Piano/Guitar Duet music

[Claudius Lipbergen]

Looking for some arrangements for Piano and Guitar. No vocal.

My son plays Gr. 9 Piano (classical orientation) and I try to play jazz
guitar. I'm looking for something we can play together. If it has to be
Christmas music so be it.

Any suggestions as to where to look?

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[Max Leggett]

Get a copy of The Real Book. It has lead sheets: melody and chord
symbols. It doesn't have written out piano parts, so your son will
have to improvise his voicings - can he read chord symbols?
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-4552810-9326443?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+real+book&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

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Without music, life is a mistayke.
Friedrich "Spelling R Us" Nietzsche
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[Max Leggett]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:49:08 GMT, "Claudius Lipbergen"
<clnoloe...@shaw.ca> wrote:

Hal Leonard has lots of stuff
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-4552810-9326443?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+real+book&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
Do a search for jazz piano.

[Claudius Lipbergen]

Thanks Max. But that's the problem - he doesn't improvise at all and I
don't NOT improvise (if you know what I mean). I don't read well but I can
read music a bit - and that would be helpful for me cuz I'm not very good.
He doesn't make anything up.
I've been trying to think of ways to bridge the gap and I've become
convinced I need to come HIS way (he's 16).

So... Real Bool works for me (I have one) but not for him.

"Max Leggett" <kidk...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[Gerry]

On 2006-10-30 16:18:22 -0800, "Claudius Lipbergen"
<clnoloe...@shaw.ca> said:

> Thanks Max. But that's the problem - he doesn't improvise at all and I
> don't NOT improvise (if you know what I mean). I don't read well but I
> can read music a bit - and that would be helpful for me cuz I'm not
> very good.

Not sure what kind of duet your thinking of that wouldn't require you read it.

> He doesn't make anything up. I've been trying to think of ways to
> bridge the gap and I've become convinced I need to come HIS way (he's
> 16).

Sounds like you should get some basic Christmas song repertoire, like
the Reader's Digest colleciton, which is really pretty good. Actually
they have a few "treasuries of popular song" that most
beginner/intermediate piano players can make it through with "Blue
Moon" and "Embraceable You" and "Small Hotel", "Body and Soul", etc.
And you read the chords.

Or if you can't really read the chords well, just doodle along. it's
Christmas! It'll be cool...

> So... Real Bool works for me (I have one) but not for him.

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What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in.