Ann, Rovner, Uri – You Can Teach Yourself Blues Piano

Description

The exciting sound of the blues, born in America, finds its way into all styles of music heard around the world. These days everyone hears that familiar “color” in rock, pop, folk, classical, and other jazz styles. This easy-to-follow and complete programmed course teaches you to create your own blue music at the piano. Explanations and examples are given and become even more advanced. This book works more easily for you when you already know a little about reading piano music. Playing the blues teaches you essential music theory in a fun hands-on way, so a piano teacher can include this as a part of regular lessons. All the elements of basic blues are here. This is aguide, a textbook, and a teacher. If you study music and want to know how to play the blues style, this is the book for you! The accompanying online audio contains 26 of the exercises and examples from the book.

Contents

1. A Dozen To Go
2. A Poor Man Like Me
3. All’s Well That Ends Well
4. Back In The Cabbie
5. Blues Montgomery
6. Borneo Bay
7. C-Saw
8. Create A Song With 9th Accompaniments
9. Create Your Own 12 Bar
10. Dallas Blues
11. Frankie And Johnny
12. Hesitating Blues
13. I’m Thinking Of
14. Inspector Blue
15. Joe Turner
16. Put That Number On The Wall
17. Salutations
18. Ship Shape
19. Tap,Tap,Tap
20. Tishomingo Blues
21. Twelve Bar Bop
22. Use Your Riff
23. “Waltz Of “”D-Light”” ”
24. You Got The Color Of Blue
25. You’re The One