American Popular Piano

Ce volume de cours de piano fantastique contient dix grandes chansons avec Pop Hits, Broadway smashes, thèmes de films et plus encore. Il apporte un complément idéal à la John Thompson moderne Piano cours Grade 4 et toutes les chansons sont arrangés pour Piano solo par Glenda Austin. / Piano / 48 pages / Partition + Cd

Transcriptions et analyses par Armand Reynaud et Jérémy Brun

Je suis honoré d'écrire quelques mots à propos d'un des plus grands pianistes, Kenny Barron. Il a été une figure importante de la scène New Yorkaise durant quarante ans et il fait partie de l'élite des pianistes de jazz dans le monde.
J'ai tout d'abord rencontré Mr Barron en 1977 dans un haut lieu du duo piano/basse, au Bradley's, dans Greenwich Village. Je l'ai entendu à Cincinnati (dans la ville où j'habitais) en 1974 avec le Quartette de Yusef Lateef et fus très impressionné. Au Bradley's, il était chaleureux et a été très encourageant avec moi, pianiste de 21 ans récemment arrivé à Big Apple (New York). Le moment venu, il me laissa m'asseoir avec son bassiste, le grand Buster Williams - ce fut un réel plaisir.
Lorsque j'ai commencé à réaliser des CD pour le bénéfice de Classical Action : Performing Arts Against AIDS, dans le début des années 90, je lui ai demandé de participer au second enregistrement Fred Hersch and Friends : The Duo Album en jouant un duo avec moi. Cette organisation collecte des fonds vraiment nécessaires pour les services de personnes atteintes du Sida et la prévention. Kenny, sans attendre, donna de son temps et joua magnifiquement. Il apparaît aussi sur le disque suivant, The Richard Rodgers Centennial Solo Jazz Piano Album .
Nous avons également joué à deux pianos à New York au Town Hall et deux fois au Jazz Standard, pour mon plus grand plaisir. C'est un partenaire merveilleux et compréhensif, disposé à tout essayer. Bien qu'il soit difficile de l'identifier, et je ne veux le mettre dans aucune sorte de boîtes, je perçois son style comme étant en grande partie influencé par McCoy Tyner (les lignes longues et claires) et Tommy Flanagan (le phrasé et l'utilisation de l'espace). Il a réussi à obtenir le statut rare de maître du jazz par la vertu de sa longévité, sa profondeur et sa musicalité. Nous partageons tous les deux une passion pour la musique de Monk, Strayhorn et de l'American Popular Songbook et nous sommes tous les deux de grands partisans de l'idée de rendre ce que nous avons absorbé en enseignant aux jeunes pianistes et en devenant leurs mentors.
En plus, il a une personnalité chaleureuse et engageante - il est d'un grand soutien, a un grand sens de l'humour et une attitude posée. Je suis très heureux que ce livre puisse apporter un éclairage sur le parcours du pianiste Kenny Barron - je suis sûr que cela sera d'une grande valeur musicale et historique pour tous ceux qui suivent l'évolution du piano jazz. / Jazz / Partition /

Was Sie schon immer auf dem Klavier spielen wollten. Par . The Cinema and its great stories and melodies have had a lasting impact on our life and culture over the past few decades. Reason enough for top author Hans-Günter Heumann to devote himself to the most popular and beautiful film melodies and movie songs in a special volume after the great success of his former PIANOTAINMENT editions. All arrangements are easily playable for every beginner on the piano. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Recueil / Piano

Complete Piano Player Billy Joel is a superb collection of easy Piano arrangements of 15 songs by prolific American pianist and singer-songwriter Billy Joel. With a selection of popular chart hits and fan favourites, this compilation presents the stand-out songs from the six-time Grammy Award winner. / Voix Et Piano

The bestselling series Piano Gefällt Mir! continues with Book 5, featuring 50 more hits from the charts and blockbuster movies, arranged brilliantly for Piano by Hans-Günter Heumann. This edition is perfect-bound.Including a huge number of hits from some of today's top performers, this is the ideal songbook for beginners to learn some popular songs straight from the charts and movies. Featuring FourFiveSeconds by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney, All About That Bass from Meghan Trainor and the instant pop-classic Photograph by Ed Sheeran, Heumann's arrangements are perfect for beginners, those re-learning the Piano, or even advanced players looking to expand their repertoire or practise sight-reading.The sheer range of songs in Piano Gefällt Mir! means that there really is something for everyone. Well-known songs from new and recent films are also included in this songbook, such as See You Again from 'Fast And Furious 7', Love Me Like You Do from 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' and Yann Tiersen's wonderful theme Watching Lara from 'Goodbye Lenin!' Each song in this fantastic volume features chord symbols, lyrics and useful fingering suggestions, ensuring you can learn to play these songs as quickly as possible.With Hans-Günter Heumann's Piano Gefällt Mir!, pianists of all ages and abilities can benefit from the diversity of popular songs and the expert arrangements on offer. / Piano

