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Date: 04-Apr-04 @ 05:22 AM -
RE: piano for dummies
"On Piano Playing" by Gyorgy Sandor how to play the piano with minimal damage to your hands
"The contemporary keyboardist" by John Novello.
This guy is a bit of a scientologist but the info in his book is pretty nifty just ignore his odd bit of babbling like I did.
"The Jazz Theory book" and "The Jazz piano book" by Mark Levine both share some material but are very good
"Improvising Blues Piano" by Tim Richards play like a bloozer
"Arranging Techniques for Synthesists" by Erik Turkel
"The Principles of Orchestration" by Rimsky-Korsakov very good book
"The lydian chromatic concept of tonal organization" by George Russel is very good it inspired the modal jazz movement
and if you want to try some of John Coltrane's reading material
"Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns" by Nicholas Slonimsky