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Piano Essentials: Scales, Chords, Arpeggios and Cadences for the Contemporary Pianist (w/CD).(Book review)
* Piano Essentials: Scales, Chords, Arpeggios and Cadences for the Contemporary Pianist (w/CD), by Ross Ramsay. Berklee Press (1140 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02215), 2006. 100 pp. $24.95.
Berklee College of Music faculty member Ross Ramsay presents Berklee's contribution to piano proficiency books touting a way to learn piano technique. Piano Essentials: Scales, Chords, Arpeggios, and Cadences for the Contemporary Pianist is a soft cover, 100-page book with accompanying CD, designed to meet Berklee's Level 1 and Level 2 piano technique requirements.
The book contains four major parts: "Scale Studies in Major Keys," "Rhythm and Expression," "Scale Studies in Minor Keys" and "More Key-Area Studies." Ramsay's presentation of scales takes the pianist through one-octave and two-octave parallel motion with fingering, including "jazz melodic minor" scales. Other exercises include scales in different rhythms, contrary motion, thirds and sixths, different dynamics, articulation and use of a metronome.
The pianist progresses through triad and inversion exercises built on diatonic triads in each key, learning about triad construction from the major scale. There is an excellent section on forms of the seventh chords and their inversions, with diatonic seventh chords in root position in all keys. Chord progressions with the right hand playing root position triads and the left hand playing the bass note, progressing into voice leading. This ...
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