Music Class Supplies Fall 2017

The Art of Piano Tuning • Required textbook: The Piano Book by Larry Fine, any edition. Can be purchased online at sites such as

Amazon.com. Please bring one electronic device compatible with tuning software: tablets or phones

with Android 3.1 or later, or a laptop with Windows Operating System. Tuning software will be provided

by the instructor at no cost. Tuning hammer and mutes will be used; bring your own or borrow from the

instructor at no cost.

Bluegrass Banjo 1 • Please bring your own instrument, two metal fingerpicks, a plastic thumbpick, and a capo (a guitar capo

is fine).

Cajun Music Ensemble • Please bring your own instrument. Instruments include Cajun accordion, fiddle, guitar, bass, scrubboard,

and triangle.

The Conductor’s Art • Optional: if you play an instrument, bring it to class. You may also bring a baton, but it is not required.

Great Composers • No supplies needed.

Guitar 1 • Please bring your own acoustic guitar to class. The instructor will provide study materials.

Guitar: Basic Fingerstyle • Please bring your own acoustic guitar to class. The instructor will provide study materials.

Guitar: Flat Pick Country Style • Please bring your own acoustic guitar to class. The instructor will provide study materials.

Guitar: Jazz Chords and Swing • Please bring your own acoustic guitar to class. The instructor will provide study materials.

Improvising with Only Five Notes • Bring your own portable instrument, pencil, and notepaper. Instructor will provide handouts.

Latin Percussion Instruments • If you have your own instrument, please bring it to class. You may also use instruments provided by the

instructors.

Piano 1 • Required textbook: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Piano Course Book 1 (Faber, ISBN 1616773022)

Piano Off the Page 1 • No supplies needed.

Piano Off the Page 2 • No supplies needed.

String Ensemble 1 • Please bring your instrument, rosin, a pencil, and your textbook. Optional: You may also want to bring

extra strings, a tuner, metronome, mute, and shoulder rest (violin, viola) or endpin holder (cello, bass).

• Textbook information: Essential Elements for Strings, books 1 & 2, published by Hal Leonard. Available

locally at Ward-Brodt Music or Heid Music and online at retailers such as Amazon.com.

String Ensemble 2 • Please bring your instrument, rosin, a pencil, and your textbook. Optional: You may also want to bring

extra strings, a tuner, metronome, mute, and shoulder rest (violin, viola) or endpin holder (cello, bass).

• Textbook information: Essential Elements for Strings, book 3, published by Hal Leonard. Available

locally at Ward-Brodt Music or Heid Music and online at retailers such as Amazon.com.

Vocal Venture 1, 2, & 3 • Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a water bottle, and bring a yoga mat or blanket to put on the

floor. Reminder: You will also need to purchase an instructional CD from the instructor.

Women’s Lives in Jazz • No supplies needed. Optional: a notebook and pencil for taking notes.