(Keyboard Instruction). This comprehensive book will teach you the basic skills need to play modern pop keyboard. From comping to soloing, from grand to piano synth pads, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the techniques used by the pros. The online audio demonstrates most of the music examples in the book. Now including PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right available exclusively from Hal Leonard.

(Piano). This cutting-edge keyboard method is a total step-by-step approach to creating keyboard parts spontaneously. Rhythmic and harmonic concepts are applied in all keys, and are then used as a basis for developing specific solutions in rock, pop, ballad, funk, new age, country and gospel styles. Endorsed by Grammy winners, top educators, and Keyboard magazine.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Learn to play 36 pop/rock hits with this great book that includes piano/vocal/guitar arrangements and performance notes for some of the greatest songs ever! Includes: Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) * Bohemian Rhapsody * Candle in the Wind * Clocks * Don't Know Much * Don't Know Why * Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) * From a Distance * Good Vibrations * Have I Told You Lately * Hey Jude * I Will Remember You * Imagine * Jump * Light My Fire * Superman (It's Not Easy) * A Thousand Miles * Walking in Memphis * What a Fool Believes * and more.

Enhanced by an audio CD of selected examples and pieces, a course in playing all major styles of piano covers a history of the instrument and offers progressive instruction in all areas of technique, including posture, fingering, pedalling, scales, and exercises.

Includes methods to learn finger dexterity and genuine music notation. Geared toward all styles of music and applicable to both piano and electronic keyboards. --

Learn to play jazz at the keyboard and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Students of all ages can continue their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. By following the step-by-step set of instructions, you will learn all about jazz and blues scales, progressions, walking bass, latin jazz, jazz ballads and how to read from a fake book. You will gain insight by learning from jazz masters from every era---including swing, be-bop, jazz-rock, fusion and beyond. With its chords symbols, mini music lessons and modern jazz techniques, this book will allow you to become a jazz master in your own right. The accompanying CD features examples of the pieces in the book with background arrangements by a live jazz combo, a helpful resource for play-along and practice. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of the way.

This book is an improved and updated version of my previous popular book entitled ‘Learn How to Play Electronic Keyboard or Piano In a week!’ There is an enormous amount of information herein which should take the reader from absolute beginner with no previous musical knowledge to high intermediate without the need for buying more books. No Book 1, 2 and 3 etc. It’s all in here! The methods included herein will show you the fastest and easiest way to learn finger dexterity and genuine music notation. And furthermore, are geared towards all styles of music and applicable to both piano and electronic keyboard. As well as showing you how to play both with and without auto accompaniment features, this book explains: ● Choosing the right keyboard for your needs ● Initial finger exercises that don’t even require a keyboard ● How to read music from scratch - timing and pitch etc. ● Every major / minor scale and arpeggio in every key ● Pentatonic & Blues Scales in the most used keys ● Chord construction in a way that can be understood ● Chord charts for every chord in every key in keyboard view - including 9ths, 13ths, diminisheds etc. ● The best proven finger exercises available ● How to make boring scales & arpeggios interesting and fun to practice ● Numerous practice pieces (including 2 additional downloadable tune books in pdf format) ● How to play from a fake book with and without auto-accompaniment ● Plus More! The key points to learning quickly and effectively are as follows: ● The right type of regular practice, spaced according to your ability ● A high level of motivation ● Being assured that it has nothing to do with age, talent or being gifted even to a professional level Learning the piano or keyboard will enrich your life more than you could possibly imagine - DO IT NOW!

The invention of the synthesizer in the 1960s opened the door to a new musical universe that fused technology with a traditional instrument, allowing artists to explore not just notes on the keyboard but also sounds the world had never heard before. In the decades that followed, synths continued to evolve through the efforts of pioneering designers and artists.

This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist. ​