Pop Ballad Piano for Beginners
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Once you have purchased this book, you can then email us to receive a FREE download of mp3 recordings and pdf versions for all of the music examples in the book. Most of the recordings include play-along tracks with a rhythm section, so you can have fun jamming along with the band!
Here is an overview of the sections contained in this book:
Section One – The Basic Pop Ballad Comping Pattern
Section Two – Using Triad Inversions in the Right Hand
Section Three – Comping on a Pop Ballad Progression
Section Four – Adding Root-5th Arpeggios in the Left Hand
Section Five - Adding Open Triad Arpeggios in the Left Hand
Section Six - Adding Closed Triad Arpeggios in the Right Hand
Section Seven – Playing the Melody with Right Hand Single Notes
Section Eight - Playing the Melody with Right Hand Octaves
Section Nine - Playing the Melody with Right Hand Triads
Section Ten - Playing the Melody with Right Hand Sixth Intervals
Mark Harrison is one of the highest-rated contemporary music educators and authors in the world today. His instruction books are endorsed by Keyboard Magazine, Jazz Times, and Performing Musician Magazine, and are used at numerous music colleges and universities. Mark's books have helped many thousands of musicians in over twenty countries worldwide.
Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison has a Bachelor's degree in Medieval Studies from Lancaster University. He is a Curator at the Royal Armouries, Tower of London and has a strong interest in the early medieval world. He lives in Colchester, UK.
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Pop Ballad Piano for Beginners - Mark Harrison
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Introduction
Welcome to Pop Ballad Piano For Beginners. This book will start you on the road to playing pop ballad piano, even if you are a complete beginner. This will be especially useful if you are a singer-songwriter needing to accompany yourself in a ballad style. You’ll get started right away by learning some essential pop ballad comping patterns to use on your next gig or open mic
night!
Please email us at books@harrisonmusic.com with Pop Ballad Piano For Beginners
in the subject, to receive your FREE mp3 audio recordings of all the music examples in this book! Most of the audio recordings feature a rhythm section on the left channel, and the piano on the right channel. To play along with the band, turn down the right channel to eliminate the recorded piano. To hear the piano part for reference, turn down the left channel to eliminate the rhythm section.
Along with your free mp3s, you will also receive free pdf versions of all the music notation examples. So if your e-reader does not display the notation examples clearly enough, you can use the pdf versions as a convenient alternative.
Section One – The Basic Pop Ballad Comping Pattern
We’ll start off with some basic pop ballad comping patterns using eighth notes. In case you didn’t know: comping
is musician slang for accompaniment – so comping patterns are what you would use to accompany yourself singing (or to accompany another singer