This is a developing body of beginning,
elementary and intermediate instrumental music parts for orchestral,
folk, and keyboard instruments. It will allow you to play along with
available commercial recordings of great classical, jazz, pop, folk
music using a variety of simplified, graded parts without interfering
with any teacher or teaching method you are currently working with.
It won’t matter whether you
are a beginner, intermediate or advanced player. It is there for you
as a scaffold on which to drape your very first four or five beginning
notes. No matter what you play, you can experience whole sections
of Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik."
In Music At First Sight you are “sitting
in” with your string quartet, orchestra or folk group. The unique
aspect here is that your own part is mostly separate from what the
others are playing. This allows you to hear each of the other parts
while you play along. Your instrument has a mellow, deep tone. It
avoids harsh and shrill sounds and your part tries to bring out this
quality but also hints at exercises, scales, and drills- which you
can insert yourself with world class performers next to you as role
models -which you change for variety- with each new recording. As
a woodwind or brass player you have access to the great string literature
with fine, repeatable performance, phrasing, interpretation models
to stretch your own limits, give added richness both to your music
and to your life. |