Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, and bass.Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass piano parts,making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues and pentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swing eighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context of accompanying a soloist (comping): in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazz soloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book.If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time you complete it! Includes access to online audio. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 ofthe 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, andbass. Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass pianoparts, making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues andpentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swingeighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context ofaccompanying a soloist (comping) - in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazzsoloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book. If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time youcomplete it! Includes access to online audio. / Jazz / Etude / Piano

The Basic Principles Of Blues Piano Explained For The Intermediate-Level Pianist In An Easy-To-Grasp Fashion. Par RICHARDS TIM. Apprenez les bases essentielles du piano blues. Pour pianiste de niveau intermadiaire. Tim Richards vous présente ici l'harmonie, la rythmique et les différentes mélodies du Blues. Tous les styles sont représentés depuis les années 1920 jusqu'à aujourd'hui, des pionniers du Boogie en passant par le Swing, le Gospel et bien d'autres. Plus de 60 oeuvres, des compositions de Tim Richards en passant par des arrangements de grands standards du blues. Inclus un CD avec des versions complètes et des versions play-backs des chansons. / Niveau : Facile / Schott Pop-Styles / Recueil / Piano

A collection of twenty-seven seductively atmospheric and evocative pieces of incidental music from classic film noir movies and contemporary neo-noir cinema, all arranged for solo Piano. Including music from Blue Velvet, Double Indemnity, Dressed To Kill, LA Confidential and Sin City.

Six classical piano solos in their original form and seven advanced piano transcriptions, including a new piano solo arrangement of the main theme from the ever-popular Rhapsody in Blue. This superb collection of classical hits is certain to appeal to all! Titles include: Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky) * Air for the G String (J.S. Bach) * Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) * Funeral March (Chopin) * Rondo Alla Turca (W.A. Mozart) and more.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1959 album Time Out changed the sound of jazz and American music. Brubeck's experimentation with meter, harmony and even Turkish rhythms eventually earned him the cover of Time Magazine- the first jazz musician to achieve such a feat. Saxophonist Paul Desmond's composition 'Take Five' went on to become the first million-selling jazz instrumental single on the Billboard Hot 100. This folio celebrates the album's 50th anniversary with full-color artwork from the original record, and a 10 page write-up from jazz historian Ted Gioia. All seven compositions from the monumental recording have been carefully arranged for Easy Piano. / Piano

The 12 Bar Blues Bible by Andrew D. Gordon is a thoroughly groovy compendium of over 50 12-bar riffs that span the full range of Blues styles: (blues jazz-blues minor-blues funky-blues country-blues rock-blues Latin-blues gospel-blues). Each riff is accompanied by a demonstration audio files. There is a host of stylistic detail to help you capture the right grooves - before you know it you'll be jamming and improvising your very own Blues solos! The latter part of the book contains a chapter on the 'Basics Of Blues Improvisation' for anyone who is just starting out in the world of Improvising using the Blues as astarting point. There are seven jam - along tracks each about three minutes in length so that you may try out examples in the book or your own improvisational ideas along with a rhythm section of organ bass and drums.

In this What Jazz & Blues Can I Play? collection you'll find seventeen popular tunes that are both challenging and entertaining.These pieces have been carefully selected and arranged to provide a fascinating introduction to jazz and blues and are ideal for young pianists who are either working towards or have recently taken a Grade One Two or Three piano examination.Technical demands increase progressively gradually introducing new concepts and each piece offers suggestions and guidelines on fingering dynamics and tempo together with technical tips and performance notes.Whether it's for light relief from examination preparation or to reinforce the understandingof new concepts this collection will enthuse and encourage all young piano players.

Seven Easy-to-Play Jazz Piano Solos for Any Age-Seven original jazz solos including: Blue Note Boogie £ Choo-Choo Stomp £ Jazz Spooks £ Jazz Waltz £ Lazy Daze £ Raga Rock £ Poundin' the Beat.

With Selected Songs-This collection includes over 25 Piano pieces and songs by the Tin Pan Alley pianist Dana Suesse. Nicknamed 'the Girl Gershwin' Suesse was a renowned jazz musician and composer of film scores and Broadway show tunes. She achieved national prominence with her first publication Syncopated Love Song in 1928 and went on to collaborate with some of the most prominent songwriters of the 1930s.Suesse's Piano works include Blue Moonlight Jazz Nocturne The Cocktail Suite Three Compositions For The Piano 110th Street Rhumba and Serenade To A Skyscraper. Her film scores include that of The Seven-Year Itch.Thiscollection is the first published folio of Suesse's music. Edited by her friend and executor the pianist Peter Mintun this volume and offers a profile of the composer's life and work that will be treasured by cabaret pianists jazz Piano enthusiasts and performers of the Great American Songbook.

