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Piano for Adoption Scam 07/14/2021 07/14/2021 8432
BEWARE: FREE BABY GRAND PIANO SCAM 01/15/2021 01/15/2021 27056
Oh Tannenbaum for Jazz Piano 12/08/2019 12/08/2019 11600
Volume 5 of the "Jazz Piano Notebook Series" is Available! 04/12/2019 04/12/2019 9433
LearnJazzPiano.com File Downloads News 02/06/2019 02/06/2019 39179
One Hour of Relaxing Piano Music 02/28/2018 02/28/2018 8709
Jeff Brent's Jazz Piano Notebook 12/07/2017 12/07/2017 10805
5 Pro Tips for Practicing Jazz Piano 10/14/2014 05/31/2017 10335
"Danny Boy" Jazz Leadsheet 03/13/2017 03/13/2017 23372
Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Notebook 02/12/2017 02/12/2017 9229
Let's Take a Look at Steinberg Dorico, Part 1 11/02/2016 11/02/2016 7340
Summer Music Theory Classes Will Change Your Life 01/18/2016 01/18/2016 22114
Top Ten Reasons Why Jazz Musicians Should Attend College 08/10/2015 08/10/2015 7972 3
Introducing Jamison Ross 06/25/2015 06/25/2015 5499
Piano, Health, and Diet, the Paleo Way 05/08/2015 05/08/2015 7547
Tim Richards- "Improvising Blues Piano" Book Review 04/27/2015 04/27/2015 20571
Beginner's Guide on How to Play Piano Like McCoy Tyner 04/05/2015 04/05/2015 17500
How to stop getting lost during other people's solos 01/19/2015 01/19/2015 7969
R.I.P: Buddy Catlett, Extraordinary Bass Player and Human 11/13/2014 11/13/2014 5600 1
Jazz Piano Lesson: How to play slash chords 10/27/2014 11/08/2014 49895
Total Beginner Jazz Piano Lesson: 2-5-1 chords 10/19/2014 10/23/2014 189735 1
Jazz Piano and Audience Response 09/23/2014 09/27/2014 4778
Updating LJP and Cosmic Awareness 09/17/2014 09/17/2014 27462
A Look at, "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise" 09/16/2014 09/17/2014 18465 1
That Left Hand and Learning Tunes 09/16/2014 09/16/2014 7025
Reharmonization 101 09/16/2014 09/16/2014 21326
Left Hand Walking Bass 09/16/2014 09/16/2014 100941
Advanced Jazz Piano Blues 09/16/2014 09/16/2014 30466 3
Simple Jazz Piano Blues 09/16/2014 09/16/2014 21744 1
Jazz Piano Basics 09/16/2014 09/16/2014 60643 3
test 09/18/2014
Delayed Pop-Ups on Web Pages 09/21/2014
Paleo Recipe: Bacon, Onions, Broccoli 09/21/2014
Playing Jazz in a Loud Room 09/30/2014 4
Neo Soul Chords 10/01/2014
Jazz Piano Exercise For Harmonizing Melodies 10/17/2014
A Jazz Pianist's Guide to Tuning Your Own Piano 11/04/2014
The One Thing They Don't Teach You In College About Jazz Piano 11/11/2014
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Jazz Piano Notebook Series
Scot Ranney's Jazz Piano Notebook, Volume 1 - jazz piano tricks of the trade

Volume 1 of this educational jazz piano book contains 15 jazz piano exercises, tricks, and other interesting jazz piano techniques, voicings, grooves, and ideas Scot Ranney has picked up over decades of playing on stage.

Being a pro jazz pianist requires good ears, experience, and a bag of tricks that create the kinds of sounds people expect to hear from a jazz pianist. The entries in this book will give you some of those tricks.

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Scot Ranney's Jazz Piano Notebook, Volume 2 - jazz piano tricks of the trade you can use today
"Latinesque"

Volume 2 has 14 jazz piano exercises and tricks of the trade, and quite a bit of it is Calypso jazz piano related material, including some Monty Alexander and Michel Camilo style grooves. Jazz piano education is through the ears, and books like this help connect what you're hearing to what you want to play.

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Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Notebook - jazz piano tricks of the trade

Volume 3 contains 12 jazz piano exercises and explorations by the acclaimed jazz piano educator, pianist, author, and recording artist Tim Richards.

Tim wrote the well known "Exploring Jazz Piano" and "Improvising Blues Piano" books and has several others to his name.

Tim has a new book out Beginning Jazz Piano (Pts 1 and 2)

Many of Tim's books now come with free access to interactive sheet music ONLINE, which permits slowing down of the backing and performance tracks, as well as the option to loop passages for practice purposes.

Tim now also has online VIDEO courses for his books, including Beginning Jazz Piano, Improvising Blues Piano and Exploring Jazz Piano Vol 1:

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Jeff Brent's Jazz Piano Notebook - jazz piano tricks of the trade

Volume 4 is by Jeff Brent, a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and author of "Modalogy" and other acclaimed jazz theory and education books. In this book Jeff shares detailed analysis of transcriptions of live performances. He covers everything from the shape of the songs to the tricks and licks he uses in improvised lines to the ideas behind his lush chord voicings.

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