How to Play from a Real Book

Description

All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in real books.

You will learn how to analyse the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, and much more. Offering a theory-based approach, it addresses many aspects of solo and small band performance that can improve your own playing and your understanding of what others are doing around you.

Playing from a real book is all about options. The material presented here will offer you a full range of techniques that you can put to use right away.

 After You've Gone   
 Alice In Wonderland  
 Beyond The Sea   
 Bye Bye Blackbird  
 Doxy   
 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You  
 Georgia On My Mind   
 Giant Steps  
 The Girl From Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema)   
 Give My Regards To Broadway  
 Have You Met Miss Jones?   
 Honeysuckle Rose  
 I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good   
 I Hear A Rhapsody  
 I Remember You   
 I'm Old Fashioned  
 If I Were A Bell   
 In A Mellow Tone  
 In A Sentimental Mood   
 Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)  
 Lazy Bird   
 My Buddy  
 My Ship   
 Oleo  
 On The Alamo   
 Opus One  
 Pick Yourself Up   
 Robbin's Nest  
 Rose Room   
 Scrapple From The Apple  
 Swing That Music   
 That Old Black Magic  
 There Is No Greater Love   
 There Will Never Be Another You  
 There'll Be Some Changes Made   
 They Didn't Believe Me  
 Triste   
 Wave  
 The Way You Look Tonight   
 You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)