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Encourages children to think about various aspects of their music as they play. This title gives them musical understanding of their pieces and also encourages independent thought and exploration.[...]
Enables students to think about different aspects of their music as they play. This title also encourages independent thought and exploration.[...]
This new series from Paul Harris builds on his previous series' "Improve your Scales" and "Improve your Sightreading". "Improve your Practice Grade 1" begins by encouraging students to plan their practice sessions, starting with warm-ups and then giving tips on how to 'explore a piece'. This book wi[...]
Teaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge, but also reaps enormous rewards. Today there are a host of colourful tutors to choose from, but none tells us how to teach beginners. It can be a hit and miss affair! Energising and inspirational, "Improve your teaching!" is a 'must have' [...]
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 'going solo' with a series of meticulously-graded sight-reading pi[...]
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 'going solo' with a series of meticulously-graded sight-reading pi[...]
Designed to help class teachers, instrumental teachers and music services collaborate and refine their skills to enable them to deliver an holistic primary music curriculum. This book helps teachers involved in group teaching programmes. It provides practical strategies and advice and supports the f[...]
Paul Harris' brilliant series of workbooks contain not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM Grade 1, from 2009, 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.[...]
Improve your scales! Is a new method for learning scales that form an integral part of playing an instrument. It will encourage a methodical and thoughtful approach and provide some solutions to common memory problems. This tutor is ideally used in conjunction with 'Improve your sight-reading', to [...]
Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the training of musicians on an instrument. This workbook is designed to help overcome the nerves that can cause sight-reading problems by giving sound technical advice and confidence boosting tips. Step-by-step it helps [...]
Music Theory: The Essential Guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. Written and structured to make content as easily digestible as possible, this indispensable guide introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm, harmony, sca[...]
RockPop Theory: the essential guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music.[...]
The UK's best-selling series, Improve Your Sight-Reading! is now available in an edition ideal for the US market and guaranteed to improve sight-reading! This workbook is designed to help overcome the nerves that can cause sight-reading problems by giving sound technical advice and confidence boosti[...]
An invaluable resource for students, Improve Your Scales! Violin Grade 1 New Edition 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 a[...]
The best-selling Improve your sight-reading series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and con[...]