Rock'N'Roll Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series [Paperback] Review

The author did a great job of keeping this book simple and explaining things very well.

Topics covered:

Left Hand Bass Lines including Jerry Lee, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry styles.

Right Hand - Eighths, Glissando, Crushed Notes (I think this is also called slip notes), Rolls, Note Clusters, and Comping.

Soloing - Blues Scale, How to Construct A Solo, Harmonizing in Thirds and Sixths, Intros, Outros and Stop Choruses.

Lastly there are six tunes with four different versions of each -first a slow demo, slow demo with full band backing, regular speed demo and regular speed with full band backing.The six tunes are -

Buddy Brilliant - In the style of Buddy Holly, this tune is more for learning how to play with a band.

Raspberry Valley - In the styly of Fats Domino, this tune is very close to Blueberry Hill.

A Summer Hideaway - slow song based on 50's ballads like Earth Angel, Blue Moon and Young Love.

Boogie Woogie Wonderland - good song to practice your boogie woogie bass lines.

Rick's Rock - in the style of Little Richard

Roll Over Jerry - in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, this song is very close to Great Balls of fire.

The cd is very well done with lots of slow examples and lots of examples with full band backing.This is a very quality product and I think the author did a great job of breaking this information down and giving us the basics.

I also own the excellent 'David David Bennett Cohen Teaches Rock'n'Roll Piano'.If you're debating on which of these to buy I would say that this one breaks down the basics a little better while Cohen's is a real wealth of knowledge that is going to take sometime to go through (contains lots of great solos).Also Cohen's cd is narrated while this cd contains only has the music examples.

Hope this helps.

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Product Description:
With this pack, you'll learn the skills you need to take your place alongside Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and other great rock 'n' roll piano players of the '50s and '60s! The CD includes demos and backing tracks so you can play along with every example. Also includes six complete tunes at the end of the book. Topics covered include: left-hand patterns; basic rock 'n' roll progressions; right-hand techniques; straight eighths vs. swing eighths; glisses, crushed notes, rolls and note clusters; how to solo; influential players, styles and recordings; and much more!

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