Bill Boyd Intermediate Jazz Chord Voicing For Keyboard PDF. Instructional. Jazz, General Theory and Chords. Instructional book. With standard notation, chord names, instructional text and chord charts. This book is a logical follow-up to An Introduction To Jazz Chord Voicing For Keyboard. It continues to explore contemporary chord voicings and their application to melody and accompaniment playing with a jazz group. All chord voicings and the II V I chord progression are written out in all keys. The appendices from both books combined are virtually an encyclopedia of chord voicings. Chapter assignments require experimentation with actual jazz tunes taken...

Andy Vinter Rock’N’Roll Piano PDF. With this pack, you’ll learn the skills you need to take your place alongside Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and other great rock ‘n’ roll piano players of the ’50s and ’60s! The CD includes demos and backing tracks so you can play along with every example. Also includes six complete tunes at the end of the book. It is not for the complete beginner, although you wouldn’t want a really well established traditional technique. Rock and Roll on the piano is very percussive and a classical technique will not work. You...

Jimmy Kachulis The Songwriter’s Workshop Melody PDF. Spark your imagination with hundreds of creative songwriting techniques! This hands-on guide provides lessons on how to write innovative songs, based on popular songwriting courses at Berklee College of Music. Whether you’re a beginning songwriter who can’t read a note of music, or an experienced professional looking for new ideas, this book will provide new insight into your craft; it teaches the fundamental techniques behind today’s hit songs, together with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own art. This book comes with access to online audio recordings...

Jonathan E. Peters Music Theory download. An in-depth and straight forward approach to understanding music. Have you ever wondered how the musical scale came about? Or why certain pitches sound better together than others? “Music Theory”, by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters, is a comprehensive course in the study of music. Much more than just memorization of musical terms and definitions… this course explains the “why”. This book does a fantastic job of explaining the basics of reading sheet music. Completely demystifies time signatures. This alone is worth the price of admission. Does a great job explaining the circle of...

Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 PDF download. Possession of this collection will enable any musician, independently of level and experience in jazz improvisation mastery, learn the basic styles and genres of jazz, and eventually become a true expert in this. Information for reference (for those who do not know): Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long – the world’s best collections of exercises for jazz musicians. Volume 1: How To Play Jazz & Improvise. Beginning/Intermediate. Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. CD includes blues in Bb and...

Jerry Bergonzi Melodic Rhythms Volume 4 PDF. Time and rhythm are king! Number one! We are constantly aware of this fact when we are playing or listening to improvised music. All notes seem to sound good when they are played with good time. Even melodies that use wrong notes sound good when played with good time. What often packages a good time feel are the rhythms a particular artist chooses to use. This book hopefully lends some insight into practicing and playing creative rhythms in a melodic way.   Format: PDF + Audio tracks (Mp3). 117 pages See also:...

Chuck Sher The New Real Book Volume 2 PDF (Key of C). More great tunes in the world-class New Real Book format. Along with many standard tunes, Volume 2 features over a dozen each of the best tunes by Chick Corea, John Coltrane and Horace Silver. Like all Sher Music fake books, it features composer-approved transcriptions, easy-to-read calligraphy, and many extras (sample bass lines, chord voicings, drum appendix, etc.) not found in conventional fake books. This book is more “Adventurous’ and songs are more complete than with other “Fake” books. This volume of the new real book is another...

Scott Miller Rock Keyboard PDF. The Rock Keyboard book/CD pack in the Keyboard Style Series is chock full of authentic rock keyboard parts! Learn to comp or solo in any of your favorite rock styles. Listen to the 99-track CD to hear your parts fit in with the total groove of the band. A great book that includes valuable fingering notation. You should know how to read music, though fluency is not required and the CD examples help re-enforce any question on rhythm. It teaches 8 different Rock styles which have many different pattern drills (97) for left and...

100 Jazz Lessons Keyboard Lesson Goldmine PDF. Expand your keyboard knowledge with the Keyboard Lesson Goldmine series! The series contains four books: Blues, Country, Jazz, and Rock. Each volume features 100 individual modules that cover a giant array of topics. Each lesson includes detailed instructions with playing examples. You’ll also get extremely useful tips and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus two audio CDs featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book! 100 Jazz Lessons includes scales, modes and progressions; Latin jazz styles; improvisation ideas; harmonic voicings; building your chops; and much more! There is a...

Tim Richards Exploring Jazz Piano Volume 1 PDF. A large and fully comprehensive guide to the inner secrets of the Jazz Piano style. Beginning at first principles, this exhaustive tutorial guides the intermediate Pianist through the nuts and bolts of successful and inspiring improvisation. Author Tim Richards covers all styles from the 1940s to the present day, and includes 28 of his own compositions alongside such celebrated standards as Autumn Leaves, On Green Dolphin Street and Straight, No Chaser. In fact, fans of Monk and Horace Silver will be especially pleased to discover two full transcriptions of solos by...