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This book contains everything needed to prepare for the performance and technical work components of a Trinity Electronic Keyboard Grade 5 exam from 2019. All pieces have been composed or arranged specifically for the keyboard, and encompass a wide range of styles – from classical favourites to TV, film or show themes. The ‘own interpretation’ piece allows the candidate to create a personal arrangement, choosing their own voices, style, keyboard functions and interpretation. Also included are the scales, chord knowledge and exercises that form the technical work component of the exam. Demonstration recordings can be downloaded free.

This series provides progressive steps in performance and keyboard functions for all electronic keyboard students, whether preparing for a Trinity exam or studying on another path.

Note: Effective immediately, Trinity’s Electronic Keyboard 2019-2022 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Electronic Keyboard Exam Pieces 2019-2022 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2019’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

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Replacement violin part only for Trinity Violin Grade 6 exams from 2020, containing a selection of eight pieces carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including accompanied and unaccompanied pieces at every grade and duets up to Grade 3, this progressive series provides a wealth of engaging repertoire for any violin player. CD available separately, or stream or purchase audio from Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Spotify and other platforms.

Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Strings 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Violin Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

Contents:

Allegro (1st movt from Concerto in D)

Etude, op. 36 no. 8

Hungarian Dance, op. 196 no. 5

Tarantelle napolitaine

Andante (2nd movt from Violin Sonata in Eb)

Syncopation

Nocturne

Mot d’amour, op. 13 no. 1

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This book contains everything needed to prepare for the performance and technical work components of a Trinity Electronic Keyboard Initial exam from 2019. All pieces have been composed or arranged specifically for the keyboard, and encompass a wide range of styles – from classical favourites to TV, film or show themes. The ‘own interpretation’ piece allows the candidate to create a personal arrangement, choosing their own voices, style, keyboard functions and interpretation. Also included are the scales, chord knowledge and exercises that form the technical work component of the exam. Demonstration recordings can be downloaded free.

This series provides progressive steps in performance and keyboard functions for all electronic keyboard students, whether preparing for a Trinity exam or studying on another path.

Note: Effective immediately, Trinity’s Electronic Keyboard 2019-2022 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Electronic Keyboard Exam Pieces 2019-2022 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2019’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

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This book contains everything needed to prepare for the performance and technical work components of a Trinity Electronic Keyboard Grade 2 exam from 2019. All pieces have been composed or arranged specifically for the keyboard, and encompass a wide range of styles – from classical favourites to TV, film or show themes. The ‘own interpretation’ piece allows the candidate to create a personal arrangement, choosing their own voices, style, keyboard functions and interpretation. Also included are the scales, chord knowledge and exercises that form the technical work component of the exam. Demonstration recordings can be downloaded free.

This series provides progressive steps in performance and keyboard functions for all electronic keyboard students, whether preparing for a Trinity exam or studying on another path.

Note: Effective immediately, Trinity’s Electronic Keyboard 2019-2022 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Electronic Keyboard Exam Pieces 2019-2022 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2019’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

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This progressive method provides a carefully paced approach to the sight reading requirements of Trinity grade exams at Grades 6 to 8. For each grade there are ten lessons, each with a clear area of focus. Stage-appropriate sight reading tips, both general and specific to the instrument, are given along the way.

Each lesson presents four or five preparatory exercises leading to a duet, included to encourage the development of ensemble sight reading skills. While duets are not required for grade exams, they are vital in building confidence and rhythmic fluency. Each duet builds on the same musical ideas as the preceding exercises, consolidating the learning and assisting the student through familiarity.

Official Trinity specimen sight reading tests from Trinity’s Sound at Sight Piano (original series) conclude each grade section. By the time the student has completed the ten lessons they should be well prepared to cope with the demands of these tests. Further specimen tests are available separately in Sound at Sight Piano (2nd series).

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At last! An easy, stress-free way to learn chords all in one place. Essential Guitar Chords for Beginners is the ultimate guitar chord reference book that shows you how to play the most commonly used basic chord shapes found in your favourite songs.

The chords are alphabetically listed and easy to find and show finger positions, notes, and intervals. Plus, there are lesson guides that answer all those questions you have about chords, like how to read guitar chord charts & how to play chords with ease and accuracy.

