A comprehensive book of full-colour photos and diagrams for over 900 keyboard chords. This beautiful and informative resource is a must for all piano students and players! It contains easy-to-read chord diagrams easy-to-see full-colour photos basic chord theory treble and bass clef notation a chord symbol chart and much more. Infinitely useful this book is compact enough to bring everywhere giving you a chord dictionary a fingering guide a music reading tool and a resource for composers and non-pianists all in one!

Get Ready For Major Scale Duets! is a creative motivational book designed to make scale practice fun and enjoyable. Each scale is paired with a tuneful teacher duet encouraging student interest while promoting technical development.The book includes:Concise instructional pagesPractice flashcardsReview gamesEar-training activitiesScale reference chartsTechnical warm-ups... and many other motivational features!

Book 7 of Robert Schultz And Tina Faigen's Piano Technique series for Late Intermediate (all ages) piano students. Primary Subjects explored: melodic scale figures accompaniment figures octave and chordal figures combination studies and specialized skills. New Elements: scale figures continue their progression through relative major/minor key signatures with 5 sharps/flats patterned accompaniments waltz bass melodic octaves full chords ornaments finger substitutions 2 against 3 4-5 octave slurs bridging 10ths legato 6ths and repeated notes. Also Includes: circle of 5ths diagram master the metronome a table of ornaments and aglossary.

This new collection of chords from Gail Smith is one all pianists have been waiting for. It will be quite useful for the player who needs to see where the chord is on the piano as well as how it is written in musical notationwith chord symbols. Fifteen of the most commonly used chords in each of the twelve keys are given in an easy-to-read chart format. Each chord is presented with the full name of the chord the chord symbol names of the notes inthe chord and the notation on the staff for the pianist to play with both hands. Examples of seventh chords ninths elevenths and thirteenth chords are also shown.

2nd Edition Piano-Presented in an exciting and fresh form learning and playing rudimentary scales will never be the same again. The Fingering Method adopts both aural and visual approach to the education of scales and heightens students' awareness when playing scales. Painstakingly notated the fingerings and scales are organised to optimise the learning process.

Motivating features in this book include: Fun theory games practice flashcards a chord and arpeggio expert certificate and more. Students will enjoy practicing cadences and arpeggios!

Launch your guitar playing to the next level with this easy-to-use chart! Includes information on how to form barre chords and how to use them.

Noted jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and educator Andy LaVerne has drawn from his decades of experience playing with master musicians from Getz to Lovano to create this comprehensive compendium of contemporary moving voicings. Quartal, quintal, drop 2, dominant 7b9/diminished, triadic, whole tone and chromatic performance proven voicings pioneered by McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Andy himself are presented and fleshed out in all twelve keys. This book picks up where others leave off, enabling you to replace static chords with voicings that move melodically, dramatically, and gracefully over the entire range of the keyboard. Firmly rooted in contemporary jazz theory, the emphasis is on practical performance applications. Andy ties it all together with illustrations of comping choruses for five standard jazz tunes. Chords in Motion satisfies a long awaited need in actual comping situations, and shows you how to move chords through varying harmonic rhythms. FINALLY ? a book that gives you moving voicings, and sets them in motion in all twelve keys. Chords in Motion is a valuable resource for all keyboardists, arrangers, and instrumentalists. Activate, animate, and energize your comping with this encyclopedic volume. 156 pages, spiral bound for easy opening. Andy carries the flame of jazz piano tradition and just great music. He always inspires me. Chick Corea This is a great book! I am going to sit down and play through this!! I am always telling my non-piano playing students how important it is to work with (and internalize) the sounds that we live with all our lives as Jazz musicians. Coltrane spent years sitting at the piano and so should all of us!!! John Patitucci Berklee College of Music One thing about Andy?he is complete as can be and has been consistently so for years in both his teaching materials and playing. He is completely knowledgeable in such a way that when I play with him, I know he KNOWS!! Plus he is one of the smoothest and polished of players around. Great book?encyclopedic in content. Dave Liebman Founder, Artistic Director, International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) I've played and recorded with Andy LaVerne many times over the years and in many different settings and he's always come up with the hippest, most interesting chords in the most musical way! His way of playing and looking at chords inspires me as a drummer and his rhythm section partner to play things that are in turn inspiring to the rest of the band. This book, helps musicians, understand, in a clear thoughtful presentation, how to go about getting this together. Billy Drummond Jazz Drummer, Educator, Juilliard, NYU Chords in Motion is an outstanding and comprehensive guide by Andy LaVerne, whose encyclopedic knowledge, decades of experience and brilliance as a performer and educator make this an invaluable handbook of modern jazz piano harmony. Its user-friendly, intelligent design enables musicians to expand their harmonic palette and potentially transform their playing, writing and arranging. Chords in Motion is an invaluable contribution to jazz musicians! Lynne Arriale Jazz Pianist, Composer, Educator, Associate Professor of Jazz Piano, Director of Small Ensembles, University of North Florida Chords in Motion is exactly the book I'd expect from Andy LaVerne. It's clear, openhearted and inspiring, as has been every conversation I've had with Andy over the years. Long a fan of his playing, I have enjoyed this look behind the curtain at how Andy LaVerne formulated his signature style. One other thing -- any pianist, no matter his/her approach, will gain insight into what will surely be new and exciting musical directions. Pete Malinverni Jazz Pianist, Educator, Director of Jazz Studies, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music What a great resource for expanding the harmonic palette! Chords in Motion is a must have for the aspiring young jazz pianist as well as the seasoned veteran. Another winner from Andy! Paul Schmeling Jazz Pianist, Educator, Chair Emeritus, Piano Department, Berklee College of Music In Chords in Motion, I recognize chords and sounds that have inspired me to compose and play: harmony from the music of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. This book is well organized, and from the beginning gets you playing. Each chord structure is explained and developed. There is plenty to practice. I especially like the exercises using contrary motion, arpeggiation

