Rock'N'Roll Piano - The Complete Guide with Audio!: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series [Online download]

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 RichardRoll 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.

This shows those popular licks you've been wanting to learn & explains things well.I recommend it.

Has anyone else noticed that some of the background tracks are in a different key that the written examples. I am trying to teach my students to transpose but they need something to practice with at home that sticks to the basics at first.

I have bought several books in this series and am always happy with the purchase. This one is no exception.It is not for the complete beginner, although you wouldn't want a really well established traditional technique. Rock and Roll on the piano is very percussive and a classical technique will not work. You should read music.If you use this book, supplement it with learning licks and riffs from recordings, and sit in at plenty of jam sessions, you will find yourself in the right place after a couple of years.Keep in mind that this book covers Rock n' Roll 50s early 60s. Most of it 12 bar blues. To play modern Rn'R you would need a lot of other tools in your belt.But this book if you like Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry etc. you will enjoy it.

The actual instruction and explanation in this book is a little weak, although there's not a lot of instruction material for this topic, so it's not like there's a clearly better alternative. The musical examples, especially the complete songs at the end, are all top notch, though. And while somewhat superfluous, the little bit of rock'n'roll history at the beginning was interesting and helped me connect a few dots I hadn't previously.One thing to note, however, is that I was rather irritated by the way the author kind of assumes that the reader is a talentless hack with no interest taking music seriously or practicing. His suggestions for how you dress or how on-stage antics can compesate for a lack of ability were just uncalled for. Just because I have an interest in Rock'n'Roll piano doesn't mean I'm not a serious musician! I wouldn't have minded so much if it hadn't felt like they skimped on the actual instruction to make page-space for that garbage.The bottom line, though, is given what's available on this topic, the musical examples and accompanying CD are well worth the money. If you don't feel you need tips on wearing sequins or kicking the piano stool, you can probably safely skip the text, though.

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If you truly are looking to play Rock'N'Roll piano DON'T GET THIS BOOK...first.First, devour Mark Harrison's Blues Piano, from the same Hal Leonard series. Rock'N'Roll piano obviously has its origins in the Blues, and Harrison's book is COMPREHENSIVE. It has a plethora of examples of left hand patterns, comping styles, and right hand techniques--all pertaining to the various styles within the blues genre, and even Rock'N'Roll.Next, get Vinter's Rock'N'Roll Piano. It's helpful, but primarily as a companion volume.

This book is showing me some ideas re how to play Rock n roll piano. But I don't think it compares to getting lessons from someone who knows how to play this style of music.

段階を踏んで学べるので、ピアノ初級者にとっては独学しやすい内容で助かります。そもそもロックンロールとは？という解説も充実している良書。

5 stelle se le merita solo per i consigli "extra" (ad esempio di non concentrarsi solo sulla musica ma curare il look, di non badare troppo alla precisione delle note ma ogni tanto "picchiare" sulla tastiera, di saltare in piedi mentre suoni come un pazzo e così via...), ma se le merita anche per i consigli puramente tecnici e per gli esercizi. Certo, apparentemente bisogna scordare parte la formazione "classica" (come scrive l'autore, in fondo il rock&roll è ribellione!), ma in realtà le basi sono utilissime. Sconsigliato comunque a chi non sappia già suonare lo strumento ad un livello intermedio e a chi non sa leggere la notazione musicale.Molto utile anche conoscere le basi del blues (c'è un ottimo libro della stessa collana, che ha segnato il mio ingresso nella musica "moderna") e del boogie woogie (anche di questo c'è un libro in questa collana ma non lo possiedo e non posso dare un'opinione)

un peu difficile pour l'amateur que je suis, mais très bien fait. Que dire d'autre ? rien, c'est un bon livre !

Bonne méthode de progression.

La mia valutazione positiva deriva dal fatto che il manuale è scritto in modo scorrevole e molto comprensibile. E' necessario comunque che chi ci is avvicina conosco l'inglese e abbia almeno le nozioni basilari della musica e delle posture sullo strumento.