Mark Harrison's Pop Piano Book Review

Qualitative and Quantitative: I love pop piano: jazz, blues, gospel, ballads, and everything in between. It isn’t always easy to find a teacher that specializes in these areas so I decided to buy this pop piano book and take it for a spin but it ended up taking me for a spin and teaching me a thing or two.

Mark Harrison’s Pop Piano Book demonstrates the essential techniques used to add spice to lead sheets, fake books, and printed scores. The first ten chapters are used to build a solid foundation. He uses this space to get you grounded in the basics of pop piano such as: review of scales, chords, rhythm, and notation as well as triads, four part chords, inversions, and more theory which will prepare you for the second part of the course.

The second half of the book is a stylistic approach. He covers ballad, pop rock and hard  rock, new age, R’n’B ballad and funk, country and country rock, and slow and fast gospel. Furthermore, everything is explained with text, charts, and an interpretation of each style chart that is shown as well.

I can’t help but to like this pop piano book. It is a whopping 498 pages full of serious study. It covers tons of left hand styles that you can easily add to your fingers and if you play with a band it even covers comping. Overall, this is a great resource for any serious pianist.

I highly recommend this book be added to your collection of piano instruction materials today; especially if you are teaching yourself piano lessons. I do want to give a warning to beginners though. This book has a lot of advanced concepts and leaves the basics in the dust. If you know a thing or two this is just the book you've been looking for.

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Testimonials: This book is liked and loved by many. For some individual testimonies go to pop piano book and scroll down to the bottom to read the customer reviews.