This Easiest Pop Songs edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course allows the beginner pianist, who is progressing from part one to part two of the world-renowned course, to learn some fantastic and well-known pop songs. With simplified arrangements and large notation, these are popular hits in the familiar John Thompson style.As well as reinforcing basic technique, developing musicality and making learning great fun, the Easiest Pop Songs will be familiar to most young beginners, allowing them to learn and play some of their favourite tunes of the moment. Repertoire books like this have been specially created and graded to be used with the John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course, so pianists who are working through that will recognise the style of this songbook.This book features a number of pop songs, including Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, Sam Smith's Brilliant Stay With Me and Adele's huge smash-hit Hello. There are many more, though, such as Wings by Birdy, Flashlight by Jessie J and I Really Like You by Carly Rae Jepsen. These Easiest Pop Songs are perfect supplementary material for those working through parts 1 and 2 of the course, but also make great sight-reading practice for more advanced students. Since dynamics and phrasing are not introduced until part 3 of the course, they are not included here, although some invaluable hints and tips and fingering guides are featured for all songs.All beginner Piano pupils will love to learn the famous pop songs included in this repertoire book - an ideal complement to John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course. / Piano

Popular Problems is the thirteenth studio album by legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. This Popular Problems sheet music features all of the songs from the album arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar.Released a day after his 80th birthday to wide critical acclaim, Leonard Cohen's thirteenth album is a dark and understated work featuring Cohen's distinctive voice, his poetic lyrics and some bluesy instrumentation. Featuring songs like Slow, Almost Like The Blues and You Got Me Singing, the album is a throwback to those dark American dive bars where the smell of smoke and whisky blends with the sounds of a deep and croaky voice.On Popular Problems, this voice comes from the legendary figure of folk music whose mysteriously cryptic lyrics made their way onto the scene in 1967. After struggling as a poet and novelist, Cohen turned his hand to folk songs which, like Bob Dylan before him, he was perfectly suited to. Our Popular Problems sheet music features accurate transcriptions of all the songs from the latest offering from this old master of folk music.The album is a subtle and quiet one, with beautiful lyrics, simple melodies and some interesting music that ranges from Piano chords to folk Guitar strumming. There are even a few unexpected surprises such as the Middle-Eastern influences on the song Nevermind. These little touches keep the album interesting and exciting while retaining the essence of Cohen's past music.This Popular Problems songbook would be perfect for the Leonard Cohen fan, the singer-songwriter looking to learn from a master, or just someone who loves great music by a great musician. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Thirteen of the most famous and popular songs from one of the most unique stage musicals ever produced are arranged here for Easy Piano. If you're just starting out on the Piano, but you still want to learn these great songs, this book is for you. Rejecting all tropes and traditions of Broadway musicals, Hair, which premiered in 1967, offered both an antidote and something new, surprising and shocking.Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical took the counter-culture of the late 1960s and transformed it into the musical medium, featuring profanity, nudity, drug use and songs that would become anti-Vietnam War protest tunes. The musical was never just a product of its time though, as its enduring appeal has proven. Thirteen of its most popular songs, many of which remain well-loved today, are included in this songbook arranged for Easy Piano. The simplified arrangements feature some guidance on fingering, as well as full lyrics and chord symbols.Songs like the show-opener Aquarius, with its inspiring message, and Ain't Got No, with its rejection of materialism, are included here, their fun lyrics and fantastic music making them sure-fire hits with any audience. Other popular songs like I Got Life, Where Do I Go?, Let The Sunshine In and Good Morning Starshine tell the story not just of the characters in the musical, but of universal themes of life that are common to us all. The 'Tribe' that are featured in the story are a group of counter-culture hippies whose story invoked laughter and sadness along with an empathy that has ensured the show's success even today.Featuring fantastic lyrics and story by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, as well as music by Galt MacDermot, each song in this Hair sheet music songbook is a joy to perform. You will love learning each note of the inspiring and uplifting tunes as well as every word of the touching and memorable lyrics. The success of the once-controversial musical is revealed by its numerous revivals, spanning almost half a century. Songs like Donna, I'm Black and Hair are as relevant now as they were then, making this songbook unique among other musicals for having songs that are both brilliant musically as well as being a mirror into our own world. If you're a fan of musicals in general, Hair in particular, or just great music inspired by the counter-culture revolution of the late '60s, then this songbook is definitely for you. Featuring songs that truly have stood the test of time arranged for Easy Piano, soon you'll be playing these tunes of hope, optimism and love no matter what age or ability you are. After all, isn't that in the spirit of the musical itself? / Piano

This new addition to the Complete Piano Player series adds a Latin flavour to the popular tutor method with 16 Latin-American and Brazilian favourites complete with chord symbols, fingering and lyrics.If you want to learn to play Tangos, Salsas and Bossa Novas, this is the place to start. Featuring many well-known and fun-to-play songs like La Bamba by Los Lobos and the classic La Cucaracha, this songbook takes the characteristic style and rhythms of Latin music and turns them into easy-to-play arrangements.The Complete Piano Player: Latin is based on the bestselling method by Kenneth Baker that continues to teach many people the basics of playing the Piano. The sheet music contained in this collection provides accurate transcriptions of songs such as Mambo #5, as well as helpful fingering and chord symbols that will be familiar to those who have used the Complete Piano Player series before.If you've worked through the tutorial method, or you are just looking to inject a fusion of exciting rhythm and spicy style into your Piano playing, our Complete Piano Player: Latin sheet music is the most comprehensive way to put such a varied selection of Latin classics at your fingertips. / Piano

Par LUSHER ELZA / CHRIS. Eighteen beautiful ballads, as recorded by Eva Cassidy, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Eva was never a songwriter, but rather chose to sing songs that touched her deeply. Her arrangements of popular American, English and traditional music have become classic interpretations of the 21st Century. Includes photographs and an introduction by Hugh Cassidy, Eva's Father./ Méthode / Piano