Educational

This book is the product of Mark Harrison's experience teaching hundreds of students at the world-famous Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. Suitable for instrumentalists, vocalists, composers and songwriters, this Level 3 course covers the chord tones, extensions and scale sources for all major, minor, dominant and diminished chords, and then applies the contemporary shape concept to create voicings, polychords, and to harmonize melodies.

The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Level Two is an intermediate-level course covering larger chord forms, definitive chords in major and minor keys, substitutions, analysis of key centers in tunes, upper structure chords, voiceleading, and pentatonic and blues scale applications. Both levels include reference appendices, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.

Keep the lines of communication open! This helpful resource for busy music teachers includes 24 sample letters to parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders on topics specific to K-8 choral and classroom music. Created by music advocate Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser and elementary music specialist and composer Cristi Miller, all the letters are included in book form and on an enclosed CD-ROM for downloading and personalizing as needed. Also included are helpful hints on using the book, creative ways to use the letters, and a wealth of related links and resources. Topics include: The Importance of Parental Support, Music and Discipline, The Value of Music Beyond Performance, Motivation, Being Part of a Musical Community, Parent Talent Bank, Special Unit Study, Field Trip, Concert Etiquette and much more! For Grades K-8.

Creative Music contains materials both for sight-reading and transposition, and for improvisation. It is the perfect complement to the Music for Piano books also by Robert Pace, or it can also be used as a stand-alone. Available in four levels.

By following the series of progressive exercises laid out here, drummers who already possess a substantial level of solo skills - but who want to add a greater degree of rhythmic and visual interest to their solo work - will better understand the technique, and develop a good measure of facility on their own.

This updated and expanded edition of the essential instruction book provides more than 450 exercises, including hundreds of melodic and rhythmic ideas. The book is designed to help improvisors master the cycle of fifths, one of the primary progressions in music. Guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!