Rock Keyboard - The Complete Guide with CD!: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series [Paperback]

Scott Miller (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style | Publication Date: February 1, 2003

The Rock Keyboard book/CD pack in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series is chock full of authentic rock keyboard parts! Learn to comp or solo in any of your favorite rock styles. Listen to the 99-track CD to hear your parts fit in with the total groove of the band. Styles covered include: classic rock, pop/rock, blues rock, Southern rock, hard rock, progressive rock, alternative rock and heavy metal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0634039814
• ISBN-13: 978-0634039812
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #31 in Books > Arts & Photography > Music > Theory, Composition & Performance > Sheet Music & Scores > Instrumentation > Keyboard

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful, November 1, 2006

By 

LBWheels457 (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock Keyboard - The Complete Guide with CD!: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series (Paperback)

As a mainly classical piano player, I have never been good at playing from lead sheets or improvising. I have a few of the other books in this series and find them all great! Scott Miller is a wonderful composer and teacher and has a very similar style to Mark Harrison (another composer in this series). This book includes important information about vamps, different time signatures, walking bass lines, various modes, octave bass, pedal points, boogie patters, inversions, licks...anything that is used in any type of rock. It goes through classic rock, pop rock, blues rock, southern rock, hard rock, progressive rock, alternative rock, and even heavy metal! The book moves quickly but provides the information that is important for those of us looking to play. It comes with a very handy CD which allows to hear what it's supposed to sound like. I highly recommend this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Ideas, August 2, 2009

By 

Ron Clayson (Inkom, ID USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Rock Keyboard - The Complete Guide with CD!: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series (Paperback)

I started playing in bands about 3 years ago and over that time have bought several books with ideas for different riffs, fingerings, styles, etc.

This has, by far, been the best of the books I have bought.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Useful Intermediate Book, September 26, 2008

By 

Brian J. Mcmahon "Flex" (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Rock Keyboard - The Complete Guide with CD!: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series (Paperback)

A great book that includes valuable fingering notation. You should know how to read music, though fluency is not required and the CD examples help re-enforce any question on rhythm. I would recommend listening to the whole CD, marking off the tracks that a "within reach" of your ability and then doing those exercises only. Work the right hand, work the left hand, then maybe try to put them together. Only gripe is sometimes they give you impossible right-handed chords...you could easily shave a note off some of those 4-note chords as long as you have the left handing working. This is a minor gripe. The book is more piano-oriented though there are some raw keyboard stuff in later chapters (Southern Rock for example).