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Amazing Phrasing is for any keyboard player interested in learning how to improvise and how to improve their creative phrasing. This method is divided into three parts: Melody – From scales to arpeggios, from using licks, riffs and runs to playing “outside,” this section focuses on melodic strategies for improvisation; Harmony – Whether comping or soloing, harmony is essential to improvisation, and this section covers it in detail; Rhythm & Style – Swing, laying back, shaping your phrases with accents ... this last section puts the finishing touches on your improvisational technique. You'll learn approaches to working with and around other musicians, and you'll practice comping and soloing over progressions in various styles – from rock to bossa nova to swing to bebop. The companion audio contains 44 full-band demos for listening, as well as many play-along examples so you can practice improvising over various musical styles and progressions. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Most complete set of chord charts, covering 576 chords in every key. Explains the use of modern chord symbols and the use in modern harmony of chords. Left-hand fingerings also provided. Includes chord charts of 576 chords, 261 keyboard diagrams, chord progressions, chord symbols, exercises with questions and answers.
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Demonstrates the use of the keys and their msuical notation, proper hand, wrist, and finger positioning, as well as basic scales, chords and songs. Includes access to “how to” videos to play along with the audio/video backup tracks.
Video is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded.
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Explores principles of reading music, theory, technique, interpretation, and musicianship. Each lesson also includes appropriate scripture references.
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You can take up the piano at any age with this complete, user-friendly course by Carol Barratt. Whether you're starting from scratch, or starting again, this course has been designed to guide you gently into playing simple tunes from day one. Containing familiar favorites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera and ballet, folksongs and blues, plus music by contemporary classical composers. Including fascinating items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music, and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation. Free dummy keyboard included for silent practice, group teaching, and theory work. Book 1: Starting to Play-You'll soon be playing more than 40 piano pieces and exercises. Book 1 introduces the keyboard, the musical alphabet, terms and signs, as well as note values and time signatures.
Book 2: Building Your Skills - More than 20 piano pieces for you to play, ranging from “The Entertainer” to “The Blue Danube,” plus more information on music theory, expression marks, and terms and signs.
Book 3: Making Music - You will play over 20 piano pieces, including music by Verdi, Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Saint-Saëns, and Tchaikovsky. More theory points are incorporated, and you'll be playing the blues!
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This bestseller is now available with demonstration tracks! A short easy method for learning to play boogie woogie, designed for the beginner and average pianist. Includes: exercises for developing left-hand bass; 25 popular boogie woogie bass patterns; arrangements of “Down the Road a Piece” and “Answer to the Prayer” by well-known pianists; a glossary of musical terms for dynamics, tempo and style; and more.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack, a veritable encyclopedia of music and lore, immerses you in all aspects of New Orleans boogie and blues piano. This intimate session will help you build a solid repertoire and acquire essential licks, runs, turnarounds, rhythms and techniques. Includes audio demos, accessed online that can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This book will give you a complete rock piano workout – in both modern and classic styles! You'll develop your rhythmic feel, dexterity, hand coordination, and voicing skills as you work through the fun, authentic examples. These pieces will help you use your rock piano technique in a musical, stylistically effective way. Each music sample is recorded at several tempos, so you can choose the one that's right for you as you play along with the rock rhythm section on the included audio files.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Chopin succeeded in doing something truly remarkable with his two cycles of Etudes op. 10 and op. 25, published in 1833 and 1837 respectively. Probably no one before him had composed technical practice pieces that at the same time reached such musical heights. Chopin's Etudes are character pieces that are full of tension, written for the concert hall. The virtuosic works, including long-running hits such as the “Revolutionary Etude” op. 10 no. 12 belong to the pianist's core repertoire. In addition to the two cycles op. 10 and op. 25, our Urtext edition also contains three Etudes without opus number, which Chopin composed for a Parisian piano method in 1840: wonderfully lyrical miniatures, which can hold their own with the 24 grand studies.