A clear and comprehensive guide to scales on the Piano. Gone is the need for the calculation of tones and semitones and the effort of transposition. In this method you will find each scale (major pentatonic minor major pentatonic blues natural minor melodic minor harmonic minor) and a representation of the corresponding scale on more octaves both for the left hand and the right hand. A clear and comprehensive guide to scales on the Piano. Gone is the need for the calculation of tones and semitones and the effort of transposition.In this method you will find each scale (major pentatonic minor major pentatonic blues natural minor melodic minor harmonic minor) and a representation of the corresponding scale on more octaves both for the left hand and the right hand.

The objective of this coursebook is to guide you in practicing arpeggios on the piano in a playful non tiresome manner. Arpeggios are everywhere â?? in every musical style (in Blues Jazz as well as in classical music) in accompanying as well as in improvising in the right-hand as well as in the left-hand part. To the pianist they are technically and harmonically indispensable. Therefore as a beginning pianist you have no choice there is no way around them! This coursebook gives you the opportunity to learn or revise all the most important arpeggios: the major arpeggio the minor arpeggio the major seventh arpeggio (maj7) the minor seventh arpeggio (m7) and thedominant seventh arpeggio (7). For each you are given its composition and fingerings as well as three technical exercises (to learn how to handle it) and seven musical applications (accompaniments and solos) which are to be played along to backing tracks. For every musical application you have five different recordings at your disposal which appear on the mp3 CD in the following order: the piano alone â?? first at actual playing speed then at a slower speed; the same piano part played along to its backing track; and finally the backing track alone â?? first at actual playing speed then at a slower speed too. You thus have the possibility to work at your own rhythm and pace in accordance with your level and ability. Taken all together the tutorial provides more than 5 h of musical practice. The objective of this coursebook is to guide you in practicing arpeggios on the piano in a playful non tiresome manner. Arpeggios are everywhere ? in every musical style (in Blues Jazz as well as in classical music) in accompanying as well as in improvising in the right-hand as well as in the left-hand part.To the pianist they are technically and harmonically indispensable. Therefore as a beginning pianist you have no choice there is no way around them! This coursebook gives you the opportunity to learn or revise all the most important arpeggios: the major arpeggio the minor arpeggio the major seventh arpeggio (maj7) the minor seventh arpeggio (m7) and thedominant seventh arpeggio (7). For each you are given its composition and fingerings as well as three technical exercises (to learn how to handle it) and seven musical applications (accompaniments and solos) which are to be played along to backing tracks.For every musical application you have five different recordings at your disposal which appear on the mp3 CD in the following order: the piano alone ? first at actual playing speed then at a slower speed; the same piano part played along to its backing track; and finally the backing track alone ? first at actual playing speed then at a slower speed too. You thus have the possibility to work at your own rhythm and pace in accordance with your level and ability. Taken all together the tutorial provides more than 5 h of musical prac