18 songs, including: Ballade Pour Adeline * Lara's Theme * Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing * Love Is Blue * Love Story * Moon River * Romeo And Juliet * and more!

Nine classic Christmas songs recorded by one of the world's premiere piano players. Songs include: Ave Maria * Christmas Concerto * The Little Drummer Boy * O Tannenbaum Medley * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night, Holy Night. Includes guitar chord frames.

The Chauffeur * Hungry like The Wolf * Is There Something I Should Know * My Own Way * New Moon On Monday * Planet Earth * The Reflex * Rio * Save A Prayer (Til The Morning After) * The Seventh Stranger * Union Of The Snake * A View To A Kill * The Wild Boys

Nino Rota was an excellent pianist and it was this ability which aided him in his compositional work for films. His naturall talent for improvisation or variation on themes which evolved during consultation sessions with film directors was so pronounced that these directors were frequently convinced that they themselves had been the authors of the film music which was subsequently developed. It is unfortunate that no complete records of any of the improvisation sessions have been preserved. An exception is "Il Casanova di Federico Fellini" for which Rota utilised severafl preliminary sketches as a basis for the composition of an independent suite for piano.

How do you keep that thumb-bass independent so it doesn't get derailed when your fingers pick the melody? Fred Sokolow makes it easy for beginners or intermediate guitarists by breaking it all down and taking each song step by step. First you learn the melody, then add the bass, then add the syncopation that makes it all swing.

Pierre Bensusan's sound and style confounds classification. It is profoundly original. His fingerprint is on it whether it is found in his earlier folk and Celtic-based renderings, his free-form improvisational material, or in settings, solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly, a word association game among guitarists would yield the instantaneous response, "DADGAD," at the mention of Pierre's name. Although DADGAD is Pierre's "standard" tuning, he would rather his audiences forgot about that particular detail.

Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring "outside" the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.

Learn some of the most frequently used progressions in folk, blues, pop, and jazz. This is a great little book to start jazzing. Very helpful for me. Due to the small size, the information is very straightforward and clear (notes, tabs, roman numerals and chord diagrams are all used!). It is understandable, however, that one reviewer below gave this book one star and another gave it five stars. This is because the book is ONLY an outline of jazz guitar that just begins to scratch the surface. It gives basic tools (chord extensions, substitutions, various progressions etc.) and a quick example by which to learn each concept. No musical guidance or application is given. If this is what you want, this is the book for you. Overall, it's great for learning what can be done but gives no advancing information beyond that. This book is a staring point for jazz guitar that is best if supplemented by an instruction book that explains and tells how to use the tools from this book.

The Mystery, Tommy Emmanuel's sixth US album, was inspired by Emmanuel's travels; each of the album's compositions is a musical snapshot or sojourn - a journey that brings us together with places and people - a journey into self discovery. This transcription book shows all twelve tunes on the CD note-for-note in standard notation and tablature. Also included are detailed performance notes of each tune.

David Nevue is a solo piano composer and a pianist. He is the founder of Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio, an online radio station, as well as The Music Biz Academy, an educational web site for independent musicians. He is the author of the book, How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet.

An outstanding collection of 18 classic RandB songs in a piano solo format, including: After the Love Has Gone * Ben * Do You Know Where You're Going To? * Endless Love * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * I'll Be There * My Girl * Stand by Me * This Masquerade * Under the Boardwalk * Vision of Love * You Keep Me Hangin' On * and more.

Italian-born Ludovico Einaudi's piano music has struck a chord with audiences across the world, and his distinctive meditative style has confirmed his place in the music industry. His albums have soared high in the classical charts and his recitals have been sell-outs. This is Ludovico Einaudi's new project, Nightbook, a musical meditation on the transition between light and darkness, the known and the unknown. Einaudi describes the project as "A night-time landscape. A garden faintly visible under the dull glow of the night sky. A few stars dotting the darkness above, shadows of the trees all around. Light shining from a window behind me. What I can see is familiar, but it seems alien at the same time. It's like a dream - anything may happen."