All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in real books. You will learn how to analyse the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, and much more. Offering a theory-based approach, it addresses many aspects of solo and small band performance that can improve your own playing and your understanding of what others are doing around you. Playing from a real book is all about options. The material presented here will offer you a full range of techniques that you can put to use right away. Song list After You've Gone Alice In Wonderland Beyond The Sea Bye Bye Blackbird Doxy Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You Georgia On My Mind Giant Steps Give My Regards To Broadway Have You Met Miss Jones? Honeysuckle Rose I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good I Hear A Rhapsody I Remember You If I Were A Bell I'm Old Fashioned In A Mellow Tone In A Sentimental Mood Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana) Lazy Bird My Buddy My Ship Oleo On The Alamo Opus One Pick Yourself Up Robbin's Nest Rose Room Scrapple From The Apple Swing That Music That Old Black Magic The Girl From Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) The Way You Look Tonight There Is No Greater Love There Will Never Be Another You There'll Be Some Changes Made They Didn't Believe Me Triste Wave You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)