The fundamentals of jazz are here explained and systemized in 70 lessons based on 60 jazz standards. It covers the styles of musicians from Buddy Bolden to Dizzy Gillespie.
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This comprehensive book with online audio will teach you the basic skills you need to play smooth jazz piano. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying audio features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. Specifically, you'll learn: scales and chords, harmony and voicings, progressions and comping, rhythmic concepts, melodies and soloing, characteristic stylings, the history of jazz, and more. THE HAL LEONARD KEYBOARD STYLE SERIES provides focused lessons that contain valuable how-to insight, essential playing tips, and beneficial information for all players. Comprehensive treatment is given to each subject, complete with professionally recorded audio tracks. The audio is accessed online for download or streaming.
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The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and professional quality audio with 65 full-demo tracks as well as a DVD with even more instruction and demonstrations. This pack offers a complete guide to the basics, including: music reading – notes and rhythms; lead sheet notation for left hand; songs, chords and scales; playing tips and techniques; and more.
The accompanying audio files are accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes 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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A method that's fast, fun and designed for the 'do-it-yourselfer.' Familiar songs can be played almost immediately because the student reads only the melody line and chord symbols. Also provides the incentive for continuing serious music study. With The Pointer System you can learn to play the piano as you've always wished you could – even if you have never touched a keyboard before in your life!
BOOK 1 will help you learn the basics of the keyboard, the staff, rhythm, scales, melodies and more. Songs include: Auld Lang Syne • Faith of Our Fathers • Jingle Bells • Oh! Susanna • and more.
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This comprehensive book/online audio pack will teach you the basic skills needed to play beginning rock keyboard. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, tools, and techniques used by the pros. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate most of the music examples in the book. Get started today!
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks 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 – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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This one-on-one lesson with Musicians Institute instructor Peter Deneff features 50 exercises for the beginning to professional jazz pianist, covering: angular lines, large intervals, pentatonic patterns, blues scales, irregular chromatic melodies, double-note patterns, suggested fingerings, suggestions for practice, and more. Also available by Peter Deneff - 695226 – Salsa Hanon.
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This comprehensive book/CD pack will teach you the basic skills needed to play new age piano. From melodic development to chord progressions to left-hand accompaniment patterns, you'll learn the theory, the tools and the techniques used by the pros. The accompanying 96-track CD demonstrates most of the music examples in the book. The tracks feature the right-hand part on the right channel and the left-hand part on the left channel for easy “hands-separate” practice, an important skill for any style of playing.
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This remarkable instructional pack contains books 1 and 2 from the Absolute Beginners series plus the songbook and fingering charts all in one volume, with 2 CDs of professional backing tracks and a bonus DVD to accompany the first tutor book.
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This comprehensive book and audio package will teach you the basic skills you need to play post bop jazz piano. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying audio features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. THE HAL LEONARD KEYBOARD STYLE SERIES provides focused lessons that contain valuable how-to insight, essential playing tips, and beneficial information for all players. Comprehensive treatment is given to each subject, complete with companion audio files. 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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Over 500 standard chord forms presented in easy to read diagrams and clear, close-up photos. All the right chords at your fingertips! Suitable for all keyboards.
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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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This course on improvisation for all instruments and all styles will help players develop monster musical skills! Book One presents Lessons 1 through 26 of this unique instructional course that imparts a solid basis in technique, rhythm, chord theory, ear training and improv concepts. Covers: common chord voicings, basic chord progressions, the swing feel, and much more. The audio can be used as a listening and play-along tool. 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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The Theory & Technique books provide students with workbooks to reinforce the theoretical concepts they are learning in the method books. Alongside these examples are exercises that help develop piano techinique. Keys for the Kingdom brings theory alive for students. More than just memorizing terms and running scales, this approach helps students understand how music works. It establishes foundations that help them create their own music or interpret the music of others with more feeling and understanding. One unique feature of Keys for the Kingdom is the inclusion of improvisation as an integral part of the student's lesson. Many musical styles are covered including gospel and contemporary idioms. All companion books are closely coordinated with the lesson models in the method book.
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If you can point a finger, you can learn piano! Check out this classic method that's fast, fun and designed for the 'do-it-yourselfer.' Familiar songs can be played almost immediately because the student reads only the melody line and chord symbols. Also provides the incentive for continuing serious music study. With The Pointer System you can learn to play the piano as you've always wished you could – even if you have never touched a keyboard before in your life! This edition features all five books of the method together in one convenient plastic comb-bound edition.
BOOK 1: Learn the basics of the keyboard, the staff, rhythm, scales, melodies, and more. Songs include: Auld Lang Syne • Faith of Our Fathers • Jingle Bells • Oh, Susanna • and more. BOOK 2: Start learning about the black keys, the sustaining pedal, new chords, and more. Songs include: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow • Merry Widow • My Darling Clementine • On Top of Old Smoky • We Three Kings • and more. BOOK 3: This book continues with major chords, scales, rhythm in 4, eighth note patterns, and more. Songs include: Good Night Ladies • Home on the Range • I've Been Working on the Railroad • Marine Hymn • Oh, Susanna • and more. BOOK 4 moves into the areas of alternating bass, melody in octaves, sixteenth notes, playing triplets, syncopation, and more. Songs include: America • Bicycle Built for Two • Bill Baily • My Bonnie Old Folks at Home • Sailing Sailing • and more. BOOK 5: This edition explores scale and chord patterns, chord inversions, chord progressions, cross hand accompaniment, key of D Major, and more. Songs include: the First Noel • Glow Worm • Minuet • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot • When the Saints Come Marching On • and more.
