Gig Bag Book Scales - Keyboards

The Complete Keyboard Player series will teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of your electronic keyboard in a fraction of the time it takes to learn a conventional instrument. Based on popularsongs and with easy-to-follow text and diagrams this excellent course assumes no prior knowledge of keyboards or music. Book three contains:Scales and KeysTripletsSixteenth notesDotted rhythmsMore major seventh and minor chordschord chart

The first step towards experiencing the fun of playing Keyboards. This book will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing the keyboards. Learn How To: Play Chords And Arpeggios Playmajor and minor scales Play melodies by ear Improvise Play the blues CD included

For Beginners-Progressive: Beginner Keyboard is an easy-to-follow Electronic Keyboard method for the complete beginner. This book CD and DVD set covers note reading finger technique using the automatic accompaniment function and playing chords with the left hand.You do not need any prior knowledge of music or the Keyboard to teach yourself using this easy-to-follow lesson-by-lesson method. Many well known songs in a variety of styles are featured.With Progressive: Beginner Keyboard you will learn:Important Keyboard notes scales and chords used by the world's best Keyboard players.Techniques for playing classicRock Pop Blues Folk and Classical songs and turnaround progressions.How to read all Keyboard sheet music and chord symbols to accompany yourself or play in a band.Tips and tricks that every Keyboard player should know.Shortcuts to get the most from practice sessions and learn faster.Features include:10 easy Keyboard lessons just like having a personal teacher.40+ examples all important Keyboard notes 48 chords and easy Keyboard scales.Classic Rock Pop Blues Folk and Classical songs.Easy-to-read Keyboard music and chord diagrams.Suitable for all types of Keyboards.

The Bluesier Side of Jazz by Andrew D. Gordon was inspired by the Piano students he teaches at Shepherd University School of Music in Los Angeles and is dedicated to those students: Jungwon Yumiko Yoko Eunice Sooji Hae Ji and Ok Kyu. As with many students that come from a classical background (including himself) it is a difficult transition to learn to play Blues and Jazz. When a musician improvises they usually play a variety of riffs or phrases that they have developed and learnt over a period of time and can access these phrases instantaneously whatever key they are playing in to create a seamless improvised solo from the phrases they havelearnt.Andrew's idea for this book is to create phrases or riffs over two measures of various Blues progressions. He sub-divided each of the 12 Bar Blues progressions used in this book (the chord progression for Watermelon Man is a 16 measure progression) into six sections (two measures each) and within each of the six sections created four different phrases or riffs so that the student has a choice of four different phrases to play over every two measures. They can then create a solo based on which phrase they choose for each two measures. By breaking down these phrases to two measures each he has found that the students have an easier time of learning to improvise than by trying to transcribe a whole solo from an audio recording or leaving them to their own devices in trying to play a solo based on the Blues scale or other related scales.Each of the ten examples are based on common Jazz/Blues chord progressions from Jazz songs such as 'Watermelon Man' 'Blue Monk' 'Tenor Madness' 'Route 66' 'Blue Trane' 'Bag's Groove' starting off with basic I-IV-V chords and increasing in complexity throughout the book. There are over 200 phrases/riffs to choose from that can be learned and applied to many types of jazz songs.