Piano and keyboard books

Keyboard basics

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The best-selling titles of the Ultimate Beginner Series} [R] are now packaged together for the first time! Two videos, one book, and one CD are now only $24.99, a saving of almost 25%. It's everything you need to start playing an instrument in one convenient package! View picture here

Blues keyboard basics

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Take the first step towards experiencing the fun of playing blues keyboards. This book/CD 2 video will guide you through everything you need t o know to begin playing blues keyboards: the 12-bar progression, shuffle patterns, triplet feels, inversions, turnarounds, blues endings, the blues scale, blues licks, basic soloing technique and more. Includes complete play-along tracks on CD. Matching videos are available. The best-selling titles of the Ultimate Beginner Series} [R] are now packaged together for the first time! Two videos, one book, and one CD are now only $24.99, a saving of almost 25%. It's everything you need to start playing an instrument in one convenient package! View picture here

How to play blues piano video

How to play blues piano video click here for sales price

This video takes you through the basic blues progression by demonstrating chords, inversions, bass patterns, 'blue' notes and more. Richard breaks down the blue s scale into an easy formula, allowing amateurs and professionals to play it effortlessly in ANY KEY. (approx. 60 min.) View picture here

Boogie woogie piano video

Boogie woogie piano video click here for sales price

There is precious little information available for the serious piano student of this exciting genre, but this authoritative instructional video certainly fills the void. With his warm and easy-going manner, Mitch walks viewers through the various boogie woogie patterns from the most basic to the more advanced. Showing both left- and right-hand fingerings in great detail, Mitch not only lays the rocking foundation for all players, but he also opens the door for future exploration. This video contains a supplementary booklet with the prime musical examples notated.View picture here

Fasttrack keyboard method

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Learn how to play that piano today. With this book you'll learn music notation, chords, riffs, licks and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes over 87 songs and examples. book/CD View picture here

Complete book of exercises for the pianist

Complete book of exercises for the pianist click here for sales price

This benchmark text includes hundreds of exercises by great composers including Hanon, Czerny, Brahms, Chopin, Schmitt, Wieck, Philipp, Pischna, Clementi, William Mason, and others. Gail Smith has composed the ultimate palindrome finger exercise containing all the 120 known patterns for your five fingers! Give your fingers the best workout ever. Pieces range from easy to very difficult. 200 pp. View picture here

Teach your self blues piano cassette

Teach yourself blues piano cassette click here for sales price

The exciting sound of the blues, born in America, finds its way into all styles of music heard around the world. These days everyone hears that familiar "color" in rock, pop, folk, classical, and other jazz styles. This easy-to-follow and complete programmed course teaches you to create your own blues music at the piano. Explanations and examples are given at different levels so you can go over a special section more than once and become even more advanced. This tape works more easily for you when you already know a little about reading piano music. Playing the blues teaches you essential music theory in a fun "hands-on" way, so a piano teacher can include this as part of regular lessons. All the elements of basic blues are here. This is a guide, and a teacher. If you study music and want to know how to play the blues style, this is the tape for you! CD available at 18.99 View picture here

Country Piano with Ron Howard

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Learn intros, solos, fills, trills, endings and tricks that will make any song sound Country. Although the course comes with sheet music, it is not necessary to read music because Ron teaches you step-by-step on the tapes. The concepts taught in this course can be applied to any song.
Includes: Faded Love, Kiss An Angel Good Morning, Your Cheatin' Heart, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Last Date, Behind Closed Doors, San Antonio Rose, Tennessee Waltz, Rose Colored Glasses. View picture here

Composer/Author: Peter Deneff This one-on-one lesson with Musicians Institute instructor Peter Deneff features 50 exercises for the beginning to professional jazz pianist, covering: angular lines, large intervals, pentatonic patterns, blues scales, irregular chromatic melodies, double-note patterns, suggested fingerings, suggestions for practice, and more. Also available by Peter Deneff - 695226 - Salsa Hanon. Width: 9 Length: 12 88 pages HL 00695554

Famous Piano intros

Includes solo piano transcriptions of 81 memorable intros, to songs including: Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) · Centerfold · Cold as Ice · Come Sail Away · Crazy · Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me · Easy · Endless Love · From a Distance · I Feel the Earth Move · Imagine · Let It Be · Louie, Louie · Making Love Out of Nothing at All · Mandy · Martha My Dear · Piano Man · Runaway · Superstition · Walk of Life · Walking on Broken Glass · A Whiter Shade of Pale · Will You Still Love Me · You Are So Beautiful · You're My Best Friend · many more.

