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Do you believe that some people can sight-read and others just can’t? In How to sight-read, Paul Harris dispels this and other common misconceptions about sight-reading, presenting instead the idea of sight-reading as a technique that can be developed and learned by anyone. He breaks down the fascinating science behind sight-reading as well as providing practical advice and exercises that can be incorporated into both lessons and practice. The engaging activities in the book are supported by a unique accompanying web app enabling readers to improve key areas of sight-reading technique including rhythm, pattern recognition, and brain processing speed. Written to help students, parents and teachers alike, How to sight-read challenges existing perspectives on sight-reading and presents an innovative new approach to teaching and learning this vital musical skill. ‘This book has elevated sight-reading practice to the next level, using a fresh, fun approach that blends solid vision, science principles, and 21st-century technology.’ Debra Grant BSc (Hons) MCOptom ‘Paul Harris has offered the concept that sight-reading is simply a technique that can be easily learnt by us all... This is a mustread for music students and teachers.’ John Hutchins, Director Junior Academy and LRAM, Royal Academy of Music “Harris has the wonderful skill of being able to distill complex information and present it with simple (but not simplistic) clarity, making accessible a deeper understanding of the topics he addresses. This book provides another excellent example of this, the author’s several decades of research and experience in the field of sight-reading brought to life with assured confidence and genuine insight.” Andrew Eales, Pianodao.com

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A River Out Of Eden is Howard Goodall’s vibrant choral anthem for SATB voices and piano, composed to celebrate the service of Sid and Cindy Davis at St Luke’s United Methodist Church, Houston. The music sets two distinct accounts of creation: William Tyndale’s translation from The Book of Genesis and an excerpt from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Intertwined through Goodall’s contemporary musical style, the disorder underlying Dillard’s text erupts into Tyndale’s joyous refrain: ‘And there spronge a rever out of Eden’, the music a reflection upon our dependence on the natural world. An optional organ part is also available to download from fabermusic.com.

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A piece a week Piano Grade 6 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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The Piano Player: Classical Chillout presents a curated selection of beautiful classical pieces to bring calm and relaxation. Transcribed for intermediate solo piano, this collection includes modern works such as I Giorni (Einaudi), Island II (Olivia Belli), At Dawn (Hania Rani) and River Flows in You (Yiruma), alongside classics Gnossienne No. 3 (Erik Satie), Prelude in C major (J.S. Bach) and many more. The atmospheric cover features Edward Bawden’s colour linocut ‘Town Hall Yard’ (1956), and a double-side colour print provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes several wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork.

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The Intermediate Piano Sonata Collection gathers together 9 complete sonatas that are all intermediate to early advanced (Grades 4 to 6) in standard. Featuring works by Beethoven, Anna Bon, Haydn, Mozart and Robert Schumann, it provides the highest quality music and many years of study. Each sonata is accompanied by a live recording, background information, playing tips and musicianship activities; students are also encouraged to use the Sonata Music Map to analyse each work in detail themselves. Piano sonatas are a fundamental part of the piano repertoire, but many students miss out on these masterpieces because they so rarely play a complete sonata – often only individual movements are available and subsequent movements can be too difficult. This collection aims to introduce the intermediate pianist to complete sonatas. Through it, players will gain a greater understanding of what they are playing, enhancing their interpretation and developing their musicianship.

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This ground-breaking and unmissable piano collection celebrates the music of iconic black songwriters. Including acclaimed songs such as People Get Ready (Curtis Mayfield), A Change is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke), Blinded By Your Grace Part 1 (Stormzy), I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Nina Simone), Redemption Song (Bob Marley), and more. All of the pieces are idiomatically arranged for intermediate-level piano solo (approximately Grade 3-5). The nature, style and genre of the songs vary widely, but the aim is to introduce players to a range of musicians and works that may well be new to them but are nevertheless important classics. The song People Get Ready was written during a time of civil unrest in America. Curtis Mayfield was increasingly infusing his songs with social commentary and it was written to give a message of hope, that change is on the way and there will be better times ahead.

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Play 10 favourites from the critically acclaimed musical Hamilton. This collection features carefully-crafted piano solo arrangements from the music penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Including Burn, Helpless and My Shot, all the pieces are fun to play and faithful to the original performances. The show debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales and has become one of the most successful stage musicals ever.

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Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM, Trinity and LCM Initial-level exams but also uses finger fitness exercises, scale, and arpeggio studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Piano Initial Grade covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams.

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The Piano Player: British Classics presents 20 iconic pieces of British classical music, specially arranged for intermediate piano solo. The collection includes the theme from Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis alongside music by Rachel Portman, Benjamin Britten, Howard Goodall and more, as well as traditional classics from across the British Isles. All the books in The Piano Player series feature a collectible pull-out print of the stunning cover artwork by the 20th century British painter Edward Bawden, alongside some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist.

