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Gospel Keyboard Styles: A Complete Guide to Harmony, Rhythm and Melody in Authentic Gospel Style (Harrison Music Education Systems)

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I was a classical pianist for most of my life and have recently gotten more acquainted with jazz, blues, rock and now gospel. This book gets you started with gospel patterns that will make you sound like a gospel pianist who has been playing for many years!

This book gets you started on different patterns, which shows you how to incorporate them into gospel chord progressions and pieces with melodies such as hymns. They provide examples on how to incorporate what you learn in the book in chord progressions and hymns and provide exercises which you can practice. It also gives you information on pentatonic scales, chords, mixolydian mode, grace notes ect.

The book gets you familiar with patterns used for slow gospel in 3/4 time and fast gospel in 4/4 time. This book is really good for those who can already read music and have a basic understanding of keyboard harmony. This book has some great sounding material but unfortunately does not come with a CD but if you can sight read the material, you really don't need a CD.

This has got to be among the best if not the best book on gospel piano.

I play quite a bit, so my standards for what a book might be able to teach me are pretty high. I was pleased with this book because it doesn't keep everything so simple that even a seasoned player can't get something out of it. At the same time, it stays basic enough that someone who plays moderately well could play the examples and understand the theory with a little effort.

One feature I liked was that Mr. Harrison would provide a very basic example with a chord structure and then proceed to "realize" it a couple of different ways so that you could read the notes that he might recommend you play. Because he gives you a few options of how he might play it, you really have the ability to pick up riffs and patterns that you might not otherwise.

This is a well written and concieved book.

As a child, I took 6 years of piano lessons, so I can read music; but this book got into a lot of music theory that was way over my head, so I returned it. Might be a good choice for those who are into chord theory.

This is a great music teacher. I can now enhance my music more with this book as I play basically by ear. Great teaching guide.

Though I have played piano for years, I don't know much about theory. This book is written for someone who knows a lot about theory, and is really too advanced for me, an "average" piano player. I got SOME help from this book, but have since ordered a book called "Gospel for Beginners".

This book addresses a need for giving me understanding of a piano style that I wish to develop, and it looks like it will be a big help, but I find that the Kindle version does not make it easy to apply it to the keyboard like a hard copy would, so I am ordering the hard copy. It would have been nice to be able to print out practice pages through my PCKindle, but didn't see how that could be done. I love my Kindle and have several books on it, but this is one type of book that needs to be a hold-in-your-hand paper version. Ditto for cookbooks, I find.

I received my products in a timely fashion and in excellent condition...I would certainly recommend this seller to others...Thank you and may God bless and prosper you.