Keyboard Presents: Classic Rock

Keyboard Presents: Classic Rock brings out the stories behind the hits on drive-time radio as told by the keyboard-playing artists and sidemen who created them. What was Billy Joel thinking when he wrote “PianoMan”? Who played the pounding piano on the Doobie Brothers' “China Grove”? What was it like to back up Jim Morrison in the Doors? How did synthesizers create the sound of Genesis? It's all here: the gear thesongs the road stories and the inspiration behind some of the greatest songs of the '60s '70s and '80s by Chicago Deep Purple Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers Blood Sweat & Tears Steve Winwood the Grateful Dead and manymore.

Written by Dominic Alldis, Jazz Piano Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, this is an invaluable tutor for those wishing to incorporate their previous classical training into learning the Jazz idiom. Divided into two parts, part one begins with improvisation using pantatonic scales, this encourages an exploration of the keyboard using a rudimentary melodic and harmonic framework. Part two begins with an introduction to bebop by applying the melodic syntax found in a Bach prelude to aharmonic progression of a jazz standard. Features explanations and examples of: Pentatonic Improvisation The Blues Rock Piano Rhythmic Displacement Scale Theory Major Scale Theory Applied Melodic Syntax The Language of Bebop Minor Scale Theory Applied Pentatonic Scale Theory Applied Left-Hand Accompaniment Walking Bass Lines Thematic Development Performance Tips. This book represents the culmination of hundreds of hours spent teaching jazz piano, and should be an enjoyable course of study for anyone who loves jazz piano and who wants to make steps towards understanding the vast array of possibilities open to the improvising pianist.

Par ARCHER DEVAN. This book presents extended solo piano settings of eight Christmas favorites plus a new take on ?Brahms? Lullaby,? all with a touch of country keyboard technique. Each intermediate to advanced arrangement is replete with anticipatory grace notes, a bit of western swing harmony and rhythm in the classic country style popularized by Floyd Cramer. Author/arranger Devan Archer has added his own brand of challenging counterpoint. The ?Nashville Sound? has long been a presence in gospel, pop and rock music but appears here in a Christmas repertoire, perhaps for the first time. ?Good King Wenceslas? and ?God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen? have never swung so hard! Includes access to online electronic audio recording. / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Recueil / Piano

A collection of fun and original pieces for grade 2-3 Pianists. For Piano or Keyboard the Bigger Picture series presents music in styles ranging from pop to jazz rock latin contemporary and classical.

For piano or keyboard the Bigger Picture series presents music in styles ranging from Pop to Jazz Rock Latin Contemporary and Classical! Here is a collection of fun original pieces for grade 4-5 pianists composed by John Rowcroft which is guaranteed to impress!