The Complete Guide with CD!-Stride And Swing Piano covers all the essential left- hand righ- hand techniques of early solo jazz piano playing - chords bass runs patterns etc. - and includes 14 full songs performed on the accompanying CD. Learn to play authentically in the styles of Scott Joplin Jimmy Yancey Pete Johnson Jelly Roll Morton James P. Johnson Fats Waller Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum. This method includes: Classic Ragtime Early blues and boogie woogie New Orleans Jazz Early Stride Later Stride Swing

The world's best-selling keyboard method in one complete pack - everything you need to get the most from your Keyboard! This book and 3 CD pack has been compiled from the hugely successful Complete Keyboard Player series to offer an all-in-one solution to learning the best in Keyboard techniques, sounds and songs. This package includes: A complete tutorial guide giving a step-by-step approach to playing the instrument. Extensive chapters concerning selecting sounds, rhythms and using auto accompaniments. Music notation explained in full, along with single-finger and fingered chords, scales and keys. A comprehensive set of full professional-quality backing tracks across 3 CDs that will bring your practice hours to life. Handy Keyboard overlays will ensure that you will never have to hit a wrong note! Furthermore, over 50 hit songs have been provided to create an instant repertoire, and to give you the opportunity to learn using the songs that you know and love. No previous knowledge of the Keyboard or music is required. This book is A5-sized for easy transport! / Clavier

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

30 Traditional Pieces-English Folk Songs contains 30 traditional tunes in arrangements for 1 or 2 Voices and Piano that are suitable for musicians at a grade 3-8 level. Put together by the highly regarded singer and arranger Philip Lawson this volume contains well known songs such as Ash Grove and Scarborough Fair as well as many lesser known pieces. English Folk Songs is accompanied by a CD containing recordings of all of the featured pieces performed by Philip and Sophie Lawson.

Twenty-four easy-to-master fun-to-play piano pieces-Re-Introduction is a collection of studies by Chilly Gonzales which allow pianists to rediscover the joy of sitting behind a Piano. The 24 Piano pieces are easy to learn fun to play and specially designed for all those who have tried to elucidate the mysteries of composing without success.It is recommended to have acquired a basic level of proficiency before playing these 24 studies. Each focuses on technical issues or theoretical necessary to musical composition and piano practice: melody harmony rhythm scales arpeggios ... Chilly Gonzales teaches us how to use all this equipment to play the piano today including notions absentfrom musical dictionaries!Chilly Gonzales' text accompanies each piece in which he discloses his personal tricks. An enclosed CD includes a recording of the 24 pieces allowing students to have the music in mind before giving their own interpretation on the keyboard.