Exploring Basic Blues for Keyboard

Rating:
Summary: Great Blues Book!
Review: NOTE: Rated 4 stars only because it has no CD or cassette.

A VERY good book on blues basics. Boyd takes your thru exercises, theory, and improvisations. The book explores various blues styles from early blues, thru Dixieland,swing, boogie and rock. This is a GREAT book on 12 bar blues style...and if it only had a CD/cassette it would be perfect!

NOTE #2: This is probably not a book for total beginners. Without a CD/cassette it can be difficult even for intermediate pianists/keyboarders to understand the "sound" and "shuffle" of some of the riffs/pieces in this book. However if you have access to someone who can play these and let you hear the sound...then even a beginner can get some benefit from this book.

Rating:
Summary: Great Blues Book!
Review: NOTE: Rated 4 stars only because it has no CD or cassette.

A VERY good book on blues basics. Boyd takes your thru exercises, theory, and improvisations. The book explores various blues styles from early blues, thru Dixieland,swing, boogie and rock. This is a GREAT book on 12 bar blues style...and if it only had a CD/cassette it would be perfect!

NOTE #2: This is probably not a book for total beginners. Without a CD/cassette it can be difficult even for intermediate pianists/keyboarders to understand the "sound" and "shuffle" of some of the riffs/pieces in this book. However if you have access to someone who can play these and let you hear the sound...then even a beginner can get some benefit from this book.