Features 11 jazzy Christmas tunes arranged at the intermediate level in Lee Evans' inimitable style. Includes: Caroling, Caroling • The Christmas Song • The Christmas Waltz • Feliz Navidad • Frosty the Snow Man • (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays • I'll Be Home for Christmas • Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! • A Marshmallow World • My Favorite Things • Silver Bells.
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Jazzy piano solos for the early intermediate level
1. Jazz It Up! 2. Jazzmatazz 3. Cool Dude 4. Boogie Woogie 5. Loco Motive 6. Big Tease 7. Bach To Trinidad 8. Blues Stomp 9. Latin From Manhattan 10. Gee Whiz! 11. Skateboard
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14 fabulous songs including: Embraceable You • A Foggy Day • I Got Rhythm • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off • Nice Work If You Can Get It • They Can't Take That Away From Me • and more!
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Scales provide the basis for jazz improvisation and fill-ins. The scales presented in this book produce idiomatic sounds associated with many jazz styles. Boyd explores the jazz scales and examines their potential, giving the player more improvisation resources. Each chapter includes charts with the scales written in all keys with suggested fingerings and a list of chords which complement each scale. Music examples apply the scales to jazz chord progressions and compositions. Upon completion, the student will gain new insights into the practical application of jazz scales and will be able to enhance performance.
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These great piano arrangements of jazz classics is especially personal to Eric and represent seven of his favorite jazz standards: Ain't Misbehavin' • Autumn Leaves • Don't Get Around Much Anymore • God Bless' the Child • One Note Samba • Stormy Weather • Take Five.
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16 of Jobim's most enchanting Brazilian bossa novas, including: The Girl From Ipanema • Desafinado • Triste • Wave • Look to the Sky • Someone to Light Up My Life • and more.
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Christopher Nortons acclaimed Microjazz series has won worldwide popularity with teachers and students alike for its stimulating blend of contemporary genres and classical values. Two beginners' books and five collections of repertoire pieces form seven clearly defined levels of achievement, making Microjazz the ideal basis for progressive learning and teaching.
Microjazz Absolute Beginners is the very first book in the series and is suitable for learners of all ages. Using a combination of words, music and illustrations, it takes first-time pianists steadily through the early stages of both the practical and theoreticalaspects of playing.
A booklet of accompaniments, suitable for use by a teacher or any intermediate player, is included. The resulting duets can be played on one or two keyboards, and turn even the easiest pupil's tunes into unmistakable Microjazz pieces.
Online audio resources containing both backing and full performance tracks are available to enthuse and enhance both your practice and performance.
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1. Song Without Words 2. Shortenin' Bread Boogie 3. Toy Bugle 4. Sweet Tooth 5. The Case Of The Mysterious Violin 6. Quiet Moment 7. Razzle Dazzle 8. Let's Have A Party
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Get a complete jazz-rock piano workout as you develop your rhythmic feel, dexterity, hand coordination and voicing skills as you work through the fun, authentic examples in this book. The pieces will help you use your jazz-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 jazz-rock rhythm section on the CD.
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This absolutely unique and amazing self-learning course will give you all you need to master the art of jazz improvisation. Five compact discs filled with instruction and musical exercises, with a printed workbook for your musical dictation answers, as well as a complete reference and answers book. Serves as a companion to MMO's Rutgers Music Dictation Course (MMOCD 7001), is a perfect prerequisite to this course. Requires a basic knowledge of scales and music notation. Includes five compact discs featuring verbal instruction, examples and dictation exercises, a pre-printed workbook and a separate reference and answers book.
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The Art of Modulating is a treatise originally intended for the harp, but this edition has been edited for use by intermediate keyboardists and other musicians who have an understanding of basic music theory. In its pages you will find: table of intervals; modulation rules; modulation formulas; examples of modulation; extensions and cadences; ten fragments of dances; five characteristic pieces; and more.
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There is no joy like that of expressing yourself through musical improvisation. This book/CD pack will show you how to arrange and improvise to popular and jazz tunes in your own style, using a clear, step-by-step method developed over many years by successful jazz pianist and teacher Debbie Denke. It can be used for personal instruction or as a classroom text. The audio features both solo piano demonstrations and bass and drum accompaniments that let you practice playing with a rhythm section.
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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The authors strongly believe that to achieve comprehensive musicianship more effectively and rapidly, all piano students should know how to notate music...and should therefore be given writing assignments at every lesson. A creative approach to the learning of writing skills will involve pupils in the activity of composing. This volume introduces fundamental compositional techniques - repetition, sequence, retrograde, and inversion - to the early level student.
