Fast Forward : Rock 'n' Roll Piano

(Music Sales America). This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The accompanying CDs allow you to listen and play along to the matching audio tracks. These user-friendly book/CD packs provide riffs, licks, chords & tricks you can learn now , and easily incorporate into your own playing style! This great book and CD will add a new and exciting dimension to your piano playing, introducing you to the foot-tapping, infectious style that is rock & roll! First learn the rhythmic patterns that top pianists use, and experiment with improvising your own patterns and riffs. Tricks such as arpeggiated triplets, accented chords and repeated chord patterns are explained, as are crushed notes, syncopation, glissandos and rolls. Then play in the style of Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles, and Floyd Cramer.