for Adult Beginners-This collection contains 14 lead sheets and arrangements of popular spirituals and folk tunes that are suitable for the adult beginner who has learned to read music and wants to play easy arrangements of familiar melodies.Piano Fun – Folk Songs And Spirituals includes online access to beautifully orchestrated accompaniments for every song and a separate track for the lead sheet and realized arrangement. These accompaniments are available for download or streaming using the unique code printed inside the book.Songs include: Deep River Down by the Riverside I've Got Peace Like a River Jacob'sLadder Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Rock-a-My Soul Shenandoah Swing Low Sweet Chariot and more.

The Complete Guide with CD!-Learn how to play Latin jazz Piano based on traditional Latin music from Cuba and Brazil. Latin Jazz Piano addresses the three roles that the jazz pianist typically plays: as a member of an accompanying rhythm section as a lead instrument within an ensemble and as a solo instrument. The online audio features many examples in the book and combo tracks with which to play along.The book is divided into three sections. The first covers Afro-Cuban (Afro-Caribbean) jazz the second section deals with Brazilian influenced jazz – Bossa Nova and Samba and the third contains lead sheets of the tunes and instructions for the play-along onlineaudio.The Afro-Cuban section contains a chapter on some basic concepts of traditional Afro-Cuban music including the clave tumbao and montuno. Also there is a chapter on typical piano voicing used in Afro-Cuban music Latin jazz in general.Next is a chapter on typical comping patterns used in various Afro-Cuban styles such as Mambo Cha-cha etc. The last chapter in this section features tunes written in these various styles and arranged for lead instrument piano and bass piano lead and piano solo. The next section on Brazilian-related jazz begins with a chapter on the many varied rhythms typically used in comping for Bossa Novas and Sambas and concludes with a chapter featuring tunes arranged in the same ways as the first section.The third section contains lead sheets of all the tunes so the reader can play and improvise on them along with the accompanying online audio. The reader is encouraged to continually change the way he or she plays these tunes and apply the principles found in this book to other tunes in the Latin jazz repertoire.

Pianorama Jazz in France réunit dans un même ouvrage une sélection du meilleur du piano jazz : 12 pièces de 12 pianistes qui ont particulièrement marqué la scène française au XXIe siècle ; ces morceaux ont été tout spécialement arrangés pour les niveaux intermédiaires.

Chaque pièce est le fruit d?un travail d?arrangement pour piano solo, accompagné de la lead sheat et d?une grille d?improvisation avec les gammes et les accords.

Une occasion unique d?ouvrir son répertoire, de jouer autre chose que Les feuilles mortes, et de faire une plongée pianistique dans les univers de Yaron Herman, Thomas Enhco, Laurent de Wilde ou encore Baptiste Trotignon !


12 morceaux (piano solo lead sheet grille d'improvisation avec gammes et accords), arrangés pour niveaux intermédiaires. / Jazz /

There's no better way to approach the music of Jazz giant Oscar Peterson than with this innovative and flexible collection of lead sheets and transcriptions for five of his best complete with performance notes.Learn the note-by-note Piano transcriptions in the manner of a traditional Piano piece develop your own improvisations with the aid of the Jazz-style lead sheets. You'll find informative performance notes to guide your playing in the right direction and even a biography of the man himself.

The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings-The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz Piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their Keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory chords and voicings improvisation ideas structure and forms scales and modes rhythm basics interpreting a lead sheet playing solos and much more!

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Complete Number of pages : 228 This book was written to provide a methodology for improvisation on the piano. Patterns are analyzed in and notated in all keys. Examples are given to illustrate how and where a fill fits. Then, step by step you can learn how to add the left hand accompaniment based on a lead sheet, or improvise with the right hand. While improvising, patterns may be woven into a beautiful tapestry of sound. Just as a kaleidoscope creates beautiful colorful patterns before your eye, the patterns in this book will enable you to create a kaleidoscope of musical sounds for your ears. Most of the book consists of short examples using familiar tunes.

1 CD containing the background accompaniments for: Don't Cry for Me Argentina; I Want to Hold Your Hand; Linus and Lucy; The River; The River: Lead Sheet; The James Bond Theme; Ashokan Farewell; Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead; Over the Rainbow.

