Six Blues Roots Pianists


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A thorough guide to early blues piano styles with instruction, historical notes, discography, and complete music transcriptions of boogie woogie, barrelhouse, and ragtime solos. Based on recordings by six old blues masters: Jimmy Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, Otis Spann.







Six Blues-roots Pianists


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Six Blues-roots Pianists


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Six pioneer pianists--Jimmy Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, and Otis Spann--are discussed in great detail. Their greatest solos are meticulously transcribed, and a discography augments this collection.




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Blues Hanon (Music Instruction)


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(Musicians Institute Press). We're proud to present MI instructor Peter Deneff's fourth book in the Musicians Institute Hanon series. In this private lesson for beginning to professional blues pianists, Deneff covers: major and minor blues modes; workouts for the right and left hand; building fluency in all 12 keys; suggested fingerings; practice tips; and soul, gospel, boogie woogie, R&B and rock styles.




Roots to Rock


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Roots to Rock – Part 2: Blues Roots to Rock presents the rich terrain of American Popular Music and examines its journey through the 20th Century. It is a clear broad-based introduction to the subject and, beginning at the turn of the century, covers the most popular music genres. Part 2 covers the legendary story of the Blues.