Wicked Keys
WICKED KEYS BOOKS
Single License:
For individuals - perfect if you're a student wanting to play around at home, use at your lessons, or to personally use at a performance
Studio License:
For teachers - you can print unlimited copies and use with an unlimited number of your own students
Folk Songs for Easy Piano
50 SONGS IN ONE BOOK
All for easy piano with lead sheets and arrangements
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Modern backing tracks in ROCK, POP, GOSPEL, COUNTRY, and JAZZ styles!
Created for modern piano teachers and students seeking modern sheet music
From a smashingly acoustic pop take on Danny Boy, to a mind meltingly rocking Baa Baa Black Sheep, to a rip-roaring gospel arrangement of Ode To Joy, we even take it the streets of New Orleans with When The Saints, before heading to the high seas with Drunken Sailor: there's something in here for every student!
The perfect companion to "Lead Sheet 101" - the book designed to free up your playing
LEAD SHEET 101
Reading and Arranging for Modern Piano
Contemporary solo piano is all about interpretation - that is taking a basic idea of the melody and chords and having some fun with it, creating arrangements in the moment, and improvising rhythms, chord colours, and even reharmonisation
From the absolute basics to the advanced, this book covers a plethora of techniques for reading and improvising based on melody and chords.
Lead Sheet 101 covers:
- Basic chord approaches + common chord voicings (triads and 7ths) - learn how even a beginner can simplify and interpret a complex chord symbol
- Adding interest via movement and rhythm
- Simple ways to add chordal colour using chord hacks to add 9ths and other complex extensions without thinkin' about the math
- Intermediate and complex diatonic and non-diatonic reharmonisation techniques: learn to chunk up your sound by adding juicy chords in!
This book is a modern approach to chords and melody - learn to interpret beyond the dots and add freedom to your playing
KEYBOARDS
Sound Design for Modern Pianists
Whether your rockin' it out on stage, jamming in a jazz band, or smashing it out in a musical, it's not enough to just be playing piano. Pianists these days need to know their Rhodes from their Wurlitzer, their Hammond from their Vox, and lord knows they need to know their FX!
This is the book written for modern pianists - in it we cover:
- Understanding the differences between a clonewheel, stage piano, workstation, and synth and tips on buiilding your keyboard rig
- Programming basics including choosing character, shaping tone, and applying FX
- Complex patching with splits/layers and utilising pedals and controllers
- Audio examples of each instrument and FX type, and access to our curated playlists highlighting different intstruments and FX
This is the book that every gigging pianist needs - sound like a pro with our tips and tricks
CHRISTMAS
15 Christmas Carols for Modern Piano
The perfect Christmas book for every learner featuring super simple beginner leadsheets in C, G, and F major, a handful of reharmonised jazz leadsheets, fully notated easy piano arrangements, and intermediate accompaniment parts for performing duets
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Fully orchestrated backing tracks in contemporary styles
- 15 Christmas classics
- Simple leadsheets
- Easy piano
- Intermediate accompaniment parts-
A handful of reharmonised intermediate lead sheets with jazz chords
- Fully orchestrated backing tracks in contemporary styles
Get soulful this Christmas with a modern take on some seasonal favourites
FOLK SONGS
And Other Classic Tunes
(no longer available)
Our original Folk Song book for Easy, Intermediate, and Advanced Piano featuring 24 songs arranged in multiple styles has been retired.
AVAILABLE NOW: Our NEW book Folk Songs for Easy Piano contains FIFTY songs arranged for easy piano and simple lead sheets is available above
COMING SOON: Folk Songs for the Advancing Pianist featuring modern takes for solo piano will be available
Sheet Music
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About Us
The Wicked Keys philosophy, James Bakers performing arts history, and modern piano lessons with modern methods
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Buying Guide
Whether you're on the hunt for your first digital piano, searching for a stage piano with a rip-roaring hammond emulation, or gettin' your synth on - this guide is for you!
