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The fourth studio album from Jason Mraz is a heartfelt, uplifting collection that explores love's ups and downs, or, as Mraz puts it: "What one does in love to make it work, and what one does in love when it's time to let go." Our artist-approved matching folio of guitar and vocal arrangements includes 13 songs: Be Honest * Everything Is Sound (La La La) * 5/6 * Frank D. Fixer * The Freedom Song * I Won't Give Up * I'm Coming Over * In Your Hands...
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17 classics from the Man in Black transcribed note for note with tab, including: Big River * A Boy Named Sue * Cry, Cry, Cry * Daddy Sang Bass * Folsom Prison Blues * The Highwayman * I Walk the Line * Ring of Fire * Tennessee Flat Top Box * There You Go * and more.
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No band on earth but the Beatles could have a greatest hits compilation top the charts more than 30 years after breaking up! In a few short months, the CD 1 featuring the Beatles' 27 British and American Number One singles sold more than 20 million copies. We are very proud to present the matching songbook to this landmark release. Songs include: All You Need Is Love * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Day Tripper *...
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Milwaukeean Steve Miller learned his first guitar chords from family friend Les Paul, and as a preteen formed a blues band with his buddy Boz Skaggs. From these auspicious beginnings, he's become a superstar whose songs are radio staples. This terrific 22-song collection features full-page photos and tab transcriptions of all your favorite rock hits: Abracadabra * Fly Like an Eagle * Jet Airliner * The Joker * Living in the U.S.A. * Rock'n Me * Space...
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Note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all of Johnny Christ's heavy basslines off the band's 2010 CD, certified Gold. Songs: Buried Alive * Danger Line * Fiction * God Hates Us * Natural Born Killer * Nightmare * Save Me * So Far Away * Tonight the World Dies * Victim * Welcome to the Family. PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS
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This updated edition offers 60 of Elton's best: Bennie and the Jets * The Bitch Is Back * Candle in the Wind * Crocodile Rock * Daniel * Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * The One * Rocket Man * Sad Songs (Say So Much) * Tiny Dancer * Written in the Stars * Your Song * and more!
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15 songs from this rock legend, including: Baby, I Love Your Way * Do You Feel Like We Do * Fig Tree Bay * Hour of Need * I Don't Need No Doctor * I Need Ground * (I'll Give You) Money * I'm in You * Lines on My Face * Lyin' * Not Forgotten * Off the Hook * Show Me the Way * Stone Cold Fever * While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
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This is the matching folio to the 19-song retrospective of one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1970s, and one that continues to be a cultural icon through contemporary releases including the wildly popular Broadway musical Mamma Mia . This collection features: Chiquitita * Dancing Queen * Fernando * Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) * Knowing Me, Knowing You * Mamma Mia * Money, Money, Money * The Name of the Game * S.O.S....
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Darwin believed that musical behavior arose because it gave our early ancestors a biological advantage. But what advantage? Investigate Darwin's theory and other adaptationist explanations for the evolution of music. Then look at two alternatives: invention theories and gene-culture co-evolution theories..
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Clear diction and phrasing are fundamental to vocal artistry. In this episode, explore how we communicate meaning through pronunciation and syllabic stress. Begin to work with phrasing, how words are stressed relative to each other, and which words to emphasize as important. Consider how to place vowels and consonants in a sung phrase, and start to address intention and meaning in singing text.
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Investigate the qualities of Debussy's music that connect it to French art and poetry as well as to the sensuality of the French language. Learn how his landmark work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, began musical modernism. Study the wealth of compositional innovations in his piano Prelude #10, and note how his impact on 20th-century music mirrors Beethoven's in the 19th century.
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In approaching lyrics, begin by researching the piece, learning about the librettist, the time period, and the historical context. Also research the composer and how the piece was written. Using the text of an original song, and your character analysis worksheet, work to find your own expressive connection with the piece and create your interpretation of the song.
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Look beneath the surface of a seemingly simple feature of music: beat. Discover that beat perception in humans is exceedingly complex and incorporates six distinct criteria. Then survey animal studies to see if other species share our talent for getting the beat..
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After warming up with a waltz, you'll learn "Rameau's Minuet," a piece widely anthologized for music students. Then, go back to the Baroque to learn about Bach's fugues and Pachelbel's famous Canon in D. This lesson gives you a chance to refine your skills in harmonization.
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Regular and effective practice is crucial for developing your singing skills. Study three primary facets of efficient practice: Evaluate your progress; strategize a plan of action, and integrate your new skills. Grasp what a typical practice session will look like, from your warmup and assigned exercises to applying your new abilities to the music. Also, remember to sing for fun!
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Learn how the advent of musical synthesizers and the tape recorder gave rise to both electronic music (using sounds created electronically) and musique concrète (manipulating real sounds with a tape recorder). Witness how Ultraserialism developed within Europe, leading paradoxically to hyper-complex music which in performance sounded random - a fatal problem for listener comprehension.
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Explore head and neck alignment that support a freely functioning vocal mechanism. Visualize the cervical spine and its seven vertebrae, and grasp why head position is crucial for ease in vocal vibration. Practice movements and exercises to experience how vocal tone is affected by head posture; to learn how to maintain a free neck alignment; and to find your optimal, dynamic posture for singing.
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In this lesson, you will refine much of your existing repertoire. You'll then try your hand at Liszt's Liebestraum. While this piece can be quite challenging for students, Professor Pike has created a special arrangement designed for your current level of ability. Work on adding musical expression to these Romantic-era pieces.
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Here, encounter two classical guitar titans, Agustín Barrios and Andrés Segovia, and grasp their contributions to the instrument. Study tremolo, which gives the illusion of a sustained note. Learn to read sixteenth-notes, add the E major chord, the major pentatonic scale, and use your tremolo and finger technique in the "Raindrop Etude".
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Begin your study of musical rhythm by distinguishing periodic from non-periodic rhythmic patterns. Periodicity can be thought of as beat; non-periodicity involves expressive techniques such as timing variations and phrasing. Close by asking whether composers write music in the rhythmic patterns of their native language..
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