Book/CD-ROM set. This series presents all-time rock hits in matching books for guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums for beginning/intermediate players. Teaches each song, with a full score; a CD-ROM with sound-alike and play-along MP3s; printable PDFs; TNT 2 Custom Mix software that lets you slow tracks down, loop sections, even change keys. 51 pp.
20-40306
$14.99
BLUES & BARRELHOUSE PIANO
featuring Ann Rabson
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Book/DVD pack. No music reading is required! Ann Rabson teaches her own brand of blues and barrelhouse piano with six in-depth lessons based on left-hand grooves: two-beat shuffle, box shuffle, linear boogie woogie, round boogie woogie, Yancy/Domino-inspired groove, and New Orleans-inspired groove. The intimate instructional DVD features Ann teaching every groove. Along the way you'll learn tasty fills, turnarounds, soloing ideas, more. 38 pp.
49-312319
$19.99
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BLUES LICKS FOR PIANO
by Blake Neeley
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CLEARANCE PRICED! SAVE $3.49! A fun way to learn great-sounding blues on your keyboard. Covers: common chords, 12 bar form, shuffle feel, left hand licks and riffs, the blues scale, call and response riffs, blue notes, intros, outros, lots more. More of an intro to playing blues on the piano than a collection of licks. Helps you build finger dexterity, improve your improvisational skills, and gives you a better understanding of harmonic structure. You'll need some basic piano skills before using this book. 37 pp.
49-500036
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$5.50
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BLUES PIANO
by Mark Harrison
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Book/CD pack. Ever wanted to play the blues, but weren't sure where to start? This will teach you the basic skills you need. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, tools, and tricks that the pros use. Covers: scales and chords, left-hand patterns, walking bass, comping, endings and turnarounds, right-hand techniques, how to solo with blues scales, crossover licks, more. The 94 track CD includes nearly all of the music examples in the book in split-channel format: left hand on the left side and right hand on the right side. CD also includes seven complete tunes to jam on with a rhythm section. 79 pp.
49-311007
$17.95
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BOOGIE-WOOGIE PIANO
by Todd Lowry
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Book/CD pack. Teaches you the basic skills needed to play boogie-woogie. From learning the basic chord progressions to inventing your own melodic riffs, you'll learn the theory, tools and techniques used by the genre's best practicioners. The CD demonstrates most of the music examples in the book, with left- and right-channel tracks created for helpful hands-separate practice. 72 pp.
49-117067
$16.99
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DR. JOHN TEACHES NEW ORLEANS PIANO AND THE ROOTS OF ROCK
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We can order this for you or you can DOWNLOAD IT NOW! Just click one of the download links below. Book/4 CD pack. Guides you through lead and rhythm styles, right-hand improvisation, walking basses, turnarounds and the styles of great pianists: Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and others. You'll learn the feel of the New Orleans and Mississippi Delta styles, as well as how to play with a drummer, how to make a band swing, song accompaniment, more. "Texas Boogie," "Big Chief," "Whirlaway," "St. James Infirmary," "Waltz For Mom," "Box Car Boogie," "Big Mac," "Louisiana Lullaby," more. Intermediate/advanced. Comb-bound. 80 pp.
available as a special order -- normally ships within 7-10 days
300-564
$44.95
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PIANO CHORD DICTIONARY
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This compact book features 600 unique chords and chord voicings for all 12 keys. Music theory review, covering chord construction, inversions, advanced voicings, more. Standard notation in bass & treble clefs. Section on voice leading and voicing for melody. Enharmonic spellings for all sharp & flat keys. Essential chords in root position and inversions. 232 pp.
20-30877
$9.99
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JAZZ HANON - PLAY-ALONG EDITION
by Peter Deneff
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Book/CD pack. Now available with a play-along CD! 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. 88 pp.
