Includes many beautifully prepared scores, extensive music glossaries, classical scores made easy and step by step Afro-Latin / Caribbean percussion. Scores Included: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Baa Baa Black Sheep / ABCs - Form Figure #1 Resolmilafatimila elegant sequence circle of 5ths - World Music Mastery for playing with anyone! Standard 1-4-5 progressions, beginner to advanced - Bars 30-32 of Praelude #1 by J.S. Bach - study of Seventh Suspended chords - Latin Piano (Montuno) 101: "La Bamba" C I-IV-V-IV major and minor (with I-ii-V-ii variation) - Satin Doll by Duke Ellington with 7th chords spelled out on the bass clef - Montuno Etude #0, Montuno Circles Makes Blues Scale, Shekere pattern as piano montuno - Yoruba Diasporas, Rumba Parts translated into Melodic Phrases - Calypso Study in Soca (Soul-Calypso) often the first side (bar) is Up and the second half is Down - Syncro-Nice Sacred Rhythm Scales, Major and Lydian Scales Sync with Sacred West-African Percussion - Conversation Pieces: Extremely Potent Repeatable Perpetual Motivations - Making Improvisation Effortless - Montuno Etude #1, Primer for First Time Montuno (Latin Piano) Technique - Montuno Etude #2, "That Makes This Heaven" C Major 1-6-2-5 Montuno and Bajo Tumbau (Bass) - Swing Montuno Study, 6/8 Swing Jazz, Montuno Rhythmic Tension added to the Melodic Role - Calypso Circles circles of fifths with calypso chuck (downbeat on the first half version) - Clavinet Keyboard Score 1,"Soca Clav" Soul-Calypso standard keyboard chuck - Clavinet Keyboard Score 2,"Superclav" Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" adapted to teach Clavinet Techniques - Bossanova Study, Sweet Love Song, Piano, Chords & Lyrics: "Lost In Love" - Affirmatinas: "Everything's going perfectly, now and ever more!" "Having what I'm wanting, wanting what I'm having" - Affirmatina Song, Piano and Lyrics: "My Successes Are Here" - Classical Derivative Affirmatina #1, "I Manifest My Destiny" based on Chopin Mazurka in C - Classical Derivative Affirmatina #2, "Chopin Made A Way" based on Chopin's C# minor waltz - Classical Derivative Affirmatina #3, "Let It Be's" based on Abbe Franz Liszt's "Liebestraum" - Clarinet Concerto in A Major, the Adagio, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reduction to piano solo - Canto: Gelido in Ogni Vena, from the opera Farnace by Antonio Vivaldi, piano, chords and vocals - Song To The Moon from the opera Rusalka, by Antonin Dvorak, melody / hook for piano and chords - Canto: The Triumph of Truth & Time (later the opera Rinaldo), George Frederic Handel, reduction to piano, chords and vocals - Canto: Laudate Dominum, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reduction to piano, chords and Latin vocals - Romeo and Juliet Overture, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Theme Reduction - Canto: Ave Maria (originally Ellens Gesang for Sir Walter Scott poems) by Franz Schubert, piano, chords and Latin vocals - Bel Canto: Casta Diva from the opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini, reduction to piano, chords and vocals - Andalucia later called The Breeze And I, by Ernesto Lecuona, reduction to piano, chords and melody - Les Caquets (short version) by Chevalier de Saint Georges (the Black Mozart), Trio Score version for Bass, Piano & Violin - Percs Score 1, Carmen - Carmen's Habanera, Clave, Percussion, Coro (Chorus) adapted to teach the percussion patterns - Percs Score 2, Yemaya & Santa Lucia, Agogo, Percussion, Coro (Chorus) in Yoruba and English - Percs Score 3, Afro-Blue (Obatala Orisha Song) with Chopin's Eb Prelude / Nocturn (1 verse). Many years of experience in teaching, performing, writing and band-leading have been condensed into handy reference materials, and step-by-step lessons that can be easy to follow, improve music understanding and appreciation. In this book are germs, seeds that can be expanded into lessons in many directions, all making musical understanding and music appreciating improve greatly. This book is great for self-study, and
About the Author: Teo Vincent IV lives in Berkeley, California. He studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and piano privately with Oszkar Morzsa of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. He continues composing and creating education & wellness media. Teo Vincent IV has been composing since the age of 7. Having played in bands including: Jazz Fusion, Brazilian, Nigerian, Calypso, Soul, Salsa, Reggae, High-Life and more, he has a wealth of knowledge of musics and forms. A technical educator by trade, his ability to make the complex simple and fun is astounding. Now he combines very impressive technical consulting skills with a beautiful knack for elegant and virtuoso music scoring together in a shining example of positive musical creations. His "Charmony" series shares the most uplifting and classy techniques for performance and learning. From African drum pattern arrangements to Italian performance instructions, Vincent makes clear concise materials for reading, playing, studying and mainly, enjoying! First class honors on most recent History and Harmony exams at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Vincent is determined to leave the world a more harmonious and beautiful sounding place than it was.