Scott The Piano Guy's Favorite Piano Fake Book


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(Fake Book). Next time your friends see your piano and say, "Play 'Misty' for me," impress them and really do it! This fake book includes 74 popular song arrangements from Scott Houston, the Piano Master of PBS. Includes: All the Things You Are * Blueberry Hill * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Crazy * Endless Love * The Girl from Ipanema * Heart and Soul * Hey Jude * I Will Remember You * Imagine * Let It Be * Misty * Moon River * My Funny Valentine * Satin Doll * Somewhere Out There * Stand by Me * and more. Includes Scott's unique "simple chord frames" for each song.




Play Piano in a Flash


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As seen on public television stations nationwide, a revolutionary new approach to playing non-classical music on the piano. Have you ever wished you could play the piano Well, now you can! Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston teaches you to play the way the pros play, in a style enormously simpler than traditional classical piano and with an absolute minimum of note-reading. By focusing on playing the melody with the right hand (one note at a time) and simple chords with the left hand, Houston gives you the tools you need for a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Best of all, your tour guide to this adventure forces you to have fun along the way!




100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know


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100 Different Ways to play the same song. Piano students learn 100 fun left hand patterns to take any music and change it up 100 different ways. Also included in the book is the FUN FAKEBOOK which includes 100 piano pieces in facebook format where the melody (Right Hand - treble clef) and the given chords for each measure are shown. The students can then fake or make up a left hand pattern to go along with the melody.




How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons


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Ten progressively advanced sections, each with notations and keyboard diagrams, make up a new approach to learning how to play the piano quickly and pleasurably, with no scale exercises and a minimum of memorization




How to Play from a Fake Book


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For keyboard players of all levels. Fake books are used by professional musicians at cocktail lounges, weddings, and many other performing situation. They are invaluable because they contain a thousand or more songs in one compact volume. But in order to use them one must know how to look at a kind of musical shorthand--a skeleton of each song which gives only melody, lyrics and chord symbols--and "fake" a full accompaniment. Now, anyone can! This book will teach you how to play any chord symbol you will find in pop, jazz or rock; how to create stylish arrangements on your own; and how to sound like a "pro" even when reading sheet music for the first time. Topics include bass lines, counter-melodies, intros and endings, rhythmic patterns, and embellishing a melody.--From publisher description




Billy Joel - Piano Man


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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). David Rosenthal has carefully arranged all the tracks from Joel's classic 1973 release to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements while transcribing those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. This book features the iconic title track and nine others: Ain't No Crime * (The) Ballad of Billy the Kid * Captain Jack * If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You) * Somewhere Along the Line * Stop in Nevada * Travelin' Prayer * Worse Comes to Worst * You're My Home.




Your First Fake Book


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(Easy Fake Book). This is a beginning fake book for players new to "faking." By using a fake book, musicians learn to "fake" an accompaniment to a melody, playing chords as indicated. This book is designed for those players just acquiring this important musical skill. It includes 100 favorite songs that belong in all musicians' repertoire library, including standards, pop hits, Broadway and movie songs, folk favorites, and much more. All the songs are in the key of C and include easy-to-read, large notation complete with lyrics. Chords have been simplified, but remain true to each tune. This book even includes an introduction on how to use a fake book. Songs include: Beauty and the Beast * Bewitched * Blackbird * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Do-Re-Mi * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Edelweiss * Georgia on My Mind * Heart and Soul * Hotel California * I Walk the Line * Lean on Me * Let It Be * A Million Dreams * Satin Doll * Stand by Me * Sweet Caroline * This Is Me * Try to Remember * Unchained Melody * When I Fall in Love * When the Saints Go Marching In * A Whole New World * Yesterday * You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) * and more.




Ultralearning


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Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education. In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs. Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.




How to Play Piano in 14 Days


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This book is a modern piano lesson book with a new take on the best way to learn piano. It is jam-packed with fundamental piano exercises so you can learn to play piano fast. Introducing a revolutionary new PIANO TAB to make sight-reading piano even easier! From the publisher of over a dozen top-selling music lesson titles, How to Play Piano in 14 Days from Troy Nelson Music takes a novel approach to piano education that will have you playing great-sounding music in no time! This is not your grandma's beginner piano method! How to Play Piano in 14 Days is a brand new method for learning the piano. Have you struggled to learn piano because of the "old" way it's taught? We've taken the concept of learning piano and made it even easier than ever to learn piano and even teach piano. How is this book a different kind of piano technique book? Introducing PIANO TAB (C) - a revolutionary new way to read the notes of a piano that you will only find in this book. This is a method the author and publisher invented to make it easy for you to take the notes and get them right onto your piano quickly-no music reading required! Features contemporary music examples and exercises, updated for your modern discerning ear. How to Play Piano in 14 Days is a modern approach to piano lessons. This piano book will teach you Major, Minor, and Pentatonic Scales Modern Melodies and Chord Progressions Fundamental Rhythms: Basic to Advanced How to Play Complete Musical Pieces The Circle of 5ths This beginner piano method is not designed to be an exhaustive, be-all, end-all resource for piano; instead, this book's intention is to jumpstart your piano playing so you can learn piano quickly. You don't have to know how to read music to use this book! Why? Because of our PIANO TAB, an easy way to learn how to play piano by seeing the keys you need to play right on the page. This piano book for adult beginners and beginner kids alike will help you learn the piano quickly. This beginner's guide also provides an easy introduction to reading and playing music. Packed full of easy-to-follow instructions Tons of illustrations to demonstrate piano technique Simple exercises with our brand new PIANO TAB visuals Learn at your own pace or in as fast as 14 days Fun and easy chords and songs to play Buy With Confidence: Read it! Hear it! Play it! Music examples are presented in notes and tab. This practical, step-by-step guide to piano includes quick-and-easy access to audio tracks via download or streaming-right from troynelsonmusic.com. No signup required! From the top-selling series Play Guitar in 14 Days from publisher Troy Nelson Music. Author and editor Troy Nelson has sold more than 300,000 books and has 1,000s of reviews. You will see our books average 4.5 stars or more! About Austin Crosby: Austin has been a piano player for 20 years and a worship bandleader for a decade. MORE: Austin's passion is helping others learn to love the piano as much as he does. REMEMBER Free access to instant audio downloads from Troy's website included. BONUS Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Email us from our website and we will happily help you.




The Piano Man


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In this beautiful story, poignant prose and lush paintings tell the story of a girl's bond with her grandfather through their shared love of music. Eric Velasquez' stunning picture book debut, for which he received the Coretta Scott King New Talent Award, captures Debbi Chocolate's vivid memories of her grandfather, the piano man, his long career spanning decades of American music history, and his special talent for sharing his passion with generation after generation.




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