Alicia's Keys - VIRTUAL Piano Sample Library Review

This is a fantastic plugin. It works standalone and in your favorit DAW, such as ProTools. It sounds like if you were sitting at a real (good) piano. The light tones sounds like a real piano where the string almost have no sound, and the deep tones are really nice and deep.
My girl wouldnt play any other pianos cause they didnt sound real. Even ProTools piano (that is quit allright), werent good enough.
The folks from Native Instruments have done a fantastic job. Thumps Up.

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Together with Danish sample specialist Thomas Skarbye (better known by his company name Scarbee) and impulse response expert Ernest Cholakis, Alicia Keys has created a virtual piano that meets her professional standards and embodies the soulful sound that has become her trademark as a superstar. This is the piano sound that has helped Miss Keys win multiple Grammys and reach the top of the charts. ALICIA'S KEYS was sampled from her own playing, recorded in the artist's own studio under the supervision of her trusted engineer, Ann Mincieli. The instrument samples come from Alicia Keys' very own Yamaha­TM C3 Neo grand piano. This unique and highly-sought after instrument was built to celebrate Yamaha's 100th anniversary in 2002 and represents the very top of the Conservatory Collection line. The exquisite and unique sound of the C3 Neo were painstakingly captured by Thomas Skarbye, Kontakt script wizard Nils Liberg, and Grammy-award winning engineer Ann Mincieli - making this exclusive instrument available to everyone. Using vintage microphones and preamps and through detailed analysis of Alicia's playing, the team succeeded in capturing the warm, soulful and inspiring sound of the C3 Neo all the way down to the finest nuances. Alicia herself says, "I feel confident that we came up with the best virtual piano you've ever heard and I am excited to introduce it to you! Ann, Thomas and Nils are a brilliant team!" Great effort was put into making ALICIA'S KEYS as authentic as possible. Designed with incredible precision, and incorporating subtle details such as mechanical release noises, a specially developed sympathetic resonance and release system, and even the sound of fingers hitting keys (optional), this unique instrument delivers plenty of lively realism. So much in fact, that Alicia Keys herself used it exclusively on her latest album The Element of Freedom.

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Claude Bolling - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio - Accompaniment CD Review

I've played this piece for years. It's nice to finally be able to play with the trio whenever I want. It's a fun piece.

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This book has been a top-selling item for years, and now this companion CD with play-along and backing tracks is available! This means flute players can now learn this legendary piece of music on their own ' these perfect piano accompaniment CDs eliminate the need for a pianist to play with! This CD can be purchased alone, for those that already own the book, and a book/CD pack is also available for those purchasing this for the first time.

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A Little Night Music (Piano Vocal Score) [Paperback] Review

I'm not sure why there are review for the book and the movie, or why someone comments that this isn't the full score.I ordered it, and they sent me the full piano/vocal conductor's score.

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Titles include: Night Waltz
* Now
* Later
* Soon
* The Glamorous Life
* A Little Night Music
* Remember?
* You Must Meet My Wife
* Liaisons
* Every Day a Little Death
* Send in the Clowns
* The Miller's Son
* A Weekend in the Country
* It Would Have Been Wonderful
* Perpetual Anticipation and many others.

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100 Years of Song: 1900-1999 (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) [Paperback] Review

This book provides a song for each year of the 20th century and most, if not all, have good choices. It is the perfect addition to any pianist's library with a lot of variety. I didn't even know all of the songs in the book, so it was fun to learn them and play them.

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This fabulous 432-page collection contains 100 songs, one for each year of the 20th century, complete with informative commentary about each of the songs. Includes: Alexander's Ragtime Band * All I Ask of You * All You Need Is Love * From a Distance * My Heart Will Go On * Rock Around the Clock * Star Dust * A String of Pearls * Swanee * The Way We Were * more.

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#1 All-Time Adult Contemporary Hits (Easy Piano Songbook) [Paperback] Review

The ISBN 0793545005 for this songbook is shared by the 1st edition and the 2nd edition.Each edition has great songs some similar and some different in each edition. The music notation is Easy Piano. I really like the large notation. It's better to follow than the regular sheet music. In my opinion you should have a good grasp on Adult level 1 to play through these pieces with ease.

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A revised edition of nearly 40 certified top-selling songs as listed on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts: Almost Paradise * Butterfly Kisses * Don't Know Much * Have I Told You Lately * Just the Way You Are * My Heart Will Go On * To Love You More * Where Do I Begin (Love Theme) * more.

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'80s and '90s Rock (Paperback Songs) [Paperback] Review

This book has many popular songs written in a lot of easy chords, but it's up to the player to figure out how it is played which can be tricky sometimes.I think the book should have been made a bit bigger.I kept having to stop to turn the page whereas if it was larger that the whole song would have fit in a double page spread.

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62 terrific rock songs, all in a handy paperback! Includes: Addicted to Love ¥ Almost Paradise ¥ Barely Breathing ¥ Building a Mystery ¥ Candle in the Wind 1997 ¥ Careless Whisper ¥ Change the World ¥ Counting Blue Cars ¥ DonÕt Speak ¥ Fast Car ¥ Fields of Gold ¥ Girlfriend ¥ Give Me One Reason ¥ Gloria ¥ Hold My Hand ¥ I DonÕt Want to Wait ¥ Ironic ¥ Life Is a Highway ¥ Roll to Me ¥ The Sign ¥ Tears in Heaven ¥ These Dreams ¥ Two Princes ¥ With or Without You ¥ Zombie ¥ many more. Melody lines, chords and lyrics, plus a section of guitar chord diagrams.

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Movie Songs by Special Arrangement (Jazz-Style Arrangements with a ""Variation""): Piano Acc. [Paperback] Review

This book is markedly better than many of the "play along" books I have purchased for alto sax.
First, the books are aimed only at alto sax--not at a hodge-podge collection of instruments.This means every page of the book is useful to the alto sax player, unlike some books where music for other instruments takes up large portions of the book.
Second, Strommen has created arrangements that have the "basic" melody in the first half of the song followed by melodic riffs/alto sax solos in the second half.The arrangements are targeted for alto sax and are put together to get a full and interesting sound.This allows a novice or intermediate player to sound like a "real" saxophonist instead of someone who is stuggling through a barren and uninteresting melodic line.
Third, the accompanying CD is excellent.Even numbered tracks have a trio made up of percussion, piano and a REAL alto sax.(This is compared to many other CDs which have the piano or bells playing the sax part.) Odd numbered tracks leave out the sax so you can play along.In all tracks the piano and the percussion are arranged to support the sax so again you really feel and sound like a saxophonist.
Strommen has three books that I know of that are all produced in the same style--a movies book, a Gershwin book and a Christmas book.They are all excellent in my humble opinion. If you are looking for an alto sax book that has sound musical values, is playable by a novice/intermediate player, and will make you sound AWESOME then these are the books for you!

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Each collection contains 11 songs arranged for the instrumentalist wanting to play in a jazz style -- without the need to learn to improvise. All of the books are compatible, with only minimal changes in the ""variation"" section to accommodate the ranges and unique characteristics of the instruments.

The immortal and memorable motion picture titles are: Sweet Georgia Brown
* Over the Rainbow
* A Day in the Life of a Fool
* Bye, Bye, Blackbird
* As Time Goes By
* Days of Wine and Roses
* Emily
* The Way You Look Tonight
* Misty
* On Green Dolphin Street
* Almost Like Being in Love.

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