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100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know: Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways
100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know Play the Same Song 100 Different Ways Author:Jerald Simon 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. — ... more »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.
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 the songs:
Section One (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)