Funky Organ Grooves

Arr. Andrew D. Gordon. Andrew D. Gordon, world renowned music educator, author of over 60 music educational products, has previously written numerous books on funk Keyboard styles such as: ; 60 Of The Funkiest Keyboard Riffs Known To Mankind, ; Funky Organ Grooves, ; Outta Sight Funk & R& B Riffs For Piano/Keyboards which have been well received by students, teachers and musicians all over the world. As playing funk styles is a passion of Gordon 's, he has written this instructional book 100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R& B Grooves based on the influences of the great Funk, Soul and R& B artists such as: James Brown, Herbie Hancock, TheCrusaders, Average White Band, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Ramsey Lewis, Booker T and The MG's, MFSB, Billy Preston etc. Besides the afore-mentioned styles Gordon has also added a few grooves that are Afro-Caribbean such as: Latin, Reggae and Calypso. Each of the 100 grooves have been recorded with the Keyboard part playing along with a rhythm section of Guitar, Bass, Drums, Organ and, in many of the grooves, Percussion. There is also a three minute Play-Along track for each of the 100 grooves minus the keyboard part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of Play-Along tracks. A Spotify playlist containing the songs that have influenced the grooves can also be listened to. ' Andrew has a great flair for a large variety of grooves. These exercises if practiced can really help ones musicianship and feel and I wish I had them when I grew up. To be able to read them and hear them played is extremely valuable '. - Mike Garson, Keyboard player for David Bowie Andrew D. Gordon, world renowned music educator, author of over 60 music educational products, has previously written numerous books on funk Keyboard styles such as: ; 60 Of The Funkiest Keyboard Riffs Known To Mankind, ; Funky Organ Grooves, ; Outta Sight Funk & R& B Riffs For Piano/Keyboards which have been well received by students, teachers and musicians all over the world. As playing funk styles is a passion of Gordon 's, he has written this instructional book 100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R& B Grooves based on the influences of the great Funk, Soul and R& B artists such as: JamesBrown, Herbie Hancock, The Crusaders, Average White Band, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Ramsey Lewis, Booker T and The MG's, MFSB, Billy Preston etc. Besides the afore-mentioned styles Gordon has also added a few grooves that are Afro-Caribbean such as: Latin, Reggae and Calypso. Each of the 100 grooves have been recorded with the Keyboard part playing along with a rhythm section of Guitar, Bass, Drums, Organ and, in many of the grooves, Percussion. There is also a three minute Play-Along track for each of the 100 grooves minus the keyboard part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of Play-Along tracks. A Spotify playlist containing the songs that have influenced the grooves can also be listened to. ' Andrew has a great flair for a large variety of grooves. These exercises if practiced can really help ones musicianship and feel and I wish I had them when I grew up. To be able to read them and hear them played is extremely valuable '. - Mike Garson, Keyboard player for David Bowie/ Recueil / Piano ou Clavier

The 12 Bar Blues Bible by Andrew D. Gordon is a thoroughly groovy compendium of over 50 12-bar riffs that span the full range of Blues styles: (blues jazz-blues minor-blues funky-blues country-blues rock-blues Latin-blues gospel-blues). Each riff is accompanied by a demonstration audio files. There is a host of stylistic detail to help you capture the right grooves - before you know it you'll be jamming and improvising your very own Blues solos! The latter part of the book contains a chapter on the 'Basics Of Blues Improvisation' for anyone who is just starting out in the world of Improvising using the Blues as astarting point. There are seven jam - along tracks each about three minutes in length so that you may try out examples in the book or your own improvisational ideas along with a rhythm section of organ bass and drums.