Mark Levine - The Jazz Piano Book
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"mark levine, long-time pianist with cal tjader, is a concord jazz recording artist who has recorded with such jazz greats as joe henderson, camen mcrae, richie cole, mark murphy, houston pearson, and many others."
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for a jazz beginner, i would say it's a little tricky as it develops to more specific tech, if the aspiring pianist isn't quite familiar with the jazz sound. but i must confess that it took my music view to a new place. yes. the book is great. i love the language he uses, as if he was talking to us personally. very nice work.
mark levine is a great, nice and very kind gentleman. he answered my emails in a very friendly way.
get the book. learn it. take your time and take your playing to the next level.
peace!
i do this by going through albetans beginner area here and on www.musictheory.net
can't wait to start the "real" learning, though, but without basics, well you know...
if you wait until you understand everything theoretical, then you're going to be left behind.
the idea of jazz is to have some fun, start jamming as soon as possible, just jump in and do it. no matter what your level, i'm sure you can find something that will be useful in the book. a new chord voicing, a cool lick, a new progression that you can use.
there is no such thing as "real" learning. learning is learning, no matter what level you're at, so don't handicap yourself by thinking that way.
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by Scot Ranney on 01/09/2007, 11:01
don't get me wrong, it's a solid, "better be in your shelf or die" kind of book, extremely well written with info you won't find elsewhere. but it seems to me that at time the book starts sounding like a "list" of voicings.. sometimes there's a song for the chapter, but most times it seems a little blunt.. ("figure 8-6 shows two variations of the g7 alt chord")
i'm taking my time with each chapter.. sort of using the book as a general guideline of all my practicing. so i'd stay on a chapter for months, while doing all sorts of other songs and exercises 'till i gain enough experience to understand atleast a good portion of the chapter.
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by Scot Ranney on 01/28/2007, 15:29
does somebody know to exercise the skales from mark levine´s jazz piano book chapter 11 (exactly 11-2). i don´t know the fingersettigs of the continuous up an downplaying skales, they aren´t given there. if i play the ionic skale up, should i play the doric skale down starting with the 5th finger? or another one?
thanks if somebody had practised it and could help me..
rob
specifically:
right hand:
up: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
down: 5 4 3 2 1 3 2
up: 1 etc...
left hand:
up: 5 4 3 2 1 4 3 2
down: 1 2 3 1 2 3 4
up: 5 etc...
hope that makes
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by Scot Ranney on 05/23/2012, 07:18
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