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Volume 2 deals with more complex and colorful harmony, from suspended fourth, sharp eleven and thirteenth chords to diminished and altered scales. Advanced voicing, accompaniment and improvisation techniques are examined in detail, including the following topics: Quartal harmony, modal improvisation, long and short II V patterns, altered dominant chords, polychords, stride piano, Bossa Nova, clave and Partido Alto, Lydian and Locrian modes, how to make scales swing, building bebop lines, bebop scales, R235 patterns, the b3 pentatonic scale, rhythm changes, turnarounds, minor II-V-I, playing in 3/4 time, playing in double-time, tension and release, transcribing, practice routines.
32 pieces by the author appear alongside special arrangements of well-known jazz standards, including: Beautiful Love • Blue Bossa • Blue in Green • Caravan • Impressions • Ladybird • Misty • On Green Dolphin Street • Softly as in a Morning Sunrise • Summertime • Tune Up and Yesterdays. Also included are transcribed solos by Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Hampton Hawes.
Each volume has its own audio download (mp3-format), containing between performances of all pieces, played by Tim alone or with his trio of Dominic Howles (bass) and Matt Home (drums). Play-along tracks are also included, in which the piano is panned to one speaker, providing rhythm section accompaniment if desired by turning the amplifier's balance control. Copious examples of improvisation are accompanied by numerous assignments, with guidance to hand on every page. Audio is accessed online.
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Now available with a play-along CD! From the Private Lessons series, this bestselling book is intended as a sequel to Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist. It is perfect for the beginning to professional pianist, and can even benefit players of other genres, such as jazz or classical. Features 50 patterns in Latin, Cuban, Montuno, Salsa and Cha-Cha styles.
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36 popular classic pieces for budding pianists! Easy piano arrangements with chord symbols complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.
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A must for the meticulous study of Rachmaninoff's preludes! Volume 4 of the practical urtext editions of the complete works for piano by Sergei Rachmaninoff contains Etudes-Tableaux on the basis of the unreduced musical text from the Rachmaninoff Critical Edition with detailed preface and colour facsimile reproductions of autograph manuscripts. - First publication of versions 1 and 2 of 9 Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 with special appendix devoted to the reconstruction of the cycle - Appendix with first publication of version 1 of Etude-Tableau Op. 39, No. 1 in C minor and early variants of individual text fragments of Etude-Tableau Op. 39, No. 3 in F sharp minor.
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Over 220 scales, in all 12 keys, for all keyboardists presented in standard notation and easy to-read diagrams.
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How can the piano help a singer? Developing piano skills will help you learn repertoire, gain self-sufficiency, rehearse and perform by yourself, understand music better, be more creative with it, and teach others. And you don't have to be a great sight-reader, play scales all day, or become a classical pianist who can perform Bach and Mozart. It's much simpler than that. You can be on your way quickly. Topics include: sheet music and forms, playing melodies, harmony, styles, arranging and more.
Book includes access to helpful audio examples. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Winner of the 1988 Pulizter Prize.
Contents: Butterflies, Hummingbirds (Bk II) • Fast, Furious (Book I) • Hi-Jinks (Book IV) • Hymne a L'amour (Book IV) • Invention (Book III) • Mirrors (Book I) • Nocturne • Premonition • Rag Infernal (Book III) • Recitatif (Book I) • Scene D'opera (Book II) • Vers le Silence (Book IV).
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Une methode complete de qualite professionelle. Ce DVD vous guident depuis les exercises du premier jour jusqu'a vous faire jouer avec un accompagnement enregistre! Debutons Bien a ete concu pour vous apprendre tout ce dont vous avez besoin des la premiere fois ou vous jouez votre clavier.
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Step-by-step pictures take you from the first day excercises to playing along with a backing track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you sit down at your piano.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The 60 audio tracks allow you to listen and play along. These user-friendly books provide riffs, licks, chords & tricks you can learn now, and easily incorporate into your own playing style!
