Starting May 2019: Download links to the audio folder for each book in the Connections series is printed on the inside front cover of the book.
Connections for Piano Repertoire is written for both solo and group play-along.
The recorded accompaniments created for Connections by professional studio musicians reinforce the styles and double as useful backgrounds for improvising and jamming.
Click Play to hear samples of songs from all 10 books - Samples with and without your part:
- First with Piano
- Then without Piano
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The pieces in Connections cover a wide range of styles—from swing to Latin and from hard rock to pop ballad. These pieces present many of the same challenges found in more traditional repertoire. Lyrical pieces demand tonal beauty, excellent balance between melody and accompaniment, natural breathing and phrasing, and pedaling finesse. More rhythmically oriented pieces require coordination, a deep-seated sense of pulse, and awareness of stylistic touches and accentuation. All pieces benefit from a strong connection to mood, movement, or image.
Songs in Book 6
- Free for the Day
- Cool as a Cucumber
- Mood Marigold
- Mississauga Rag
- Beguine Again
- Rocker
- Bare Trees
- Too Cool
- Gazelle
- In Between
- Tent Meeting
- Bahama Beach
- As in a Dream
- Buttoned Down
- Seconds Apart
- Displacement
- Twilight Dance
- Big Band Swagger
- A Minor Incident
- Little Lullaby
- Upside
