Hal Leonard How to Play from a Real Book For All Musicians

Hal Leonard How to Play from a Real Book at a glance

For creative musical work it is extremely important to understand melodies and to be able to play them from a book. Musicians should be able to analyze them and work them out using skillful techniques such as improvisation, creating bass lines or substitutions.

To simply sit down at the keyboard and get started, Hal Leonard How to Play from a Real Book offers a theory-based approach to improving solo playing and gaining a comprehensive understanding of writing music. To accompany this, the edition includes a collection of evergreens with sheet music for melody instruments that you can try your hand at right away.

Contents:

• After You've Gone
• Alice In Wonderland
• Beyond The Sea
• Bye Bye Blackbird
• Doxy
• Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
• Georgia or My Mind
• Giant Steps
• The Girl From Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema)
• Give My Regards To Broadway
• Have You Met Miss Jones?
• Honeysuckle Rose
• I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
• I Hear A Rhapsody
• I Remember You
• I'm Old Fashioned
• If I Were A Bell
• In A Mellow Tone
• In A Sentimental Mood
• Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
• Lazy Bird
• My Buddy
• My Ship
• Oleo
• On The Alamo
• Opus One
• Pick Yourself Up
• Robbins Nest
• Rose Room
• Scrapple From The Apple
• Swing That Music
• That Old Black Magic
• (There Is) No Greater Love
• There Will Never Be Another You
• There'll Be Some Changes Made
• They Didn't Believe Me
• Triste
• Wave
• The Way You Look Tonight
• You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)