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Provides exercises for jazz guitar techniques, including jazz riffs, breaks, fill-ins, and solos.
A three volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music. The first volume includes scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other musical styles. The second volume covers the bebop language, patterns, formulas and other linking exercises necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music.
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An Obie Award-winning playwright's passionate ode to film and the theater that happens in between.
This is the second book I the Complete Piano Player course and is every bit as rewarding as the first. You will learn how to play songs by Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart, The Beatles and more, while introducing new notes for both hands, extending past the range of the original five-finger position. Letter names will appear alongside new notes only. Carefully follow the lessons and you will find you have learned all about accidentals, chord symbols, dotted rhythms and wrist staccato, as well as having increased your repertoire and grown as a musician Remember playing little and often is the best way to make rapid progress and become the complete piano player. Songlist: - A Hard Days Night [The Be...
The week after Thanksgiving. A bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching. John, an uncanny play by Annie Baker, was first seen Off-Broadway in 2015. The play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by James Macdonald. Annie Baker's other plays include Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick, The Antipodes, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, and an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. She has won many other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Grant.
Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.
"In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, Amy Muse guides readers through her critically acclaimed plays and other work. She illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing. Through close discussions of her plays, this book immerses readers in Baker's attunement to everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by interviews and engaging essays by three scholars, this is a companionable guide that deepens the reader's knowledge and appreciation of Baker's dramatic invention"--
Book 5 of this popular series will teach you new skills and techniques while reinforcing skills already learned. You will learn more about phrasing and how dynamics in music can transform your playing. Four new keys are introduced and new left hand techniques are introduced.
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.