Hal Leonard Modern Band Method, Book 1 - Keyboard - Book/Media Online

A Beginner's Guide for Group or Private Instruction

Authors: Scott Burstein, Spencer Hale, Dave Wish, Mary Claxton
Format: Book with Media Online
Instrumentation: Keyboard

Winner of the 2021 "Best Tools for Schools" award for best method!

The Modern Band Method series provides a guided lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and many popular songs by the biggest artists of the day! This keyboard method works in tandem with the other instrument methods in the series, allowing students to play the same songs together as a full band!

Keyboard lessons include:

• Proper playing posture
• Reading notes and rhythms
• Scales, chords and arpeggios
• Syncopation
• Rock, pop, Latin, funk, hip hop and island styles
• Articulations
• Composing a song
• Writing lyrics

Song List:

• Bad
• Bad Romance
• Best Day Of My Life
• Burn
• Can't Stop The Feeling!
• Clocks
• Closer
• Dark Horse
• Dazed And Confused
• The Edge Of Glory
• Evil Ways
• Funkytown
• Haiti
• Halo
• Heathens
• Hey There Delilah
• I Gotta Feeling
• Imagine
• Kick Push
• Kids
• Land Of A Thousand Dances
• Little Talks
• Low Rider
• Moves Like Jagger
• My Girl
• Oye Como Va
• Push It
• See You Again
• Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
• Shake It Off
• Someone Like You
• Stir It Up
• Summer
• Sunshine Of Your Love
• Take On Me
• 25 Or 6 To 4
• Umbrella
• Uptown Funk
• Waiting In Vain
• Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)
• Wake Me Up
• What Makes You Beautiful
• Wild Thing
• Without You
• Zombie