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It's Easy to Improvise (for Keyboard or Treble Clef Instruments)

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It's Easy to Improvise (for Keyboards and treble clef instruments)

The easiest and most enjoyable way to learn keyboard harmony!

This book contains graded popular and folk tunes with which to learn left hand accompaniment styles and arranging, plus information on the placement of chords and varying accompaniment styles. It also includes suggestions for melodic embellishment and improvisation applicable to keyboards and single line instruments.

  • It has several pages of suggestions for left-hand accompaniment patterns and suggestions are given for the treatment of each tune.
  • All the songs are well-known popular and traditional tunes.
  • The fun way to learn how to bring single line tunes with chords to life, and how to embellish melodies and create your own.
More Information
Publisher Modern Music
Pages 36
Format Paperback

Table of Contents

  1. Left Hand Accompaniment Styles 
  2. Right Hand Accompaniment Styles 

Section One: Primary Triads in Major Keys - Major Chords 

  1. LOVE SOMEBODY
  2. THIS OLD MAN
  3. BILLY BOY
  4. SKIP TO MY LOU
  5. HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH
  6. OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM
  7. WHERE, OH WHERE HAS MY LITTLE DOG GONE
  8. TEN LITTLE INDIANS
  9. SOME FOLKS DO
  10. THE MORE WE ARE TOGETHER (ACH DU LIEBER AUGUSTIN)
  11. THE MANGO WALK
  12. SHE’LL BE COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN
  13. AULD LANG SYNE
  14. YANKEE DOODLE
  15. FOR HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
  16. THIS TRAIN
  17. CLICK GO THE SHEARS

Section Two: Primary and Secondary Triads in Major and Minor Keys - Major and Minor Chords 

  1. GOLDEN SLUMBERS
  2. FLOW GENTLY SWEET AFTON
  3. HAVA NAGILA
  4. THE SLOOP ‘JOHN B’
  5. WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME
  6. SCARBOROUGH FAIR

Section Three: Diminished, Augmented and Suspended Fourth Triads 

  1. LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART
  2. DEEP RIVER
  3. MORNING HAS BROKEN

Section Four: Dominant Seventh Chords 

Chord progression practice 

  1. LITTLE BROWN JUG
  2. PLAISIR D’AMOUR
  3. BLACK AND WHITE RAG
  4. I’M HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM

Section Five: Other types of four note chords - 6ths and 7ths 

  1. WALTZING MATILDA
  2. AMAZING GRACE
  3. CYCLES OF LIFE
  4. LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
  5. THERE’S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR LOVE
  6. THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE ME