You Can Teach Yourself Blues Piano

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 a guide, 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 recording contains 26 of the exercises and examples from the book.

CONTENIDO:

PART 1
- The Major Chord
- Creating A Song With Chords
- The "I" and "V" Chords
- Introducing The "IV" Chord
- The Key Signature
- Review Of Part One

PART 2
- Chord Inversion
- Using Chord Inversion In A Song
- The Twelve Bar
- Creating a Twelve Bar Song
- Extending Chords With Sevenths
- Accompaniment Patterns
-Review Of Part Two

PART 3
- Blue Notes
- Melody Check
- The Basic Blues Scale In "C"
- Using The Blues Scale
- The Complete Blues Scale
- Review Of Part Three

PART 4
- Introduction
- Turnarounds
- Fills
- Minor Blues Progression
- More Extended Chords: 9ths
- Voicing 13ths
- Alternate Twelve Bar Chord Patterns
- Review Of Part Four

GLOSSARY


CONTENIDO DEL CD:
A Dozen To Go (Uri Ayn Rovner) - A Poor Man Like Me (Uri Ayn Rovner) - All's Well That Ends Well (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Back In The Cabbie (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Blues Montgomery (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Borneo Bay (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Create A Song With 9th Accompaniments (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Create Your Own 12 Bar (Uri Ayn Rovner) - C-Saw (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Dallas Blues (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Frankie And Johnny (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Hesitating Blues (Uri Ayn Rovner) - I'm Thinking Of (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Inspector Blue (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Joe Turner (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Put That Number On The Wall (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Salutations (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Ship Shape (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Tap,Tap,Tap (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Tishomingo Blues (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Twelve Bar Bop (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Use Your Riff (Uri Ayn Rovner) - Waltz Of D-Light (Uri Ayn Rovner) - You Got The Color Of Blue (Uri Ayn Rovner) - You're The One (Uri Ayn Rovner)