Down by the Riverside - New Orleans Rhumba Style (arr. Bradley Sowash Music) by Bradley Sowash Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Bradley Sowash

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Bradley Sowash

Arranger Bradley Sowash Music

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 14

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Bradley Sowash

Level 4

Product ID 846626

Genre Sacred Spiritual Latin Jazz

Instruments Piano

Learn techniques used by great New Orleans pianists via the great old spiritual, Down by the Riverside.

Here's a recipe for cooking up the same distinctive gumbo that the great New Orleans pianists have been playing since the 1940's. After a bit of background on Afro-Cuban rhythmic influences, you will learn the ingredients of the rhumba boogie style originated by New Orleans piano legend, Professor Longhair.

Then, in part 2, you will understand how pianist Dr. John mixed rhumba figures with the toe-tapping second line rhythms associated with post-funeral New Orleans marching bands.

The booklet ends with a fully notated early-advanced solo piano arrangement of Down by The Riverside suitable for recitals and/or church celebrations.

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