Piano Play-Along Volume 62-Your favourite sheet music comes to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/CD collections piano and keyboard players can practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Packed with cream-of-the-crop songs the books feature new engravings with a separate vocal staff plus guitar frames so players and their friends can sing or strum along. The CDs feature two tracks for each tune: a full performance for listening and a separate backing track that lets players take the lead on keyboard. The high-quality sound-alike accompaniments exactly match the printed music.

Firing Up Your Technique-This book will give you a complete rock piano workout in both modern and classic styles! You'll develop your rhythmic feel dexterity hand coordination and voicing skills as you work through the fun authentic examples. These pieces will help you use your rock piano technique in a musical stylistically effective way. Each music sample is recorded at several tempos so you can choose the one that's right for you as you play along with the rock rhythm section on the CD.

This pack provides both the original FastTrack book/CD pack along with an instructional DVD making learning to play Keyboard easier and faster than ever before!

This step-by-step guide will help you develop the skills essential for a stylistic performance. The hands-on instruction presents information on patterns grooves rhythms Keyboard instrumentation and much more.Gospel stylings are discussed in detail as is the role of the Keyboard both as a solo instrument and in the context of an instrumental ensemble. You'll learn how to play intros how to vary articulation appropriately according to musical genre and how to play multiple Keyboards simultaneously. Historical information on the roots of the R&B soul musical style is presented along with lists of recommended books recordings and videos. It is all here in asingle indispensable volume. Includes access to online audio.

Piano Play-Along Volume 117-Play 8 of your favourite Alicia Keys songs with sound-alike audio tracks. Each volume in this series comes with access to orchestrated arrangements available to download. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations. There are two tracks for each – a full performance for listening plus a separate backing track which lets you be the soloist! The music even includes a separate vocal staff plus guitar frames so you or your friends can also sing or strum along!

The Complete Guide with CD!-Learn how to play Latin jazz Piano based on traditional Latin music from Cuba and Brazil. Latin Jazz Piano addresses the three roles that the jazz pianist typically plays: as a member of an accompanying rhythm section as a lead instrument within an ensemble and as a solo instrument. The online audio features many examples in the book and combo tracks with which to play along.The book is divided into three sections. The first covers Afro-Cuban (Afro-Caribbean) jazz the second section deals with Brazilian influenced jazz – Bossa Nova and Samba and the third contains lead sheets of the tunes and instructions for the play-along onlineaudio.The Afro-Cuban section contains a chapter on some basic concepts of traditional Afro-Cuban music including the clave tumbao and montuno. Also there is a chapter on typical piano voicing used in Afro-Cuban music Latin jazz in general.Next is a chapter on typical comping patterns used in various Afro-Cuban styles such as Mambo Cha-cha etc. The last chapter in this section features tunes written in these various styles and arranged for lead instrument piano and bass piano lead and piano solo. The next section on Brazilian-related jazz begins with a chapter on the many varied rhythms typically used in comping for Bossa Novas and Sambas and concludes with a chapter featuring tunes arranged in the same ways as the first section.The third section contains lead sheets of all the tunes so the reader can play and improvise on them along with the accompanying online audio. The reader is encouraged to continually change the way he or she plays these tunes and apply the principles found in this book to other tunes in the Latin jazz repertoire.

The Complete Guide with Audio!-This comprehensive book is the perfect Intro To Jazz Piano. From comping to soloing you'll learn the theory the tools and the techniques used by the pros. The accompanying online audio tracks demonstrate most of the music examples in the book. The full band tracks feature the rhythm section on the left channel and the Piano on the right channel so that you can play along with the band. Covers: jazz chords and progressions; jazz swing and bossa nova comping; voicings and patterns; melodic treatment; soloing techniques; how to play from a fake book; and more. Get started today!

Piano Duet Play-Along Volume 39-Take a trip back to the '60s with these great Piano duet arrangements of Beatles classics! The book comes with access to online audio that features separate tracks for the Primo and Secondo parts – perfect for practice and performance!

Ce songbook rassemble une sélection de chants de Noël jouée au piano. Pour que chacun puisse jouer, deux arrangements différents de chaque titre sont proposés et classés par niveau. Pour chaque morceau, quatre pistes audio sont proposées : le morceau complet joué au tempo original, le morceau complet à tempo plus lent, la main gauche seule et la main droite seule. Les titres: Douce nuit (Silent night) Petit papa Noël Il est né le divin enfant Minuit chrétien La marche des rois mages Les anges de nos campagnes Mon beau sapin Jingle bells (Vive le vent) We wish you a merry Christmas Oh when the Saints Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ! Jingle bells rock... Les accords ainsi que les paroles sont inclus dans ce recueil, afin de jouer et chanter ces mélodies en famille.

An Introduction to Swing, Blues, Latin and Funk Part 2: Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying and Reading from Lead Sheets. Par RICHARDS TIM. Beginning Jazz Piano s'adresse aux joueurs ayant peu de connaissances préalables et qui aiment explorer la musique liée au jazz. Avec de nombreux morceaux harmonieux - ses propres compositions, des mélodies du jazz classique et de nouvelles mélodies de chansons de jazz connues - Tim Richards initie les joueurs au blues, au funk et à la musique latine, en expliquant les techniques les plus importantes pour la main droite et la main gauche. L'éducateur expérimenté et auteur des méthodes Blues Piano et Jazz Piano, acclamés par la critique, suit également les exigences du catalogue d'examens de l'ABRSM, entre autres, ce qui fait de cette méthode une ressource indispensable pour étudier et pratiquer. Le volume 1 (ED 23374) explique de manière simple comment jouer spontanément et librement sur les harmonies. En commençant par des accords parfaits à la main gauche, il explique les gammes pentatoniques et les arpèges ainsi que la gamme de blues, et les essaie dans des pièces spécifique. Le volume 2 (ED 23379) aiguise ensuite l'appétit pour le piano comme instrument d'accompagnement et montre également comment arranger une mélodie dans un contexte de jazz. Les deux volumes sont de même niveau de difficulté et peuvent être utilisés consécutivement ou en parallèle. Les fichiers audio comprennent les versions complètes et play-along, avec Tim Richards au piano, une ligne de basse supplémentaire et une batterie. La fonction interactive 'Replay' est particulièrement recommandée: En coopération avec 'MusicGurus', fournisseur de cours en ligne de haute qualité, des partitions interactives de tous les morceaux sont accessibles en ligne gratuitement, ce qui facilite la pratique et garantit un succès rapide d'apprentissage./ Méthode / Piano

Par CHAMBERLAIN LOUISE. Step It Up! is the fun way to move your playing onwards and upwards. Packed full of original jazzy pieces by Louise Chamberlain - with imaginative arrangements of well-known tunes, unaccompanied pieces and duets too - this carefully graded volume for violin also includes a CD of groovy backing tracks. So whether practising at home or performing to your friends, take your playing to another level with Step It Up! - and prepare to step up a grade at the same time! Pamela Wedgwood writes as Louise Chamberlain for the Step It Up! series. She is recognised around the world as one of the UK's most prolific and successful composers of popular repertoire for young instrumentalists.   **ABRSM selected piece (Violin 2008-2011): Be thou my vision (Anon.) / Instrumental Music / Etude / Violon et Piano