500 Piano Intros for the Great Standards (The Steinway Library of Piano Music) Review

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(More customer reviews)Some time ago I was at the sheet music store in San Francisco when this particular book caught my attention.

I grabbed the book, went over and sat down at the keyboard and played some of the intros.I was so impressed that I immediately bought the book.

What particularly impressed me were the progressions on page 67 and 68.The 1 VI II V progression is pretty common in popular music. Many songs contain this progression.

What this book does differently is it presents two alternative voicings with beautiful jazzy chords.I am not a jazz pianist but I do like to make a jazzy sound and improvise, and using these slight variations makes a ridiculous difference.

Some weeks later I was asked to play piano at an open house.When I had run through all my material, I started improvising off this progression, and incorporating some of these well known songs such as Blue Moon, The Way You Look Tonight, Heart and Soul etc.

Someone came over and asked what I was playing. I said I didn't know, which was true because some hybrid song was coming out that sounded very melodic. They said wow, that's amazing.

I don't know if you're like me, but I learned more from reading and applying the 8 bars in those two pages than from plodding through entire books.

As you go through the intros, it is actually 125 different intros shown in 4 different keys so that you can practice playing in different keys. In so doing it experiments with a number of different styles Latin, Waltz, Blues, Country, Ellington, and it's more than enough to keep you occupied for a long period of time.It also has suggestions of various songs where you can use these intros, Bluesette, Georgia on My Mind.

For example in Latin it explores Rumba, Tango and Bossa Nova, with intros based around Jobim songs such as Girl From Ipanema, And How Insensitive.

I don't know if anyone will read this review, but I do hope you find it helpful.

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Product Description:
For Piano. Anyone who has performed a song in front of an audience knows how important a musical introduction to it can be. An intro sets the mood of a piece, establishes a key, and prepares the listener for what is to come. This book is designed to offer piano players a source of intros from which to draw for a variety of musical settings. These are divided into three broad classifications: ballads, medium tempo, and up tempo, and each example is set in three keys to aid in transposing. In addition, the arrangers have provided suggestions for tunes that work well with a particular intro, which are organized into a handy index for quick reference. This book is designed to help pianists develop their own personally-styled intros and arrangements

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