Keyboard Crash Course is a short book, about 50 pages, that discusses through what medium to take what you already know from learning classical keyboard and from what source to apply it to the electric instrumental and mostly within an ensemble setting.
For the classically trained pianist, or myself as a cellist, readingsong charts can be awkward and arduous. What in the world is an A#sus+4? And through what agency does that transform into music, however more importantly, through what medium are you supposed to perform that special chord on the instrument? What happens when you snag a chart which has chords such as the one above and a melody, what just are you supposed to do with your left hand? What can be the appropriate way to dealing with chord progressions and inversions of chords? these are just a couple of the countless countless questions instrumental players deal with when they just happen to be demanded to basically ad-lib from a chord chart. To a number of pianists, learning their own musical instrument in a fresh way can be greatly discouraging and can at times feel harmful to their technique, however this handbook, Keyboard Crash Course defineately helps settle your fears and provides an unified method to dealing with the most frequent problems classically trained pianist face when presented with musical instrument style music.
Playing the electronic piano presents a whole new world of sounds to the classical instrument. Now you have winds, string noises, organ sounds, sample effects, etc. So your comprehension of from what source to select and use all these new sounds needs to be obvious. Keyboard Crash Course walks you through and gives examples of through what medium to adopt certain tracks and come to be accustomed with them.
Classically trained pianists sometimes really are in only a number of settings, either accompanying, the act of performing alone, or solo with an orchestra. So when you transfers those skills over to a band, problems can arise. This book helps you realize how to work within a band setting, it even goes into specifics with working in a worship or church group. Some of these more essential ideas just are addressed by deliberating how to leave space for other types of instruments and how to blend your sound with the rest of the group. And how to additionally deal with band that have both a piano and a keyboard!
If you're interested in broadening your piano skills to include the keyboard, this handbook can be an amazing help. And it's cheap too. Only $15. It's not the handbook which has all the answers to all your questions, but it does give you an amazing start at being confident and comfortable at playing the keyboards. It takes the knowledge you already realize and applies it in new ways.