Fake It Til You Make It-A Guide to Playing a Fake Book on the Piano |
Have you ever wanted to play easy songs you enjoy quickly? Well now you can with the Fake It Til You Make It book, playing songs you love from a fake book. The student only reads the right hand melody, while playing chords in the left hand. This book starts with keyboard geography, teaching the student to read the treble clef notes and triads for the left hand using rhythm improv patterns to make you sound like a pro in weeks. This book can be self-taught, used in a private lesson or in a group setting. |
$3.50 for the PDF download
$6.50 plus S&H for the printed book to be shipped
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How to Play By Ear & Improv on the Piano |
How to Play By Ear & Improv is great for the beginner wanting to learn chords to accompany a vocalist(s) or to play in a band. This book starts with keyboard geography, then to scales, triads, and chord progessions using rhythm patterns to use for improvisation, and finally to writing your own improv patterns and triads.
$3.50 for the PDF download
$6.50 plus S&H for the printed book to be shipped
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For all instruments
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Rhythm Workbook for all Instruments |
Rhythm is probably the most difficult aspect of music to learn, since reading music involves reading note names along with rhythm. Because of this, often times the student concentrates on the note names and therefore misses a lot of the rhythm. This book allows the student to concentrate only on rhythm, allowing the student to create a consistency and fluency in reading the rhythm. Most students are fluent readers by the time they finish this book. Book 1 begins with the quarter note and goes through eighth notes, reading one line in level 1 and 2 lines simultaneously in level 2. This is necessary for pianists that need to read 2 lines at one time, however for other instruments and voice, since the student only needs to read one line, the instructor or someone else, can tap out the other line while the student taps out their line, to create the ability to carry out one's part while someone else is doing another part. This is a great skill for anyone wanting to play with other musicians. There is also book 2 that will be finished by end of summer 2011, which begins with sixteenth notes, through eighth and sixteenth triples, playing 2 against 3 and 3 against 4.
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