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The Secret Chords - an introduction to open moveable chords
Grab a standard open E chord and move it five frets up the neck and you will get a beautiful sounding Aadd9 chord. Open moveable chords combine the movability of the barre chords and the easy fingering of the standard open chords, and they create some interesting new sounds at the same time.
How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements
Learn how to play melody and chords simultaneously and make your own fingerpicking arrangements. This book will give you some useful guidelines on how to choose the right key and where to place your melody and chords. It will show you how to vary your arrangements in terms of picking patterns, time signature, tonality, harmony, position and more. Pick your favorite melodies or make your own and turn them into nice sounding fingerpicking arrangements.
Piano Walking Bass - from blues to jazz
Walking bass is an essential element in blues and jazz music. The walking bass hitting a new note on every beat of each bar is a moving force in this kind of music. However, as a solo pianist it can be tricky to get the left hand going while playing melody, harmony or even a solo in the right hand. This book will walk you through some of the common walking bass lines starting with easy blues patterns and progressing to more advanced jazz lines. It will guide you with some simple rules to make your own bass lines and it will bend the rules to make more interesting lines as well.
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