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

Sight-Reading 2B develops sight-reading skills through activities that reinforce reading concepts and musicality. There are 14 units correlated with Lesson Book 2B, and each unit contains five activities that emphasize note reading, rhythm, playing without stopping, and playing expressively. These activities build sight-reading skills in a simple, fun way. / Piano

1. Basic Elements 2. Exercises 3. Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) 4. Prelude and Waltz in C 5. Palm Stroke (1) 6. Palm Stroke (2) 7. Wrong Notes Allowed (1) 8. Wrong Notes Allowed (2) 9. Flowers We Are, Frail Flovers... (1a) 10. Dot-strumming 11. Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers... (1b) 12. ...flowers also the stars... 13. Out and In (1) 14. Objet trouvé (2) 15. Elbows 16. Hommage a Verdi (sopra: Caro nome che il mio cor) 17. Walking 18. C's Night Song 19. Little Chorale (1) 20. Toddling 21. Staggering 22. Staggering 23. Bored 24. Rocking 25. Hommage a Bartók 26. Let's Be Silly 27. (silent palms) 28. Hommage a Kocsis Zoltán - Playing with Overtones (1) 29. Sound Eclipse 30. Hommage a Máriássy István - (detecting chords) 31. The Bunny and The Fox 32. Legato 33. Waltz (1) 34. Hommage a Farkas (1) The Stone-frog Crawled Along... 35. Hot Cockles 36. Flowers We Are... (2) 37. Fifths (2) 38. (the young boxer's lighter moments) 39. (sleepily) 40. Portrait (1) 41. (five little piano pieces) 42. Three-finger Play 43. Gallop 44. Boisterous Csárdás 45. Jerking 46. Sound and Sound-ball (1) 47. Melancholic Overtones 48. Little Chorale (2) 49. Flowers We Are... (3) 50. Sound and Sound-ball (2) 51. Sarabande 52. Out and In (2) 53. (scherzando) 54. Fifths and Fourths and Palm Strokes 55. (Hommage a Beethoven) 56. Playing with Overtones (2) 57. Falling Asleep 58. Scale from One to Eight 59. Knots (1) 60. Flowers We Are... (4a) 61. Flowers We Are... (4b) 62. Meandering Tune 63. Twittering 64. Quarrelling (1) 65. Dumb-show (Quarrelling 2) 66. Mikro-rondo 67. Hommage a Ligeti 68. Sidling Palms 69. Beating (3x3 - 3 tones, 3 rhythm patterns) 70. Hommage a Tchaikovsky 71. Hommage a Eötvös Péter 72. Hommage a Paganini (la nuova campanella) 73. Preliminary Exercises to the Hoquetus 74. Hoquetus 75. Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) 76. ...and once more: Flowers We Are...