49-696478
$19.99
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Piano - Rags & Jazz
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BLUES & BARRELHOUSE PIANO
featuring Ann Rabson
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Book/DVD pack. No music reading is required! Ann Rabson teaches her own brand of blues and barrelhouse piano with six in-depth lessons based on left-hand grooves: two-beat shuffle, box shuffle, linear boogie woogie, round boogie woogie, Yancy/Domino-inspired groove, and New Orleans-inspired groove. The intimate instructional DVD features Ann teaching every groove. Along the way you'll learn tasty fills, turnarounds, soloing ideas, more. 38 pp.
49-312319
$19.99
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BLUES LICKS FOR PIANO
by Blake Neeley
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CLEARANCE PRICED! SAVE $3.49! A fun way to learn great-sounding blues on your keyboard. Covers: common chords, 12 bar form, shuffle feel, left hand licks and riffs, the blues scale, call and response riffs, blue notes, intros, outros, lots more. More of an intro to playing blues on the piano than a collection of licks. Helps you build finger dexterity, improve your improvisational skills, and gives you a better understanding of harmonic structure. You'll need some basic piano skills before using this book. 37 pp.
49-500036
.. list $8.99 ours
$5.50
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BLUES PIANO
by Mark Harrison
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Book/CD pack. Ever wanted to play the blues, but weren't sure where to start? This will teach you the basic skills you need. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, tools, and tricks that the pros use. Covers: scales and chords, left-hand patterns, walking bass, comping, endings and turnarounds, right-hand techniques, how to solo with blues scales, crossover licks, more. The 94 track CD includes nearly all of the music examples in the book in split-channel format: left hand on the left side and right hand on the right side. CD also includes seven complete tunes to jam on with a rhythm section. 79 pp.
49-311007
$17.95
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BLUES/ROCK PIANO
taught by David Bennett Cohen
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We can order this for you or you can DOWNLOAD IT NOW! Just click one of the download links below. Book/6 CD pack. Beginning pianists can get into blues, barrelhouse, boogie-woogie and rock styles with this easy, step-by-step method. Starting with simple rhythm patterns David systematically builds strength and agility until you are playing complicated patterns, improvising and playing both lead and rhythm piano. Covers: 12 bar blues with shuffle rhythm, improvising over a minor blues scale, straight time patterns with solos, playng slow blues, walking bass lines, Fats Domino and New Orleans style, over a dozen great solos. Plus many tips and pointers about playing traditional blues style. 32 pp.
available as a special order -- normally ships within 7-10 days
300-590
$59.95
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BOOGIE-WOOGIE PIANO
by Todd Lowry
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Book/CD pack. Teaches you the basic skills needed to play boogie-woogie. From learning the basic chord progressions to inventing your own melodic riffs, you'll learn the theory, tools and techniques used by the genre's best practicioners. The CD demonstrates most of the music examples in the book, with left- and right-channel tracks created for helpful hands-separate practice. 72 pp.
49-117067
$16.99
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FAST FORWARD - BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO
with Bill Worrall
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Book/CD pack. Starts with a simple three note motif over a basic left hand harmony, then covers techniques such as grace notes, slides, passing notes, and syncopation. In no time you'll be experimenting with the laid-back and funky bass patterns of New Orleans, and discovering 7th chords, tritones, arpeggiated passing chords, tremolos, more. Each track is recorded twice on the CD, once with piano and once with backing tracks only. Includes 4 page pullout chart. Notation only. 64 pp.
