Secondary Classroom Resource Books

A revolutionary approach to music theory! This state-of-the-art series of books and recordings is carefully designed to make theory easier to learn and teach. It really works! One of the many features that

This method was designed to meet the National Standards for Music Education, with features such as cross-curricular activities, quizzes, multicultural songs, basic improvisation and more. Volume 1 covers

This resource provides guided lesson plans and even a curriculum plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and popular songs by some of the biggest artists of the day.

Designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar, this method is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages and reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around

This comprehensive method for classroom or individual study comes in two sections. The first section teaches chords and accompaniment, while the second teaches note reading. This flexible method allows

This revolutionary new method combines solid pedagogy with a focus on real-world guitar skills such as strumming and fingerpicking, pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and music

Ukulele is a fun and easy way to get involved in music, and it's a great opportunity to share the joy of making music with others. This book provides the basic skills and musical background needed to get

This updated and expanded edition of one of the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available features a new layout, making it easier to read and quicker to learn. Now includes blues, country,

This revolutionary method combines solid pedagogy with a focus on real-world guitar skills such as strumming and fingerpicking, pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and music theory.

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over five million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Now

Putting lessons in the context of popular styles and classic tunes, this complete course introduces new topics at a progressive speed using both music notation and tablature. Correlating supplemental books

Essential Elements Ukulele Book 2 is a great next step for players who are ready to expand their knowledge of music and further develop their skills on the ukulele. This comprehensive method book

This essential method features rigorous, hands-on, "ears-on" practice exercises that helps students explore the inner workings of music, presenting notes, scales, and rhythms as they are heard in pop, jazz,

This volume focuses on harmony, including triads, seventh chords, inversions, and voice leading for jazz, blues and popular music styles. You'll develop the tools needed to write melodies and create

Instruments are so important in a quality music education, but some struggle with using them effectively, especially if you don't have all the instruments you would like to have. Here's the answer! This

This standards-based hip-hop curriculum is an innovative resource for middle/high school general music classes. The program is designed to help teachers involve more students in their music programs by

Here's a complete music appreciation course in a single 120-page package! For each of the 22 featured composers there is a composer biography, a portrait, a listing of the type of music he or she composed,

Learn to write songs! This book presents the basic concepts of popular songwriting, such as song construction, creativity

This sequel explores the lives of 17 more great composers, including Schubert, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Stephen Foster, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Barber, and

The holidays are fun. What can make them more fun? Steel drums! Here we have a collection of 3 holiday favorites brilliantly arranged for steel band: Jingle Bells, God Rest Ye King

Are you looking for a smooth calypso for you next steel drum band performance? Treat your band and audience to the sound of the islands with the popular traditional Caribbean song, Jamaica

No steel band repertoire list is complete without this Harry Belafonte seaside classic! Here is a fantastic arrangement for your developing percussion ensemble.  It calls for lead/tenor pans,

This hard-grooving piece for medium-advanced steel band gets the heart pumping! Listeners will love the tasty blend of funk and Latin. Performers will love the syncopated unisons bursting out of

This song, by Journey, became an instant classic after its initial release in 1981. This high-energy arrangement will make a great closer to any concert and is sure to have audiences young and old singing

Nightwatch is a piece constructed for steel drums and mallet ensemble with rhythm section accompaniment. It has a dark tone and a hard-driving clave groove. Both on and off stage, no one's

The Ukulele Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona-fide pro! Just follow the written music, stream or

This one will get the feet moving! With sections of Latin and funk grooves, Movimiento delivers with a side of fries and salsa! It calls for lead/tenor pans, double tenor, double seconds,

Here is a smokin' arrangement of this tune made popular in the 1989 film Lambada. It calls for lead/tenor pans, double seconds, guitar or cello, bass pans or bass guitar, drum set, congas, claves, and

Strum along with your favorite holiday hits, correlated to work with any guitar method book 1. The songs are presented in order of difficulty – featuring 15 songs in all. Includes: Away in a

Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint - the relationship between musical voices - is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study

Here is an excellent arrangement of a piece by steel drum great Andy Narell. It blends Caribbean timbres with a funky fusion feel.

With a straight, smooth feel, this piece by Tony Hartman puts the listener in the cool zone. It calls for lead pan, double tenors, double seconds, cellos, bass pans, drum set, congas, timbales with two