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

This book is great for keyboardists who have learned the basics of blues improvisation and composing. Beginning with a review of concepts and skills covered in Beginning Blues Keyboard, this book explores further into topics such as chord extensions, blues techniques, building bass lines, playing in the key, ii-V substitutions and slow blues. Blues forms such as the twelve-bar blues and the eight-bar blues are explored. Packed with sample licks and songs, this book is essential for any keyboardist serious about learning the blues. / Piano (Ou Clavier)

Foreword by Chuck Leavell-The authentic guide to traditional and modern blues keyboard playing with rhythm and soloing concepts for piano and organ. Build your blues vocabulary with ideas for ensemble playing; intros turnarounds licks and endings; piano and organ accompaniment; phrasing and soloing; and much more. Written by Marty Sammon the keyboardist in Buddy Guy's acclaimed band. This book includes access to audio demonstration tracks online for download or streaming featuring Marty and his band playing the examples in the book.

Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning rock right away. Starting with a thourough review of music fundamentals and basic rock theory, you will learn the basics of rock chords, left-hand patterns, arpeggios, slash chords, how to read lead sheets and get started improvising with the pentatonic scale. Other topics include blues-rock, rock ballads and an introduction to the modes. The essential starter for any rock keyboardist. The CD demonstrates examples and offers opportunities to play along.

The conclusion to this jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings, modal soloing, substitution, reharmonization, modes of the minor scales, diminished and whole-tone scales, walking bass, stride piano technique, non-diatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music, this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist\'s journey into jazz. The CD includes examples and opportunities to play along. / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Piano ou Clavier

The FJH Keyboard Chord Encyclopedia is a quick reference guide containing the most common chords and chord voicings used in folk jazz and popular music. This book is written especially for keyboardists—both novice and professional—who work with popular music by ear or use lead sheets etc. The encyclopedia is organized chromatically into chapters starting with C and progressing upward through B. Enharmonic chapters are also included.

A collection of today's best movie songs and themes, in easy melody line arrangements for all electronic keyboards. Includes music from Twilight: New Moon, Iron Man 2, The Simpsons Movie and many more! Each song has chord symbols, lyrics, suggested registration, rhythm and tempo. Easy-to-follow keyboard diagrams are grouped together at the start of each song and show all the left-hand chord voicings used. / Clavier

Tämä opas kertoo kaikkein tärkeimmät asiat kun aloitat keyboardin soiton. Selkeät kuvat auttavat ensimmäisistä harjoituksista taustaraitojen kanssa soittamiseen saakka!Tässäloistavassa oppaassa saat:? Selkeän opastuksen kuvien kera etkä mitään pitkiä selostuksia.? Käytännön ohjeita ja vinkkejä kytkemisestä huoltamisesta soittamisesta jne.? Audioraidat kertovat miltä sinun tulisi kuulostaa ja paljon muuta...? Täydelliset säestysraidat mukanasoittamiseen.

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards the Beginner Series by musician educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or riffs that make up Blues piano playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful toolfor sight reading exercises with many different left and right hand rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale in Andrew s opinion the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as straight and swing rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book section 1 contains basic Blues riffs section 2 contains Rhythm and Blues influenced riffs section 3 contains Boogie Woogie riffs section 4 contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section 5 contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. Included with this book are downloadable audio files that contains all the riffs recorded twice: first piano with bass and drums and second just bass and drums so you can play-a-long.   

The first step towards experiencing the fun of playing Keyboards. This book will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing the keyboards. Learn How To: Play Chords And Arpeggios Playmajor and minor scales Play melodies by ear Improvise Play the blues CD included

Pianists all know the benefits of playing the Two-Part Inventions of J.S. Bach. Now, world-respected jazz pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe has written his own inventions that will benefit every player's understanding and performance of jazz. These great-sounding etudes explore the specific harmonic, melodic, and technical challenges faced by jazz keyboardists, including the ii-V and ii-V-I progressions, outlining changes, chord-tone ornamentation, playing in octaves, tonic patterns, block chords, polytonality, stride piano, and left-hand walking bass. Pieces feature chord symbols, explanatory notes, and preparatory exercises, and each invention is performed on the CD by Bill Cunliffe. 123 pages. ...perfect for daily warm-up, explores the harmonic and melodic intricacies of jazz, each etude targets a specific technical skill and includes performance notes, inventions gradually become more challenging and the harmonic progressions are varied and very musical...a musical feast. -International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)

Explore the classic riffs and solos of rock's greatest keyboardists with this informative book/CD pack. Includes detailed instruction transcriptions and a CD with demos. 12 songs are analyzed: Bloody Well Right (Supertramp) · Cold as Ice (Foreigner) · Don't Do Me Like That (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) · Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John) · I'd Do Anything for Love (Meat Loaf) · Killer Queen (Queen) · Lady Madonna (The Beatles) · Light My Fire (The Doors) · Piano Man (Billy Joel) · Point of No Return (Kansas) · Separate Ways (Journey) · Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon).