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Complete Improvisation, Fills & Chord Progressions Book
Sheet Music Book
By Gail Smith
Piano - Intermediate
Composed by Gail Smith. Liturgical, Technique, Theory and Reference, Piano and Keyboard, Classical, Perfect binding, Christian. Complete. All styles. Book. 228 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #95761. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.95761).
Item Number: MB.95761
ISBN 9780786618415. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This book was written to provide a methodology for improvisation on the piano. Patterns are analyzed in and notated in all keys. Examples are given to illustrate how and where a fill fits. Then, step by step you can learn how to add the left hand accompaniment based on a lead sheet, or improvise with the right hand. While improvising, patterns may be woven into a beautiful tapestry of sound. Just as a kaleidoscope creates beautiful colorful patterns before your eye, the patterns in this book will enable you to create a kaleidoscope of musical sounds for your ears. Most of the book consists of short examples using familiar tunes.
- Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Improvise with the Whole Tone Scale
- Examples
- The Water Fall
- Augmented Chords with Whole-Tone Scales
- Chapter 2: Chords and Roman Numerals
- Every Chord in Every Key
- Dominant 7 - Tonic in Every Key
- Chapter 3: The Scale Used as a Fill
- Every Major and Minor Scale
- Examples of Two-Beat Fills
- Chapter 4: Chimes
- Harmonic Intervals
- Examples of Chimes
- Chapter 5: The A B C's of Improvising
- A. Notes Remain the Same
- B. Notes Step
- C. Notes Skip
- Chapter 6: Right-Hand Whole Measure Fills
- Examples of Whole Measure Fills
- Four-beat Fills in Every Key
- Three-beat Fills in Every Key
- Chapter 7: Left-Hand Patterns in 3/4 Time
- Amazing Grace
- Brahms Lullaby
- Patterns in 3/4 Time in Twelve Keys
- Chapter 8: Left-Hand Patterns in 4/4 Time
- Shenandoah
- Patterns in 4/4 Time in Twelve Keys
- Chapter 9: Faster Left-Hand Patterns in 4/4 Time
- Patterns in faster 4/4 Time in Twelve Keys
- Chapter 10: Special Effects
- Broken Chords
- Chromatic Patterns
- Diminished Scales
- Secondary Sub-Dominant Chords
- Dominant and Sub-Dominant Arpeggios
- Major-Seven Chords Voiced
- Turnarounds
- Substitution Chords
- Dominant to Tonic using the Blues Scale
- Review
- Chapter 11: Chord Progressions
- Right-Hand Add 9 Fill
- Chord Progressions in Twelve Major Keys
- Right-Hand Patterns in Twelve Keys
- Twelve-Bar Blues Patterns
- More Right-Hand Patterns in Twelve Keys
- Chapter 12: Faster Right-Hand Riffs
- The Twelve-Bar Blues Progression (example)
- Twenty-four faster fills for the right hand
- Chapter 13: Minor Chord Patterns and Progressions
- Chord Progression
- Improvisation
- Twenty-four Minor Right-Hand Patterns in Twelve Keys
- Chapter 14: Improv with the Left-Hand (Fills for Roman Numeral Bass Progression)
- Four Chord Progressions
- Pachelbel's Canon as a progression
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Left-Hand Patterns for basic chord progressions in 4/4 Time
- Left-Hand Patterns for basic chord progressions in 3/4 Time
- Chapter 15: Fills for Both Hands Together
- Chapter 16: Pseudo-modulations
- Pseudo-modulations in twelve keys
- Chapter 17: Happy Endings
- Twelve Different Endings in Twelve Keys
- Chapter 18: The "Two-Five-One" Progression
- The Cycle of Chords
- Review of Patterns
- Final Assignment
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