So much good advice and encouragement. Thanks, as always.
Most melodies seem to repeat simple patterns of just 4 or so notes. Listen for them in Autumn Leaves. Then,notice in the following measures, only the final...
Yes, it just takes time. Start with very easy things, listen to simple jazz music and try to play it. Your ears will grow the more you do this. Don't g...
It definitely comes with practice. I always recommend starting with simple tunes like Twinkle Twinkle and Mary Had A Little Lamb. For example, knowing th...
I have dabbled with the piano during a long working career and now am near retirement want to devote more time to learning to play jazz piano. No plans to...
Thanks very much for the email help regarding emailing Ralph Patt pc...
Even easier is to right click on the email link and select the "copy email" menu item that comes up. Then use your regular email program and copy...
When you hover your mouse over the link it should display something like Mailto: xxxx@yyyyyyy in the feedback bar at the bottom of your browser and the xxx...
I'd like to email Ralph Patt - his website leads me to microsoft outlook (for email) which I don't do. Do you have an email address for him. pc...
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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:
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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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