Jazz Inventions for Keyboard
50 Etudes That Will Improve the Way You Play Jazz
By Bill Cunliffe
Keyboard/Piano Book & CD
Item: 00-22695
$25.99
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Pianists all know the benefits of playing the "Two-Part Inventions" of J. S. Bach. Now, world-respected jazz pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe has written his own "inventions" that will benefit every player's understanding and performance of jazz. These great-sounding etudes explore the specific harmonic, melodic, and technical challenges faced by jazz keyboardists, including the ii-V and ii-V-I progressions, outlining changes, chord-tone ornamentation, playing in octaves, tonic patterns, block chords, polytonality, stride piano, and left-hand walking bass.
Pieces feature chord symbols, explanatory notes, and preparatory exercises, and each invention is performed on the CD by Bill Cunliffe. 123 pages.
" . . . perfect for daily warm-up, explores the harmonic and melodic intricacies of jazz, each etude targets a specific technical skill and includes performance notes, inventions gradually become more challenging and the harmonic progressions are varied and very musical . . . a musical feast."
-International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
Pieces feature chord symbols, explanatory notes, and preparatory exercises, and each invention is performed on the CD by Bill Cunliffe. 123 pages.
" . . . perfect for daily warm-up, explores the harmonic and melodic intricacies of jazz, each etude targets a specific technical skill and includes performance notes, inventions gradually become more challenging and the harmonic progressions are varied and very musical . . . a musical feast."
-International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
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Additional Information
| Author: | Bill Cunliffe |
| Instrument: | Keyboard/Piano |
| Format: | Book & CD |
| Page Count: | 124 |
| Item Number: | 00-22695 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-7390-3538-X |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-3538-2 |
| UPC: | 038081231747 |
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