Ellington Duke - Piano Play Along Vol.39 + Cd

With over 120 pages and thirty-seven of the best known jazz and blues all-time favourites this is the perfect book for the jazz pianist wanting to learn the standards. Specially arranged for intermediate Piano Solo, with chord symbols included, allowing the potential for more advanced players to improvise over the changes and progressions. Includes Ain't Misbehavin', Take Five, So What / Jazz / Partition /

A superb 160 page volume packed with solo Piano arrangements of great American music from the 19th to 20th centuries. By composers including Barber, MacDowell, Sousa, Joplin, Bacharach and Glass. <br> <br>A specially-written foreword places the music in historical and national context and includes biographical details of many of the featured composers. The arrangements are intended for the intermediate to advanced pianist, but the book will give any player a unique practical and historical insight into America's immense contribution to the international world of music. / Partition /

Whether you fancy playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, funky jazz standards, the great film music of John Williams, or musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber, this special anthology will deliver! All pieces are presented in our brand new, easy-to-read notation style, complete with fingering, chord symbols and lyrics where appropriate. Suitable for pianists of Grade 1 - 3 standard. / Piano

Big Band Play-Along Volume 3-This pack lets instrumentalists play along with a big band to 10 swinging classics including: Caravan * Chelsea Bridge * Cotton Tail * I'm Beginning to See the Light * I'm Just a Lucky So and So * In a Mellow Tone * In aSentimental Mood * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Take the A Train.

Les meilleurs morceaux et mélodies associées de Duke Ellington, arrangé pour piano par Kenneth Baker. Paroles (le cas échéant) et corde symboles sont inclus. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) / 40 pages / Partition

Later Elementary Level-Description: This piece is a blues in ABA form with brief introduction and coda. The melody is built on a short melodic phrase: a riff. The bass part is a separate but related melodic phrase which becomes the important melody in the B section. Purpose: Introduction to the elements of the jazz styles of Duke Ellington Count Basie and Horace Silver: 1. Jazz inflection and phrasing 2. Varying riffs through simple variation and rhythmic displacement 3. Harmonic structure drawn from commonly used jazz harmonic patterns. Suggestions for Instruction: In m. 1-8 learn hands alone with special attention to double and grace notes. After learning one hand at a time it can be playedwith a teacher as a duet. In m. 12 RH double notes need special attention lifting the fifth finger on upper repeated notes while playing lower voices smoothly. In m. 13-20 learn to play the LH melody legato with RH chords detached. In m. 28-29 give special attention to rhythm and chord positions. Other Information After Blue Notes is memorized it will work well with rhythmic accompaniment or as a basis for improvisation. Key: F Major

The popular 'Tea for Two Series' continues with more inspiring Piano duets from Mike Cornick - this time on the subject of love. Contrasting styles are explored from Duke Ellington's stylish and swinging Don't Get Around Much Anymore to a unique intertwined arrangement of the Caribbean songs Yellow Bird and Water Come a Me Eye (Come Back Liza). The old favourite Dark Eyes and the more contemplative I Gave My Love a Cherry and The Water is Wide complete the collection. The CD includes the complete performance of each duet as well as play-along rehearsal tracks for primo and secondo players. For intermediate level players and beyond.

Awarded the prestigious Music Industries Association Award in 2006 for Best Pop Publication Tim Richards' Exploring Jazz Piano was the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano also published by Schott. The overall level is somewhat higher and would suit pianists of Grade 4 standard and above. The book comes in two volumes comprising no less than 56 original pieces by the author together with special arrangements of 24 standards ranging from Autumn Leaves and Summertime to Straight No Chaser and Coltrane's Impressions.The two volumes also contain over 800 musical examples a veritable treasury of styles and techniques for the aspiring jazzpianist and refers to the work of Erroll Garner Art Tatum Duke Ellington Thelonious Monk Bud Powell Horace Silver Hampton Hawes Red Garland Wynton Kelly Bill Evans George Shearing Oscar Peterson Chick Corea McCoy Tyner and many others. Each volume has its own CD containing between them performances of all 80 pieces played by Tim alone or with his current trio of Dominic Howles (bass) and Matt Home (drums). Play-along tracks are also included in which the piano is panned to one speaker providing rhythm section accompaniment if desired by turning the amplifier's balance control. Copious examples of improvisation are accompanied by numerous assignments with guidance to hand on every page. The package is beautifully illustrated with many full-page photographs of piano masters past and present informative mini biographies and a comprehensive suggested listening section. The practical covered spiral binding protects the books as well as enabling them to lie flat on the music stand.Exploring Jazz Piano fills a vacuum in jazz piano instruction its comprehensive syllabus taking the reader from first principles in Vol. 1 to professional level in Vol. 2. Any student of jazz piano piano teacher or performing musician dipping into either volume will be rewarded with a wealth of ideas and practical information to keep them occupied for many