Books by Paul Harris

Paul Harris‿s ground-breaking and inspirational new approach encourages teachers to explore and transform how they teach. Paul identifies and reimagines the barriers or ‿conditions‿ that can stand in the way of effective teaching, to allow for the most immersive and positive learning experience. Written in Paul‿s accessible and engaging style, ideas are tackled from both a practical and psychological perspective, rooted in Paul‿s renowned Simultaneous Learning methodology. For teachers of all disciplines and learners of all ages, this seminal book will begin your journey towards an unbounded, unconditional way of teaching. Unconditional Teaching is in my view one of those potentially transformative “best books about teachingâ€?, and I would encourage every instrumental teacher to make a priority of reading it. A miniature masterpiece, a profoundly rewarding read: I quite simply cannot recommend Unconditional Teaching highly enough!Andrew Eales, pianodao.com review, January 2022Whether you‿re a new teacher, or an experienced one, this book is a must-read. Prepare to be both challenged and inspired; everything you take from it will enrich and enhance your teaching. This is the book I wish I‿d read before I taught my very first lesson, but it‿s of no less value now. David Barton, davidbartonmusic.co.uk, April 2022

This new edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 6-8 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading.

New edition of Improve your sight-reading! Clarinet Grades 1-3 is designed to help overcome all the stumbling blocks to successful sight-reading.

The new editions of this popular series supports the new ABRSM string syllabus requirements from 2012, ensuring success in the sight-reading tests of graded exams.

50 Graded studies for recorder brings together a broad range of repertoire spanning three centuries. Placing pieces by de Boismortier next to specially composed pieces by Sally Adams. The book is progressive and studies are arranged in order of difficulty spanning from a beginner level to around intermediate standard.

Selected and edited by Paul Harris and Sally Adams and covering a broad selection of 19th century study repertory, including Baermann, Berr, Demnitz and many others. This book contains exercises 55 to 76, with the earlier pieces to be found in Book 1. The pieces are selected from the historical repertoire to present playing challenges and new techniques in a specific musical context, arranged in progressive order of difficulty.

Teaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge, but also reaps enormous rewards. This handbook for various instrumental and singing teachers offers a comprehensive advice and practical strategies on how to teach beginners. It also offers solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It discusses practice ideas for beginners.

The ultimate companion to clarinet playing. Paul Harris The Clarinet is a practical and dynamic guide to all aspects of clarinet playing, ideal for students from Grade 5 intermediate level upwards and professionals alike. The authors seminal book on the instrument, this is a complete companion to playing, from practice through to performance.Bursting with excerpts from the clarinet canon in addition to many concise exercises to help master specific techniques, ideas are beautifully illustrated with diagrams and photos throughout. This comprehensive guide extends to historical timelines and references to recordings as well as repertoire

The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout.

Know your scales! Trumpet Grades 1-3 is the bright, fresh way to learn scales and arpeggios - a scale book without scales! Using 'finger fitness' exercises, scale and arpeggio study pieces, and simple improvisations, Paul Harris's brilliant approach teaches students to know the notes and thus to play scales and arpeggios with real confidence.

The Roaring Twenties and Thirties - a lost world of opulence and excess, of champagne parties lasting until dawn, where people danced to the vibrant new music of the latest jazz bands.Play Jazztime (Clarinet) presents a selection of world-famous hits from this brilliant, brittle era - from the seductive melodies of Gershwin to the archetypal Twenties hit ''Charleston''. 

The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout.

This collection of piano duets for grades 2 to 3 gives players a chance to practise their sight-reading skills with another player (the second parts are easily playable by other pupils or teachers).

Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the 2012 ABRSM Grade 4 exam but also uses finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. Paul Harris's brilliant series of workbooks contains

The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new material throughout.

Paul Harris' brilliant series of workbooks contain not only the complete scales and arpeggios for the current ABRSM Grade 3, from 2009, but also uses finger fitness exercises, scale and arpeggio studies, key pieces and simple improvisations to help you play scales and arpeggios with real confidence.

Improve Your Sight-Reading! Guitar, Levels 4--5 is designed to help classical guitarists overcome sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step, musicians build a complete picture of each piece, first through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. Written to support the ABRSM's sight-reading requirements.