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| Great Resource for Jazz Pianists | 10/07/2020 | 10/07/2020 | 5507 | |
| Dorico Chord Symbols is Here!!!! | 06/28/2017 | 06/28/2017 | 5526 | |
| Dorico and Chord Symbols | 04/03/2017 | 04/03/2017 | 6388 | |
| Nice article about improvisation | 10/21/2015 | 10/21/2015 | 2725 | |
| Dealing with 1 and 3 clappers - superbly awesome | 09/17/2014 | 09/17/2014 | 3490 | |
| bukawanaginggang | 09/17/2014 | 09/17/2014 | 2671 | |
| LearnJazzPiano.com massive site update thread | 09/17/2014 | 09/17/2014 | 5300 | 3 |
| Back from Hong Kong, getting ready to update the site | 07/14/2014 | 07/14/2014 | 1530 | -1 |
| They are dropping like flies! Marian McPartland, RIP | 08/22/2013 | 08/22/2013 | 1694 | 3 |
| George Duke - RIP | 08/06/2013 | 08/06/2013 | 1473 | |
| Requesting readers for my new book release: Jazz Piano Notebook, Volume 2 | 07/30/2013 | 07/30/2013 | 2376 | |
| Giant Steps again | 07/20/2013 | 07/20/2013 | 1768 | 5 |
| Fingerings for Scales Forumla | 06/02/2013 | 06/02/2013 | 1081 | |
| Practice from the head, play from the heart. | 04/04/2013 | 04/04/2013 | 1238 | 5 |
| The secret to jazz (and life?) | 02/06/2013 | 02/06/2013 | 1173 | 14 |
| Lessons with Scot in March - I-5 Corridor | 01/19/2013 | 01/19/2013 | 967 | 3 |
| Chico and Rita- movie for all jazz pianists | 01/18/2013 | 01/18/2013 | 777 | |
| Note from Scot | 01/12/2013 | 01/12/2013 | 694 | 4 |
| Joe Chindamo - great sounding pianist | 07/17/2012 | 07/17/2012 | 855 | 1 |
| Scot's band, Chico's Paradise | 05/26/2012 | 05/26/2012 | 817 | 1 |
| LJP Updates and notes about remaining wonkyness. | 05/15/2012 | 05/15/2012 | 781 | 11 |
| Review: The World's Greatest Fake Book (Sher Music, 1983) | 05/06/2012 | 05/06/2012 | 5184 | 1 |
| RAD music! | 05/04/2012 | 05/04/2012 | 932 | 4 |
| ...No Title... | 04/26/2012 | 04/26/2012 | ||
| Wonka | 04/24/2012 | 04/24/2012 | 1848 | |
| Site Updates | 04/23/2012 | 04/23/2012 | 713 | 10 |
| Another Practice Trick to break out of habits | 04/04/2012 | 04/04/2012 | 776 | |
| Fun times with a drummer | 04/03/2012 | 04/03/2012 | 783 | 4 |
| LJP is DEAD! | 02/10/2012 | 02/10/2012 | 674 | 3 |
| Anyone from Taos? | 02/02/2012 | 02/02/2012 | 627 | |
| ...No Title... | 01/27/2012 | 01/27/2012 | ||
| Who do you want to play with? | 01/04/2012 | 01/04/2012 | 936 | 14 |
| Happy New Year! | 12/31/2011 | 12/31/2011 | 742 | 1 |
| Creating forums from rooms | 12/28/2011 | 12/28/2011 | 736 | |
| Fingerings | 12/23/2011 | 12/23/2011 | 1791 | |
| New LJP Stuff | 12/23/2011 | 12/23/2011 | 812 | 8 |
| One of my favorites vids: monty and billy taylor | 12/21/2011 | 12/21/2011 | 886 | 1 |
| New Forum System | 12/10/2011 | 12/10/2011 | 749 | 4 |
| Monty video on youtube | 11/21/2011 | 11/21/2011 | 813 | 4 |
| Social sharing button use! | 10/21/2011 | 10/21/2011 | 635 | |
| Oscar Peterson video | 10/12/2011 | 10/12/2011 | 804 | 4 |
| Contemporary solo piano tunes | 10/07/2011 | 10/07/2011 | 890 | 7 |
| A kind of chord "miracle" exercise | 09/19/2011 | 09/19/2011 | 889 | 3 |
| Scot Ranney Trio | 09/14/2011 | 09/14/2011 | 2277 | 1 |
| Spammers!! | 09/12/2011 | 09/12/2011 | 787 | 7 |
| Hawaii, Maui | 02/27/2011 | 02/27/2011 | 810 | 1 |
| A command audience! | 10/26/2010 | 10/26/2010 | 746 | 6 |
| Sorry I haven't been around! | 08/30/2010 | 08/30/2010 | 667 | 3 |
| Happy 4th! | 07/03/2010 | 07/03/2010 | 766 | 5 |
| I Thought About You | 06/26/2010 | 06/26/2010 | 1531 | |
| What do you practice? | 06/24/2010 | 06/24/2010 | 703 | 8 |
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.
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.
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:
buy pdf version Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Notebook Volume 3 -
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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