80 Graded Studies for Violin Book 1 is a must-have resource for teachers and students. Selected and edited by Jessica O'Leary, the studies in Book 2 are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, according to a carefully planned technical progression from Grades 6-8. Each grade features solo studies focussing on specific areas of technique, plus one accompanied piece per grade available to download, to help with intonation and for use as a performance resource.

Bring your practice everywhere with this new A5 edition of the beloved Complete Picture Guide to Playing Guitar! If you have ever been left feeling dazed and confused by the sheer volume and variety of guitar methods to choose from or simply put off by the amount of text to wade through before you even start playing, then this book is exactly what you need. Using pictures and diagrams to show you the essentials, here is the most simple and direct way to start playing the guitar - immediately! Perfect for the absolute beginner, no prior musical knowledge or experience is required as you progress effortlessly from tuning and finger positions to basic chords and strumming. In fact, the Picture Guide To Playing Guitar will have you playing classic songs by the likes of Chuck Berry, The Beatles and T. Rex within minutes! There really is no easier way, without delay, to become a musician - today!

Published by the Contemporary Music Centre and features the grade 6 RIAM piano syllabus piece 'Portait'. Contains eight short teaching pieces ranging from a tiny 'Fugueling' to a lively 'Rumba', with the emphasis on enjoyment rather than analysis.

Songlist:

• Fugueling
• Portrait
• Nocturne
• Growing
• Toy Soldier
• Mystery
• Spiritual
• Rumba

Themes from 14 favorite contemporary video games are included in this collection for beginning solo instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound and then to play-along and sound like a pro! Includes themes from: Angry Birds · Assassin's Creed III · Assassin's Creed Revelations · Battlefield 1942 · Civilization IV (Baba Yetu) · Deltarune (Don't Forget) · Elder Scrolls IV & V · Fallout® 4 · Final Fantasy VII · Full Metal Alchemist (Bratja) (Brothers) · IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey · Splinter Cell: Conviction · Undertale (Megalovania).

Johann Sebastian Bach's six suites for solo cello are well-known and beloved works that are central to the repertoire of any cellist or violist. Features 6 Suites for violoncello solo BWV 1007-1012 transcribed for viola solo. Suitable for intermediate to advanced musicians.

Kayser's 36 Elementary and Progressive Studies has become a staple etude book for beginning violinists. These 36 etudes cover a wide variety of technique, from bowing, to shifting, to fingering. Completion of all 36 studies goes a long way toward preparing students for later etude books, such as Kreutzer and Kreisler. Transcribed for Viola.

The Piano Player: Easy Classical Pieces presents 22 legendary pieces of classical music, specially arranged for easy piano, in progressive order. Including, ‘Für Elise’ (Ludwig van Beethoven), ‘Jerusalem’ (Hubert Parry), ‘Adoration’ (Florence Price) and ‘Zadok the Priest’ by George Frideric Handel. The irresistible cover artwork is ‘Town Mouse and Country Mouse’ by Philip Mendoza.

Improve your sight-reading! Viola Grades 1-5, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help viola players overcome 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. 

Burgmüller's 'Easy and Progressive' Studies have been central repertoire for pianists moving from beginner to intermediate level since the 19th century, delightful pieces in their own right, they carefully build the advancing pianist's technique.

Eusa is a unique collection of 10 original solo piano pieces made in direct collaboration with the composer, inspired by his travels around the islands near his home, Ushant (‘Eusa’ in the Breton language). This beautiful book of new music by the critically acclaimed composer (of the soundtrack to ‘Amelie’, among much else) illustrates his journey with full-colour photography by his fiancée Emilie Quinquis, as well as personal notes which accompany the music. With music printed on luxurious cream-colour paper, this is an aesthetically pleasing publication containing fantastic music.

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Initial Grade Piano exams. Includes specimen tests for sight-reading requirements from 2009. This book is written in attractive and approachable styles and representative of the technical level expected in the exam. 

This faithful Ricordi manual for viola is an essential, authoritative guide on technique. This edition of Kreutzer's 40 Etudes is based on the two-volume edition printed by Hoffmeister of Vienna in 1806.