01-958925
$15.95
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LEARN BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO, SECOND EDITION
by Colin Davey and Frank Poloney
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Book/CD set. The second edition of this popular book includes: a CD; exercises, figures, and examples that more accurately reflect the way Ammons, Johnson and Lewis actually played; as well as many other improvements. Teaches you to play, improvise, and compose dynamic, authentic boogie woogie piano through explanations and exercises that ensure rapid progress. Provides the clearest, most in-depth analysis of the style and structure of boogie woogie while remaining absolutely faithful to the style as it was played at its pinnacle by the trio. With appendix on the history of the genre. Spiralbound, 138 pp.
available as a special order
520-2
$36.50
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HOW TO PLAY FR0M A FAKE BOOK - FAKING YOUR OWN ARRANGEMENTS FROM MELODIES AND CHORDS
by Blake Neely
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Keyboard edition -- turn bare-bones fakebook charts into full-blown original arrangements while learning to read chord symbols and "translate" inversions, arrange songs, construct chords with voice-leading and much more! Keyboard notation. Spiralbound, 87 pp.
49-220019
$16.99
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HOW TO PLAY FROM A REAL BOOK - FOR ALL MUSICIANS
by Robert Rawlins
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All musicians should be able to sit down at a keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in Real Books. Learn how to analyze the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, more. Using a theory-based approach, it addresses aspects of solo and small band performance that can improve your own playing and your understanding of what others are doing around you. Comb-bound. 123 pp.
49-312097
$17.50
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INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPER - PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT TECHNIQUES FOR TRADITIONAL DANCE MUSIC
by Peter Barnes
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Focus on styles for American contra & square dancing. Starts with basic vamping (simple bass-chord backup) and goes on with much much more. Spiral bound, 140 pp.
449-2
$20.00
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SELECTED COMPOSITIONS 1999 - 2008
by Vijay Iyer
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CLEARANCE PRICED! Iyer is one of the most significant contemporary composers and performers on the piano. This manuscript represents a compilation of small group compositions by Iyer during a period from 1999 through 2008. The bulk of the pieces were originally written for Vijay's quartet with altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Stephan Crump, and drummers Marcus Gilmore, Tyshawn Sorey, and Derrek Phillips, and documented on the albums Panoptic Modes (2001), Blood Sutra (2003), Reimagining (2005), and Tragicomic (2008). The music features experimentation on rhythmic techniques, harmony, orchestration, soloing structures, and macro-form, with an overriding focus on sound and feel. Contrasting compositional approaches give the reader insight into the broad spectrum of compositional language and devices employed by Iyer. Spiralbound, 106 pp.
02-22261
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$10.00
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THE IRISH PIANO BOOK - 20 FAMOUS TUNES FROM IRELAND
compiled by Patrick Steinbach, arranged for piano by Wolfgang Loll
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Folk musician Patrick Steinbach has compiled the most beautiful Irish melodies. Even if Irish music was not designed for the piano originally, it is great fun to play these beautiful traditional melodies in stylish piano arrangements, including variations. With notes on the performance and background of each tune. A violin book with the same tunes in matching keys is also available - "The Irish Violin Book" (49-919364). "Ballydesmond Polka," "The Lark in the Morning," "Sally Gardens," "Higgins' Hornpipe," "Carrickfergus," "Tripping up the Stairs," "Strayaway Child," "Padraig O'Keeffe's Slide," "Captain O'Kain," "Four Green Fields," "Blarney Pilgrim," more. 67 pp.
49-919341
$14.99
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THE KEYBOARD STYLE RESOURCE: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO EXPLORING NEW TECHNIQUES AND STYLES FROM ROCK TO CLASSICAL
by Noah Baerman
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Book/CD set. You know the basics; it's time to explore. Covers a variety of musical genres to help you create a unique, original, and exciting sound. Learn how to use scales, chords, rhythms, and arpeggios to solo in many styles. CD includes all the examples. 95 pp.
20-39298
$19.99
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THE NEW BASICS: ROCK KEYBOARD - A TOTALLY DIFFERENT, FUN WAY TO LEARN
by Robert Brown
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Book/CD set. No "Mary Had A Little Lamb"-type songs. Start playing right away with warm-ups and cool rock patterns, then move on to chords and melodies. Learn to read music and play scales, rock licks, and fun tunes. Play-along tracks. 47 pp.
20-39259
$14.99
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