Beginning Jazz Keyboard

Description: Beginning Jazz Keyboard Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way through 7th chords, pentatonic scales and modulating chord progressions, this book features a full etude or tune demonstrating every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Keyboard breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Chapter 1- ReviewTopics Include: Rhythm and Time Signature; Intervals; Key Signatures; Circle of 5ths; Major and Minor ScalesChapter 2- Intro to HarmonyTopics Include: Triads; Inversions and Voicing; Diatonic Harmony; Chord Progressions and Chord Function; Lead Sheets; Minor Key Harmony; Basic Blues ProgressionChapter 3- Feel, Scales and SoloingTopics Include: Style; Swing Feel; Soloing With the Major Scale, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scales; Syncopation; Embellishing a Melody; 2 and 4- the backbeatChapter 4- Intro to Four-Note ChordsTopics Include: 7th and 6th Chords; Inversions of 7th and 6th Chords; Major and Minor Diatonic Harmony With 7th and 6th ChordsChapter 5- Voicing 7th ChordsTopics Include: Voice Leading; Lead Sheets with 7th Chords; Shell Voicings; Bebop-Style Left Hand Voicings; Rootless Left-Hand Voicings; Rootless Shell Voicings; Comping.Chapter 6- Scales and Soloing, Part TwoTopics Include: Harmonic Analysis; Choosing Between Natural and Harmonic Minor; Progressions With Modulations; Memorizing Changes; Transposing ChangesChapter 7- More SoloingTopics Include: Melodic Scale Patterns; Arpeggios; Mixing Up the ElementsChapter 8- AfterwordTopics Include: Ear Training; Types of Keyboards; Tunes; Suggested Listening

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Location: Attleboro, Massachusetts

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