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Contents

4 Introduction

5 Help in getting started

8 Easy Rock pattern

10 Easy Pop pattern

12 Rock pattern 2

14 Ragtime

16 Rock pattern 3

18 Walking Bass

20 Latin  

22 Little Brown Jug

23 Disco

24 Alberti Bass

25 Rock Pattern 4

26 Sight-Reading 1

27 Waltz Pattern 1

28 Ballad Style Waltz Pattern 2

29 New Orleans 1

30 Gymnopedie No 1 (Satie)

31 Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring (Bach)

32 5th Symphony Theme (Beethoven)

33 Merengue

34 Boogie Woogie  

35 Rhythm Exercise

36 New Orleans 2

37 Sight-Reading 2

38 Oh Blue-sanna

39 Walking Bass 2 (using chords II V I)

40 Tips On Sight-Reading

41 Note Positions

42 Basic Note Lengths

43 Note Values (US & UK)

44 Basic Time Signatures

45 Basic Key Signatures

Reviews

”This is a valuable book for all students who love to improvise and wish to further their background knowledge so as to raise their standards to even higher levels.”  Piano Journal