Gettin into Groove for piano

Description

Repertoire and etudes

New bilingual edition with texts in English and Finnish – Uudistettu

kaksikielinen editio, tekstit suomeksi ja englanniksi!

Getting‘ into Groove is a tutor and repertoire collection for piano,

exploring the African-American popular music genre, its origins and building

blocks. Melodies, rhythms and harmonies are introduced all the way from 19th

century ragtime to 1980’s hip hop. Each genre offers three distinct

compositions, concise fact bulletins and references for listening the most

important examples and forerunners of blues, stride, swing, bebop, funk…

The recordings of all the pieces of this collection are available in YouTube,

and the arrangements available for different ensembles broaden the

spectacular view on the continuously changing music. Click sample / table of

contents to see more.