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Put together for the first time in one book, the artist approved Radiohead: The Electric Guitar Songbook contains over 20 of the greatest guitar songs from Radiohead. Spanning their entire career to date, each song is transcribed for electric guitar in standard notation and tab, with melody line and chord boxes.

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Radiohead Complete is the definitive collection of Radiohead songs, including every song ever released by the British rock band (at time of publication). This artist-approved 368-page book contains 154 songs, including B-sides and rarities, all with lyrics and guitar chords. It also features 48 pages of artwork by the band's album artist Stanley Donwood, who also designed the exclusive cover artwork.

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Paul Harris’s ground-breaking and inspirational new approach encourages teachers to explore and transform how they teach. Paul identifies and reimagines the barriers or ‘conditions’ that can stand in the way of effective teaching, to allow for the most immersive and positive learning experience. Written in Paul’s accessible and engaging style, ideas are tackled from both a practical and psychological perspective, rooted in Paul’s renowned Simultaneous Learning methodology. For teachers of all disciplines and learners of all ages, this seminal book will begin your journey towards an unbounded, unconditional way of teaching. Unconditional Teaching is in my view one of those potentially transformative “best books about teaching”, and I would encourage every instrumental teacher to make a priority of reading it. A miniature masterpiece, a profoundly rewarding read: I quite simply cannot recommend Unconditional Teaching highly enough! Andrew Eales, pianodao.com review, January 2022 Whether you’re a new teacher, or an experienced one, this book is a must-read. Prepare to be both challenged and inspired; everything you take from it will enrich and enhance your teaching. This is the book I wish I’d read before I taught my very first lesson, but it’s of no less value now. David Barton, davidbartonmusic.co.uk, April 2022

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Muse Guitar Songbook contains twenty-eight accurate guitar transcriptions of their classic guitar songs, including Starlight, Madness and Uprising. All songs are transcribed for guitar and voice in standard notation and tablature.

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Flute Meditations is a beautiful collection of pieces for flute with piano accompaniment and flute duet suitable for late elementary to intermediate players (Grades 3-5), all inspired by paintings of a meditative nature. By bestselling composer Pam Wedgwood, this book includes online piano accompaniment audio as recorded by Pam herself and is complemented by a stunning pull-out poster of images providing the visual inspiration for each piece.

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How To Play Jazz Saxophone is a fun and engaging introduction to jazz from composer and saxophonist Ned Bennett. Discover the exciting world of jazz, from its roots in ragtime to blues, bebop and beyond! Ideal for established beginners (approximately Grade 3+ standard), this book teaches methods of improvisation, how to play in swing time, syncopated rhythms and jazz scales and modes. It also presents suggested listening ideas and melodic ‘phrase banks’ based on typical jazz chords alongside plenty of great new pieces. Audio and piano accompaniments are available to download for both alto and tenor saxophone.

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SIX the musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss has been hailed as, ‘the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre’ (The Evening Standard) and is the phenomenon everyone is losing their head over! Critically acclaimed across the UK with a soundtrack storming up the UK popcharts, the sell-out intoxicating musical tells the story of the six wives of Henry VIII. This official songbook remixes five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a celebration of 21st century girl power, with piano/vocal arrangements of all nine songs from the show. Special content includes an introduction about the songs, lyric pages and an 8-page colour section of cast photos.

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The beautifully produced Cats: definitive edition presents brand new arrangements of all the songs and musical interludes from the show Cats for piano and voice with guitar chords. This stunning new edition features silver foiling on the cover, a colour section with cast photos and an introduction by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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The life and good times of one of the world’s favourite songwriters. If you’ve ever hummed a popular film or stage song from the mid-1950s on, the chances are you’ve been humming one of Leslie’s. The man behind songs such as Talk to the Animals, Goldfinger, Feeling Good and Pure Imagination has been celebrated throughout the music industry. The result is a string of awards to his name, including a Grammy, a couple of Oscars (as well as ten nominations) and eight Ivor Novellos. Leslie’s story of talent, determination and a little bit of luck will take you on a fascinating journey from humble beginnings through this hardest of businesses to dizzying heights. Over the years, Leslie has collaborated with a dazzling array of stage and screen stars, including Rex Harrison, Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney, Richard Attenborough, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Julie Andrews, Roger Moore, Liza Minelli and Peter Sellers, and of course his sensational songwriting partnerships with Anthony Newley as well as with composers Henry Mancini, John Williams and John Barry. “Candid and hilarious, you’ll devour Leslie Bricusse’s autobiography in one delicious sitting. His recall is amazing and I can vouch for the authenticity.” Joan Collins “His catalogue of songs is enormous - his achievements endless.” Elton John “The book made me laugh aloud so many times. I’m in awe that you have pulled off such a monumental feat.” Julie Andrews

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A piece a week Piano Grade 2 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! series, graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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More Graded Studies for Saxophone Book One, by Paul Harris, brings together saxophone study repertoire spanning the entire spectrum of technique from the 19th Century onward, and provides a firm foundation for progress. Featuring core studies alongside specially composed pieces by Paul Harris, this comprehensive collection applies the Simultaneous Learning approach to instrumental technique. Book One begins at Elementary level and progresses to Intermediate (approx. Grades 1–5). The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty according to a carefully planned technical progression, and each study comes with a list of Simultaneous Learning musical ingredients for players to explore in preparation for the music.

