Left-Handed Logic: Boogie to Basslines: for Piano and Keyboard

Contemporary, jazz, and standard sheet music favorites will become easy improvisation sight-reading for the left-hand dominant piano and keyboard player after using these exercises. Are you the parent or teacher of a young left-hand dominant student? This series of exercises will save hours of frustration for you and your youngster by improving his/her dexterity skills.

Who would benefit from this type of lesson? If you experience:

• difficulty reading written chords,
• difficulty simultaneously playing harmony transitions and melody,
• one hand passively follows the other,
• left-hand dominance and clumsy or awkward hand placement and chording,
• weak left-hand skills

Short exercises for learning chords played with "independent hands" and for autonomous hand motion follows basic hand placement pictures and charts. There is no written music for this portion of learning. Scale formula along with chord and scale charts guide the hands to complement each other. The scale and chord charts are modified guitar and string instrument charts where the player learns the instrument instead of reading the notes. Book 4 is formatted for piano and keyboard players to learn as the guitar and other string instrument players. The player can easily annotate and move from one key to another or from one scale to another scale using these charts. Charts for all scale types are given in Book 3.

A good keyboard player learns all the variations of playing keys so both hands learn and anticipate motion. This process results in smooth chord transitions and two equally interactive hands. You will develop improvisation skills here. Autonomous learning of hand placement in this book is compared with learning foot placement in dance lessons where a good dancer then learns steps both left and right, forward and backwards.

The left-hand dominant piano and keyboard player will learn bassline hand placement with the left-hand leading the right-hand. We begin with the boogie and swing left-hand placement and motion patterns, followed by jazz Locked-Hands. All the remaining basslines easily follow...

Basslines presented in this book:
block chords, broken chords, near neighbors, Alberti, stop and swing waltz, 4/4- time swing, locked-hands, four-way closed, drop-2, "1-5-10", internal voicing, western, boogie, shuffles, and 12-bar blues.

The left-hand dominant piano and keyboard player using Book 4 in this Left-Handed Logic series will learn hand placement, hand motion, "independent hands" chording, and basslines where the left-hand leads the right-hand .

Enjoy your music!