How To Play From A Real Book

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All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in real books. You will learn how to analyse the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, and much more. Offering a theory-based approach, it addresses many aspects of solo and small band performance that can improve your own playing and your understanding of what others are doing around you. Playing from a real book is all about options. The material presented here will offer you a full range of techniques that you can put to use right away.

Contents

1. After You've Gone
2. Alice In Wonderland
3. In A Mellow Tone
4. There Is No Greater Love
5. Beyond The Sea
6. Honeysuckle Rose
7. Bye Bye Blackbird
8. There Will Never Be Another You
9. Triste
10. Opus One
11. Give My Regards To Broadway
12. Doxy
13. Swing That Music
14. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
15. Georgia On My Mind
16. The Girl From Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema)
17. Giant Steps
18. Have You Met Miss Jones?
19. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
20. I Remember You
21. I'm Old Fashioned
22. If I Were A Bell
23. In A Sentimental Mood
24. Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
25. Lazy Bird
26. My Buddy
27. My Ship
28. Oleo
29. On The Alamo
30. Pick Yourself Up
31. Robbin's Nest
32. Rose Room
33. Scrapple From The Apple
34. That Old Black Magic
35. There'll Be Some Changes Made
36. They Didn't Believe Me
37. Wave
38. The Way You Look Tonight
39. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
40. I Hear A Rhapsody

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