Jazz 'n Rags at Your Fingertips, Books 14; Folk Songs 'n Favorites at Your Fingertips, Books 1-4.

Jazz 'n Rags at Your Fingertips, Books 14; Folk Songs 'n Favorites at Your Fingertips, Books 1-4. Jazz 'n Rags at Your Fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. , Books 14; Folk Songs 'n Favorites at Your Fingertips, Books 1-4, edited by Janet Vogt. Heritage Music Press (The Lorenz Corporation) (P.O. Box 802, Dayton, OH 45401), 2005. 32 pp, each. $6.95, each. Jazz 'n Rags at Your Fingertips, Books 1-4 are subtitled easy, moderately easy, early-intermediate and intermediate, and include works from the following composers: Marilyn Briant, Martha Sherrill Kelsey, Barbara Lopez, Steve Nehrenberg, Walter and Carol Noona and Andrew Zatman. There are 19 pieces in Book One, 15 pieces in each of Books Two and Three and 11 pieces in Book Four. Each book contains ballads, blues, Latin pieces and rags. Book One has a wide range of difficulty, so a second or third year student could sight read the first pages. Five duets are included for the teacher or a more advanced student. Most of the pieces are on white keys with an occasional black key added. The first piece, "After the Rain," is an easy piece with a duet that adds major ninth and seventh chords, making a nice ballad. Other titles include "Turquoise Blues Boogie," "Chopsticks Rag," "The Jinx jinx?n.1. A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.2. A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.tr.v. of the Sphinx sphinx(sfĭngks), mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra. The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, " and the "Wiggle Worm Rag." "A Touch of Tango" is a lively, recital-type piece with staccato and legato touches and syncopation syncopation(sĭng'kəpā`shən, sĭn'–)[New Gr.,=cut off ], in music, the accentuation of a beat that normally would be weak according to the rhythmic division of the measure. . Books Two, Three and Four progress to fuller harmonies and more complex rhythms, and are good for sight reading and as an introduction to jazz rhythms. More pieces in the keys of B-flat would have been helpful for playing in jazz bands and I would have preferred more marked jazz accents. Book Two contains "Articulation Blues," "Traffic Jam Rag" and "Waltz in Blue." In Book Three, "Bumblebee bumblebee:see bee. bumblebeeAny member of two genera constituting the insect tribe Bombini (family Apidae, order Hymenoptera), found almost worldwide but most common in temperate climates. Bumblebees are robust and hairy, average about 0. Rag" is a good chromatic scales exercise and "Smooth Sailing" has contrasting sections that include flowing eighth notes followed by block chord Block chords are musically notated chords or voicing built on the staff below the melody to create a four-part harmonized melody line.Block chords and doubled melody are easily used in a melody line that has a swing feel and strengthen the melody so as to separate that style. Book Four introduces quartal harmonies in "So There" and a fun boogie, "Tiger Beetle Boogie." The appealing titles of the pieces say it all. These collections are fun. Folk Songs 'n Favorites at Your Fingertips, Books 1-4 also are subtitled easy, moderately easy, early-intermediate and intermediate, and include works from the following composers: Marilyn Briant, Beverly Grace Joy, Martha Sherrill Kelsey, Donna McFarland, Steve Nehrenberg and Andrew Zatman. I prefer books that use numbers to indicate difficulty levels, since I have older beginners, and they don't like to see the word "easy" on the cover. Book One includes some teacher duets, both below and above the solos. Most songs have an introduction and coda. Staccato, legato and two-note slurs appear, with hands together throughout, and songs are in the keys of C and G, with few black keys. I would have preferred more keys to be included. Some eighth notes and dotted-quarter notes are found in the last half of the book. "Hey Diddle Diddle Hey diddle diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The Little Dog laughed to see such a sight, and the Dish ran after the Spoon.The fourth line also can have the following variations: The little dog laughed to see such sport,or ," "A-Tisket A-Tasket" and "The Muffin Mall" are just a few of the songs in Book One. "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" is the only song in minor, and my favorite is "Brother John's Waltz," which used a left-hand melody. Books Two, Three and Four add chords for accompaniment and melody, 6/8 meter, cross hands, syncopation, pedal, swing arrangements, more minor songs and more complex harmonies. There are several songs found in more than one book. "Camptown Races" is in Books One, Three and Four, and "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad" and "Londonderry Air" are found in Books Three and Four. This gives students and teachers an opportunity to compare different arrangements and compose new ones of their own. Many of our students don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. folksongs and classics, so it's nice to have these new and interesting arrangements that are appealing. It would be fun to have the words printed at the back of each book. Reviewed by Joyce Templeman, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of MathematicsNCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of MusicNCTM North Carolina Transportation MuseumNCTM National Capital Trolley MuseumNCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage , West Des Moines, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents. .