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Category: My learn Jazz piano eBooks
Creative jazz practice: chapter 12, book 3
Here are some great tips for creative jazz practice. This is an extract from book 3 of Learn Jazz Piano. Click here for your link to all 4 eBooks Chapter 12: Creative jazz practice Keyboard The ideal is to practice on an acoustic piano, as the sound and action will always be superior to an… Read more »
Jazz Practice
Why practise jazz? The obvious answer has to be that we practise in order to improve. But why does the very word cause many of us to go running for the TV remote? Is it just possible that the thought of jazz practice conjures up the brain numbing activity of running up and down scales… Read more »
Finding the sweet notes
In video lesson 24 of Learn Jazz Piano I focus on how songwriters employ ‘sweet notes’ to add that spine tingling effect to their melody. I then relate this to jazz improvisation and show you how to employ this technique of finding the sweet notes in your solos. Using these well-chosen notes is a good way… Read more »
Jazz solos
We all want to play more creative jazz solos! This is the last in the series of extracts from my new book How To Solo: your guide to playing more creative jazz solos. Click here to purchase my eBook How To Solo and see how your jazz solos improve! Chapter 11: Interlude from jazz practice… Read more »
Learn to solo with my jazz eBook
Learn to solo : chapters 6-10 I’m not making out that you can learn to solo just by studying my new eBook How To Solo, but it will certainly lead you on the path to creative improvisation. Click here to purchase all 4 of my eBooks Here are some extracts from chapters 6 – 10… Read more »
Checklist for jazz piano solos
Here is your checklist of jazz piano solos with 12 essential tips. (This is an extract from my fourth eBook: Learn jazz Piano: How To Solo.) 1) Chords belong to families. A chord rarely exists in its own right and is far more likely to have a relationship within a family. It has usually… Read more »
How to solo
If you’ve ever written a letter of complaint you’ll know that there is one basic ground rule to ensure a positive outcome: be concise and stick to the point. In other words, don’t ramble. If you’re returning a broken radio, your main point is that it’s not fit for purpose. To supplement this with an… Read more »
essential jazz standards part 3
Here’s my final list of suggestions for your jazz repertoire. These are all essential jazz standards that you should become familiar with. Although I’ve listed 14 tunes, I suggest you at least learn What Is This Thing Called Love, Softly As In A Morning Sunrise and Yesterdays. For more of a challenge, take a look… Read more »
Essential Jazz repertoire, part 1.
As you build up your collection of essential jazz repertoire it’s likely that the bulk of your growing collection will consist of what is known as jazz standards. Although this term covers a wide range of material, it usually refers to well known songs played by jazz musicians but originally written for Broadway musicals by… Read more »
Building your Jazz Repertoire part 2: Latin
All these tunes in this jazz repertoire have a straight 8 feel rather than swing. The world of Latin American music is vast and would take a lifetime of study. What we are looking at here when building jazz repertoire is a small collection of jazz repertoire tunes with a Latin feel; songs that are likely… Read more »