Piano Adventures?-The Piano Adventures?: Gold Star Performance Primer Level is an adventurous collection for the elementary pianist featuring changing moods keys and hand positions. The series offers performance pieces ???with a challenge.??? This collection may also be used as a graduation book to improve artistic technical and rhythmic skills before advancing to the next level.As the title Gold Star suggests these pieces are especially appropriate for recitals and other musical events. A broad range of styles are presented to enhance the young musician???s awareness of classical jazz folk and impressionistic sounds. Pieces need not necessarily be taught in theorder presented.The Gold Star Performance CD is a discovery in sound for both listening and play-along. Repeated listening with and without the score will familiarize students with diverse musical textures and sonorities a lively marching band the bass sounds of roaming pterodactyls or ringing French cathedral bells.The educational recordings provide more than student demonstration they provide settings in harmony style and rhythm which explore the expressive and dramatic qualities of the piano. Solo piano performances superlatively performed by Randall and Nancy Faber are included at the end of the CD.Gold Star characteristics of each piece are listed in the table of contents and a Gold Star music dictionary and certificate conclude the book.G-O-L-D Star Performance: a Guide Offering Lyricism and Drama at the Keyboard!

Country Riffs for Piano & Keyboards by Andrew D. Gordon is a book with 45 examples showing how to play professional sounding Country Western Swing Bluegrass Honky Tonk Blues Country Rock and Country Pop styles. Learn to play fills or riffs to such Country favorites as: Rocky Top San Antonio Rose On The Road Again Desperado Sweet Home Alabama Orange Blossom Special etc. The audio files are recorded with piano left hand on the left stereo channel and the piano right hand on the right stereo channel along with rhythm accompaniment of bass drums organ and either violin banjo guitar or accordion depending on the track. Allthe 45 examples are recorded with the accompaniment on their own and many of the examples are recorded a third time at a slowed down tempo. The Nashville Numbering System is also explained and how it is used in playing Country music.

Jan Sweelinck (1562-1621) was among the most famous organists of seventeenth century Europe and an influential composer in the Dutch and North German tradition. Bridging both Renaissance and Baroque styles the Dutch composer is best remembered for the inventive sparkling music he wrote for organ and other keyboard instruments. This remarkable treasury includes nearly all of Sweelinck's brilliant keyboard works most of which have survived only in widely scattered seventeenth century manuscripts. In Sweelinck's day these were some of Europe's most popular pieces for organ and keyboard. Nowadays they retain every bit of their original intensity and vigour. Reproduced inthis authoritative complete-resource edition they will be welcomed by serious keyboard artists who will find them as praiseworthy today as they were when first known and played in Europe over three hundred years ago.

The Blues Scale by Andrew Gordon is a very important book because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used to improvise in many styles of contemporary music.Inside both the Blues scale and relative minor Blues scale are explained in detail and how they are used either separately or together in the patterns for each style.Each of the 20 grooves in this book contains over 150 patterns in total using notes solely from the blues scale. Each of the 20 grooves utilizes a chord progression that is commonly used for that style of music. The audio files contain recordings of all the blues patterns that are notated inthe book recorded along with a rhythm section of Piano Organ Guitar Bass and Drums and on certain grooves Percussion. Also included are extended 2-3 minute play-a-long mp3 files of all 20 grooves enabling you to practice playing the blues patterns or creating your own for an extended period of time.Watch the video below for more information.

Photos Diagrams and Music Notation for Over 1 6 Keyboard Chords-Weighing in at 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 9 inch. x 12 inch. Edition (00290528 ISBN 0-634-03290-9).

Progressive Piano Method For Young Beginners: Book 1 covers the important techniques required to learn to play the Piano including five notes with the left hand and five notes with the right hand and basicPiano theory for kids - including how to read music. Suitable for children aged 4 to 8 years and all types of Pianos including electric digital and Piano Keyboards. Progressive Piano Method For YoungBeginners: Book 1 includes 39 great sounding exercises and popular easy songs for kids. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout with easy-to-read music for kids. Comes with access to online mediacontaining Piano videos and audio demonstrating all examples. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the Piano is required to teach your child to learn to play Piano from this book. Includes free Piano noteposter and free Keyboard note stickers.

Reggae music continues to grow in popularity. This folio thoroughly explores the many sounds of this music for the piano and organ player. This step-by-step method illustrated the various rhythmic and melodic techniques unique toreggae music and the accompanying CD allows you to hear the exercises and play along with them.Also included is information on such topics as keyboard and equipment setup and exercise suggestions. A chord dictionary roundsout this unique package that will benefit every keyboard player.

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics-A comprehensive and carefully graded introduction to authentic Keyboard Sonatinas selected from the established Piano repertoire and arranged to be suitable for the late-intermediate student.Alongside melodies by composers as celebrated as Beethoven Kuhlau and Clementi this anthology of performance pieces includes a guide to help you understand Sonata and Sonatina form itself. You'll also find carefully devised warm-up exercises to help stretch and prepare the hands before tackling these musical challenges.With eleven substantial Sonatinas on offer this collection is an ideal source to expand your performance repertoire as well as an ideal opportunityto gain valuable early experience of the rigours of classical piano playing.

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics-A comprehensive and carefully graded introduction to authentic Keyboard Sonatinas selected from the established Piano repertoire and arranged to be suitable for the intermediate student.Alongside melodies by composers as celebrated as Beethoven Diabelli and Attwood this anthology of performance pieces includes a guide to help you understand Sonata and Sonatina form itself. You'll also find carefully devised warm-up exercises to help stretch and prepare the hands before tackling these musical challenges.With eleven substantial Sonatinas on offer this collection is an ideal source to expand your performance repertoire as well as an ideal opportunity to gainvaluable early experience of the rigours of classical piano playing.

This collection of Selected Works For Keyboard by Johann Jacob Froberger has been released to mark the occasion of Froberger’s 400th birthday in 2016.This attractive volume containsfour of Froberger’s works for Keyboard including a toccata a fantasia and a canzona which invite us on a musical journey of discovery into his early-Baroque musical world. The volume concludes with Froberger’swell-known variations Auff Ie Mayerin a work that has enabled his music to succeed in enthusing pianists as well as the harpsichordists of our time.Edited by Froberger expert Peter Wollny this HenleEdition will leave no wishes unfulfilled.

Learn to play any keyboard instrument - electronic or acoustic. Contains short pieces with necessary technique to play them or organized to help young students structure their practice sessions. To be used with the Creative Keyboard companion books.

Mid-Elementary-Level 2A Piano Solo-There's Nothing Like a Circus is a playful piece that captures the lively spirit of the circus. The piece features an introduction which cascades down the keyboard a rollicking circus theme and a Coda which takes the student to the outer ranges of the keyboard. Composed by Nancy Faber for solo Piano.

A Polyrhythmic Journey In 6/8 Time. Par DWORSKY ALAN. In The Joy of Six, Dworsky adapts African and Afro-Cuban polyrhythms to the keyboard in a world-beat classical style. At the heart of the book are four beautiful solo pieces designed to teach different rhythms. Each piece is covered in a separate lesson, where it\'s broken down into bite-sized patterns that start easy and gradually get more difficult, designed to lead you step-by-step into the magical world of 6/8 time. As you work through the patterns, Dworsky will be with you every step of the way, anticipating your questions and pointing out whatever will make your journey easier. His clear writing makes rhythmic concepts easily understandable, while his conversational tone creates the feel of private lessons. And the CD that comes with the book contains a recording of every pattern and piece, making The Joy of Six a complete self-instruction package. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / World Music - Methods / Méthode / Piano