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A piece a week Piano Initial Grade for beginner players is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! 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 best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop vital sight-reading skills, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians.

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Violin Basics is a landmark method by two of the leading figures in music education. Comprising pupil’s tutor book, teacher’s accompaniment book, and online audio, Violin Basics provides everything you need to get playing. This Pupil’s Book starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to Grade 1 level. The step-by-step technical progression is supported by fun exercises and warm-ups, a wide range of imaginative repertoire, music theory, and general musicianship activities. Audio of all the accompaniments are available online.

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FutureDJs: How to DJ is the ideal resource for anyone interested in the alchemy of mixing records. Perfect for the aspiring student with no prior knowledge as well as DJs looking to extend their skills and explore new genres. This complete guide covers all the technical foundations for DJ-ing in any genre or style, from fundamental skills such as beat-matching right through to using effects, scratching and beat-juggling. Featuring clear step-by-step instructions, stunning diagrams, at-a-glance guides to genres and packed with comments from professional DJs, this book will inspire and guide you through the creative and thrilling techniques required to become a FutureDJ. Every skill can be practised over and over in a range of genres from House, Techno and Trance to Grime, Trap, Hip-hop and Drum and Bass. “At last, a comprehensive and authentic book on the art of DJ-ing. The FutureDJs team have delivered a must-have book for anyone aspiring to become a DJ or enhance their existing skills.” Mark Brown (Cr2 Records) “This brilliant handbook will help you to develop your skills, musical understanding and sense of what makes DJ-ing unique, exciting and important as a modern musical skill. Dig in and enjoy.” Dr Pete Dale

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Last Christmas is a festive romantic comedy film starring Emilia Clarke as a cynical Christmas store worker who keeps running into an overly-cheerful man (Henry Golding) and begins to fall for him. The film features the music of singer George Michael and Wham!, including Last Christmas and the previously unreleased track This Is How (We Want You To Get High). This official movie soundtrack songbook includes songs from the film arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords.

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Imagine turning on the radio, hearing a good song and being able to write the whole thing down – tune, chords, bassline and drums. That is what you will learn with this course. Real Ear Training is the ultimate book for learning to hear, write down and understand melodies, chords, basslines, rhythms and drum kit grooves. No instrument is required and only basic music notation knowledge is needed. With step-by-step instructions, packed with exercises and accompanied by online audio, this unmissable book is suitable for all levels. Real Ear Training is ideal for rock & pop musicians and teachers, for teaching yourself, and for improving GCSE, A Level, college and university dictation skills. “This is the book I’ve been looking for all my life – it contains the secret to having a good ear!” Ed Balls, economist and pianist “Help is finally here for today’s music students! This course brilliantly develops the essential ability to hear and transcribe music.” Darius Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer Roland Perrin has gained a reputation both as a jazz and world music composer/pianist and is a sought-after music educator. He is a senior lecturer at the cutting-edge London College of Creative Media where he has taught many students now working in the music industry.

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Ever since its premiere in 1994, Thomas Adès’ first string quartet, Arcadiana has been captivating audiences with its evocations of vanishing, vanished, and imaginary idylls. Of all the work’s movements it is O Albion that has most captured the imagination of listeners: seventeen sighing, devotissimo bars that, in only three minutes, conjure a whole emotional world. This arrangement for SSAATTBB voices was created by Jim Clements for vocal group Voces8, who recorded it for Decca in 2018. It sets a line from William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion: ‘The Daughters of Albion hear her woes, and echo back her sighs.’ A piano part is included for rehearsal.

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Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Clarinet Grades 4-5 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

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Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces, simple improvisations and composition to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Clarinet Grades 1-3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. This new edition has been devised to support the revised criteria from the ABRSM from 2018.

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Lang Lang: daily technical exercises is a collection of scale-based warm-ups, work-outs and routines that no aspiring pianist should be without, providing a perfect follow on from the Lang Lang Piano Academy mastering the piano series. Ideal for mastering keys and developing essential technique, this book provides flexible and progressive routines ideal for intermediate-level players upwards. Elements include a comprehensive warm-up section, advice and tips from Lang Lang himself, and an extension section with ideas for further practice. Intermediate routines concisely cover each key centre in musical exercises and advanced routines cover Russian scale patterns, giving a full work-out for each key centre.

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The Jazz Sax Collection (Tenor/Soprano Saxophone) is an unmissable selection of authentic jazz, written and arranged by professional jazz saxophonist Ned Bennett for Intermediate to Advanced-level players (approximately Grade 4 to 7). It includes accompanied and unaccompanied pieces, featuring well-known jazz standards, with opportunities for improvisation within selected pieces, together with performance notes and listening suggestions. The sheet music for the individual works plus the audio demo and backing tracks of all the pieces are available to download online.

