Harmony Cookbook

Harmony Cookbook (Step-by-Step Recipes for the Music Classroom). Arranged by Tom Anderson. For Choral (Book and CD pak). Expressive Art (Choral). Softcover with CD. 56 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Are you ready for a jam session? Add harmonic flavor to familiar melodies with quick 'n easy musical recipes. Layer in guitars, keyboards, autoharp, and other pitched and non-pitched instruments for a smorgasbord of sound! Harmony Cookbook provides a sequential approach to chord progressions (major, minor and dominant 7th), beginning with lighter one-chord arrangements and progressing to more full-bodied versions. Percussion grooves from the popular Percussion Cookbook can be added to these arrangements for even fuller taste! It's all here for you, step-by-step instructions, piano/vocal arrangements, reproducible singer and jam accompaniment sheets and a professionally-produced CD recording for classroom or performance. Instructional jam tracks are also provided on the CD as a practice tool to help students learn the various chord progressions in each song. 8 songs. Available: Book/CD Pak (with reproducible singer/instrument pages). For Gr. 2-6.

8 songs: Kum Ba Yah * Wayfaring Stranger * The Banana Boat Song * Row, Row, Row Your Boat * St. Louis Blues * Hes Got The Whole World In His Hands * Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) * Shalom Chaveyrim (Shalom Friends) * Sinner Man. Available: Book/CD Pak (with reproducible singer/instrument pages). For Gr. 2-6.