CD of standards in relaxed improvisation on trumpet, flugelhorn and vocals.
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Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions
Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions
by Ralph Higgins
by Ralph Higgins
If you like songs such as Autumn Leaves, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, For the Good Times and other great songs from the past, I think you’ll enjoy this CD.
This CD was riginally made for my kids and some close friends, but I was surprised to receive many requests for it and I ran out of copies. Copies have now been made and are available. This is easy listening music featuring standards played on the trumpet or flugelhorn and a vocal here and there. It presents a relaxed light jazz improvisation of popular tunes from the past.
Trumpet players from Louis Armstrong to Chet Baker sang, so I gave it a try too. Muted trumpet or flugelhorn on the back-ups were overdubbed on my vocals in the recording studio. Stephen Severino engineered the recording.
This CD was riginally made for my kids and some close friends, but I was surprised to receive many requests for it and I ran out of copies. Copies have now been made and are available. This is easy listening music featuring standards played on the trumpet or flugelhorn and a vocal here and there. It presents a relaxed light jazz improvisation of popular tunes from the past.
Trumpet players from Louis Armstrong to Chet Baker sang, so I gave it a try too. Muted trumpet or flugelhorn on the back-ups were overdubbed on my vocals in the recording studio. Stephen Severino engineered the recording.
$10.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling
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Music Books Now Available!
Music Books Now Available!
The Chord Solo Book for Guitar
by Bill Munday and Ralph Higgins
Instruction in the Chord Solo style
This book, co-authored by Bill Munday and Ralph Higgins, presents the six rules of chord solos, along with notated songs, instructions and a demonstration record. Bill Munday was a prominent guitar soloist and entertainer in the Bay Area.
$8.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
5002 Guitar Chords
by Ralph Higgins
Variations and alternate chords for guitar
This is a collection of over 5,000 Guitar Chords in all keys. It features simplified chord diagrams with suggested fingerings for 30 chord types in each key. A music staff with the notation of chords in root position is given along with a chart of notes and their location on the guitar fingerboard. Find guitar fingering of any chord in any key with this book.
$10.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
Classical Studies for Guitar
by Ralph Higgins & Ken Brown
Designed for the Beginning Through Intermediate Student
This book reviews and develops basic classical techniques through exercises and studies and includes a series of classical etudes to which the student may apply the techniques learned.
$8.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
Introduction to Guitar Notation
by Ralph Higgins & Rick Guido
This is a basic method book with the stress on note reading. This book contains songs and duets and utilizes the ensemble with three or four players in harmony with chords provided. This book teaches the player to read music by beginning at the beginning.
$8.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
Introduction to Finger-Picking Guitar
by Ralph Higgins
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A step by step approach to the popular finger-picking style. Develops picking patterns for song accompaniment and introduces finger-picking solos. Material is presented in both notation and tablature.
$8.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
Easy Chord Solos for Guitar
by Ralph Higgins
This is a unique approach to popular folk songs which allows an extremely wide variety of applications. Each folk song is presented in notation and tablature as a very simple chord solo. Can be applied soon after fundamentals of the instrument are learned. Some knowledge of the finger style is recommended.
$8.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
Make a Joyful Noise
by Ralph Higgins & Gayle Higgins
Songs, Stories & Lessons for Kids
50% DISCOUNT FOR BULK SALES OF 10 OR MORE!! (5.00 per copy!)
Contact Ralph Higgins using the form on this webite for orders and shipping info.
Contact Ralph Higgins using the form on this webite for orders and shipping info.
This book was originally written and translated for a Russian publishing company in the Ukraine, however, due to some “red flags” with Russian counterparts, I published it myself in the U. S. The book presents songs, Bible stories and short lessons presented in the following sequence: Creation, The Flood, The Birth of Jesus, The Life of Jesus, The Resurrection, A New Life.
The stories present a first-person narrative of prominent characters in each section with artwork by Gayle Higgins and original songs. Simplified piano arrangements, chord symbols for guitar or keyboard are provided for accompaniment and songs are written in easy vocal keys for children. This book is also available for bulk purchase.
$10.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling
* Bulk purchases for churches, schools and organizations are available at discount.
Please contact me in advance for prices and shipping costs on bulk purchases.