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An important instructional guide to the blues-style piano. Learn blues style piano from complete transcriptions and a recording of excerpts from the original recordings of 22 piano greats: Jelly Roll Morton, Memphis Slim, Meade Lux Lewis and more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great transcriptions with a useful CD,
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This review is from: Barrelhouse and Boogie Piano (Paperback)
The transcriptions of some of the greatest barrelhouse and blues pianists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Meade Lux Lewis, Memphis Slim, along with their history are in this music book.There is also a tantalizing CD of samples of the pieces in the book as played by the great blues pianists. This gives essential information as to how the syncopation and rubato sounds in the hands of the masters. The only problem is that as the snippet gets going, you really want to hear the entire piece and whammo! It's only a few seconds per piece, 12 minutes in all. Why oh why couldn't they put at least a few complete works on the CD? Other than that quibble, this is a great book for blues piano, though greats such as Roosevelt Sykes are to be found in a companion volume, not in this one. A must for blues lovers who play keyboard.
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Boogie with Help,
By WeHo (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Barrelhouse and Boogie Piano (Paperback)
I am thrilled with this book/sheet music. They took the time to include a CD of the original piano players/writers playing about 20 seconds of each tune. I'm new to playing bookie piano, so I need to hear it as well as read it. Not to mention, it's fun to get a sense of the history involved in this style.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An essential book for blues pianists,
This review is from: Barrelhouse and Boogie Piano (Paperback)
A fantastic book. It gives you history, transcriptions and tips. It's not a great method book though, so between this and a good blues method book you can learn a lot about blues piano. You need to get recordings of the transciptions though to really get the feel for the differnt styles, and really understand the subtleties of the rythms that the notation really cannot fully show. Its fun to just listen and look through the transcriptions at times. I've tried playing as close as I can to the recordings then once the feel is there used it as a springboard for my own explorations. This book helps you both learn the music and appreciate it more.
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