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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

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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