"Half of what we do today is because we didn't know how to do it yesterday." ~Scot Ranney...
"Bob spoke deep words." ~Monty Alexander...
"You can run away, but you can't run away from yourself." ~Robert Marley...
"I was abducted by garden bugs and kept in a patch of rotting humus until I acknowledged on video that I killed baby snails and that shoes in general ...
When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed. and, Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain ...
"I'm always trying to, not adjust, but to improve. That is the goal." - Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle Mariners This quote is really neat. So many ...
"it's as easy as fishin, you can be a musician" - BTO...
"There must be a beginning of any great matter - but it's the continuing to the end until it's thoroughly finished that yeilds the true glory." ...
GAIUS PETRONIUS, A.D.65. “We trained hard… but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up in teams we would be reorganised. I was to le...
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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