Keyboard Secrets

If you can play Piano or Keyboard and want to improve your skills this comprehensive method will teach you how. Whether you are into jazz pop blues standards show tunes or all of the above you will become a better player with this method! Carefully organised so that new ideas are introduced in a gradual manner. Step-by-step instructions to unlock the secrets of chord building. Left-handed accompaniments.

60 Daily Recreations to Solve 1st Keyb. Problems-This book is intended to serve two specific purposes. First: By short simple finger drills the pupil quickly develops keyboard freedom accuracy rapidity strength and control. Second: Presented in the most condensed form allproblems of phrasing and hand control usually so marked in pieces of first and second grade music have been briefly taken up one at a time and with the least possible distraction. The progress is gradual systematic and thorough and each piece is handsomely illustrated in a classic style.

Afro-Cuban Keyboard Grooves By Manny Patiño and Jorge MorenoThis book will help any musician unlock the secrets of the Afro-Cuban rhythmic feel. By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the Clave and the comping patterns called Tumbaos that are played over the Clave this book will help every keyboard player learn these fundamental Latin rhythms. [Matching bass book (EL9707CD) also available.]

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selection of movements from the Mass can be used to enrich the music of the liturgy in services. Many of the works in Sing, Choirs! are presented in their original form, such as Bruckner's Locus Iste and Mozart's Laudate Dominum . Others are arrangements, adaptations or longer pieces, abridged to bring them into the scope of a useable anthem, including choral arrangements of Handel's Largo , the Ave Marias by Schubert and by Bach and Gounod, and Franck's Panis Angelicus amongst many others. This collection has practicability as a priority. The Organ parts can be played on either the Piano or the Keyboard. Much of the music in Sing, Choirs! will be suitable for special occasions, making this an indispensable volume for choirs singing at weekly church services, weddings, funerals and in the concert hall. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

These five pieces evoke (in chronological order): - a seemingly never-ending canon that only stops as it reaches the lower register, like a water fountain with water cascading from top to bottom basin - - a stubborn, angry child, chuckling as he decides not to wear a certain piece of clothing he loathes - - a cat softly walking across the piano keyboard and suddenly leaping onto the child's shoulder - - the whirlwind of emotions that overwhelm the mind but does not prevent it from hearing the throbbing of the loved one's heart - - finally, a few secrets hidden under sounds and pitches, gradually being unveiled as, one by one, fingers leave the keyboard. / Piano

Lesson & Theory - Anglicised Edition-Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Level 1 is an exciting comprehensive piano method that teaches children analysis creativity and musical expression. Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Level 1 provides an integrated step-by-step approach to music reading a wide range of musical styles from jazz to classical pianistic fingerings to build technique and movement across the keyboard. Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Level 1 has expressive appealing pieces with teacher duets discovery questions creative activities and theory pages to reinforce concepts. The Technique& Performance book is an essential component of the curriculum. Discover the power of technique secrets for artistic performance. This version is the new anglicised edition.

Level: easy / advanced Format: English / French / German Embouchure building Studies Elementary Intermediate Advanced High register training In the 17th century there were no studies in the modern sense of the word. Of J. S. Bach, however, we know that he wrote pieces of a study nature for his pupils, indeed he made them spend months, and in his own words preferably years, practising exercises for touch at the keyboard, that is, daily finger exercises, on the principle: There is little point in getting fit if you do nothing to stay fit. From this point of view, relating it to our instrument and to the lips, you ought to look at the following embouchure-building studies. They are not intended as warm-ups, although that term is quite appropriate for some of these exercises. Taken together they serve to build the muscles, rather like an athlete's training. Like him, we too must increase our capacity gradually. The muscles and organs involved adapt to the greater workload, but only if the increase proceeds systematically and rationally. Try to complete the full distance of each study, gradually reducing the time, like a long-distance runner. Adding one exercise, or at most three, according to the difficulty, to your daily workload will be enough. You should only start further exercises when you have fully mastered the preceding ones according to the directions in my embouchure method and have reached a satisfactory standard in rhythm and sound. The deliberately simple fingerings make it easier to check the actions of the diaphragm, the lips, and the tongue inside the mouth cavity. Form a mental picture of their movements and compare yourself constantly to an artist whose principle is: There are no secrets, at best some small tricks, which can be learned.