100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know

100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know

Author: Jerald Simon

Publisher: Jerald Simon

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781948274111

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100 Different Ways to play the same song. Piano students learn 100 fun left hand patterns to take any music and change it up 100 different ways. Also included in the book is the FUN FAKEBOOK which includes 100 piano pieces in facebook format where the melody (Right Hand - treble clef) and the given chords for each measure are shown. The students can then fake or make up a left hand pattern to go along with the melody.


How to Play from a Fake Book (Music Instruction)

How to Play from a Fake Book (Music Instruction)

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Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1476827710

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(Piano). Ever wondered how to create better accompaniments for the melodies in your favorite fake books? This "teach yourself" book introduces you to chord building, various rhythmic styles, and much more, so that you play the songs you like just the way you want them. Keyboard players with a basic understanding of notation and sight-reading will be on their way to more fun with fake books. The relaxed tone of the text and selection of fun songs keep How to Play from a Fake Book entertaining throughout perfect for amateur musicians, or as a supplement for keyboard teachers and their students.


Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know

Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know

Author: Jerald Simon

Publisher: Essential Piano Exercises

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781948274036

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Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is a book everyone can use to improve their understanding of jazz basics, blues scales, the ii-V-I chord progressions, modal jazz improv, other fun jazz chord progressions, and more. Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know was created as one of the resources for the members of the Essential Piano Exercises Course (essentialpianoexercises.com/). This book is dedicated to the many piano students, young and old, who have asked Jerald Simon over the years to release a book with all of the jazz piano exercises he feels are essential to help pianists learn how to improvise, arrange, and even compose in a jazz style. In this book, Jerald teaches the following: Key Signatures - page 6, Basic Music Intro/Review - page 12, Most Common Chords - page 22, Blues Pentascales - page 38, 12 Bar Blues - page 48, The Major Blues Scale - page 76, 2 - 5 - 1 (ii7 - V7 - I7) - page 88, Jazz Modes - page 98, Whole - Half - Half - page 105, Using the Chromatics Scale - page 110, Using Jazz Chords - page 116, The Boogie-Woogie - page 138, Using 7th Chords - page 170, Improv Lessons - page 198, Modal Jazz Improvisation - page 222, 9th Chords - page 237, Modulating from one Key to Another - page 244, Over 100 Measures of RH Riffs and Improv Patterns Created from the Minor Blues Scale - page 248, and Over 100 Measures of RH Riffs and Improv Patterns Created from the Major Blues Scale - page 252.Jerald also includes 33 original jazz pieces to help piano students learn jazz the fun way - by actually playing jazz music and seeing the practical application of the jazz theory they have learned.The entire book follows a pattern of: 1. Teaching the jazz music theory concept, 2. Presenting exercises that focus on implementing and applying the jazz music theory concepts, and 3. Demonstrating how the theory and and jazz exercises can be combined together to create actual jazz music by having the piano student play jazz music that was composed using the exact jazz theory concepts the student has just learned. Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is part of the Essential Piano Exercises Series. The first book in this series is titled Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know. It was followed by 100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know. This is the third book in the series. Other books in this series will soon be available as well (i.e. Essential New Age Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, Essential Pop Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, Essential Rock Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, 100 Chord Progressions Every Piano Player Should Know, 100 Improvised Licks Every Piano Player Should Know, etc.).


How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons

How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons

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Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780385142632

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Ten progressively advanced sections, each with notations and keyboard diagrams, make up a new approach to learning how to play the piano quickly and pleasurably, with no scale exercises and a minimum of memorization


A Classical Approach to Jazz Piano Improvisation

A Classical Approach to Jazz Piano Improvisation

Author: Dominic Alldis

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1476840695

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(Keyboard Instruction). This keyboard instruction book is designed for the person who was trained classically but wants to expand into the very exciting yet very different world of jazz improvisation. Author Dominic Alldis provides clear explanations and musical examples of: pentatonic improvisation; the blues; rock piano; rhythmic placement; scale theory; major, minor and pentatonic scale theory applications; melodic syntax; the language of bebop; left-hand accompaniment; walking bass lines; thematic development; performance tips; and more.


Play Piano in a Flash

Play Piano in a Flash

Author: Scott Houston

Publisher: Hyperion

Published: 2004-01-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781401307660

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As seen on public television stations nationwide, a revolutionary new approach to playing non-classical music on the piano. Have you ever wished you could play the piano Well, now you can! Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston teaches you to play the way the pros play, in a style enormously simpler than traditional classical piano and with an absolute minimum of note-reading. By focusing on playing the melody with the right hand (one note at a time) and simple chords with the left hand, Houston gives you the tools you need for a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Best of all, your tour guide to this adventure forces you to have fun along the way!


The Easy Fake Book (Songbook)

The Easy Fake Book (Songbook)

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1458437523

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(Fake Book). This follow-up to the popular Your First Fake Book includes over 100 more great songs that even beginning-level musicians can enjoy playing! It features the same larger notation with simplified harmonies and melodies, all songs in the key of C, and introductions for each song, to add a more finished sound to the arrangements. The songs are in many musical styles and include: Alfie * All I Ask of You * All My Loving * Always on My Mind * Autumn in New York * Blue Skies * Cabaret * Crazy * Fields of Gold * Go the Distance * God Bless' the Child * Great Balls of Fire * Hey, Good Lookin' * How Deep Is Your Love * I'll Be There * If * Imagine * Jailhouse Rock * Kansas City * Memory * Michelle * Misty * My Girl * My Heart Will Go On * People * Stand by Me * Star Dust * Tangerine * Tears in Heaven * Tennessee Waltz * Unchained Melody * What a Wonderful World * What'll I Do? * You've Got a Friend * and more.


Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

Author: Karen Hesse

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0545517125

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Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.


Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know

Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know

Author: Jerald Simon

Publisher: Jerald Simon

Published: 2020-05-25

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9781948274128

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Learn Intervals, Pentascales, Tetrachords, Scales (major and minor), Chords (triads, sus, aug., dim., 6th, 7th), Chord Progressions, Modes, and FUN, COOL Piano Exercises in all Key Signatures and in all inversions.