Books-Resources

How to Record at Home on a Budget

May 1, 2017

It’s never been easier to record at home, but it still requires some know-how. This book covers equipment—digital audio workstations, standalone digital recorders, and mobile devices; the use of effects; plus mixing and editing.

Blues Piano Legends: 16 Note-for-Note Piano Transcriptions from 12 Blues Icons

Blues Piano Legends includes 16 transcriptions with lyrics for tunes that all blues fans should know, including: “Big Chief,” Professor Longhair; “Bloody Murder,” Otis Spann; “Boogie Woogie Stomp,” Albert Ammon

Jazz Session Trainer: The Woodshedder’s Practice Kit

In this book Local 6 (San Francisco, CA) member Larry Dunlap, a respected arranger, composer, and teacher, provides a series of tools to prepare musicians for jazz jam sessions.

Violin Secrets: 101 Strategies for the Advanced Violinist

This resource for serious violinists tackles a number of topics, from achieving immaculate intonation to advanced techniques like fingerboard mapping, controlling vibrato, and navigating in high positions. It includes tips from top master classes and conservatories across the country. The book also explores strategies for effective practice, as well as overcoming performance anxiety and winning […]

The Music Never Stops: A Journey into the Music of the Unknown, the Forgotten, the Rich & Famous

Dick Weissman of Local 20-623 (Denver, CO), former member of the folk group The Journeymen, describes what the music scene was like as a rising star in the 1960s.

Opera with a Touch of Jazz

In Opera with a Touch of Jazz, arranger Lee Evans adds subtle and tasteful jazz stylings to 18 operatic masterpieces from Cilea, Donizetti, Gluck, Mascagni, Massenet, Puccini, Purcell, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and Verdi. Evans, a 60-plus year member of AFM Local 802 (New York City), says he hopes the book will serves as a motivational tool for piano teachers and students, and introduce the works to a new generation.

Diana Krall Wallflower

This book contains piano, vocals, and guitar arrangements for all of the songs on Diana Krall’s 2015 Wallflower album.

Blues Keyboard Method: The Player’s Guide to Authentic Stylings

The ability to play blues piano in an authentic style is a special skill that takes time to learn and develop. Aside from experimenting to find the right groove, feel, timing, chords, voicings, it takes time to learn the licks and how to listen to the other instruments and vocals to effectively complement them.

Woodwind Doubling for Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute

Woodwind Doubling for Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, by Edward Joffe is a guide from versatile woodwind artist Edward Joffe of Local 802 (New York City) provides aspiring student and professional players with a clear picture of the discipline of multiple woodwind performance.

Hal Leonard’s Jazz Play Along: Joe Pass 10 Choice Tunes

Hal Leonard’s Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for jazz musicians. Joe Pass 10 Choice Tunes for Bb, Eb, C, and bass clef instruments includes lead sheets and play-along CD for improvisation study and performance.