This book/audio pack is designed to help you play the real, down-home blues. Includes basic blues structures and techniques, original blues to jazz and rock piano, boogie, stride and walking bass styles.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the piano? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your piano playing quest, then this is it: All About Piano is for you. Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing your favorite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn interesting tid-bits on piano makes & models, care and maintenance, other keyboard instruments, and other fun stuff about the piano. This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes:
• An introduction to pianos and keyboard instruments
• Step-by-step music reading instruction
• How to play by ear and improvise
• Background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs
• Performing tips.
This book includes five full songs (Benny and the Jets • Come Sail Away • Minuet in G • Misty • Takin' Care of Business) and over 40 excerpts of popular songs, including: All My Loving (The Beatles) • Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John) • Imagine (John Lennon) • Linus and Lucy (Vince Guaraldi) • Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) • Your Cheatin' Heart (Hank Williams) • and more. The audio includes 70 tracks for demo and play-along.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This informative book features: photos of the left hand playing basic chords in all keys; chord notes highlighted on the keyboard; bass and treble clef chord notation; a quick chord reference on the back cover for easy use while playing; several methods of building basic chords; a major scale chart; a chord-building chart for expanded chords; and much more!
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Everything you need to get the started: FastTrack instruction in book, online audio, and DVD formats!
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Teens just starting to learn piano basics will be able to play these popular Christmas songs! Christmas Piano for Teens is a useful supplement to the Piano for Teens method book. Like the method book, the songs begin with easy-to-read music notation with note names inside the note heads. Later in the book, the songs progress to adding simple left-hand chord accompaniments to favorite holiday tunes. It includes access to audio demo tracks online for download or streaming. Songs include: Christmas Time Is Here • Jingle Bell Rock • Jingle Bells • Jolly Old St. Nicholas • Joy to the World • The Little Drummer Boy • Mary, Did You Know? • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree • Santa Baby • Silent Night • Sleigh Ride • What Child Is This?
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This book presents a unique organization and application of keyboard instruction materials to help the student gain the skills necessary to be professional and competitive in the music industry today. Rarely does an accomplished artist extend his musical passion to the area of teaching, but jazz composer/keyboardist John Novello is the exception. Novello began teaching in 1983, and released The Contemporary Keyboardist a few years later.
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This book by renowned young Hammond B-3 organist Joey DeFrancesco encompasses blues and bebop lines and progressions. It includes: music examples for practice and study; examples and lines in all 12 keys; transcriptions and improvisations with harmonic analysis for two tunes; and Joey playing the examples in different tempos on the audio examples, with and without the right hand. In addition, there are two transcriptions of his compositions and improvisations with harmonic analysis of “Big Bad Jim” and “Lights, Camera, Action.” The audio tracks are all accessed online via streaming or download. For piano, organ and synth.
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This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The accompanying CDs allow you to listen and play along to the matching audio tracks. These user-friendly book/CD packs provide riffs, licks, chords & tricks you can learn now, and easily incorporate into your own playing style!
Create the boogie sounds of such great pianists as Jools Holland and Jelly Roll Morton. Develop authentic left-hand rhythmic patterns and sparkling riffs. Discover the secrets of syncopation, arpeggios, grace notes, and other essential boogie techniques.
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The first complete guide to playing the melodeon, this book takes the beginner step-by-step from the first notes to playing famous folk melodies. It includes easy-to-follow text with clear diagrams.
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This comprehensive, 562-page method, called “Solid, readable and relevant” by Keyboard magazine and “The major work for today's pianists” by International Musician, is divided into four sections. The first, “A Philosophy of Music,” deals with communication, cause-effect principles and practice disciplines. The second section, “Mechanics,” covers all the basics of keyboard music and playing (notation, harmony, improv, sight reading, etc.), as well as their applications. The third section, “The Business Scene,” contains guidelines and industry advice for contemporary keyboardists. Section four, “Interviews,” provides insights into the artistry and technique of famous players such as Herbie Hancock, Henry Mancini, Edgar Winter, Keith Emerson, Paul Shaffer and many more. Includes an index.
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