John Valerio Boeken

(Piano Method). This step-by-step approach to learning how to play left-hand bass lines at the keyboard includes examples and exercises covering the chord progressions and styles players will encounter. Keyboardists at all levels will benefit from this book's focus on: walking bass lines, playing in a "two-feel," waltz time, Latin styles, putting both hands together, and more. The exercises for each chapter are recorded on the accompanying audio. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

(Keyboard Instruction). In this book in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series, author John Valerio provides essential, detailed information for bebop and jazz pianists on the following chords and voicings, harmony and chord progressions, scales and tonality, common melodic figures and patterns, comping, characteristic tunes, the styles of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and much more. The accompanying online audio features many of the examples in the book performed either solo or with a full band. Also included are combo performances of five of the tunes featured at the end of the book. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+. a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

" ... Offers the jazz pianist a more specific approach to playing Latin jazz piano based on traditional Latin music from Cuba--known as Afro-Cuban--and Brazil ... [instructs] the reader in the area of ... Latin-based jazz piano ... introduces mambo, cha-cha, bossa nova, and samba ... [and] addresses the three roles that the jazz pianist typically plays: 1) a member of an accompanying rhythm section, 2) a lead instrument within an ensemble, and 3) a solo instrument. The book is divided into three main sections: Afro-Cuban based jazz piano, Brazilian based jazz piano, and lead sheets for play along"--Page 2

" ... Applies traditional technique exercises to specific jazz piano needs. Along with warm-ups, etudes isolate each technical problem within a jazz context. This allows for imporovisation ... topics include: 1. Major, minor, chromatic, pentatonic scales, 2. Triads, seventh chords, upper structured arpeggios, 3. Static position, held notes, Hanon finger independence exercises, 4. Thirds, fourths, tritones, fifths, sixths, octaves parallel interval scales and exercises ..."--Back cover

The nephew of President Hayes has been murdered in Crows Creek, so he orders the Governor to hire a first class Marshal, someone with a proven track record for solving crimes. Unfortunately, the best person for the job is Daniel Wheetman, an Englishman who has no experience of the West; he cannot ride or shoot, and his abrupt manner and lack of social skills would only mean a quick and violent death. So a rough tough cowboy called Murphy is hired to keep the Marshal alive. Daniel is under the misconception that all villains will automatically surrender once challenged by an officer of the law, whereas Murphy has a "shoot now, ask questions later" policy. Together they take on a powerful Cattle Barron and a corrupt Sheriff.

Return to Crows Creek is the second in the series following the adventures of Englishman Marshal Daniel Wheetman, who has been given over to President Hayes by Queen Victoria in an attempt to bring to justice to the lawless west. However, Daniel's methods of policing are in complete contrast to those employed by other US sheriffs and marshals; he cannot ride a horse, does not believe in the use of firearms and has a personality that makes the vast majority of cowboys want to blow his head off - but together with his rough, tough deputies, Murphy Patterson and Moses Carver, they travel to Cactus Ridge to solve the problem of the murder of a young woman who had been a leading figure in the temperance movement