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Re: Picking up Piano

Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2008-08-28 06:20

To expand on FDF's post, can you look at a chord chart from a fake book and use it to play accompaniment? In various styles, e.g., a few different jazz styles, polka boom-chick, etc? It's amazing how many "trained" piano players can read two staves of music in different clefs with stacked notes, yet don't know how to accompany when they see written over (or under) a 32 bar melody something like D, Bm, A7. They don't know what notes are in the chords or how to voice them for various types of popular music. Even better is the ability to do that w/o written music, to listen to a 32 bar tune and make up something sensible.

Steve Epstein

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