A clear and simple guide that anyone who loves Latin music can use and enjoy. Fun drills, exercises, patterns and original pieces offer valuable instruction, page after page. Famous dance styles such as the Rhumba, Merengue, Salsa, Mambo, Calypso, Bossa-Nova, Tango, Samba, Beguine, Cha-Cha, and more are explored. Examples of the Clave, the Tumbao Bass, and the piano Montunos -- the basis for all Latin music -- are also given.

Learn to Play . . . Latin Piano

Arts & Photography

Scivales, Riccardo

Music

Ekay Music

Covering a span of time and styles ranging from jazz beginnings to some of the most recent developments, this book collects and analyzes many of the most frequently used jazz, blues, and Latin jazz left-hand piano techniques. Generally, each proposed technique is first introduced by a "model" figure derived from original sources, followed by an explanation of its pattern, and finally by some sample applications using well-known songs, harmonic progressions, or original pieces. For the sake of completeness, most of these left-hand applications are integrated with sample right-hand parts that validate the efficacy and concrete application of the left hand figures. Numerous styles of jazz piano are taught, including: stride piano, Latin stylings, blues, boogie, swing, walking bass, jazz waltz, rootless voicings and many other concepts. Characteristics of jazz legends including Erroll Garner, Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake and many others are explored. As with all books in this series, it includes a unique lay-flat binding to help keep the music open on the music stand.

Jazz Piano -- The Left Hand: The Left Hand (The Steinway Library of Piano Music)

Alfred Music

A complete instruction book for piano and solo piano, Latin-style! 
Salsa, Mambo, Son, Guajira, Cha-cha-chá, Merengue, Samba, Tango, Fandango, Salsa flamenca, Bossa Nova and Latin Jazz are some of the fabulous musical genres you will find in this book, along with…\n23 Original Solo Piano Pieces, written in many different styles, and tested over decades of teaching and live performances! 
Ranging from old contradanzas to the fabulous “Salsa Stride” style, these pieces will prove great to solve the old challenge of how to play Latin music as a solo pianist in a convincing—and much rewarding—way!\nDozens upon dozens of fun-filled Rhythmic Drills that will help you master the rhythmic intricacies of Latin Music!\nPlus chapters on the “Clave” and the “Tumbao” bass, the way Montunos are built, and also brand new and exciting “Tumbao Basslines with Double Notes”!\nBesides that, for the joy of your ensemble playing there are also 60 Piano Montunos, many of them fitting famous songs too!\nAll this comes along with useful Piano Patterns for playing Bossa Nova, Reggae, Danzón, Cumbia, Joropo, and even Bachata! 
And also… a fabulous chapter on the Polyrhythmic Approach to Improvisation!\nThe music presented here not only explores a wide stylistic range… it is often based on famous Latin masterpieces! 
To top it all off, each piece is introduced by stylistical and historical chapters.\nReally, you can not ask for more from a single book! 
This guide will give you rhythmic knowledge, great hands independence, much better chops, and above all… a lot of fun! Enjoy!

Play... Latin Piano Like A Pro: Mambo, Salsa, Merengue, Guajira, Latin Jazz...and more!

Scivales Music

Learn To Play... Latin Piano: Authentic Salsa, Mambo, Bossa Nova, Samba and more!

Easing Into Stride: 16 Intermediate and Advanced Intermediate Stride Arrangements of Great Standards

Shanaphy, Edward

Scivales Music & Ekay Music

An outstanding collection of note-for-note transcriptions of 23 masterworks recordings by the greatest Stride, Blues, Swing,Prebop, and Bebop pianists, such as James P. Johnson, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Claude Hopkins, Art Tatum, Herman Chittison, Teddy Wilson, Johnny Guarnieri, Nat “King” Cole and Bud Powell, with introductory chapters to each piece. This successful and very detailed book also includes a terrific essay on the evolution of Afro-American piano from 1893 to Bebop! Among the pieces transcribed here: “Aunt Hagar’s Blues”, “If Dreams Come True”, "Snowy Morning Blues", “Concentratin’”, “Indiana”, “China Boy”, “Dinah”, “Arkansas Blues”, “Willow Weep For Me”, “I Got Rhythm”, “The Man I Love”, “How High The Moon”, “Flamingo”, “Body And Soul”, "I Want To Be Happy", and also a fantastic version of “Maple Leaf Rag” played in 5/4 time!

The Soul of Blues, Stride & Swing Piano

Education & Teaching

Harlem Stride Piano Solos: 26 Classic Solos by The Greatest Jazz Pianists Of The Swing Era

Independently published

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