The Complete Piano Player - Book 1

The Big Collection from the best-selling Complete Piano Player series includes some of the greatest songs old and new from the renowned Piano sheet music songbooks. With exceptional variety this compendium will never leave you at a loss for something to learn and play. Featuring some timeless arrangements from past editions of The Complete Piano Player songbooks as well asnew arrangements of great contemporary tunes The Big Collection is one of the richest companion songbooks ever made available that follows the spirit of the legendary and best selling Complete PianoPlayer tutor method. With 30 massive songs included in easy-to-play solo Piano arrangements there is something for everyone here as each song is undeniably a classic. From old tunes like At Last andFeeling Good to new tunes like Let It Go and Someone Like You The Big Collection even has everything in between like Paradise by Coldplay Primavera byEinaudi as well as Elton John's Tiny Dancer. If you've been working through The Complete Piano Player tutor books or you just want an assortment of incredible songs to addto your repertoire The Big Collection is for you. If you're a relative beginner each song features chord symbols full lyrics and useful fingering suggestions to help you master these songs. This sheetmusic songbook is also useful if you're a more advanced player however with the arrangements allowing you to improvise or even improve upon the existing tunes.  Each song follows in the footstepsof the original and acclaimed Complete Piano Player tutor system so if you're aware of that these arrangements will be immediately familiar but they will work equally well if you're using it as a songbook on its

This best-selling Piano course teaches you to play using well-known pop and classical material including songs by The Beatles and Abba and music from composers such as Beethoven and Mozart.Step by easy step this provencourse lays a solid musical foundation. You acquire sound technique and learn to play in any style with confidence. By the end of the course you will have a wonderful gift - the ability to play the kind of music you likebest.This first book focuses on How to sit correctlyMusical timingDeveloping a sense of rhythmThe Piano keyboardBasic music theory

This best-selling Piano course teaches you to play using well-known pop and classical material including songs by The Beatles and Abba and music from composers such as Beethoven and Mozart.Step by easy step this provencourse lays a solid musical foundation. You acquire sound technique and learn to play in any style with confidence. By the end of the course you will have a wonderful gift - the ability to play the kind of music you likebest.This third book in the series looks at Chord pyramidsAccompaniment patternsPhrasingMore left hand melody playing

The Complete Piano Player: Musicals contains 15 Stage Musical Hits Newly Arranged for easy Piano.These brand new arrangements make up an ideal companion songbook to the best-selling ‘Complete Piano’series.From classics like Guys and Dolls and Sweet Charity through Sondheim and Lloyd Webber shows to Mamma Mia Wicked and Rent all the top stage musicals are represented by some of their best-loved songs.WithThe Complete Piano Player: Musicals you get complete fingering and chords familiar from the renowned Complete Piano Player teaching books putting these 15 great songs of the musical theatre right at yourfingertips.

The Complete Piano Player: Rachmaninoff contains 17 pieces by the renowned composer newly arranged for easy Piano.Many of Sergei Rachmaninoff?s compositions prominently featured the Piano theinstrument upon which he excelled as a performer both in his native Russia and later as an émigré in Europe and the US. The seventeen pieces collected here reflect his fondness for song-like melodies and sumptuous harmoniccolouration as well as evoking an exile?s memories of Russian church bells and Orthodox chants. This collection uses fingering and chords familiar from the renowned The Complete Piano Player teaching books. In doing so itputs the music of one of Russia?s finest composers and pianists at your fingertips.

The Complete Keyboard Player series will teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of your electronic keyboard in a fraction of the time it takes to learn a conventional instrument. Based on popularsongs and with easy-to-follow text and diagrams this excellent course assumes no prior knowledge of keyboards or music. Book two contains:Sharps flats and naturals7 new right hand notesMinor ChordsDotted notes and syncopationChord chart

Books 1-5 of Kenneth Baker's course in one volume. Easy to follow text and diagrams a constantly enjoyable course based on popular tunes and light classics.

The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings-The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz Piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their Keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory chords and voicings improvisation ideas structure and forms scales and modes rhythm basics interpreting a lead sheet playing solos and much more!

Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, and bass.Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass piano parts,making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues and pentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swing eighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context of accompanying a soloist (comping): in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazz soloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book.If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time you complete it! Includes access to online audio. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 ofthe 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, andbass. Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass pianoparts, making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues andpentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swingeighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context ofaccompanying a soloist (comping) - in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazzsoloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book. If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time youcomplete it! Includes access to online audio. / Jazz / Etude / Piano

This book/CD pack features the complete Piano score plus pull-out solo part. The CD is playable on both your CD player and computer. It is enhanced so that when used in computers it has tempo adjustment software to aid inpractice.

Grade 5-Janet Way's Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others.This practical anthology of carefully selected pieces provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 5 Trumpet player and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:19 pieces & shortstudies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip.Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises.Brand new sight-reading activitiesNewly-commissioned aural awareness tasks.A Piano accompaniment booklet. This book for Grade 5 Trumpet players includes the pieces I Feel Pretty from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein Gavotte by Francois Couperin Bass Player by Phil Lawrence and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade Trumpet (Grade 5) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.