Keyboard technique

KEYBOARD TECHNIQUE Musicians Institute Press Composer/Author: Steve Weingart This outstanding book is a comprehensive source for scales, arpeggios, and exercises. Topics covered include: major, minor and chromatic scales; major, minor and seventh chord arpeggios; diatonic harmony; finger strength and independence; trills, hand-over-hand, and repeated-note exercises; and touches on styles such as boogie-woogie and ragtime.

Voyetra Teach Me Piano deluxe software

Play, practice, perform and compose your own songs on the computer. Teach Me Piano Deluxe takes piano lessons to the next level! Not only will you learn to play more than 75 classic songs, but you'll receive instruction on music theory, learn about the history of keyboards, and have access to an array of tools for composing, arranging and recording your own music. Includes all of the features of the best-selling Teach Me Piano, plus a whole lot more! Piano Lessons teach you how to play
Divided into six sections with more than 150 lessons, the Lessons section covers a full spectrum of keyboard-playing skills, including notation, rhythm and timing, finger positions, key signatures, time signatures, scales and chords. You’ll learn how to play more than 75 popular songs and proper playing technique. Progress Report shows you how you’re doing. Several students can maintain their own progress reports as they learn to play, so every member of your family can start at a different level and progress at their own pace.

The Boogie book

In the mid- and late 1930s "boogie-woogie" as a piano style became popular. John W. Schaum has captured this form of solo piano music based on tradition 8- and 12-bar blues progressions and presented piano students with fresh, interesting, and fun melodies set against driving left-hand accompaniment patterns. Familiar thematic ideas can be heard in Choo Choo Boogie * Chop Boogie (a take off on Chop Sticks) * Mambo Boogie * St. LouisBoogie * Army Boogie * and more.

The deluxe encyclopedia of piano chords

The Deluxe Encyclopedia of Piano Chords is a thorough analysis of chords and how to use them as applied to the piano keyboard. Virtually every conceivable chord in all inversions is shown in bass and treble clef notation as well as in keyboard graphics. This study does not only list chord types; it also explains how each type of chord is constructed. In addition, the text provides information on usage, scales, and rhythm patterns. This valuable volume will enable the keyboardist to effectively use and apply the full diversity of chord possibilities in creating interesting, personal, and colorful musical styles. 96 pp.

New Orleans piano Book CD blues repertoire

DR. JOHN TEACHES NEW ORLEANS PIANO Building a Blues Repertoire Medium: Book & CD Package Volume II teaches the piano student how to build a blues repertoire. Classic blues patterns and a myriad of embellishments are included. Essential licks, runs, turnarounds, rhythms and techniques. Classic 12 bar and 16 bar blues, tenths, parallel 5ths, chord patterns, right hand fills, major to minor changes and a myriad of embellishments.

1000 Keyboard Tips

This unique book is a tutor, reference book, songbook and dictionary all in one. It's fun and easy to understand with plenty of informative tips, which makes it well-suited to beginners and amateurs who wish to get the most out of their keyboards.

Split into 12 progressive sections, the book covers practically everything you need to know about electronic keyboards, such as intervals, dominant and subdominant chains, all scales, riffs, licks, phrases, patterns, intros, and endings. Moreover, you’ll learn about improvisation, arranging and composing in Blues, Rock, Pop and Jazz styles.

