Gospel Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series
by Kurt Cowling
List Price:
Our Price: $11.05
You Save: $6.90 (38%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Kurt CowlingEdition: Perfect Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-01
ISBN: 1423412494
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Book Reviews of Gospel Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series
Book Review: best piano instruction book i've encountered!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've bought many piano instruction books over the years (mostly blues and jazz) and this is the best I've ever found. What I like best is that the musical tracks and lessons really sound like music (and gospel or worship music!), not lifeless drills. The author clearly writes from inside the genre -- he's not somebody with no feel for the music teaching a few simple elements to beginners. Most of the blues books, for example, will teach you elements of the style but never really sound like very good blues. Here, the musical tracks are really lovely. They efficiently illustrate a single musical idea but also are beautiful and expressive -- prayerful,joyful,rollicking, triumphant, meditative, sad, moving etc.
The book moves swiftly but comprehensively through a series of simple musical ideas -- many of which I haven't seen expressed anywhere else. The lessons are not belabored and they are well organized. Each isolated idea is relatively simple and bite-size but usually very fruitful. If this were the whole book it would still be worth the prize. But the real bonus is the quality of the written musical examples with their audio tracks which illustrate each idea. They provide a vocabulary of nice rhythmic motifs, bass parts, melodic themes, grooves and styles which are very musical. The way the tracks are performed provides additional great instruction in gospel phrasing, dynamics, feel & timing etc.
I'm an intermediate player and although the book is only 80 pages, there's a lot of material here. I've had the book about three weeks and I'm still exploring and working through the ideas in the first ten pages after the first chapter of recap explanatory material.
I hope the author keeps going writing additional books.
Entertainment Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Entertainment Books
The Glass Castle: A Memoirby Jeannette Walls
Scribner; Published: 2006-01-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.25
Price in other shops:
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelseaby Chelsea Handler
Simon Spotlight Entertainment; Published: 2008-04-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.00
Price in other shops:
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Standsby Chelsea Handler
Bloomsbury USA; Published: 2005-06-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.04
Price in other shops:
Mommywoodby Tori Spelling
Simon Spotlight Entertainment; Published: 2009-04-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsby Michael Pollan
Penguin; Published: 2007-08-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.14
Price in other shops:
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoirby Christopher Buckley
Twelve; Published: 2009-05-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.32
Price in other shops:
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanityby Bill O'Reilly
Broadway; Published: 2008-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.90
Price in other shops:
The Last Lectureby Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion; Published: 2008-04-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.40
Price in other shops:
Taking Woodstockby Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte
Square One Publishers; Published: 2007-06-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.69
Price in other shops:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
Quirk Books; Published: 2009-04-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Intros, Endings and Turnarounds for Keyboard: Essential Phrases for Swing, Latin, Jazz Waltz, and Blues Stylesby John Valerio
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2001-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.41
Price in other shops:
Progressive Rock Keyboard: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Seriesby Dan Maske
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2007-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.04
Price in other shops:
Stride and Swing Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Seriesby John Valerio
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2003-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.08
Price in other shops:
Country Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Seriesby Mark Harrison
Hal Leonard; Published: 2004-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.08
Price in other shops:
Smooth Jazz Piano: Keyboard Style Series (Hal Leonard Keyboard Style)by Mark Harrison
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2004-12-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.07
Price in other shops:
Salsa Piano - The Complete Guide with CD!: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Seriesby Hector Martignon
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2007-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.93
Price in other shops:
Gospel Keyboard Styles: A Complete Guide to Harmony, Rhythm and Melody in Authentic Gospel Style (Harrison Music Education Systems)Harrison Music Education Systems; Published: 2002-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
Blues Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series (Keyboard Instruction)by Mark Harrison
Hal Leonard; Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2003-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.08
Price in other shops:
R&B Keyboard: The Complete Guide with CD! (Hal Leonard Keyboard Style)by Mark Harrison
Hal Leonard; Published: 2005-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.63
Price in other shops:
Jazz-Blues Piano: The Complete Guide with CD! Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Seriesby Mark Harrison
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2006-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.70
Price in other shops: