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Title: This is that Critical First Step
Review: For the non-jazz pianist who looks at a "fake book" of jazz tunes and doesn't know where to begin-Assuming that you have a good ear, have a basic piano technique and can read music half-decently, this book can be very useful. Once you play through the written portions and try your hand at the suggested variations for the 8 provided original tunes, you are likely to have enough skill to play many of the tunes you might encounter in a "fake book" in a manner that sounds fairly convincing. From that point on, you can apply what you've learned with John Valerio's book to other tunes and expand from there.I highly recommend this book as that critical first step in that it provides you with stylistic "rules" that keep your efforts sounding "authentic" until you have enough knowledge and experience to branch out using others' ideas and those of your own.