Finally, various special keyboard voicings, programming drum machines and MIDI make this book an invaluable encyclopedia. The accompanying CD includes many examples and songs to listen or play along to. Most of the material in this book can also be used by pianists.

Adventus Piano Suite software

Piano Suite is your best option for learning to play piano no matter what your age!
With a full compliment of customizable and expandable tools Piano Suite will guide you into the rewarding world of making your own music.

No matter what your age, Piano Suite will help you through the learning process with the help of an interactive voice tutor and provide continuous feedback on your play until you master the piece.

With intuitive controls, speaking menus, extensive curriculum and successful teaching methods, Piano Suite is designed to suit beginners of all ages and to interact positively with personal lessons. More info

Adventus Piano Suite premier software

Piano Suite is a real teaching tool, developed by music educators! Even if you already play piano you can benefit from the in-depth interactive theory lessons and the large musical repertoire, to extend your skills, and help you learn your favorite music easily.

With Piano Suite you can record your own music, display and print the musical notation. Compositions can also be exported to the popular MIDI format and be made available to a global audience via the Internet. Biographies of over 150 composers and performers will enrich your learning experience. Challenging interactive games sharpen your piano playing skills and develop theory comprehension. More info

Exploring basic blues keyboard

Introduces a blues scale system that produces idiomatic sounds characteristic of early blues, Dixieland, boogie, swing and rock. Instruction begins with one-measure phrases followed by a step-by-step approach to twelve-measure improvisation

Blues Hanon 50 Exercises

50 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Blues Pianist
Series: Musicians Institute Press
Publisher: Musicians Institute

We're proud to present MI instructor Peter Deneff's fourth book in the Musicians Institute Hanon series. In this private lesson for beginning to professional blues pianists, Deneff covers: major and minor blues modes; workouts for the right and left hand; building fluency in all 12 keys; suggested fingerings; practice tips; and soul, gospel, boogie woogie, R&B and rock styles.

Blues Piano - 3-video set

Complete three-tape series. These three videos make it easy to learn to play blues, boogie-woogie or rock 'n' roll piano!

Video One: Beginning Blues Piano This video is especially designed for those with little or no keyboard background who want to play blues, boogie-woogie or rock 'n' roll. David Cohen's simple, easy-to-follow instructions--with no written music to learn--will have you improvising with your right hand while playing chords and rhythms with your left in no time! In addition to basic theory and the 12-bar blues form, David covers scales and improvisation techniques and teaches you to use endings, intros and turnarounds. He'll also show you how to spice up your playing with shuffle and straight-time rhythms, triplets, quintuplets and much more!

Video Two: Learning Blues Piano This lesson is for those who have some background in blues piano, or those who have completed Video One. Like his first video, this one is taught in a clear and easy style that is especially conducive to quick learning. There is no music to read, so you can concentrate on David's hands, as well as on the invaluable verbal information he imparts. You'll learn theory, blues scales and improvisation techniques, shuffle and straight-time rhythms, endings, intros and turnarounds, and much more.

Video Three: Expanding Your Technique Explore blues songs with more complex chord progressions and move into new areas of harmony, rhythm and lead playing. Two well-known blues standards, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out and Georgia On My Mind , are David's tools for teaching a wide variety of ideas and techniques. You'll learn melodies, bass lines, chord progressions and inversions, theory, improvisational ideas, rhythm patterns and exercises. Expect to vastly improve both range and understanding of your blues piano style!

Blues Riffs for piano

Great Riffs Series The definitive source for blues riffs and licks! Features performance notes for and accompanying audio examples of fills and embellishments, turnarounds, tags and licks in the style of Ray Charles, Dr. John, Professor Longhair, and Johnny Johnson.

Complete book of exercises for pianist

Bradley - how to play blues piano video

FASTTRACK KEYBOARD METHOD - CHORDS & SCALES 697292

The fast way to find just the chord or scale you need. This user-friendly reference book is jam-packed with over 1,400 chords and voicings and includes a 'jam session' with 20 original songs using common chord progressions.

