Piano Styles Flashcards
(32 cards)
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Band
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One man
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Piano styles
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Ragtime
Stride
Boogie woogie
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1 left hand
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Bass and chord
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Right hand
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Melody and chords
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Ragtime complicated form
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AA BB A CC DD A
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King of ragtime
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Scott Joplin
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Pre jazz style
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Ragtime
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No improv
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Ragtime
8
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Combination African syncopation and European theory
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Ragtime
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Around 1890
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Gay nineties
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Stride origin
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NYC Harlem
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Left Hand striding
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Bass and chord
12
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32 bar song (AABA)
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Stride
13
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Improvised
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Stride
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Difficult technically
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Stride
15
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Notable players of stride
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James P Johnson
Fats Waller
Art Tatum
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Barrel house
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Blues based
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Blues evolved to
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Rock n roll
18
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Social change
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Blues
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Aural art form
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Blues
Easy keys: G F C
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What came from Texas?
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Blues
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Shuffle rhythm
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Train rhythm
Blues
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W C Handy
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Blues stylist
12 bar/measure
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Blues singers
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Billie holiday
Bessie smith
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Easiest piano style
Boogie woogie
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Left hand ostinato
BooWoo
| Persistent left hand riffs
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Notable BooWoo players
Mead Lux Louis
Albert A.
Pete Johnson
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Notable ragtime players
Jelly roll Morton
| Scott Joplin
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Dancing
Boogie woogie
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Ostinato patterns
Boogie woogie
30
L-bass and chord
| R-syncopated melody
Ragtime
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Maple leaf rag
Scott Joplin
