Description
| Product ID: | 9783795799311 |
| Product Form: | Sheet music |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Schott Pop-Styles |
| Title: | Beginning Jazz Piano 2 |
| Subtitle: | An Introduction to Swing, Blues, Latin and Funk Part 2: Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying & Reading from Lead Sheets |
| Authors: | Author: Tim Richards |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Jazz, Keyboard instruments, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Keyboard instruments, Techniques of music / music tutorials |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Beginning Jazz Piano is aimed at players who enjoy exploring jazz-related music. Tim Richards introduces blues, funk and Latin American music with melodious pieces. Volume 1 teaches you how to play freely over an accompaniment using simple means. Volume 2 explores the piano as an accompanying instrument and shows how to arrange a piece in a jazz context. The additional, free interactive scores on the MusicGurus platform support the learning experience - not only for self-taughts!Besetzung:piano Beginning Jazz Piano - An Introduction to Swing, Blues, Latin and FunkPart 2 - Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying & Reading from Lead SheetsThis book is aimed at players with some piano experience who wish to develop a grasp of the basic tools required to play and improvise in a jazz style.Chapter 1: Harmony & Improvisation Builds on the concepts covered in Part 1 to help you deal with typical situations such as 32-bar sequences, II – V – I, playing in 3/4, etc.Develop your improvisation skills using techniques such as pentatonic scales, modes, arpeggios, broken chords, horizontal and vertical improvisationOnline resources include downloadable AUDIO FILES of every piece, BACKING tracks, and interactive ‘REPLAY’ tracks featuring scrollable music and adjustable temposChapter 2: Accompanying An essential skill for anyone playing in a duo situation, or for vocalists wishing to accompany themselves at the piano.Build your own bass lines in a range of styles, including two-feel, walking bass, blues, funk, bossa novaAdd chords in the right hand and learn how to ‘comp’ in the style of tunes such as All of Me and One Note SambaChapter 3: Interpreting Lead Sheets Follow the ‘Lead Sheet Protocol’ to help you get away from reading sheet music and start creating your own arrangements – like professional jazz pianists.Explore a variety of left-hand styles including shells, rootless chords, stride pianoLearn how to play melodies using two-handed voicings in four- and five-part harmonyBeginning Jazz Piano includes seven originals alongside traditional standards such St James Infirmary, When the Saints Go Marching In and Indiana. This is the ideal book to use with your piano teacher, but the backing and ‘Replay’ tracks make it equally accessible to those studying on their own.Video CourseTim Richards has also created video courses to compliment these books with our partners, MusicGurus.Beginning Jazz Piano Part 1 - Everything you need to get startedBeginning Jazz Piano Part 2 - Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying & Reading from Lead SheetsAbout the authorTim Richards is an experienced teacher, and the author of the critically acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano and Exploring Jazz Piano textbooks.BEGINNING JAZZ PIANO 2 - Press Reviews"Tim Richards has yet again outdone himself with these two amazing books. Anyone who is ready to commit themselves to this level of proper jazz instruction will undoubtedly find that his is absolutely the course to use...Brilliantly paced, carefully leaving no stone unturned, while systematically developing, consolidating and building on acquired skills" - Andrew Eales, Pianodao.com“The books are nicely paced, not overloading you with too much too soon. Tim obviously has vast experience within teaching and writing… I really enjoyed both books.” – Justin Randall, The Jazz Rag Magazine“If you are a teacher who loves jazz, has little knowledge of jazz piano, or just wants to build confidence teaching it, do give this a try. It is a superb publication” – Karen Marshall, MUSIC TEACHER MagazineInstrumentation:piano |
| Imprint Name: | Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG |
| Publisher Name: | Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-14 |
