This series includes piano music of various textures and styles to be used to improve student sight reading, as well as overall reading skills beginning at the elementary level. The series is useful as a supplement to any course of study and includes original music by Diane Hidy (Prep. to Level 2) and Snell editions of works (Levels 2 to 4) by composers of the 17th through early 20th centuries. The works are brief enough for students to quickly read during their practice. They are also useful as “short study” pieces that can be practiced, but only for a few days, or at most a couple of weeks. The music is not intended for performance, but rather to improve students’ ability to learn new music quickly and efficiently.

The Sight Reading series is a valuable new addition to the Neil A. Kjos Piano Repertoire Library. As they say, “You learn to sight read by doing it!”

This series includes piano music of various textures and styles to be used to improve student sight reading, as well as overall reading skills beginning at the elementary level. The series is useful as a supplement to any course of study and includes original music by Diane Hidy (Prep. to Level 2) and Snell editions of works (Levels 2 to 4) by composers of the 17th through early 20th centuries. The works are brief enough for students to quickly read during their practice. They are also useful as “short study” pieces that can be practiced, but only for a few days, or at most a couple of weeks. The music is not intended for performance, but rather to improve students’ ability to learn new music quickly and efficiently.