Rock Ballads: Piano: Instrumental Album

20 new pieces for the beginner to intermediate pianist-'Microballads' is the latest piano title from the hugely successful Chris Norton and features 20 new works with an accompanying CD containing backing tracks and demonstration performances. With themes of love and heartbreak ballads have always been hugely popular - from the sentimental songs of the 1930s and 40s ‘doo-wop’ songs from the 1950s Beatles songs like 'Yesterday' and 'Here There and Everywhere' to Bryan Adams’ 'Everything I Do'.Chris Norton’s 'Microballads' starts very easy (pre-Grade 1) and gradually becomes more challenging without ever going much beyond Grade 3 in difficulty. It covers many classic ballad styles - including the oneslisted above but also a gentle bossa nova a Scottish ballad a country ballad and some big heart-on-sleeve rock ballads. The backings on the CD provide warm sympathetic support. Play your heart out!Content  - Merida  - Lonesome  - Broxburn lament  - Ballad in five  - Lost love  - A lament  - Old haunts  - The main feature  - Gospel ballad  - Departure lounge  - A clear view  - This is my song  - Plains ballad  - Romantic interlude  - A dream  - Junst me  - Contemplation  - The first time I saw you  - The grand gesture  - Missing you

With its 25 ballads for piano this tutorial will keep you pleasantly busy for quite a while. But there?s more to it than that! Besides affording pleasure these musical pieces give you appropriate training in all the playing techniques necessary for a good ballad accompaniment. Guidelines for the proper handling of these 25 ballads are given to you in the preliminary chapter ? guidelines regarding the rhythm and harmony but also the movements of your left and right hand. The 25 ballads inspired by the biggest hits of the greatest artists of all time (The Beatles Keane Ray Charles Coldplay David Bowie Phil Collins Alicia Keys Louis Armstrong The Rolling Stones and many more) offer you an encyclopedic tour through the world of ballad ? be it Pop Soul Blues Light Music highly melancholic or a little bit more Rock?n?Roll. The DVD attached to the tutorial presents you with the 25 ballads in their full length and at two different tempos: the intended tempo (for demonstration purposes) and the rehearsal tempo (for surpassing difficulties). For its part the mp3 CD allows you to play the ballads along to backing tracks of an appropriate length each in turn played at two different speeds ? at a slower speed for training and at the actual playing speed for practicing ?under real conditions?.

Easy Piano Pieces in five-note range from Minuet to Pop Ballad-Elementary piano lessons focus first on a five-note range before any finger crossing is introduced. This book of tunes Gib mir 5 (Give me 5) contains 35 easy and progressively arranged original piano pieces in various five-note ranges and keys. The pieces have a broad range of styles including minuets folk tunes sentimental instrumental pieces pop and rock ballads and pieces in a boogie-woogie style.

Finally the most popular arrangements by Carsten Gerlitz are available in an anthology for bar piano! Best Of Piano Lounge contains the 30 most beautiful titles of the previous twelve volumes offering wonderful pieces to suit everyone's taste – from jazz and swing standards via musical and film melodies to pop and rock ballads. Each one of them in easily playable and fresh arrangements for the piano.The perfect first step for pianists into the world of the bar piano.

Easy Piano CD Play-Along Volume 5-Each volume in this series comes with a CD of complete professional performances and includes matching custom arrangements in Easy Piano format. With these books you can: Listen to complete professional performances of each of the songs; Play the Easy Piano arrangements along with the performances; Sing along with the full performances; Play the Easy Piano arrangements as solos without the disk. This pack features 10 songs: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me · From a Distance · I Can't Make You Love Me · I'll Be There · Imagine · In My Room · My Heart Will Go On · Rainy Days and Mondays · Total Eclipse of the Heart · A Whiter Shade of Pale.

12 outstanding arrangements for the beginning jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos are included: swing ballads rock pop holiday Latin and a great warm-up chart titled 'Loosen Up.' This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation of 5 saxophones 3 trumpets 3 trombones and 4 rhythm but designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of just nine players - 2 Alto Saxes Tenor Sax 2 Trumpets Trombone Piano Bass and Drums. Optional parts are available for C Flute Tuba (doubles Bass part) Horn in F (doubles 1st Trombone) and Baritone Horn T.C. (doubles 1st Trombone).Rhythm section parts offer suggestions for voicings and rhythms and guitar chord frames are included to assist young guitarists. Solos are written out for improvised sections and there is plenty of full sounding ensemble. Conductor's book includes a full length CD recording. Titles are: Chattanooga Choo Choo * El Gato Gordo * James Bond Theme * A Jazzy Merry Christmas * The Judge * Li'l Darlin' * Loosen Up * One O'Clock Jump * Over the Rainbow * Peter Gunn Theme * The Pink Panther * Rock This Town.

Bb Clarinet-12 outstanding arrangements for the beginning jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos are included: swing ballads rock pop holiday Latin and a great warm-up chart titled 'Loosen Up.' This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation of 5 saxophones 3 trumpets 3 trombones and 4 rhythm but designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of just nine players - 2 Alto Saxes Tenor Sax 2 Trumpets Trombone Piano Bass and Drums. Optional parts are available for C Flute Tuba (doubles Bass part) Horn in F (doubles 1st Trombone) and Baritone Horn T.C. (doubles 1st Trombone).Rhythm section parts offer suggestions for voicings and rhythms and guitar chord frames are included to assist young guitarists. Solos are written out for improvised sections and there is plenty of full sounding ensemble. Conductor's book includes a full length CD recording. Titles are: Chattanooga Choo Choo * El Gato Gordo * James Bond Theme * A Jazzy Merry Christmas * The Judge * Li'l Darlin' * Loosen Up * One O'Clock Jump * Over the Rainbow * Peter Gunn Theme * The Pink Panther * Rock This Town.

Flute-12 outstanding arrangements for the beginning jazz ensemble written by experienced educational arrangers and composers. A variety of styles and tempos are included: swing ballads rock pop holiday Latin and a great warm-up chart titled 'Loosen Up.' This collection of charts is written for full instrumentation of 5 saxophones 3 trumpets 3 trombones and 4 rhythm but designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of just nine players - 2 Alto Saxes Tenor Sax 2 Trumpets Trombone Piano Bass and Drums. Optional parts are available for C Flute Tuba (doubles Bass part) Horn in F (doubles 1st Trombone) and Baritone Horn T.C. (doubles 1st Trombone).Rhythm section parts offer suggestions for voicings and rhythms and guitar chord frames are included to assist young guitarists. Solos are written out for improvised sections and there is plenty of full sounding ensemble. Conductor's book includes a full length CD recording. Titles are: Chattanooga Choo Choo * El Gato Gordo * James Bond Theme * A Jazzy Merry Christmas * The Judge * Li'l Darlin' * Loosen Up * One O'Clock Jump * Over the Rainbow * Peter Gunn Theme * The Pink Panther * Rock This Town.