Jazz Piano from Scratch

a how-to guide for students and teachers-Jazz Piano From Scratch is a complete step by step guide to playing jazz with confidence and style. Designed for the complete beginner it breaks down the process into simple yet fun activities with many musical examples to illustrate the points made. The accompanying CD provides examples activities and some great trio paying to use as a backdrop to your own work.The book deals with rhythm harmony melody structure chords and changes modal jazz blues style chord substitutions bebop style and creativity improvisation techniques and control.These skills can be developed by any musician and the book is designed to ease all players into jazz. It standsalso as an indispensable companion to the Board's jazz piano syllabus examining in Part III the different components of the exams and showing you how to prepare yourself thoroughly.

Level 2 of Mike Cornick's Play the Piano! moves seamlessly on from Level 1 ensuring continuous musical and technical progress for the adult or older teenager. With the raised technical levels the choice of musical genres is even more enriched with arrangements of traditional folk music and music by for example J. S. Bach W. A. Mozart Beethoven Chopin Tchaikovsky Mike Cornick Elton John and more. The result is a feast of beautiful music and the continued guidance from Mike Cornick will help the player develop the technical skills and confidence to interact with the rewarding musical experiences provided by the CDs. Again ateach stage more pieces may be downloaded free from the Universal Edition website.Play the Piano! featuresStep-by-step learning in playing and reading starting from absolute scratch presented in clearly structured stagesAlso suitable for the 'returning beginner'Performance pieces in a range of styles from classical and folk through to jazzHelpful and stimulating CDs with aural development exercises and recordings of the pieces many with 'play-along' tracksWarm-up exercisesEven more performance pieces which together with more supporting material for each stage are available as free downloads from the Universal Edition website'The book goes to the top of the pile of piano tutorials currently available for the older beginner ... excellent!'Pianist Magazine (Michael McMillan) 2011

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you love. The Band Based Keys Syllabus is designed to put Keyboard players right at the heart of a band - where most if not all modern keyboard players perform their music. Band Based Keys Debut is tailored to those of you who have just started learning keys from scratch. The debut book has 6 pieces of original music to choose from covering Electro Pop and Acid Jazz music styles. The Book includes: Standard notation Full mixes & backing track CD Track fact file Playing tips & WalkthroughUnseen test examples & technical exercises. Tuning notes. Students are always encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your own playing style. Requirements: Keyboard with 61 keys. Patches: Acoustic piano Electric piano Organ Strings and Synth.