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

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Selected by piano teachers for piano teachers, EPTA Teachers' Choice Piano Collection 1 is a collection of the most popular pieces for Grade 1-4 level students, as voted for by members of the European Piano Teacher’s Association (EPTA). Each piece is introduced with a comment from a teacher, providing first-hand insights, tips and technical advice.

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The romantic musical comedy-drama film La La Land is the winner of six Oscars, seven Golden Globes and five BAFTAs. This artist-approved selection of 10 songs from the Oscar-winning music by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul has been transcribed for piano and voice with guitar chords, following the original music and keys as closely as possible. Features the Oscar-winning song ‘City of Stars’.

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Paul Harris’s highly successful Simultaneous Learning approach is an entirely positive and imaginative way to teach, which embraces the understanding that all the elements of music are connected. In this definitive book Harris outlines the complete philosophy of his ground-breaking approach. He examines topics such as language and body language, the first lesson on a new piece, introducing notation and making the transition to Simultaneous Learning.

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Iron & Wine: The Songbook contains songs from albums and EPs by American singer-songwriter Iron & Wine. The artist-approved chord songbook includes lyrics and chords with short picking patterns in tab and notation and is full colour throughout with artwork, photographs and tour posters, a song index and index of first lines. Sam Beam is a singer-songwriter who has been creating music as Iron & Wine for over a decade. Through the course of seven albums, numerous EPs and singles, and the initial volumes of an Archive Series – Iron & Wine has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with distinctly cinematic songs.

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Wrong Crowd is the artist-approved matching songbook to Ivor Novello and BRIT award-winning songwriter Tom Odell's second studio album. Set for release on 10th June 2016, the album was co-produced by Odell alongside Jim Abbiss, who has also produced records for artists including Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Adele.Tom Odell released his debut album Long Way Down in 2013, which has sold over 1 million copies to date. His single Real Love - a cover of a track by The Beatles - was used for John Lewis' Christmas TV ad campaign of 2014.

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Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, this new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Flute Grades 4-5 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading. Step by step you will build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic, melodic and technical exercises, then by studying prepared pieces and finally `going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This new edition of the best-selling Improve your sight-reading! contains completely new material throughout and has been brought up to date to match the latest ABRSM sight-reading criteria.

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Caustic Love was Scottish singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini's second UK Number 1 album, breaking the record for first week sales in 2014. This artist-approved album matching folio contains all the songs from the album arranged for piano, vocal with guitar chords, including the single Scream (Funk My Life Up) and the amazing Iron Sky.

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Guitar Basics Sight-reading offers bite-sized exercises and specimen pieces to help young players improve their sight-reading and general musicianship skills in a fun and unintimidating manner. Carefully devised by established authors Nick Walker and James Longworth, this step-by-step approach will get players cruising through their sightreading before they know what’s happened! • Short and approachable exercises, ideal for use in individual and group lessons when time is of the essence • Unintimidating approach develops players’ skills gradually over time • Bespoke advice and practical tips that will help prepare students for the Grade 1 sight-reading tests (ABRSM and Trinity)

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Film Themes: The Piano Collection brings together 30 favourite themes and songs from such films as Star Wars, Frozen, Hunger Games, How To Train Your Dragon and Twilight, plus several pieces from the Harry Potter film series and “Mia and Sebastian’s Theme” from the acclaimed new movie La La Land. All pieces have been arranged for the intermediate pianist.

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Muse: The Easy Piano Songbook contains 23 great Muse songs specially arranged for the intermediate pianist. British rock royalty Muse are renowned for their epic style, merging genres from rock to glam with a little bit of electronica thrown in for good measure. Now you can buy the first ever collection of the best Muse songs made easier for the intermediate level pianist. Featuring massive hits spanning their career to date, including Plug In Baby, Supermassive Black Hole, Muscle Museum and Uprising, all arranged for piano solo with lyrics and guitar chords. This artist-approved songbook also features a collection of live shots of the band from their 2012/13 tours Makes ideal alternative repertoire for rock and pop examinations at grades 3, 4 and 5.

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Lang Lang Piano Academy: mastering the piano level 1 (approximately equivalent to Grade 1/Early Intermediate) looks at techniques such as playing legato and staccato and the left hand. Units in Level 1: Exploring the keyboard Feeling the beat Legato playing Staccato playing Developing dexterity Playing chords The left hand Playing with dynamics Mastering the piano is the first series of books to be launched in the Lang Lang Piano Academy. Comprising five progressive books, mastering the piano captures Lang Lang’s passion, drive and extraordinary mastery of the piano. Each book gives students the chance to learn from this exceptional talent, with: 8 units that develop key aspects of piano technique; specially devised exercises & studies; a diverse selection of repertoire including Lang Lang’s favourite works; and inspirational commentary & guidance from Lang Lang himself. Level 1 is also available as an iPad App! Listen to Lang Lang playing Mo li hua (Jasmine Flower) Download Scales & Arpeggios chart for Level 1

