Tons of Runs for the Contemporary Pianist

Been learning to play the piano for some time now? Looking for some tools to enhance your piano playing further? This is the book that you should consider buying!

Tons of Runs is a wide-ranging collection of runs, licks, and lines that you can hear in the jazz genre (though most of it can be used while playing in any genre of music). Each of those runs is written in three different keys to appeal to a wider audience, and presented in a straightforward style.

If you are a jazz player (on any instrument) with a few years of playing experience, there’s a lot that you can learn from this book. It starts off with smaller runs and then progresses to big, impressive licks. This book is suitable for anyone who can read treble clef. Most of the examples provided are treble clef only, mostly in the middle of the staff.

• Pros: Lots of runs that you can practice. Runs are not very short nor too elaborate.
• Cons: Not enough description on how to use these riffs and where to fit it in a practice routine.

This book contains useful phrases derived from chord tones, passing tones, resultant scales, and scale-tone chords that piano players can use right away as “vocabulary enhancers.”

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These are the raw material and tools that you can use to polish your performance and improvisation skills.

You may even use these ‘runs’ on the piano to create new and more interesting ways to play the music you already know!

So get this book if you really want to sound a pro! [easyazon_link identifier=”094374895X” locale=”US” tag=”keytarhq04-20″]Buy on Amazon[/easyazon_link].