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St JAMES INFIRMARY - Piano lessons by Antoine Hervé
St JAMES INFIRMARY - Piano lessons by Antoine Hervé
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Antoine Hervé teaches you how to play his arrangement for solo piano
Here is a preview of the accompanying MIDI file and MP3:
St James Infirmary is a New Orleans classic.
This lesson is especially for beginners. Playing chords with your left hand on every beat will give you a tempo on which to improvise freely.
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Download:
• Sheet music for the theme arrangement (pdf)
• Scores of improvisations (pdf)
• Improvisation and accompaniment exercises
• MIDI file for piano, double bass, and drums (.mid)
• Piano and bass-drum MP3
• Work advice
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The explanations are clear. To improvise, you would need more ideas and more scales than just the blues scale.
I love it, I have fun and I learn new things.
