HOW TO PLAY FROM A REAL BOOK
For All Musicians
Series: Music Instruction
Format: Softcover
Author: Robert Rawlins
(There Is) No Greater Love • After You've Gone • Alice In Wonderland • Beyond The Sea • Bye Bye Blackbird • Doxy • Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You • Georgia On My Mind • Giant Steps • Give My Regards To Broadway • Have You Met Miss Jones? • Honeysuckle Rose • I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good • I Hear A Rhapsody • I Remember You • I'm Old Fashioned • If I Were A Bell • In A Mellow Tone • In A Sentimental Mood • Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana) • Lazy Bird • My Buddy • My Ship • Oleo • On The Alamo • Opus One • Pick Yourself Up • Robbins Nest • Rose Room • Scrapple From The Apple • Swing That Music • That Old Black Magic • The Girl From Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) • The Way You Look Tonight • There Will Never Be Another You • There'll Be Some Changes Made • They Didn't Believe Me • Triste • Wave • You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in real books. You will learn how to analyze the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, and much more. Offering a theory-based approach, it addresses many aspects of solo and small band performance that can improve your own playing and your understanding of what others are doing around you. Playing from a real book is all about options. The material presented here will offer you a full range of techniques that you can put to use right away.
Item #: 000312097
UPC: 884088548186
MPN or ISBN: 9781617803550
Size: 11" x 8.5"
Pages: 136
Stock #: HL00312097