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An A-Z guide to pop styles. Each style is illustrated by a piece, notes about the style, performance tips and recommended listening guides. 28 styles including reggae, disco, house, rock 'n' roll, thrash and gospel.
- easy to use and fun to play
- increase your professionalism
- includes lots of exciting styles from Reggae to Rock'n'Roll, Thrash to Tango
- for keyboard; you can also use sequencer, other instruments and rhythmic backing to make the styles sound even more authentic
- chord symbols included
- each style is illustrated by an original composition by Christopher Norton
- the notes are packed with exciting ideas and suggestions to help you build up a complete performance
- comes with interactive 3.5'' Standard Midi File disk, which contains performances of all 34 pop styles, each complete with full orchestrations to play along to
- great for learning as well as performing: mute any part and play along; alter the key and tempo to suit yourself
Contents | |
| Afro-Cuban | |
| AOR | |
| Beguine | |
| Big Band (or Swing) | |
| Bluegrass | |
| Blues Shuffle (or jive) | |
| Boogie | |
| Bossa Nova | |
| Calypso | |
| Conga | |
| Country Rhthym & Blues | |
| Dance | |
| Disco I | |
| Disco II | |
| Doo-wop Rock | |
| Funk | |
| Gospel | |
| Heavy Rock | |
| House | |
| Jazz Funk | |
| Jazz Waltz | |
| Latin Fusion | |
| Mambo | |
| Pop Ballad | |
| Pop Rock | |
| Reggae | |
| Rhythm & Blues Shuffle | |
| Rock 'n' Roll | |
| Salsa | |
| Samba | |
| Slow Blues | |
| Swing | |
| Tango | |
| Thrash Metal | |
Press Reviews
"Here's a great idea, extremely well executed, fun to play, exciting and, dare I say, educational. If you want something to help you develop modern rhythms - this is it!"
Keyboard Player
"immense fun – discovering styles of music that I really didn’t think I was capable of playing, and it’s really inspiring too...This is the first book I’ve come across that covers the subject of playing modern styles on the keyboard and, quite frankly, as a guide, it would be hard to be better. Full marks!"
Keyboard Review, April 1995
"Never again need you confuse your salsa with your samba, your jazz funk with your ordinary funk, or your doo-wop rock with your heavy rock...a lot of fun lies in store..."
Music Teacher, January 1995
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