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As a musician, your body is an essential part of your instrument and your performance. With up to 93% of musicians developing injuries directly related to playing their instruments, most musicians don't know how to properly care for their first instrument, their bodies, and prevent (or overcome) these career threatening statistics. This book is about the exercise basics you need to know as a musician to avoid injury, to mobilize and strengthen your body so you can have your longest, healthiest playing career."Just Stop Playing" is NEVER an acceptable answer! Written from the standpoint of using little to no equipment and increasing body awareness, you'll learn the basics of form, stretching, strengthening and activation exercises. Complete with workouts you can do backstage or on the road, never let back pain, tendonitis or other musician maladies sideline your career again!
"With its gentle affirmations, inspirational quotes, fill-in-the-blank lists and tasks — write yourself a thank-you letter, describe yourself at 80, for example — The Artist’s Way proposes an egalitarian view of creativity: Everyone’s got it."—The New York Times "Morning Pages have become a household name, a shorthand for unlocking your creative potential"—Vogue Over four million copies sold! Since its first publication, The Artist's Way phenomena has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron's novel approach guides readers in uncovering problems areas and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to free up any areas where they might be stuck, opening up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery. The program begins with Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – The Morning Pages, a daily writing ritual of three pages of stream-of-conscious, and The Artist Date, a dedicated block of time to nurture your inner artist. From there, she shares hundreds of exercises, activities, and prompts to help readers thoroughly explore each chapter. She also offers guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors. A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.
This new Kalmus Edition offers pianists a complete set of technical exercises, from simple warm-ups through more advanced studies. Titles: * Section I, Five Finger Studies * Section II, Finger Studies with progressive movement of the hand * Section III, Scale Passages * Section IV, Chord Passages * Section V, Studies for changing fingers on one key * Section VI, Studies in Thirds, Sixths and Chord Combinations * Section VII, Octave and Chord Studies * Section VIII, Extension Studies * Section IX, Studies for crossing and changing hands * Section X, Playing different rhythms with both hands together * Section XI, A complete manual of Scales and Arpeggios * Section XII, Modulatory Examples * Glossary of Musical Terms Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.
(Berklee Guide). The Ear Training curriculum of Berklee College of Music is known and respected throughout the world. Now, for the first time, this unique method has been captured in one comprehensive book by the chair of the Ear Training Department. This method teaches musicians to hear the music they are seeing, notate the music they have composed or arranged, develop their music vocabulary, and understand the music they are hearing. The book features a complete course with text and musical examples, and studies in rhythm, sight recognition, sol-fa, and melody.
(Musicians Institute Press). This book with online audio access takes you step by step through MI's well-known Ear Training course. Complete lessons and analysis include: basic pitch matching * singing major and minor scales * identifying intervals * transcribing melodies and rhythm * identifying chords and progressions * seventh chords and the blues * modal interchange, chromaticism, modulation * and more! Learn to hear and to visualize on your instrument. Take your playing from good to great! Over 2 hours of practice exercises with complete answers in the back. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book. Now including PLAYBACK+, a multifunctional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
Offers performers, teachers, and researchers, new perspectives and practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. It draws together the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences.
This edition is comprised of 86 different technical exercises composed by Liszt during 1868 to 1880. Liszt intended these highly challenging exercises to build greater performance skills in virtuoso pianists. The complete series consists of twelve volumes, each one dealing with a different pianistic problem. This edition has been compiled from the original set to present the exercises in a reasonable length without harming the essence and effectiveness of the original work.
Beginning with music fundamentals, The Complete Musician covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music theory by focusing on music in context. Rather than rote learning of concepts and terms, this text emphasizes that understanding how theory intersectswith composition and performance is key to seeing its relevance to students' wider musical lives.
(Amadeus). This holistic approach to the keyboard, based on a sound understanding of the relationship between physical function and musical purpose, is an invaluable resource for pianists and teachers. Professor Fink explains his ideas and demonstrates his innovative developmental exercises that set the pianist free to express the most profound musical ideas. HARDCOVER.