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Keyboard Style Series - Introduction
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Welcome to our Keyboard Style Series page.
The top five products on this page are book-&-CD packages which focus on specific styles, and teach you the tools and the tricks used by the pros. Each CD includes backing tracks with a full rhythm section, so that you can play along with the band! These volumes cover Blues Piano, Country Piano, Smooth Jazz Piano, R&B Keyboard and Jazz-Blues Piano.
Following these we have the Gospel Keyboard Styles book, which is derived from the gospel chapters in The Pop Piano Book. Audio CDs and Midi files for the Gospel book are available separately.
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Keyboard Style Series - Books and CDs
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Click on the product links below for more information, and to access our shopping cart.
Don't forget your discount if you order five or more products - see our Discounts page for details!
All books written by Mark Harrison.
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Blues Piano Book & CD
The complete guide to playing blues piano. Covers left hand patterns, walking bass, right hand techniques and comping, soloing with blues scales, "crossover" licks, endings and turnarounds, and much more. The CD includes all of the music examples in the book - listen and start playing along! This book is used by thousands of musicians, and is endorsed by "How To Jam" magazine.
$ 17.95
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Country Piano Book & CD
The complete guide to playing country piano. Covers keyboard harmony and voicings, walkup and walkdown patterns, comping in traditional and modern country, bluegrass arpeggio styles, Nashville "fretted piano" techniques, playing fills and solos in the right hand, and much more. The CD includes all of the music examples in the book - listen and start playing along!
$ 17.95
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Smooth Jazz Piano Book & CD
The complete guide to playing smooth jazz piano. Covers keyboard harmony and voicings, rhythmic concepts, smooth jazz chord progressions and comping, characteristic stylings, melody and solo playing, history and development of jazz styles, and much more. The CD includes all of the music examples in the book - listen and start playing along! This book is endorsed by "How To Jam" magazine.
$ 17.95
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R&B Keyboard Book & CD
The complete guide to playing R&B keyboard, including acoustic and electric piano, clavinet and synthesizer stylings. Includes genres such as 50s R&B, 60s Soul, 70s Funk and Disco, 80s Ballad and Dance/Pop, up to today's Neo-Soul. Covers scales and chords, keyboard harmony and voicings, the characteristic keyboard grooves associated with these styles, and much more. The CD include all of the music examples in the book - listen and start playing along!
$ 17.95
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Jazz-Blues Piano Book & CD
The complete guide to playing jazz-blues piano. Explains how jazz-blues evolved by combining jazz harmony and rhythm with blues melodies and phrasing, from the big band styles of the 1930s through to the fusion styles of the 1970s and beyond. Covers keyboard harmony and voicings, chord progressions, characteristic comping styles, jazz-blues melodies and soloing, and much more. The CD includes all of the music examples in the book - listen and start playing along!
$ 17.95
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Gospel Keyboard Styles Book
The complete guide to playing gospel piano. Covers slow "triplet-feel" and fast syncopated gospel patterns, walkups, backcycling, unison and octave runs, approach chords, comping and melody treatment, and much more. These techniques will help you lead your congregation at the piano, and will inject new ideas into your rock, R&B and funk playing! Derived from the gospel material in The Pop Piano Book. Audio CD and Midi files available separately.
$ 12.95
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Gospel Keyboard Styles Audio CD
All the music examples in the Gospel Keyboard Styles book are available on an audio CD. This is a great way to speed up the learning process, as you get to hear (as well as see) the examples! The CD is especially helpful if your sight-reading is at a beginning level.
$ 9.95
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Gospel Keyboard Styles Midi files CD
All the music examples in the Gospel Keyboard Styles book are available as Standard Midi files (compatible with PCs and Macs). The Midi files are very useful because you can play them back at any tempo, and with any sound available in your computer music setup.
$ 9.95
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Gospel Keyboard Styles Midi files (Email version)
All the music examples in the Gospel Keyboard Styles book are available as Standard Midi files (compatible with PCs and Macs). The Midi files are very useful because you can play them back at any tempo, and with any sound available in your computer music setup. Instead of getting the physical CD shown here, we will email you the Midi files as soon as your payment is processed.
$ 7.95
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