Here is an indispensable theory and performance workbook packed with everything the intermediate-level student needs to know about chords. Pianists and non-pianists alike will benefit from the written exercises covering everything from basic triads and 7th chords to inversions transposition harmonization and more. Lee Evans explains concepts in easy-to-understand language and immediately applies them in a variety of performance exercises and lead sheet examples. A must for every music student!

Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by Piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz Piano improvisation will free your creative sense of music. It beginswith a review of chord symbol interpretation walks through bass line development and ends with how to play several melodic lines simultaneously in stimulating musical conversation. You'll learn how to develop solos thatembellish and support the melody and use lead sheets to help you generate your own musical ideas.Twenty-one lessons present techniques practice exercises and tunes based on jazz standards. Notated transcriptions ofsample improvisations illustrate each lesson's technique and the accompanying CD lets you hear a master improviser put these ideas to work. Packed with hundreds of ideas that will teach you the art of improvisation.

If you?re a jazz singer or instrumentalist and don?t already have basic skills in jazz piano: now is the time! Piano skills are the gateway to understanding chords and progressions, checking lead sheets for accuracy, learning new tunes, arranging, writing your own tunes, becoming a better improviser and so on. This book outlines an easy step-by-step process that makes learning basic jazz piano easy and fun! A Foggy Day (In London Town) George Gershwin (composer); Ira Gershwin (lyricist) A Time for Love (from An American Dream) Paul Francis Webster (lyricist); Johnny Mandel (composer) Ain't Misbehavin' (from Ain't Misbehavin') Fats Waller (composer); Andy Razaf (lyricist); Harry Brooks (composer) Alone Together Arthur Schwartz (composer); Howard Dietz (lyricist) Blues in the Night Harold Arlen (composer); Johnny Mercer (lyricist) East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) Brooks Bowman (composer) Embraceable You (from Girl Crazy) George Gershwin (composer); Ira Gershwin (lyricist) Emily Johnny Mandel (composer); Johnny Mercer (lyricist) Gentle Rain Luiz Bonfa (composer); Matt Dubey (lyricist) I Got Rhythm George Gershwin (composer); Ira Gershwin (lyricist) It Never Entered My Mind (from Higher and Higher) Lorenz Hart (lyricist); Richard Rodgers (composer) My Funny Valentine (from Babes in Arms) Lorenz Hart (lyricist); Richard Rodgers (composer) Prelude to a Kiss Irving Gordon (lyricist); Duke Ellington (composer); Irving Mills (lyricist) Secret Love (from Calamity Jane) Paul Francis Webster (lyricist); Sammy Fain (composer) Since I Fell for You Buddy Johnson (composer) The Lady Is a Tramp (from Babes in Arms) Lorenz Hart (lyricist); Richard Rodgers (composer) The Shadow of Your Smile (from The Sandpiper) Paul Francis Webster (lyricist); Johnny Mandel (composer) What Is This Thing Called Love? (from Wake Up and Dream) Cole Porter (composer) You Go to My Head Haven Gillespie (lyricist); J. Fred Coots (composer) You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (from Something to Shout About) Cole Porter (composer)

Hymns in Praise Style features 25 treasured hymns, each one well known across denominational lines. These favorite hymns have been arranged by renowned sacred-music arranger Carol Tornquist in a contemporary, praise-band friendly style. They can be used as piano solos or as accompaniments for congregational singing. The melodies remain faithful to the originals, but the chords and accompanying rhythms have been modernized. As a bonus, printable PDF lead sheets (the melody line of each hymn with lyrics and chord symbols) are included on an enclosed CD---making the product easily adaptable to praise-band settings. This unique collection is sure to be a hit with churches that mix traditional and modern worship. / Piano

Piano Fun - Pop Hits for Adult Beginners is a collection of lead sheets and arrangements for the beginning pianist who has learned to read music and wants to play easy arrangements of familiar melodies. The CD features beautifully orchestrated accompaniments for every song and is playable on any CD player. It is also MIDI-enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch.