The Total Rock Keyboardist

Song List: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Getting Started Sitting at the Keyboard Standing at the Keyboard The Keyboard Music Notation - Pitch Music Notation - Time Other Important Symbols and Info Half Steps and Whole Steps The Major Scale Intervals Chapter 2: Rock Music Theory Keys, Key Signatures, and Why We Use Them Cycle of 5ths Major Scale Fingerings The 12 Major Scales Minor Scales and the Relative Minor The 12 Minor Scales Chapter 3: Chords The Workhorse of Rock: the Triad Babylon Minor Chords House of the Rising Sun Major and Dominant 7th Chords First Call Minor 7th Chords Isle of Dreams Chapter 4: An Introduction to Rock Rhythms Syncopation Rhythmic Independence Over the Top Under the Depths Chapter 5: Basic Bass Lines Get 'Em Up Chapter 6: Arpeggios and Chord Inversions House of the Rising Sun: Arpeggios Chord Inversions Slash Chords Back to Babylon 7th Chord Inversions Down to Earth Pedal Tones Chapter 7: More Left-Hand Positions Boogie-Woogie Patterns Walkin' & Talkin' This Rock 'n' Roll Thing Octaves Almost There Broken Octaves All Night Station Boogie Lines in Octaves Saloon Spider Chapter 8: Pentatonic Scales and Beginning Improvisation Major Pentatonic Scales Deeper River Far As You Like Minor Pentatonic Scales New Life Off the Main Highway Chapter 9: The Blues The Blues Scale and Blue Notes See the Light The Grace Note Diatonic Triads The 12-Bar Blues Variations on the 12-Bar Blues Take to the Road Blues Line in the Bass = Rock Power Riffs Chapter 10: Funky Sixteenths Explosive Soul Chapter 11: In a Modal Mode The Dorian Mode Pure Magic The Mixolydian Mode Switch-a-Roo Chapter 12: Rock Ballads Roll On Pedal Technique Chapter 13: Electronic Keyboards Electric Piano Lucky Ping Pong The Rock Organ: The Mini and the Mighty Good Time Comin' Chapter 14: Important Rock Chords Power Chords Fingers on Flame Sus Chords Walk in the Sun Major 6 and Major 7 Chords Extensions: Major 9, Sharp 11, and Major 13 No More Clouds Voicing Glow-in-the-Dark Voice Leading Time in Motion Chapter 15: Chord Progressions I-V-I I-IV-V-IV and V-IV-I Go Geppetto Shake it Up Why I-IV-V-I Rules Rock 'n' Roll Substitutions for I-IV-V-I I-vi-IV-V Sixteen Angels A Mixolydian Chord Progression (the Flat VII) My Friend Zippy Progressions East Chapter 16: Diatonic Soloing Diatonic 7th Chords Analyzing a Song Applying the Major Scale to a Solo Oolong Tea Phrasing, Chord Tones, and Passing Tones Oolong Groove Point of Harmonizing Your Line Streetsweeping Troubadour Licks and Tricks 195 Relics Chapter 17: Minor Chord Extensions Minor 9, 11, and 13 Chords Voicing Minor Extensions Madman's Minors Chapter 18: Developing Bass Lines More Pedal Tones Rolls Like a Wave Walking Bass Walkin' Bass The Falling Bass Tip Jar Waltz Going for Baroque Chapter 19: More Scales and Modes Phrygian Wagons to Phrygia Lydian Lydian Mood Aeolian Galaxy of Love Harmonic Minor Harmonic Detective Chapter 20: Styles In the Style of Pink Floyd Full Moon Frenzy In the Style of Steely Dan Blue Mercedes Blues Rock Evenin' Dew Chapter 21: More Soloing and Harmonic Theory Solo Examples All I Need In Search of the Broken Chord Technically Tuneful Serendipity Relating Diatonic Harmonization to the Modes Arpeggios Pentatonic Scales Diatonic Harmonization of the Melodic and Harmonic Minor Scales Modal Interchange and Parallel Modes Modal Interchange Cadences Someday Moon Beams Chapter 22: Progressive Rock Odd Meter Sub-Plots Forces of Heaven Wake Up Conclusion