Jazz keyboard basics

The groundwork you need to start playing jazz. Includes chapters on: Basic jazz chord voicings applied to comping, solo and melody playing; Voicings for II-V-I progres- sions written out for all major and minor keys; over 300 music examples to play and analyze.

Jazz riffs for piano CD PKG

Learn the hottest tags, patterns, turnarounds, and solos in the style of the jazz world's legendary talents, such as Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, George Shearing, Red Garland, Erroll Garner, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, and Keith Jarrett. Included in this book/audio package are detailed performance notes for all examples.

Keyboard coach Software

The Keyboard Coach CD-ROM from Charanga uses groundbreaking technology and proven teaching methods to bring you an enjoyable and effective way to learn keyboard! Whether you're a beginner of you've tried learning before, it gives you everything you need to become a skillful and versatile player. All the instruction cuts straight to the point, and with lots of in-depth video sequences and helpful learning aids, you'll make rapid progress with your playing in a wide variety of styles. Keyboard Coach contains more than 150 inspiring lessons that cover these 5 important areas: Play Tunes - Learn to read music notation, rhythms signs and symbols and play in pop, dance, rock, country & classical styles; Play By Ear - Develop your ability to learn and play songs by listening and watching; Play Solos - Learn to play impressive solos, develop hand coordination, and master your keyboard's on-board features; Play Cool Songs - Apply the techniques you've learned while you perform cool songs by famous artists; Play Cool Band Trax - Discover how to play with other musicians and experience the buzz of playing in a band!

Rock keyboard complete guide book - cd 310823

The Rock Keyboard book/CD pack in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series is chock full of authentic rock keyboard parts! Learn to comp or solo in any of your favorite rock styles. Listen to the 99-track CD to hear your parts fit in with the total groove of the band. Styles covered include: classic rock, pop/rock, blues rock, Southern rock, hard rock, progressive rock, alternative rock and heavy metal.

Billy Joel hits: 1981-1993 695582 Book - CD

This songbook examines 15 '80s and '90s megahits from the Piano Man: All About Soul · Allentown · And So It Goes · Baby Grand · I Go to Extremes · Leningrad · Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) · Modern Woman · Pressure · The River of Dreams · She's Got a Way · Tell Her About It · This Is the Time · Uptown Girl · You're Only Human (Second Wind). Also available: Billy Joel Hits - 1974-1980 (00695581). All About Soul
Allentown And So It Goes Baby Grand I Go To Extremes Leningrad Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) Modern Woman Pressure She's Got A Way
Tell Her About It The River Of Dreams This Is The Time Uptown Girl You're Only Human (Second Wind)

Billy Joel Classics - book CD 1974-1980 695581

Learn the trademark keyboard riffs and compositions behind one of the greatest artists in pop and rock! This volume provides in-depth analysis of 15 hits from Billy's early years: Big Shot · Captain Jack · Don't Ask Me Why · The Entertainer · Honesty · Just the Way You Are · Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) · My Life · New York State of Mind · Piano Man · Root Beer Rag · Say Goodbye to Hollywood · Scenes from an Italian Restaurant · She's Always a Woman · The Stranger. Includes a discography. Also available: Billy Joel Hits - 1981-1993 (00695582). Big Shot
Captain Jack Don't Ask Me Why Honesty Just The Way You Are Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) My Life New York State Of Mind Piano Man
Root Beer Rag Say Goodbye To Hollywood Scenes From An Italian Restaurant She's Always A Woman The Entertainer The Stranger

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Rock and roll piano - book - CD 310912

With this pack, you'll learn the skills you need to take your place alongside Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and other great rock 'n' roll piano players of the '50s and '60s! The CD includes demos and backing tracks so you can play along with every example. Also includes six complete tunes at the end of the book. Topics covered include: left-hand patterns; basic rock 'n' roll progressions; right-hand techniques; straight eighths vs. swing eighths; glisses, crushed notes, rolls and note clusters; how to solo; influential players, styles and recordings; and much more!

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