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Part of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, Improve your sight-reading! Trinity Edition Piano Grade 3 has been specifically written to support the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria and reflects Trinity’s parameters for Grade 3. Improve your sight-reading! Series is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems. These books follow the same progressive format as previous editions where technical aspects are introduced step-by-step, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces.

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Rock & Pop Studies: Piano, written by rock & pop music experts, comprise 88 studies that develop all aspects of pop piano playing through focused technical work. Styles covered include Motown, metal, the blues, soul, funk, ska, reggae, disco, country, indie, dance, classic rock, synth pop and many more. Each study features accompanying teaching tips and further listening ideas, with a focus on syncopation, different basslines, gospel chord progressions, classic rock arpeggios, twelve bar blues – and how to rock out like Jerry Lee Lewis! Suitable for the established beginner to intermediate level piano and keyboard players, this progressive collection helps players learn and understand the many different challenges of popular piano playing.

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The Best Of Singing Grades 1-3 (High Voice) celebrates the wealth of exciting repertoire featured on the current ABRSM and Trinity College London singing syllabuses. As well as carefully selected range of classical, contemporary and folk songs, these books bring together some of the greatest jazz standards and Broadway hits ever written, all edited to the highest standard and with online audio .

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The Ultimate Songlist is a bumper collection of over 35 top-selling songs collected together for the first time in one book, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords. Featuring classics such as, I Say a Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin) and Bewitched (Ella Fitzgerald), with more recent hits like Just Give Me a Reason (Pink) and Let It Go from Disney’s Frozen.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-singing! Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-singing. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by making connections to your wider music-making, studying prepared pieces and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-singing pieces. These editions of the best-selling Improve your sight-singing! series have been simplified into two (midrange) volumes, making them suitable for instrumentalists who wish to improve their singing as well as for singers preparing for sight-singing in vocal exams. The books feature over 100 completely new practice exercises throughout and have been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-singing criteria.

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A piece a week Piano Grade 3 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! Series graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! Series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

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Pam Wedgwood’s After Hours: On My Travels is a compilation of a variety of styles from wistful jazz to sprite fanfare that was inspired by the places and people Pam has met on her travels, these evocative pieces for the advanced player (Grades 6-8) provide the perfect antidote to stress.

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Now in its fifth decade of existence, Scrooge The Musical started its screen life to celebrate the centennial of Charles Dickens’ death in 1970. The return to the Palladium, in the 22nd year of its stage life, coincided with the bi-centennial of Mr. Dickens’ birth in 1812. This songbook contains all the songs from the hit show, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords.

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Over the years, many examination pieces have captured the imagination of teachers and students, but the stars of past syllabuses are often forgotten. The Best of Grade 4 Violin brings together best-loved pieces from current and past syllabuses, including Hindu Song (Rimsky-Korsakov), Sometime Maybe (Wedgwood) and Fly me to the Moon (Howard). Containing fresh editions of folk and classical masterpieces alongside contemporary favourites, all pieces have been rigorously researched by violin expert Jessica O’Leary. Online audio of performance and accompaniment tracks are available, as are useful practice tips. This book includes pieces from current and past Trinity and ABRSM syllabuses. Jessica O’Leary has a successful career as a teacher, professional violinist, ABRSM examiner and seminar presenter. She has toured and recorded extensively as a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and has performed with Madonna, Led Zeppelin, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera House. She teaches violin and viola and directs string ensembles at St Paul’s Girls’ School, Eltham College and Junior Guildhall London.

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Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. New edition, devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

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***Winner of Best Print Resource 2016 at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence*** Improve your theory! Grades 1–5 are the latest additions to the bestselling ‘Improve your …’ series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 3 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s Simultaneous Learning approach, it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt, improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural! Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations Fun games and quizzes to engage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts Questions that connect theory directly with pupils’ own pieces – allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice Opportunities for composing, improvising, aural and listening activities, all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding. *** Download the Improve your theory! Grade 3 answers and audio tracks here ***

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Improve your sight-reading! Violin Grade 6 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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Improve your sight-reading! Violin Grade 4 is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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The Ukulele Jazz Playlist: Purple Book presents over 30 of the greatest jazz songs ever, specially arranged for ukulele. Includes full lyrics, strumming patterns and ukulele chord diagrams.

