Improvising Blues Piano: The Basic Principles of Blues Piano Explained for the Intermediate-level Pianist in an Easy-to-grasp Fashion (The Schott Pop Styles Series)
Improvising Blues Piano: The Basic Principles of Blues Piano Explained for the Intermediate-level Pianist in an Easy-to-grasp Fashion (The Schott Pop Styles Series)
Customer Review: Learning to improvise
I must disagree with the reviewer who thinks that this is simply learning by rote. If you actually work through the book, it gives you a number of exercises where you do have to use your own creativity and understanding. For someone like me who came from a classical background, this book was an excellent way of helping me let go of the printed page.I still found it difficult, but each chapter in this book gives you something tangible to work on. It is not simply “go and do it by yourself”
Customer Review: Ignore the above review
The guy above reviewing the book obviously didn’t give it the time of day and has written a potentially damaging review about something he knows nothing about.
The writer of this book instructs and encourages ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO IMPROVISE AND CREATE YOUR OWN PIECES.
Yes he gives songs and musical transcripts to play, they are simple at first and get progressively longer and more complicated once the principles have been well practised. But they are simply starting points for his instructions on the same page. You need a context to learn in and he has provided lots of them.
He teaches you to teach yourself, there is ample opportunity to learn and improvise and do your own stuff throughout right from the beginning. I was excited at my progress after th efirst two pages of the book and it never tapered off now I’ve worked through two and a half chapters.
He even teaches you how to create your own solos and gives well-used ‘devices’ to make something sound good, that starts right from page 1. These devices were used by professional blues performers even to this day.
The writer himself is a performer, and is a teacher at an established music school. He uses his teaching experience in the book that much is obvious. Don’t buy any other book but this one because it’s well deserved.
This book is something marvellous. I knew nothing before I started, I have learned more from this book in 7 months than I have in 8 years of tinkering around myself.
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2 channel. 6 heads. NICAM stereo. On-screen display. PAL/NTSC compatible (suitable TV required). SCART socket. Size (H)10, (W)43, (D)31cm
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Customer Review: How to avoid the “C:13 and a message saying ‘The Disc is Dirty.” error.
I currently have a HX510 which is great and i have with-held upgrading this unit for the simple fact that the newer models do not have the record pause function which is for me a major plus (and why oh why cant Sony have decent picture search speeds like all other dvd players and indeed their own players?) x1.5 too slow, x2 umm the best your gonna get and x3 too fast. Anyway, to resolve the issue of the “C:13 and a message saying ‘The Disc is Dirty.” error this seems to be caused by using 16x dvd discs (which are now more commonly available). I’ve switched to using x8 speed discs from Woolies and they record using high speed dubbing all the time. 16x discs produce the “C:13 error. i think the manual actually says something about 8x being the max. Hope that helps others and just sorry i didn’t this review earlier as by the sounds of it, it would have saved alot of frustration for others. Otherwise a great machine with superb picture quality Oh and re the unreliable videoplus timer recordings…. just check the auto date & clock setting is correct (ie the date and time are correct) - changing it from eg ITV to BBC1 or just turn it off to manual and then auto again under the system menu and the clock settings will re-set the date and time and *should* allow it to work properly again
Customer Review: HXD710 Don’t buy it
I have had this for about 18 months and for the last 6 months yep just out of warranty it freezes all the time. Sony are worse than useless the help desk is a joke. This is a software problem you would really expect them to produce a patch for it. Jeff Gill
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