KEYBOARD WISDOM

Theory and Technique

Steven Goomas

Presents piano theory with technical and creative ideas to enhance your keyboard knowledge and improvisation skills through practical approaches and applications. To benefit most from this book, you should already be comfortable with reading notation on the grand staff and should have an understanding of written rhythms. Each step-by-step lesson has ideas to practice, which may appear in the form of exercises, suggestions, or mixed with theory, prompting you to be creative. Through these lessons, you will discover how to become a more creative player with chords in a rhythm section setting, going beyond just playing what is written on the page. You will also learn how to utilize scales in improvisation. This book has been designed to help beginners and intermediate students build a strong foundation and enlarge their horizon, and to help advanced players fill in gaps in their skills.

Beginning level.

Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Altered Scale Fingerings
3. Altered Scales
4. Blues Scale Construction
5. Blues Scale Fingerings
6. Chromatic Scale and Fingerings
7. Deeper Insights to Upper Stuctures
8. Diatonic Seventh Chords
9. Diminished Scale Fingerings
10. Diminished Scales
11. Eleventh Chords
12. Exercises for Seventh Chords
13. Exercises for Upper Structures
14. Foreword
15. Fun Improv 101
16. Ideas for Chord Jamming
17. Ideas for Sixth and Seventh Chords
18. Intervals
19. Major Scale Construction
20. Major Scale Fingerings
21. Major Scale Triads
22. Minor Improv 101
23. Minor Scale Construction
24. Minor Scale Fingerings
25. Minor Scale Seventh Chords
26. Minor Scale Triads
27. Mode Application
28. Modes
29. Ninth Chords
30. Open Voicing for Ninth Chords
31. Open Voicing for Thirteenth Chords
32. Seventh Chords
33. Sixth Chords
34. Steven Goomas
35. Thirteenth Chords
36. Triad Exercises
37. Triad Voicing
38. Triads
39. Tritone Substitution
40. Upper Structures
41. Voicing Eleventh Chords
42. Voicing Exercises for Ninths
43. Voicing Seventh Chords
44. Voicing Thirteenth Chords
45. Whole-Tone Scale Fingerings
46. Whole-tone Scales

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Product Details: Paperback Book, Piano/Keyboard

136 Pages

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