Confusion Free Zone:

★ No 1000’s of intimidating chords

★ 9 large easy-read chord shapes per page

★ 3 alternative shapes per chord

★ Easy-to-understand finger placements

★ Chord notes & intervals shown

★ Online resource area to hear audio of each chord played

★ Bonus Area with downloadable charts

Beginner Guides:

★ Chord Term Glossary

★ How to Read Chord Charts

★ Chord Intervals Explained

★ Chord Symbols Explained

★ Which Chords Should you Learn First

★ Top 5 Chord Practise Tips

Who This Book is For:

✓ Beginner guitarists

✓ Improvers looking to sharpen up on chords

✓ Seasoned guitarists wanting a quick reference book

✓ Self-taught guitarists

✓ Budding songwriters & composers

✓ Music tutors to use as a teaching aid

Who This Book is NOT For:

• Advanced guitarists looking to learn intricate extended chord voicings

• Guitarists looking for a database of 2000+ chords

Written by the creator of YourGuitarbrain.com, Tiff Bryan is a pro session guitarist (Lady Gaga, Little Mix, Craig David), writer & guitar tutor of 20+ years. As such, you can bet your bottom dollar you’re in the best hands.

Chord Types in This Book

This book teaches you how to play the 14 most common types of chords you’ll come across in mainstream popular music styles, including pop, rock, folk, blues and country.

✓ Major (e.g. C Maj)

✓ Minor (e.g. Cm)

✓ Diminished (e.g. C Dim)

✓ Augmented (e.g. C Aug)

✓ Dominant Seventh (e.g. C7)

✓ Major Seventh (e.g. CMaj7)

✓ Minor Seventh (e.g. Cm7)

✓ Dominant Ninth (e.g. Cdom9)

✓ Major Ninth (e.g. CMaj9)

✓ Minor Ninth (e.g. Cm9)

✓ Suspended 2 (e.g. Csus2)

✓ Suspended 4 (e.g. Csus4)

✓ “Slash” chords (e.g. C/E)

✓ Power chords (e.g. C5)

Easy Peasy Guitar Music Theory: For Beginners

How’s your music theory?…If you want to pick up the guitar & play anything you fancy confidently, you can’t do it without knowing the theory basics. ‘Easy Peasy Guitar Music Theory” For Beginners’ walks you through the music theory essentials at an easy-to-understand steady pace.

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This is a complete easy-to-understand music theory method book for guitarists to take your music theory knowledge from beginner through to pro level!

Consisting of volumes 1, 2 & 3 in the popular Music Theory for Guitarists series, this in-depth method book gives you step-by-step lessons in most of the music theory you’ll ever need to know – explained in straightforward, confusion-free language with absolutely no music reading necessary, with hundreds of practical examples to play and study.

Music Theory for Guitarists, the Complete Method Book also comes with over 100 downloadable audio lessons, demonstrations, backing tracks and practice drills to help you become the musician, guitar player or songwriter you always wanted to be.

• Volume 1 teaches you the basics all players need to know. Learn about the major scale, triads, basic intervals, major and minor keys, pentatonic scales, chord progressions and more
• In Volume 2 you’ll build on the basics with lessons on learning the fretboard, chord inversions, compound intervals (9ths, 11ths etc.), sus and add9 chords, seventh chords, the Circle of Fifths, and 2 chapters devoted to the modes of the major scale
• Volume 3 takes your music theory to almost pro-level. Master your fretboard with the CAGED System, learn about extended chords, improvising with modes, harmonic minor scale, diminished and augmented chords, key change/modulation techniques, ‘stand-in’ and substitute chords and much more…

Includes quizzes and assignments to test your understanding plus over 100 downloadable audio tracks so you can listen and hear how many of the concepts are taught in a musical setting

No music reading skills required!

For a complete easy-to-understand music theory method book for guitar players look no further than Music Theory for Guitarists, the Complete Method Book.

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This book contains a selection of 13 pieces for Trinity Classical Guitar Grade 3 exams, carefully chosen, graded and edited for the syllabus from 2020 by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including duets up to Grade 5, our progressive series offers teachers and learners a wealth of engaging repertoire, whether working towards Trinity exams or studying with other guitar methods.

Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Classical Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Classical Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

Contents:

French Dance (Tourdion) (Attaignant)

Valse (no. 21 from École de guitare, op. 241) (Carulli)

Study in C, (from Introduction à l’étude de la guitare, op. 60, no. 6) (Sor)

Andantino (from Le papillon, op. 50) (Giuliani)

Allegretto in D major (Carcassi)

Grasshopper Guiro (Cottam)

Funky Juan (Powlesland)

The Firth of Lorn (Ryan)

Kurpie Étude (Stachak)

Marshmallow Cocoa (Fogel)

Album Leaf (Grieg)

Chorinho (Trad., arr. Rivoal)

The Coasts of High Barbary (Trad., arr. Sanderson)

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This book contains a selection of 13 pieces for Trinity Classical Guitar Grade 1 exams, carefully chosen, graded and edited for the syllabus from 2020 by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including duets up to Grade 5, our progressive series offers teachers and learners a wealth of engaging repertoire, whether working towards Trinity exams or studying with other guitar methods.

Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Classical Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Classical Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

Contents:

Joy to the World (Mason, arr. Longworth/Walker)

Die Forelle (The Trout) (Schubert, arr. Hegel)

Chansonnette (Rak)

The Forest Wakes (Powlesland)

Spider (Richter)

Pirate’s Delight (Fogel)

Metamorphosis (Tromp)

Oasis (Cracknell)

Lotus Flower (Sanderson)

Romance de amor (Trad., arr. Hvartchilkov)

Melodie (from Album for the Young, op. 68) (Schumann)

Waltz in G (Carulli, arr. Cracknell)

Lágrimas de las ondas (Márquez)

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This book contains a selection of ten pieces for Trinity Classical Guitar Grade 4 exams, carefully chosen, graded and edited for the syllabus from 2020 by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including duets up to Grade 5, our progressive series offers teachers and learners a wealth of engaging repertoire, whether working towards Trinity exams or studying with other guitar methods.

Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Classical Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Classical Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.

Contents:

Orlando Sleepeth (Dowland, arr. Hegel)

Gavotte (from Suite in D minor) (de Visée, arr. Scheit)

Menuets I & II (from Partie in A major) (Daube, arr. Willis)

Andante (no. 2 from 24 leçons progressives, op. 31) (Sor)

Nostalgia: petite mélodie (from Tres piezas fáciles) (Sagreras)

Bossa-Nova Breeze (Schwertberger)

Line by Line (Norton, arr. Nestor)

Spice Trail (Ryan)

Village Blackbird Blues (Fogel)

Allemande (from Sonata for Two Guitars) (Baron)

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Far-away oceans, perilous storms, bold explorers, bloodthirsty pirates and treasures hidden on mysterious islands – but likewise the hopes and the fears of friends, lovers and families left back home on dry land – have made for fascinating and evocative stories since the day men caught a glimpse of the deep blue sea.
But there’s more to the ocean’s fascination than just stories and myths. It also spawned its very own kind of music: the Shanties – songs of the wind and the waves, of hard work on the seven seas, of romantic buccaneers and brutal skippers harrying their crews to the marrow.

In this book you’ll find a collection of shanties known and loved all over the world, arranged for easy Ukulele in standard C tuning (G-C-E-A). Of course, there’s „classics“ like Banks of Sacramento, Blow the man down or What shall we do with the drunken sailor, but you’ll also encounter some songs not as common and maybe some you might never have heard before.

All songs in musical notation with chord symbols plus melody TAB – you don’t have to read music to start playing right away!
Whether you want to pick the melody, strum the chords or just need the complete lyrics: you’ll find everything you need on these pages. And if you don’t know how to play a particular chord, don’t worry: each song features easy-to-read chord diagrams, too.
For reference, there’s a handy appendix listing all the chords used in this book plus a selection of easy strumming patterns you can use to accompany songs.

Songs

1. A drop of Nelson’s blood
2. All for me grog
3. A sailor and his true love
4. Banks of Sacramento
5. Banks of the Ohio
6. Blow the man down
7. Blow the wind southerly
8. Boney was a warrior
9. Boston harbor
10. (Bound for) South Australia
11. Bound for the Rio Grande
12. Bully in the alley
13. Cape Cod girls
14. Dundee whalers (Balena)
15. Essequibo river
16. Eternal Father, Strong to Save
17. Goodbye, fare thee well
18. Good night, ladies
19. Handsome Molly
20. Harbour Grace
21. Haul away, boys
22. Jack the Sailor (Jackie Monroe)
23. John Kanaka
24. Lowlands away
25. Maggie May
26. Miss Lucy Long
27. Molly Malone
28. My Bonnie lies over the ocean
29. New York girls
30. On board of the Kangaroo
31. Paddy lay back
32. Roll, Alabama, roll
33. Rowler Bowler
34. Rule, Britannia
35. Sailor on the deep blue sea
36. Santiana (Across the plains of Mexico)
37. Shenandoah
38. Spanish ladies
39. The bottle-o
40. The coast of High Barbaree
41. The dead horse
42. The flying dutchman
43. The Forsaken Mermaid
44. The Glendy Burk
45. The John B. sails
46. The mermaid
47. The Shanty Boy on the Big Eau Claire
48. What shall we do with the drunken sailor
49. Whip Jamboree
50. Whiskey Johnny

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