This informative book will help you to discover learn and play arpeggios on the Piano. Found in many styles of music (blues rock jazz classicalâ?¦) in improvisation and accompaniment and for both the left and right hand arpeggios are technically and harmonically essential for the pianist. Every very student should master them. This book presents the main arpeggios major minor major 7th minor 7th and 7th. For each of these you will learn how they are composed along with fingerings taught through three technical exercises and seven musical examples (accompaniment or solo). The included CD allows you to practice with backing tracks. For each musical example you canaccess five different recordings on the CD (MP3) so you can learn and play at your own tempo level and capacity. In total this set includes more than 5 hours of music. This informative book will help you to discover learn and play arpeggios on the Piano. Found in many styles of music (blues rock jazz classicalâ?¦) in improvisation and accompaniment and for both the left and right hand arpeggios are technically and harmonically essential for the pianist. Every very student should master them.This book presents the main arpeggios major minor major 7th minor 7th and 7th. For each of these you will learn how they are composed along with fingerings taught through three technical exercises and seven musical examples (accompaniment or solo).The included CD allows you to practice with backing tracks. For eachmusical example you can access five different recordings on the CD (MP3) so you can learn and play at your own tempo level and capacity. In total this set includes more than 5 hours of music.

Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course is designed for use with an instructor for the beginning student looking for a truly complete piano course. It is a greatly expanded version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that will include lesson, theory, technic and additional repertoire in a convenient, all-in-one format. This comprehensive course features written assignments that reinforce each lesson's concepts, a smooth, logical progression between each lesson, a thorough explanation of chord theory and playing styles, and outstanding extra songs, including folk, classical, and contemporary selections. At the completion of this course, the student will have learned to play some of the most popular music ever written and will have gained a good understanding of basic musical concepts and styles. Titles: Alexander's Ragtime Band * Arkansas Traveler * Ballin' the Jack * The Battle Hymn of the Republic * Black Forest Polka * Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair * Bourlesq * Brahms Lullaby * Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin * Calypso Carnival * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Chorale * Circus March * Danny Boy * Dark Eyes * Deep River * Divertimento in D * Down in the Valley * Etude (Chopin) * Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe) * Fascination * Festive Dance * For He's a Jolly Good Fellow * Frankie and Johnnie * Guantanamera * Hava Nagila * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * The Hokey-Pokey * The House of the Rising Sun * Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 * Introduction and Dance * La Bamba * La Donna E Mobile * La Raspa * Light and Blue * Loch Lomond * Lonesome Road * Love's Greeting * The Magic Piper * The Marriage of Figaro * Mexican Hat Dance * Morning Has Broken * Musetta's Waltz * Night Song * Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen * Olympic Procession * Overture from Raymond * Plaisir D'Amour * Polyvetsian Dances * Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 * The Riddle * Rock-a My Soul * Sakura * Scherzo * Solace * Space Shuttle Blues * The Streets of Laredo * Swingin' Sevenths * Tarantella * Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) * Village Dance * Waltz in G Minor * Waves of the Danube * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * You're in My Heart

The basic principles of blues piano explained for the intermediate-level pianist in an easy-to-grasp fashion Ausgabe mit CD - +CD - piano - English The forerunner to the awarded-winning Exploring Jazz Piano books, Improvising Blues Piano examines the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic aspects of the blues, assuming a basic competence of around grade 3. All styles are covered from the 1920s to the present, from the early boogie pioneers via swing, gospel, jump-jive, New Orleans, Chicago and Kansas City schools, to the more sophisticated jazz and funky blues of the current scene. Over 60 pieces, including many original compositions by the author, together with new arrangements of well-known standarts such as 'Ain't No Sunshine', 'Blueberry Hill', 'Blue Monk', 'Got My Mojo workin', 'Honky Tonk Train Blues', 'How Long Blues', 'Just a Closer Walk with Thee', 'Pine Top's Boogie Woogie', 'St Louis Blues' etc. • Authentic left-hand patterns and bass lines • Professional chord voicings, blues scales, licks and riffs • Co-ordination exercises for both hands • Suggested listening Each chapter is graded within itself, providing some challenging pieces towards the end. Improvising is encouraged at all stages, with assignments giving ideas and guidance. The accompanying CD contains all the pieces, including some play-along tracks, performed by Tim Richards. Contenu - Chapter 1: Triads - Chapter 2: Sixth chords - Chapter 3: Seventh chords - Chapter 4: Ninth and thirteenth chords - Chapter 5: Minor and diminished chords