Jazz Piano Etudes for the
Improvisation Student
75 Track Play Along Audio CD included
by Rob Mullins
Price: $24.95
Includes audio CD
The Blues Step by Step
for Keyboard Players
Jazz Piano Voicings
An Essential Resource
for Aspiring Jazz Musicians
43 Track Play Along Audio CD included
by Rob Mullins
Published by Hal Leonard Corp
Price: $24.95
Includes audio CD
by Rob Mullins
Suggested retail price: $19.95
Improve your jazz improvisation skills by
playing composed etudes in every key. All
etudes are over rhythm changes. This 56
page book includes performance ideas, an
explanation of how to read jazz notation,
simple and advanced rhythm changes,
charts in standard jazz notation and Roman
numeral notation. It also includes discussion
about the evolution of rhythm changes and
George Gershwin.
With the audio CD, you can play along
with Rob at three tempos: Novice,
Intermediate, and Professional. The CD
includes bass and drum tracks with no piano
so you can be the star of your own jazz trio.
Bonus CD tracks include drum tracks for
three choruses each, at each of the three
tempos, so you can work with the etudes
repeatedly without stopping, or you can have
a bass player join you for your practice
session.
The jazz idiom can often appear
mysterious and difficult for musicians who
were trained to play other types of music.
Long-time performer and educator Rob
Mullins helps players enter the jazz world by
providing voicings that will help the player
develop skills in the jazz genre and start
sounding professional right away – without
years of study!
This 202 page paperback edition is
published by the Hal Leonard Corporation. It
contains chord voicings for all keyboardists
wishing to improve their knowledge of chords
and how to make them on their piano or
keyboard. Included are a numeric voicing
chart showing how to make jazz chords even
if you can’t read music, an easy to
understand explanation of how the jazz
musician takes a chord from a classical
piece and turns it into a jazz chord, and
exercises with bass lines showing all the
important chords in the jazz piano
vocabulary.
Learn the blues from the simplest form to
the most complex with audio and notation
examples. Take the blues from Step 1,
beginner level, to Step 12, professional
musician status. This 83 page book is based
on a simple Duke Ellington blues song titled
“C Jam Blues” and shows you every step of
right hand and left hand combinations. Part
two of the book gives you melodic licks to
play over the chord changes so that you can
start building an improvisational vocabulary
of jazz and blues licks right away!
You can also just use your ears by
playing along with the CD. The play-along
audio CD features the blues changes
recorded in all 12 major keys so everything
you learn in the key of C can be played in all
other keys with a professional jazz rhythm
section. For all the exercises contained in
the book, the CD includes a piano, bass, and
drums version as well as a version without
the piano so you can be the star,
accompanied by bass and drums!
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