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50 essential exercises for the beginning to professional pianist, all based on the requisite Hanon studies. The exercises address: stride, ragtime, Broadway, honky-tonk, New Orleans, Harlem stride, 2-beat swing, Fats Waller, Dr. John, Scott Joplin, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Art Tatum, Jelly Roll Morton, and more.
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Enables the user to find any chord instantly without reading music. How to accompany songs from ragtime to rock 'n' roll.
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Weighing in with nearly 400 pages, the Picture Chord Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive keyboard resource ever! It includes easy-to-see photos, easy-to-read chord diagrams and treble and bass clef notation for over 1,600 keyboard chords, plus basic chord theory, a chord symbol chart, and more! Also available in a 6″ x 9″ Edition (00310978).
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With this pack, you'll learn the skills you need to take your place alongside Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and other great rock 'n' roll piano players of the '50s and '60s! The audio includes demos and backing tracks so you can play along with every example. Also includes six complete tunes at the end of the book. Topics covered include: left-hand patterns; basic rock 'n' roll progressions; right-hand techniques; straight eighths vs. swing eighths; glisses, crushed notes, rolls and note clusters; how to solo; influential players, styles and recordings; and much more!
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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A secret engagement, a composer as prospective father-in-law and several rival publishing houses – it was against this backdrop that the work was composed. His youthful and passionate love for Ernestine von Fricken was short-lived, but it occasioned Schumann in 1837 to write the “intensely emotional variations” on a theme of her father's, which were eventually to become the “Orchestral etudes.” Fifteen years later a new edition was published, authorized by Schumann, containing such important changes that we have included both versions. In our revised issue the editor Ernst Herttrich has provided each version with its own preface and an extensive commentary.
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From the classic sounds of the '70s to modern progressive stylings, this book/online audio pack provides you with the theory and technique to play and compose in a multitude of prog rock styles. You'll learn how soloing techniques, form, rhythmic and metrical devices, harmony, and counterpoint all come together to make this style of rock the unique and exciting genre it is. Also included is an introduction to classic and contemporary keyboard instruments and sounds, and how they can be used in different combinations to produce authentic-sounding keyboard parts. The accompanying audio features many of the examples covered in the book, as well as six complete progressive rock songs recorded by a real band.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks 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 – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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French language edition. Learn how to play that piano today. With this book you'll learn music notation, chords, riffs, licks and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes over 87 songs and examples plus online musical accompaniment. Audio demos accessed online for streaming or download.
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Excerpted from the Complete Works of Claude Debussy, Series I, Volume 6, edited by Claude Helffer.
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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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This book is a logical follow-up to An Introduction To Jazz Chord Voicing For Keyboard. It continues to explore contemporary chord voicings and their application to melody and accompaniment playing with a jazz group. All chord voicings and the II V I chord progression are written out in all keys. The appendices from both books combined are virtually an encyclopedia of chord voicings. Chapter assignments require experimentation with actual jazz tunes taken from sheet music or fake books. Practical experiences in comping and solo playing are included.
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This book and CD package will provide the contemporary pianist with the tools necessary to improvise accompaniments with chord voicings characteristic of today's jazz sound. Learn how to “comp” from a fake book, including how to incorporate the melody within contemporary jazz chord voicing styles. The accompanying CD includes several of the examples in the book recorded in a jazz combo context.
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This keyboard instruction book is designed for the person who was trained classically but wants to expand into the very exciting – yet very different – world of jazz improvisation. Author Dominic Alldis provides clear explanations and musical examples of: pentatonic improvisation; the blues; rock piano; rhythmic placement; scale theory; major, minor and pentatonic scale theory applications; melodic syntax; the language of bebop; left-hand accompaniment; walking bass lines; thematic development; performance tips; and more.
Also available by Dominic Alldis:
A Classical Approach to Jazz Piano – Exploring Harmony
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This method for the piano and organ player thoroughly explores reggae's many sounds and illustrates step by step the various rhythmic and melodic techniques unique to reggae. It includes info on keyboard and equipment set-up, exercises and suggestions, and a chord dictionary. The accompanying audio allows players to hear the exercises and play along with them.
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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A serious and thorough discussion of harmony for the literate pianist, this book by Professor Dominic Alldis of the Royal Academy of Music in London addresses accompaniment models, basic jazz theory, polychords, reharmonization, upper structure triads, block chords, pentatonic harmony, and many more subjects, drawing harmonic parallels from classical composers. Alldis includes key excerpts from the greatest jazz standards to illustrate his points.
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This book will give you a thorough technical workout, while having fun at the same time! The accompanying audio allows you to play along with a rhythm section as you practice your scales, arpeggios, and chords in all keys. Instead of avoiding technique exercises because they seem too tedious or difficult, you'll look forward to playing them. You'll never be unsure about how to play each example, because all the exercises have fingerings provided. Various voicings and rhythmic settings, which are extremely useful in a variety of pop and jazz styles, are also introduced. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, and more.
Mark Harrison is a professional keyboardist, composer/arranger, and music educator/author based in Los Angeles. His many music instruction books are used by thousands of musicians in over 20 countries. He runs a busy private teaching studio, and performs with his own contemporary jazz band, as well as the Steely Dan tribute band Doctor Wu.
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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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