This one-of-a-kind book applies traditional technique exercises to specific jazz piano needs. Along with warm-ups, etudes isolate each technical problem within a jazz context. This allows for improvisation, directly addressing the needs of the jazz player. Practicing is not only pragmatic, it's fun! Topics include: scales (major, minor, chromatic, pentatonic, etc.), arpeggios (triads, seventh chords, upper structures), finger independence exercises (static position, held notes, Hanon exercises), parallel interval scales and exercises (thirds, fourths, tritones, fifths, sixths, octaves), and more! The CD includes 45 recorded examples.

This bestseller is now available with a CD of demonstration tracks! A short easy method for learning to play boogie woogie, designed for the beginner and average pianist. Includes: exercises for developing left-hand bass; 25 popular boogie woogie bass patterns; arrangements of Down the Road a Piece and Answer to the Prayer by well-known pianists; a glossary of musical terms for dynamics, tempo and style; and more.

Learn to play your favourite Stevie Wonder hits with this fantastic new songbook, featuring 12 classics expertly arranged for Piano solo. Songs include: All in Love Is Fair • Ebony and Ivory • I Just Called to Say I Love You • Isn't She Lovely • and more!

Fred Kern is a life-long lover of ragtime music, and his original rags in this intermediate-level collection capture the style and spirit of this beloved pianistic genre. This collection is perfect for ragtime festivals and competitions, and a great choice for students who are not quite ready for the masterful Scott Joplin rags. Songs include: County Fair Rag • Courthouse Rag • Easy Does It • Honey Creek Rag • and more!

This fine selection features the most famous masterpieces by George Gershwin, containing both sheet music and full audio on CD. Every piece has been composed, or specially arranged, for solo piano and is accompanied by high quality demonstration performances on a specially commissioned music CD. An essential addition to your piano library.

The CD edition of The Easy Piano Collection: Joplin Gold features a fine selection of the most famous masterpieces by Scott Joplin. Every piece has been composed for or arranged for easy Piano and all accompanied by high quality demonstration performances on a specially commissioned music CD.Learning to play these classic compositions has never been easier to do.These books use the same notation as Carol Barratt’s Classic Piano Course and are presented in a brand new, easy-to-read style, complete with fingerings and detailed composer biographies.Suitable for pianists between Grade 1-3 standard.

This is the first single-volume publication of both the out-of-print original and revised versions of Krazy Kat, a unique "jazz pantomime" for piano. Based on George Herriman's hugely influential newspaper comic strip that chronicled the adventures of a lovelorn feline, this comic production represents a landmark in American music. The seldom-staged work debuted in 1922 at New York City's Town Hall, and a 1940 revival employed the revised edition. John Alden Carpenter's score abounds in lyric warmth, harmonic charm, and rhythmic vitality. He created this unusual theatrical work for a ballet company headed by a former Ballets Russes performer. Cartoonist Herriman designed the production's scenery and costumes, and he drew a series of madcap illustrations that are reproduced in this edition. Jazz lovers, collectors of rare music, and intermediate- to advanced-level pianists will want a copy of this facsimile publication, which features the composer's original Program Notes and an illuminating Introduction. Reprint of the George Schirmer, Inc., 1922 and 1948 editions.

This series is devoted to ageless jazz, blues and ragtime pieces. The composers/arrangers were commissioned to create engaging original solos and arrangements, and the result is an assortment of carefully leveled solos (12) and one equal-part duet. Ten of the twelve solos include an optional duet.Eighth notes don’t appear in this volume, but syncopations and accidentals do. Some well-known titles are: Glad Cat Rag; House of the Rising Sun; Danny Boy; The Alley Cat Song; and Swanee. Un viento caliente by Edwin McLean is sure to be a favorite with a big sound, yet easy patterns to read and to play. Adults and older beginners will really enjoy this book.

The twelve solos in this volume feature popular favorites such as Frankie and Johnny; Peacherine Rag; Take Me Out to the Ball Game; The Entertainer; I Love a Piano; and I Ain’t Got Nobody.The assortment of musical styles provides the perfect means for piano students to discover and enjoy playing music from a variety of styles. Only one piece is in the key of D Major, and the rest in C, F or G. Accessible and fun!

A jazz ballad and a jazz toccata are included with all-time standards such as: Chatterbox Rag; The Saint Louis Blues; Alexander’s Ragtime Band; The Memphis Blues and others. Carefully leveled and artistically strong, this volume contains wonderful repertoire that will motivate your students!