500 Pages Of Pure Piano Know-How!
A Complete Method In Contemporary Piano Styles

The founder of the Harrison School of Music in Los Angeles, Mark Harrison, has created one of truly great treatises and methods on the subject of popular piano playing in today’s styles. It is a ground-up method that reviews the basic building blocks of keyboard theory and harmony efficiently and thoroughly in what Mark calls the ‘toolbox’ section of the book, the first 132 pages. If one needs the basics, this presentation is as good as it gets. He then progresses from these solid foundations to the specifics of the many genres and styles of keyboard playing, and how to make them your own. The second part of the book, the remaining 468 pages, is devoted to presenting and analyzing each contemporary style in depth, from Pop Ballad to Rock, from New Age to Gospel and Country, from R&B Funk to Country Rock.

The book is designed to answer the questions and problems amateur pianists so often have… HAVE YOU EVER bought the sheet music for a pop tune that sounds ‘blah,’ and would like to be able to improve it? HAVE YOU EVER tried to play a tune from a fake book or lead sheet and not be sure how to interpret the chord symbols, or be stuck in a rut with your voicings? HAVE YOU EVER bought a book which is full of examples but provides no understanding on how they were derived, how you can create them on your own? HAVE YOU EVER wished that you could instinctively create more stylistic approaches to your own playing, perhaps your own songs? ISBN 793598788

Contents:
Chapter 1: Scales and Chords
Chapter 2: Rhythmic Concepts and Notation
Chapter 3: Diatonic Triads and Four-Part Chords
Chapter 4: Triads - Inversions & Voiceleading
Chapter 5: Creating & Using Triad-Over-Root Chords
Chapter 6: 4-Part Chords - Inversions & Voiceleading
Chapter 7: Creating & Using 4-Part-Over-Root Chords
Chapter 8: Triad Resolutions Using Added 9ths
Chapter 9: Triad Resolutions Using Suspended 4ths
Chapter 10: Chord 'Shapes' Using Fourth Intervals
Chapter 11: Pop Ballad
Chapter 12: Pop-Rock And Hard Rock
Chapter 13: New Age
Chapter 14: R'n'B Ballad
Chapter 15: R'n'B/Funk
Chapter 16: Country & Country-Rock
Chapter 17: Slow Gospel
Chapter 18: Fast Gospel