Boogie-Woogie Piano The Complete Guide with Online Audio! (Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series)

Todd Lowry's book has all that you need to get into playing boogie-woogie in a serious way (if it's possible to be "serious about something as fun as boogie-woogie). He knows many styles of boogie-woogie, as played by various artists over the years, and has written examples of songs in these styles. Working with the exercises and pieces in this book should get your creative juices flowing. To get the most out of the book, you will have to do what people do when they want to play in Carnegie Hall, You will have to go to the piano and "Practice, practice, practice!!!" Then, when you have mastered boogie-woogie, you can get some of Lowry's other books and explore other styles of piano playing.

One of the best books I've ever seen from Hal Leonard. If you'd like to learn how to play boogie woogie on the piano, you're unlikely to regret purchasing this book. I don't see what else you could want from it. It starts with very simple bass figures (though it does assume you know how to read music) and progresses to far more complicated lines and improvisations. The CD that comes with it is done very well.Be warned that it's not for kids in the sense that your LH had better be able to stretch an octave from page 1.

I purchased this for my wife and here are her comments: Boogie Woogie Piano will help you acquire the basic music genre and focus on boogie woogie harmonic structures and bass lines. Boogie Woogie Piano teaches right hand techniques, introduction, breaks and ending which allow you as an artist to create your own boogie woogie. I highly recommend this book.

I have been playing for about 12 years and I found this book helpful but it gets hard quickly. The last few exercises took a few weeks to master.

Excellent book for learning Boogie Woogie piano. Plenty of patterns to work on. Explanations are clear and concise. Easily understood. Boogie Woogie is not the type of music you should work on as a novice. For the advanced-intermediate player, it will be a challenge. One of the best books I have found. Book includes a cd so you can listen to examples fro the book and play along. Highly recommended.

Be forewarned there is no fingering notation in this book. The instructions are "figure out a fingering that fits your hand." This might be all right for a more experienced pianist but makes the book of limited use to me as I'm trying to learn correct fingering or what has been deemed efficient fingering by someone who knows a lot more than me. I'm not far along but at this point I would recommend Blues Piano by Mark Harrison which is also part of the Hal Leonard Keyboard series. ---J.Z.

My 12 yr old grandson is learning piano, and he especially enjoys Boogie Woogie. Nice to still know there are some music books around (and through Amazon) that he can have extra fun with music.

I give the book 5 stars for instruction to boogie woogie but the audio files skipped on several songs making it hard to follow. Wish I had got the book with c.d.