Ready to take your keyboard playing to the next level? This book will show you how. 101 Keyboard Tips presents valuable how-to insight that players of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text,photos,music,diagrams and accompanying CD provide an essential,easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics,including: techniques,improvising and soloing,equipment,practicing,ear training,performance,theory,and much more.

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A handy guide of clear chord illustrations,perfect for students. Also includes a transposition chart.

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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 00220017/$19.95

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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. Works include:Alfie - Day By Day - Easy Living - Girl Talk - Hello, Young Lovers - If I Should Lose You - It Might As Well Be Spring - It's Easy To Remember - Moon River - My Ideal - My Old Flame - The Nearness Of You - Never Let Me Go - Out Of Nowhere - Stella By Starlight - Tangerine - That Old Black Magic - You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

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Authors: Elizabeth Gutierrez and Trevor Barnard
An invaluable, quick reference tool for any teacher, performer or student of the piano who desires an extensive listing of the most significant works composed for solo piano. Accurate, concise and thoroughly researched entries provide an at-a-glance overview of a composer's output, with information on difficulty levels, opus numbers, movement titles, publisher sources and so forth. Whether searching for new material or refreshing one's perspective, this portable database of information will prove itself indispensable for repertoire study and planning. A must-have resource for any pianist's bookshelf or piano.

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This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Dave Limina shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to build your harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic vocabulary. The DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. Includes: scale and blues techniques · ear training · rock and blues phrasing · two-hand grooves for funk, Texas shuffle, roots-rock, and Latin styles · jazz voicings and rhythms. Clear and detailed instruction is given both on-screen and in the accompanying 80-page booklet. 45 minutes.

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The relationship between singer and accompanist is not always an easy one,but when it clicks,it's highly rewarding for both parties - and the audience. In this book/CD pack,author and pianist Gene Rizzo reveals the secrets to getting on a singer's accompanist A list,covering topics including: exploring song forms,intros and endings,writing a lead sheet,accompanying different vocal styles,descriptive accompaniment,tempo rubato,transposition and more. The book includes two complete songs,and the CD contains both full-version tracks and tracks with the piano part deleted for play-along practice. Appropriate for both solo piano accompanists and players who are part of a combo.

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Born in the former Czechoslovakia and raised in Poland as a classical pianist,Adam Makovicz performs 12 jazz standards with staggering technique married to a European musical perspective: Caravan · Favorite Things · You Do Something to Me · Just One of Those Things · Passion Flower · more.

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At last! An adult piano method that teaches the music adults really want to learn in a way teachers really want to teach! Written by Fred Kern,a well-respected educator and arranger,this method presents a flexible approach that allows adults to choose what they learn! From Für Elise to The Phantom of the Opera,the handy Pieces by Choice pull-out section of the book includes familar classic,pop,ragtime,religious and folk tunes that every adult wants to play and CAN play while learning. Accompaniment CD also available: HL00290435

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This multi Grammy-nominated pianist,arranger,composer and Concord Records jazz artist provides quiet renditions of romantic standards. Includes: Beautiful Love · Starcrossed Lovers · What Is This Thing Called Love · Everything I Love · I've Never Been In Love Before · Love In Vain · and many more.

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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 CD 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. Also available for guitar,tenor saxophone,and trumpet.

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The Anthology of Classical Piano Music is paired with the Performance Practices in Classical Piano Music DVD for a comprehensive look at the literature,performing conventions and musical style of the Classical era. On the DVD,Dr. Hinson performs music from the Anthology,and discusses musical characteristics,period instruments,and performance conventions not indicated in the manuscripts.

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Works by 27 composers are included in this 248-page comprehensive survey of piano music written between 1750 and 1820. The pieces in this collection range in difficulty from intermediate through early-advanced levels and cover the widest range of styles and idioms of the Classical period. Historical and biographical background,performance notes and suggested realizations of ornaments are also provided by Dr. Hinson.

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Improving aural skills consists of learning to discriminate one sound or group of sounds from another. This book addresses rhythmic articulations and syllables,intervals,chord patterns,chord/scales,hearing melodies,and guide-tone lines. The book is divided into two levels of difficulty for advancing students.

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by Debbie Denke 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 CD features both solo piano demonstrations and bass and drum accompaniments that let you practice playing with a rhythm section.

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In this book in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series, author John Valerio provides essential, detailed information for bebop and jazz pianists on the following topics: chords and voicings, harmony and chord progressions, scales and tonality, common melodic figures and patterns, comping, characteristic tunes, the styles of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and much more. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. Also included are combo performances of five of the tunes featured at the end of the book.

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This multimedia CD-ROM series from eMedia Music,the leading publisher of music instruction software,offers an exciting way to quickly learn to play piano or keyboard. Piano teacher Irma Irene Justicia,M.A.,who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music,guides with video demonstrations of techniques. Songs and exercises can be heard as either live recorded audio or variable-speed MIDI tracks. As the music plays,an animated keyboard guides the student through fingerings. When used with a MIDI keyboard,interactive feedback points out specific playing mistakes. Each volume includes a metronome,recorder and entertaining accompaniment tracks to play along with.

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This multimedia CD-ROM series from eMedia Music the leading publisher of music instruction software offers an exciting way to quickly learn to play piano or keyboard. Piano teacher Irma Irene Justicia M.A. who has taught at the renowned Juilliard Scho

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This multimedia CD-ROM series from eMedia Music the leading publisher of music instruction software offers an exciting way to quickly learn to play piano or keyboard. Piano teacher Irma Irene Justicia M.A. who has taught at the renowned Juilliard Scho

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This multimedia CD-ROM series from eMedia Music the leading publisher of music instruction software offers an exciting way to quickly learn to play piano or keyboard. Piano teacher Irma Irene Justicia M.A. who has taught at the renowned Juilliard Scho

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