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This souvenir songbook from Billy Bragg contains all the songs from the albums with top line, chords and lyrics. Also includes, extensive photography and artwork alongside biographies and trivia. Learn to play the music and win the pub quiz with your knowledge of 'Braggigology'. Any self-respecting Bragg fan needs a copy of this book!

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The Chas & Dave Songbook contains 20 absolute classics arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Chas and Dave have been entertaining us for over thirty years with their no-nonsense rock ‘n’ roll and humorous cockney vocals, all underlined by a real gift for song-writing. They have become much-loved household names and are even name-checked by trendsetters such as Pete Doherty. This book covers all their songs, from their 1970s ‘rockney’, through their heyday of chart success, TV appearances and football collaborations in the 1980s, right up to their debut at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival. This is the first Chas and Dave sheet music to be available for twenty years!

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Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 4 (Early Intermediate) is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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Pam Wedgwood's Really Easy Jazzin' About Piano is a vibrant collection of original pieces arranged for solo piano in a range of contemporary styles, tailor-made for the absolute beginner (Grade 0-2). Online audio is included this book, complete with performances and backing tracks and slowed-down backings for practice for an enhanced learning experience. So take a break from the classics and get into the groove as you cruise from blues, to rock, to jazz!

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Me and My Piano Superscales is a sound and refreshingly different introduction to piano scales. Designed to contemplate Me and My Piano Part 2 of the highly successful method Me and My Piano Series by Dame Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood, it will be invaluable for any younger beginner. There are simple 'under and over' exercises to establish fingering patterns, and the scales themselves are brought to life with 16 imaginative scaley pieces complete with teacher accompaniments. The numerous 'musical detective' quizzes will keep every student on their toes! Enchantingly illustrated, this book adopts a friendly yet methodical approach that will ensure a rapid, musical grasp of scales in a most enjoyable way.

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Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 7 (Early Advanced) is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by ‘going solo’ with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

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Me and My Piano Duets book 2 comprises 16 pieces arranged for piano, which have interchangeable parts of equal difficulty so that the young pianist can play alongside a teacher, parent or another pupil, whilst others are intended for pupil/teacher performance. They form part of the Me and My Piano Series by Dame Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood, with this second book containing a selection of easy, attractive duets for the young beginner.

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Play Hollywood (Flute) features 10 all-time great film themes from across the decades with fun backing tracks to play along with. From the classic Chariots Of Fire and Superman to action-packed Star Wars, James Bond and Lord Of The Rings. You can play along with all your favourite movie themes. All the songs have been carefully selected and arranged for the Intermediate (Grades 3-5) player by Richard Harris, with fun backing tracks and piano accompaniments to download online.

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Keyclub Pupil's Book 1, by Ann Bryant, is part of a fun-packed series of tutors for beginner pianists that introduces young players to the rudiments of piano playing in an exciting and colourful way. Each book is packed full of great pieces, as well as animated characters such as, the Mud Monsters and the Wizards of the White Wishing Well, who will really liven up the early stages of learning to play. The Keyclub Series is a piano course that’s up to date, fun to use and packed with pieces to play, things to do and stickers to stick! The Keyclub Course takes place in Keyland – a magical fantasy world of characters and places.

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Following the landmark digital release of Radiohead's In Rainbows, the experimental rock stalwarts finally issued the album in its physical CD format. It headed straight to the top of the album charts and a limited discbox edition with extra tracks followed at the beginning of 2008. This official songbook contains all the songs from that limited edition discbox version, arranged in guitar tablature format. Musically, In Rainbows is a culmination of the band's previous work, taking in both the avant-garde electronics of their later records with their more traditional guitar-heavy sound. Many are claiming it to be the obvious heir to OK Computer, often cited as the 'best rock album of all time'.

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The Best of Grade 4 Flute is a major collection of the best loved pieces and studies selected by the leading examination boards, from current favourites to forgotten gems. Technically tried and tested, all the pieces have been rigorously researched by flute expert Sally Adams. Downloadable online audio of performances, together with piano accompaniments is available, as well as useful practice tips. In each of the books, one piece from each list of the 2008-2013 Associated Board syllabus is included, enabling candidates to use the books in their graded examinations.

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Mary Cohen’s Nifty Shifts is ideal for the Grade 3-4 violinist and is specially designed to kick-start position changing. Featuring lots of well-known tunes and technical tips - including the use of a ‘guide’ finger, preparation strategies, melodic fragments to play in different keys and positions, and by ear - there are also handy technical exercises in the form of ‘fingerobics’ and ‘glisserobics’, helping the player to develop these new skills.

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