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Lang Lang Piano Academy: mastering the piano level 4 (approximately equivalent to Grade 4/Early Intermediate) includes sections on legato pedalling, phrasing and rubato and new accompaniment styles. Units: Posture, movement and hand shape Legato pedalling New accompaniment styles More on chords More on rhythm Musical context Phrasing and rubato Dexterity Mastering the piano is the first series of books to be launched in the Lang Lang Piano Academy. Comprising five progressive books, mastering the piano captures Lang Lang’s passion, drive and extraordinary mastery of the piano. Each book gives students the chance to learn from this exceptional talent, with: 8 units that develop key aspects of piano technique; specially devised exercises & studies; a diverse selection of repertoire including Lang Lang’s favourite works; and inspirational commentary & guidance from Lang Lang himself. Mastering the piano is also available as an iPad App! Listen to Lang Lang perform Sweet Dreams from 'Album for the Young' by Tchaikowsky Download FREE Scales & Arpeggios chart for Level 4

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The Banjo Playlist: Blue Book is a fantastic selection of over 30 classic songs to play and sing, specially arranged for the beginner banjo player. Contains classics from Jonny Cash, Woody Guthrie and Bill Monroe, with a handful of more recent hits from Amy McDonald, Paolo Nutini and The Proclaimers. Includes full lyrics, strumming patterns and banjo chord diagrams. Suitable for 5 string banjo.

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My Favourite Faded Fantasy is Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice’s third studio album. Produced by legendary producer Rick Rubin, it was released on 3rd November 2014. This album-matching songbook is arranged for piano and vocals with guitar chords.

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Piano by ear, by renowned piano pedagogue Lucinda Mackworth-Young, is suitable for beginners through to experienced pianists. It teaches how to play the piano by ear in simple steps and improvise with an array of keys and chord patterns, by working through timeless favourites, folk, film, Christmas and contemporary songs. It also encourages an understanding of how music works from the inside out for any level of player. Piano by ear was shortlisted for ‘Best Print Resource’ at the 2016 Music Teacher Awards for Excellence.

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Easy Keyboard Library: 100 Songs presents 100 classic tunes from a broad range of genres, arranged for electronic keyboard and published as part of the Easy Keyboard Library series. Includes classics such as It’s a Long Way To Tipperary, Like A Prayer, Hello Dolly and Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.

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Improve your sight-reading! Violin Grade 3 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 5 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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Lang Lang Piano Academy: mastering the piano level 5 (approximately equivalent to Grade 5/Intermediate) includes sections on legato pedalling, phrasing and rubato and new accompaniment styles. Units: Developing dexterity Instinctive pedalling Refining the touch Phrasing and rubato Character Ornamentation Interpretation and style Performing Mastering the piano is the first series of books to be launched in the Lang Lang Piano Academy. Comprising five progressive books, mastering the piano captures Lang Lang’s passion, drive and extraordinary mastery of the piano. Each book gives students the chance to learn from this exceptional talent, with: 8 units that develop key aspects of piano technique; specially devised exercises & studies; a diverse selection of repertoire including Lang Lang’s favourite works; and inspirational commentary & guidance from Lang Lang himself. Mastering the piano is also available as an iPad App! Listen to Lang Lang perform Prelude in C by J. S. Bach Download FREE Scales & Arpeggios Chart for Level 5

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The very thought of aural, especially in examinations, strikes fear into the heart of many young pianists and instrumentalists. But aural should not be an occasional optional extra, it’s something to be developing all the time, because having a good ear will help you to improve as a musician more than any other single musical skill. Improve your aural! Is designed to take the fear out of aural. Through fun listening activities, boxes to fill in and practice exercises, this workbook focuses on all the elements of the aural test. And because all aspects of musical training are of course connected, a range of interconnected activities are included to help develop the ear including singing, clapping, playing your instrument, writing music down, improvising and composing. This edition supports ABRSM syllabus requirements from 2010, ensuring success in the aural test of graded exams. All the answers for Improve your aural! Grade 3 are provided on the last page of the physical book.

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Have you always wanted to be able to sing? Then this book is for you – because it’s never too late! It's Never Too Late To Sing is an all-in-one tutor book that covers approximately two years of singing lessons, and includes essential music theory and technical skills for beginners. The learning process is broken down into bite-sized, manageable chunks with downloadable online audio containing a wealth of music from classical and folk to pop and jazz to sing along to. Additional piano accompaniments to the songs are downloadable from this website. Packed with information, teaching advice and top tips from the experts, this beginner singer’s tutor is perfect for those keen to begin singing, but aren’t sure where to start!

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An invaluable resource for students, Improve your scales! Violin Grade 3 covers all the keys and ranges required for the Associated Board syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. Paul Harris’s brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the ABRSM Grade 3 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.

