Essential Guide to Pop Styles for Keyboard by Christopher Norton

This book introduces students and teachers to 34 pop styles, ranging from Pop Ballad to Heavy Rock, from Reggae to Slow Blues. There is a description of each style, with music examples within the text that you can play, tap or clap. Then there is a delightful piano piece in each style, including scintillating and idiomatic backings tracks, sounding terrific through the wonderful Superscore sound engine.

This interactive edition of Essential Guide to Pop Styles for Keyboard is the first time that these pieces have been available with these new and much improved sounds (the original book, published in 1994, featured General MIDI files on floppy disk). Christopher Norton has carefully updated the text and music and has newly recorded the piano solos, thus creating this unique composer-approved edition.

Introduction

Afro Cuban 6/8 (or Nanigo)

AOR (Adult-Oriented Rock)

Beguine

Big Band (or Swing)

Bluegrass

Blues Shuffle (or Jive)

Boogie (eight beat)

Bossa Nova

Calypso

Conga

Country Rhythm & Blues

Dance

Disco 1

Disco 2

Doo-wop Rock

Funk

Gospel

Heavy Rock

House

Jazz Funk

Jazz Waltz

Latin Fusion

Mambo

Pop Ballad

Pop Rock

Reggae

Rhythm & Blues Shuffle

Rock’n’Roll

Salsa

Samba

Slow Blues

Swing (5/4)

Tango

Thrash Metal