This unique book and CD will give you the tools you need to transform the music that you read into the way it should sound when played. Written music offers the notes, but it may not completely tell you how to perform them. Playing the blues in an authentic manner requires specific techniques that are difficult to notate. However, it can be achieved by combining note reading along with listening to a recording of how it is supposed to sound. Once and for all, the Listen & Play approach puts an end the often-heard lament, "I'm reading it correctly, but why doesn't it sound like the blues?" The CD includes performances of all the examples and tunes-----some of the music is played at a slower practice tempo to make learning easier.

CD contains demonstrations of music examples.

(Homespun Tapes). This easy play-along follow-up to Blues Piano, Volume 1 is the learning blues pianist's ticket to the next level! David Cohen helps develop the powerful grooves beloved by blues and rock n' roll players alike. His unique step-by-step teaching method is modular, building logically on each preceding section. Once the basics are mastered, adding walking basses, boogie woogie lines, New Orleans-style rhumba rhythms, 9th chords, "the Fats Domino shuffle" and other variations become second nature. The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include 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.

(Easy Piano Songbook). Blues fans can get started playing their favorite tunes with this collection of 50 songs in easy piano format with lyrics. Songs include: Ain't No Sunshine * All Blues * Basin Street Blues * Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) * Every Day I Have the Blues * Fever * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) * Kansas City * Night Train * Pride and Joy * Route 66 * St. Louis Blues * Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) * Sweet Home Chicago * The Thrill Is Gone * and more.

Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 1 contains original solos for late elementary to early intermediate-level pianists that reflect the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th century music.

See it * Hear it * Play it! A DVD is included with every book in Alfred's MAX[T] Series, offering maximum instruction at a minimum price. You won't just hear the performance, you'll also see how it's done, making it very easy to learn to play. A unique beginning keyboard method that teaches in blues style, from one of the world's most highly esteemed performers of blues and jazz, Bill Cunliffe. 48 pages.