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Piano For Fun is ideal as recital repertoire or just for fun as these 36 pieces are gently progressive and carefully tailored for Elementary Level players. A perfect introduction to a jazzy style of playing, the pieces in this compilation are taken from Pam Wedgwood’s Up-Grade! Series, and features her imaginative jazz repertoire such as Cool Calypso, Lazy Days and Spider In The Bath.

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Christmas Songs presents 19 seasonal favourites to play and sing, arranged for easy piano by Barrie Carson Turner. The songs in this collection have been specially selected for their appeal to young and old alike!

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Journey through the world of jazz, rock and pop with Jazzin' About Styles Piano. This collection of original pieces explores the sounds of big band, disco, heavy metal and more, arranged for solo piano by Pam Wedgwood. This book includes online audio with performances and backing tracks and slowed-down backings for practice. So take a break from the classics and get into the groove as you cruise from one popular style to the next.

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Dave Hassell’s Graded Drum Course For Drum Kit helps students prepare for graded examinations by providing an invaluable source of practical material for the benefit of the student and teacher alike. The two books help the student to interpret the drum chart whilst understanding the musical concept, and taking this into the performing environment.

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Pam Wedgwood's Jazzin' About Piano is a vibrant collection of original pieces arranged for solo piano in a range of contemporary styles, tailor-made for the intermediate player (Grades 3-5). 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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Sample the spirit of the British Music Hall with this superb collection of music hall songs arranged for piano and vocal with guitar chord symbols. Features no less than one hundred of the best known songs dating from the 1860s to the 1930s, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. **ABRSM selected pieces (Singing from 2009): The boy I love is up in the gallery (Ware) Nobody loves a fairy when she’s forty (Le Clerg) What I want is a proper cup o’ coffee (Lee & Weston) Waiting at the church (Leigh & Pether) Why am I always the bridesmaid? (Collins & Leigh) I want to sing in opera (David & Arthurs)

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50 Great Classics is a collection of pieces selected from works by some of the finest composers. The difficulty of the pieces varies considerably. This is quite deliberate - it is hoped that everyone will find something they have already mastered and many more pieces they would like to learn. The collection also includes a few works of particular difficulty!

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Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 8 (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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One of the most important British bands of recent years, the Arctic Monkeys followed up their first two phenomenally successful albums with Humbug, arranged here in sheet music format for Guitar Tab and Vocals. Influenced by Cream and Jimi Hendrix, Humbug features some of frontman Alex Turner's most innovative and profound lyrics yet, whilst also maintaining the Arctic's core sound.

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The Best of Deep Purple contains 12 of the band's biggest hits, arranged for guitar (tablature) and voice. Enjoy hours of Deep Purple fun as you learn and play songs such as Black Night, Hush and Smoke on the Water.

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After Hours Book 2 is the second in a series of five books by Pam Wedgwood, arranged for the Grade 4-6 pianist. It is a further collection of new and original pieces in a variety of styles to suit any mood - from sentimental ballads to cosy dinner jazz, wistful blues to cheerful, upbeat tunes - providing the perfect antidote to stress. So conjure up the dimly lit atmosphere of a jazz club, and relax with these lush harmonies and laid-back melodies.

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George Gershwin Platinum Collection is the definitive Gershwin songbook - a truly magnificent collection containing 50 of George Gershwin's best songs, all arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords. All the songs in the book are newly engraved and have been thoroughly researched and edited to provide the best published edition. No other series can claim to be as definitive as Faber Music’s new Platinum Collection.

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Celtic Woman is the angelic female Irish vocal ensemble. The biggest thing to come out of Ireland since 'Riverdance', their signature sound has captured the hearts of audiences around the world with a series of chart-topping albums. This songbook features twenty-eight of the greatest songs and instrumentals performed by Celtic Woman, from contemporary hits, classical favourites and Irish standards arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

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The Best of Grade 1 Piano comprise pieces selected by the major examination boards in one volume, which have captured the imaginations of teachers and students over the years, including some old favourites and some forgotten gems. All the pieces are tried and tested and perfectly graded and fingered for Grade 1. This book also provides top-quality music that is ideal as a sight-reading resource for more advanced students. The music has been carefully selected and edited by Anthony Williams, a leading ABRSM piano examiner and selector. There are five books in the series Best of Grade... for Piano, and a similar series exists for Flute (selected and edited by Sally Adams), and Clarinet (selected and edited by Paul Harris).

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Take over from bad boys Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy and Duff and become part of the legnedary rocksters Guns N' Roses! Guns N' Roses Authentic Drums Playalong presents 8 of their rock classics, transcribed from the original recordings for drums, with drum charts, melody line and chord symbols. The Authentic Playalong Series also includes a specially recorded sound-alike downloadable audio with backing tracks to play and sing along to. Full performance demonstrations are also available.

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