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Original Message 1/4 09-Mar-04 @ 11:55 PM - piano for dummies
I had allready some very basic knowledge which I gathered here and there over the years, but this book (althougth it contains useless parts on buying a keyboard/piano and stuff and how to put your hands when playing) it contained lots of usefull info imho.
If anyone else had any good tips on books (or site) about theory I'd be happy to learn about them.
Message 2/4 12-Mar-04 @ 07:59 AM - RE: piano for dummies
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Message 3/4 04-Apr-04 @ 05:22 AM - RE: piano for dummies
"The contemporary keyboardist" by John Novello.
This guy is a bit of a scientologist but the info in his book is pretty nifty just ignore his odd bit of babbling like I did.
"The Jazz Theory book" and "The Jazz piano book" by Mark Levine both share some material but are very good
"Improvising Blues Piano" by Tim Richards play like a bloozer
"Arranging Techniques for Synthesists" by Erik Turkel
"The Principles of Orchestration" by Rimsky-Korsakov very good book
"The lydian chromatic concept of tonal organization" by George Russel is very good it inspired the modal jazz movement
and if you want to try some of John Coltrane's reading material
"Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns" by Nicholas Slonimsky
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