100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know: Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways (Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know by Jerald Simon)

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100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know (Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways) by Music Mentor Jerald Simon, is one of the books from the Music Motivation® Series. This book was created to help piano students of all ages and skill levels learn how to improvise and arrange music of their own. The 100 left hand patterns introduced in this book can help piano students, piano teachers, and music professionals take their piano playing to the next level by learning how to play the same song 100 different ways. Use these 100 left hand patterns in this book to arrange the 100 songs from the FUN Fake Book or use the left hand patterns to arrange any music you’d like to play. You can even use the 100 left hand patterns introduced in this book to compose music of your own. It’s all about creating, arranging, improvising, and composing music you want to play. The left hand patterns taught in this book have been divided up into four different groups: 1. Basic Left Hand Patterns, 2. Jazz, Blues, and Boogie-Woogie Left Hand Patterns, 3. Rock and Pop Left Hand Patterns, and 4. New Age and Contemporary Left Hand Patterns. I only included 100 left hand patterns, but there are so many more patterns you can create. See what you can come up with and take your piano playing to the next level! This book is divided into two sections: 1. 100 Left Hand Patterns, and 2. The FUN Fake Book featuring 100 songs in Fake Book Format (where the right hand melody is shown with corresponding chords notated above each measure - the piano player fakes, or improvises, their own left hand pattern using the 100 left hand patterns taught in the book). Here is a list of some of the 100 songs found in this FUN Fake Book:Section 1 (Children's Songs): 1. Mary Had a Little Lamb 2. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 3. Pop Goes the Weasel 4. The Enemy Weensy Spider 5. This Old Man 6. Three Blind Mice 7. Row, Row, Row Your Boat 8. Skip to My Lou 9. London Bridge is Falling Down 10. She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain 11. Old Macdonald 12. Free Jacques 13. BINGO 14. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 15. The Farmer in the Dell 16. Alouette 17. Green Sleeves (and What Child is This?) 18. Rockaby Baby 19. Lullaby 20. Reveille 21. It's Raining, It's Pouring 22. Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes 23. The Wheels on the Bus 24. If You're Happy and You Know it! 25. I Love the Mountains 26. Chopsticks 27. A Tiskit, A Tasket 28. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt 29. Camptown Races 30. The Mulbry Bush (Mulberry Bush) 31. For He's a Jolly Good Fellow 32. The Muffin Man 33. Home on the Range 34. Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? 35. The Old Gray Mare 36. Polly Wolly Doodle 37. Take Me Out to the Ball Game 38. Ten Little Children (to the tune of Ten Little Indians) 39. Buffalo Gals 40. A Bicycle Built for Two - Section 2 (American Folk/Patriotic Songs): 41. Oh Susanna 42. Good Night Ladies 43. I've Been Working on the Railroad 44. O My Darling Clementine 45. The Marine's Hymn 46. Anchor's Aweigh 47. You're A Grand Old Flag 48. The Battle Hymn of the Republic 49. America the Beautiful 50. The Star-Spangled Banner 51. My Country, 'Tis of Thee 52. When Johnny Comes Marching Home 53. When the Saints Go Marching In 54. Yankee Doodle 55. The Army Goes Rolling AlongSection 3 (Christmas Music): 56. Jingle Bells 57. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas 58. Up On the House Top 59. Deck the Halls 60. Joy to the World 61. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 62. Hark the Herald Angels Sing 63. O Christmas Tree 64. Silent Night 65. Angels We Have Heard on High 66. Still, Still, Still 67. Bring a Torch Jeannete, Isabella 68. Good King Wenceslas 69. The Holly and the Ivy 70. The First Noel 71. Go Tell It on the Mountain 72. I Saw Three Ships 73. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day 74. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 75. Away in a Manger 76. We Wish You a Merry Christmas! Section 4: Classical Music Section 5: Gospel/Spiritual Music Review: Helpful - I really like using this book with students more interested in modern music, but it is also helpful for those interested in improvisation. It is not for very early beginners; you do need to know how to read notes. If you can and are interested in expanding your horizons and learning how to play pop, rock, and jazz songs from a lead sheet, you should definitely consider getting it. It starts with simple patterns and, little by little, gets more interesting and creative. It also includes many commonly used patterns, which come in handy when you don't know what to play with the left hand when the right one is playing a melody. I think the only missing thing is that there could be backing tracks (via a link) to make it more fun to practice the songs from part 2 of the book. But I guess it would increase the price, so... Not a big deal. Overall, it's not an anthology of left hand patterns, but it is precisely what it says - '100 left hand patterns'. It's a good start to understanding how to play from a fake book. Try this book if your experience is limited to playing music written traditionally or if you learn it from tutorial videos, but you want a little more. It can sparkle your musical creativity. Review: 10 STAR Awsome - Oh my goodness I just got this book. It shipped on time! I've only gotten to the 11th pattern because I'm having so much fun exploring the songs I already know with them. okay for the review, if you have not already done so go watch his video on Youtube. He gives a very accurate description of whats in the book and what you can expect. If your already a beginner to intermediate piano player this will boost you to the next level. So ive been playing for two years and I mostly stay in the primary cords of C G F major. Jerald explains just move up 1/2 step to get to each chord. So from C to A major is 9 half steps right? So just move fingers 5 3 and 1 9 steps and presto A major. Well I already know my chords but I want to show how beneficial his way of teaching is. The patterns challenged my muscle memory. Especially the muscle sitting on my shoulders LOL. What I do is get a timer for 3 minutes and take my time learning the pattern with the metronome going and then increase the speed until it becomes second nature. This goes pretty fast so I then play in all 12 keys as suggested and lastly I play around with songs I already know just to see how the pattern can be applied. I give the book 5 stars but I'd give it more if I were able to. In sure I could be farther along learning the patterns but I can't stop playing songs. Another thing I've noticed is my dexterity and my confidence in embellishing seemed to just flow naturally following these methods. Kudos to the author Jerald Simon. I'll cherish the book for years to come.