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Agatha Carubia lovingly directs you to the core of your singing technique with the simplicity and passion inspired by 30 years of teaching success. Using a hybrid of the Eastern chakra energy system and the classical Bel Canto vocal technique, Heart-Based Singing serves as a trouble-shooting template for your voice, with practical exercises, tools and solutions for immediate improvement.

If you study nature closely you will understand the strategies and techniques that the natural world has developed over millions of years! Many of these strategies can be applied to the banjo. With practice, your banjo playing will become enjoyable, natural, and effortless! Nature flows. Wind and water move effortlessly through an environment filled with obstacles. Observing plants and animals can teach us how they accomplish amazing feats with minimal effort.

If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend. For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K - a Ukrainian-born taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them.

In her first collection of poetry, Jewel deals with such uniquely human themes as first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. The Alaska native writes with frankness and honesty. She is serious and suddenly playful, but always compelling.

The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary The Music Instinct: Science & Song, explores the power of music and its connection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Only recently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain this impact. One remarkable recent study, analyzing the cries of newborns, shows that infants' cries contain common musical intervals, and children tease each other in specific, singsong ways no matter where in the world they live.

Ear training is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop, and it’s one that you can work on every day. Which makes total sense: music is an aural experience, after all. Ear training helps you turn the music you hear into music you make on your guitar. This works for your own musical ideas, too: when you dream up a great riff or chord progression, you naturally want to sit down and play it right away. Ear training helps you do just that.

A Framework for Jazz Mastery is a wealth of information from one of the great modern jazz piano voices, Richie Beirach. Richie lays out in the first of three sections ten essential tips for becoming the jazz player you have the full potential to become. His tips include how to develop the necessary technique, the value in transcribing solos and how to best use them, how to learn a tune, reharmonization, composition, and more.

So, you're a music teacher. Or perhaps you are an administrator hoping to start a music program at your school. Maybe your program is running, but you have no idea how to drive it, give it a long vision and productive implementation. Is it working? Is it doing what it should be doing? What is that goal in the first place? Or maybe you are a parent, wondering how to put your child or yourself on the path to music literacy. This book is for you.

Taking listeners inside the songwriting mecca of Nashville’s Music Row for the real stories behind country’s most influential songs—and featuring exclusive interviews with songwriters like Vince Gill, Clint Black, Buddy Cannon, Jelly Roll, and Taylor Swift co-writer Liz Rose—Songs of Nashville gives you a front-row seat to the lives and work of the artists who’ve shaped country music.

Zum Gitarrespielen muss man sich doch einfach nur irgendeine x-beliebige Klampfe suchen und ein bisschen darauf herumklimpern – das ist möglicherweise die Meinung, die von vielen Menschen vertreten wird, wenn sie an eine Akustikgitarre denken. Doch was Sie entweder bereits festgestellt haben oder spätestens feststellen werden, wenn Sie am Ende dieses Buches angelangt sind, ist der Fakt, dass die Gitarre ein sehr komplexes Instrument ist, welches Ihnen und vielleicht in Zukunft auch Ihren Zuhörern viel Freude bereiten kann und Ihnen eine unfassbare Menge an Optionen bietet.

Mit klangvoller Stimme sicher sprechen und singen. Verstehen, wie Ihre Stimme und Ihr Nervensystem zusammenhängen. Die körperliche Basis für Sicherheit und Souveränität entwickeln. Dies alles und viel mehr erfahren und erleben Sie in diesem Buch. Auf spannende und unterhaltsame Weise führt die Stimmexpertin Susanne Koch Sie in alle Bereiche, die für die Stimme wichtig sind. Diese Bereiche lernen Sie "persönlich" kennen – nämlich in Ihrem eigenen Körper.

Beatles, Clapton, Latino, Country, and Gospel are all in this fusion box set, and every song has something every serious guitar player will want to know how to play. This set contains over seventeen hours of high-quality, all-audio instruction that will teach you essential blues licks, standard rhythm patterns, and great arpeggio accompaniments. This box set is also loaded with accompaniment tracks for you to play along with once you have learned the songs.

The lines are starting to blur between traditional and new classical, which is sometimes called “New Age,” “Meditative,” and “Focus Music.” It is easy to hear the influence of the great composers like Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven in the modern genre, and in this box set you’ll get to play in both worlds. This box set is loaded with Yiruma as well as Einaudi and Satie, whom most argue was the first of this genre. There is also the COMPLETE Sonata in C (all three movements) by Mozart (K545). This is over thirteen hours of high-quality piano instruction!

Movies, Star Trek, Clone Wars, and Willie Nelson! This mash-up set gives you movie themes, old standards, and a Singer Pro version of “Easy” by The Commodores, where you’ll learn the actual piano part from the original hit recording. There is also modern pop by Adele and Josh Groban. This set contains over twelve hours of high-quality piano instruction by a world-class teacher, taught entirely “By Ear!”

Por encima de cualquier otra forma de arte, incluso de la actuación, el canto es la forma más personal y expresiva de comunicarnos. Y es que cantar, ya se haga profesionalmente—en el ámbito del espectáculo, la terapia o el activismo—o por objetivos más personales como compartir nuestra música con la familia, los amigos y la comunidad, es un don sin el cual no podríamos vivir. Cantar 101: Principios Vocales Y Destrezas Fundamentales De Canto Para Todos Los Estilos Y Habilidades es la forma más rápida de aprender a cantar obteniendo los mejores resultados.

The Musician Healer resurrects a long-forgotten role for musicians and provides clear guidance for preparation and self-development as a musician healer in order to reactivate this role for the modern world. It begins with the author’s personal musical story that draws upon her Mi’kmaq/Abenaki First Nations and French Canadian roots, followed by the history of musician healers from ancient Egypt and India. Runningdeer then explores the energetic aspects of music healing, especially the quality of personal energies that a musician channels through her music.

Leben und Singen, das gehört zusammen. Auch, wenn du nicht so fürs singen bist. Denn auch du wirst dich "erwischen", dass du, wenn du dich freust, es dir so dermaßen gut geht, etwas singst, summst. Kein Lied, eine Melodie. Was dir das Singen leicht macht, erleichtert dir auch das Leben. In music is the answer.

I have created a guide to help you cultivate a mindful daily singing practice. This is to be used in any way that gets you connecting with your authentic voice, and is created for all levels and all styles of singing. Part 1 is a guide for you to get to know how we sing and the mechanics behind it. Part 2 is breath and bodywork to cultivate the connection with your body. Part 3 is guided vocal exercises.

I have created a guide to help you cultivate a mindful daily singing practice. This is to be used in anyway that gets you connecting with your authentic voice, and is created for all levels and all styles of singing. Part 1 is a guide for you to get to know how we sing and the mechanics behind it. Part 2 is breath and bodywork to cultivate the connection with your body. Part 3 is guided vocal exercises.

"Enlightenment of Vocal Rhythm" is an enlightenment reading to train children to cope and master vocal rhythm. Arranged according to rhyme, it covers astronomy, geography, flowers and trees, birds and beasts, characters, utensils, etc. From single-character pairs to double-character pairs, three-character pairs, five-character pairs, seven-character pairs to eleven-character pairs, the sound and rhythm are coordinated and catchy, and the training of pronunciation, vocabulary and rhetoric is obtained.