Jennifer Bowman - Jazz Nocturnes Guitar Downloads

Jennifer Bowman - Jazz Nocturnes Guitar DownloadsThese nocturnes were greatly influenced by both my classical piano training and the many hours spent at the piano playing and singing through traditional musicals and the Great American Songbook with my sisters. I modeled many of the chord progressions after those used in The Real Book and structured the pieces after Chopins Nocturnes, with a few twists here and there. The pieces should feel familiar to the listener. Some are simple, some are

the way a guitarist-composer of that period might have written the arrangement

This piece has an ABCBDBEB shape

She’s Like the Swallow  and Space Station Party

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas and Jingle Bells are written in a fixed black key pentatonic position

The subsequent books for other instruments are drawn from these

alongside newly composed tunes

and When the Stars Sing

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Maeve Gilchrist’s original composition Fin and Sarah’s Wedding Waltz is for solo lever or pedal harp

These ensemble pieces are ideal for student and teacher or two (or three) students together

études and ideas for further exploration

The pieces in Connections for Piano Duets cover a wide range of styles – from Latin to rock and from rock to pop ballad