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After graduating from Queens College in New York, Jim auditioned for and joined the prestigious “Airmen of Note” at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC for a 4-year enlistment period as pianist/arranger. The depth of experience gained here could not have been realized so quickly anywhere else. It was a veritable laboratory for perfecting both playing and arranging skills. Opportunities for creative experimentation were plentiful. Where else could one write arrangements and have them immediately played by some of the best players in the country? Members of the band included stellar performers who later achieved great success on the professional music scene. Sammy Nestico, Tommy Newsom and first-call New York saxophonist Walt Levinsky were just a few among these. At the end of this four-year hitch, Jim returned to New York. In the ensuing years, he earned a masters degree and doctorate at Columbia University while continuing to write music for commercials and recordings, study with top composers and perform as pianist for recordings and live performances. It was a time when money was no object in setting budgets for national radio/TV commercials and industrial films. To cite just one example among many others, Jim had forty players in the studio for a national spot that he wrote for Chevrolet featuring the Fifth Dimension. There were also recording sessions in Los Angeles. Notable among these was a two and one half minute Canada Dry TV spectacular featuring Ann Margret with a cast of thirty dancers, for which he composed and conducted his own original music. Most recently, he has served as Director of Music Technology at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, NY. FTC, noted for its excellence as a music education institution, has awarded honorary doctorates to Elmer Bernstein, Clive Davis, and many other notables in the music industry. While there as Professor of Music, Jim conducted music workshops for students and wrote original scripts complete with vocal and instrumental arrangements for shows attended by the public. He also hosted a series of fifteen TV interviews with composers of the twentieth century and/or their heirs. Among others, these included Charles Strouse, George David Weiss, Ervin Drake, the sons of Hoagy Carmichael and Edward Eliscu, and wives of Frank Loesser and Jule Stein. Jim has also produced a number of piano recordings for Music Minus One, complete with accurate transcriptions for pianists to study. The inspiration to write this book came from the realization that there was no current method that presented the essential piano improvisor's tool kit in an integrated, carefully planned step by step building-block sequence from beginning to end. The Complete Improviser sequentially presents, chapter by chapter, the authentic tool kit of musical devices used by top professional pianists. Each time a new devi
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As Reilly did with Volumes 1 and 2 of The Harmony of Bill Evans, he now explores the harmony of Dave Brubeck through extensive writings, music examples, and audio examples as well. Fans of Brubeck and students of all jazz styles will find this in-depth exploration fascinating and informative. Songs include: Blues for All • Brandenburg Gate • The Duke • Her Name Is Nancy • Marble Arch • Thank You (Dziekuje) • The Waltz • When I Was Young • and more.
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Features Lee Evans' solo piano arrangements of 31 fabulous standards by the great Harold Arlen, including: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea • I've Got the World on a String • Let's Fall in Love • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) • and dozens more.
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Méthode de Piano Jazz - A jazz piano method for beginners (in French)
Partie 2 - Harmonie, improvisation, accompagnement & lecture des lead sheets - Part 2 of this method is aimed at players with some piano experience who wish to develop a grasp of the basic tools required to play and improvise in a jazz style.
Chapter 1: Harmony & Improvisation Builds on the concepts covered in Part 1 to help you deal with typical situations such as 32-barsequences, II – V – I, playing in 3/4, etc.
Chapter 2: Accompanying: An essential skill for anyone playing in a duo situation, or for vocalists wishing to accompany themselves at the piano.
Chapter 3: Interpreting Lead Sheets: Follow the 'Lead Sheet Protocol' to help you get away from reading sheet music and start creating your own arrangements – like professional jazz pianists.
Online resources include downloadable audio files of every piece, backing tracks, and interactive 'Replay' tracks featuring scrollable music and adjustable tempos.
Méthode de Piano Jazz - Partie 2 includes seven originals alongside traditional standards such St James Infirmary, When the Saints Go Marching In and Indiana. This is the ideal book to use with your piano teacher, but the backing and 'Replay' tracks make it equally accessible to those studying on their own.
The two books of Méthode de Piano Jazz feature an identical level of difficulty and can be used together, or independently.
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More sequentially organized lessons combining music notation with instruction in additional basic, compositional techniques... ostinato, pedal point, altered forms of repetition and sequence, and 12-bar blues.
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Jazz Session Trainer is the ideal resource for those players who want to hone their improvising skills, improve their chops, and feel at home in a jam session. In addition to a generous dose of scales, exercises, and licks, the book includes a chapter on jam session etiquette, a practice planner, and chord charts – plus accompanying online audio – for 50 frequently played tunes.
“Simply put, Larry Dunlap's Jazz Session Trainer, a 127-page book with audio download code, is an essential text for aspiring improvisers...” –JazzTimes magazine
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