Have you always wanted to learn the piano? Haven't picked up your trumpet since HS band? Interested in finding your voice? The materials to learn or relearn musical skills are here @MCL. These are just some of the materials available. E-mail or call our music reference staff (973) 285-6979 for questions or assistance.

Jazz

Beginning jazz improvisation (audiobook)
How to play from a fake book (score)
Jamey Aebersold play-a-long-books (score & CD)
Jazz and improvisation (video)
Jazz Hanon (score)
Jazz riffs (score)
John Coltrane solos (score)
Michael Brecker (score)
Solos for jazz guitar

Percussion

Drum basics (score)
Drums & percussion (video)
Drums (video)
Frame drumming: free hand style, basics (score)
Have fun playing hand drums (score)
Mel Bay's anthology of rock drumming (score)
Poncho Sanchez' conga cookbook (score)
Progressive beginner drums (score & CD)
Teach yourself to play drums (score)

Piano

Easy to play classical pieces (score)
Favorite melodies for the adult beginner (score)
How to play piano (video)
Instant piano (audiobook)
Learn the essentials of piano (video)
Let's play the piano (video)
Piano plain and simple (score)
Sheet music magazine's adult piano course (audiobook)
Total piano (score)

Appreciation & Theory

Ear training for improvisors (audiocassette)
Harmonic ear training (audiobook)
Learn to read music (paperback)
Melodic ear training (audiobook)
Music theory for beginners (Juvenile book)
Rhythmic ear training (audiobook)
Demonstartion of the instruments of the orchestra (CD)
Elementary rudiments of music (score)
How to listen to and understand great music (video)
How to listen to and understand opera (audiobook)
Learn to read music (score)
Learning to read music (audiobook)
Essential Dictionary of Orchestration
New Oxford Companion to Music
Webster's New World Dictionary of Music

For Study & Performance

Orchestral & opera scores
Instrumental solos
Opera piano vocal scores, Lieder
Chamber music
Libretti and Scores for musicals