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New Lesson on JazzPianoOnline.com: From Lead Sheet to Arrangement - The Safflower
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Bill Rinehart
At the heart of solo jazz piano playing lies the use of spread and rootless voicings. But to truly transform a simple lead sheet into a captivating piece of music involves digging deeper into the jazz player's bag of tricks and employing an array of arranging and reharmonization techniques to develop and intensify the underlying character of the melody and harmony of the tune. Each lesson in this series features a comparison of a fully realized two-handed arrangement of tune ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Stride Left Hand Part 1
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Bill Rinehart
Stride piano is a captivating solo piano style anchored by the left-hand pattern of low bass notes that alternate with mid-range chords. Using a transcription of Harry Connick's left hand on the tune “On the Sunny Side of the Street" from his 1987 self-titled debut recording as a template, the stride left hand pattern is broken down into its component parts in this lesson. Master this solo piano style with the accompanying PDF Practice Sessions which will start you out ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Chromatic Interval Ear Training
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Bill Rinehart
This lesson follows up the Diatonic Interval Ear Training lesson with the five chromatic intervals: the minor 2nd, minor 3rd, augmented 4th, minor 6th and minor 7th. Watch this lesson to learn how to associate these intervals with the first few notes of standard jazz tunes and then take a quiz to test your ability to hear them. Two timed quizzes are also included to help you develop speed at hearing these intervals. The final quiz tests you on all ...
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NEW on JazzPianoOnline.com: Artist Voicings: Taylor Eigsti
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Bill Rinehart
Three voicing techniques from the beautiful solo piano introduction to Taylor Eigsti's tune “Midnight After Noon" from his 2010 Concord Records release, Daylight at Midnight, are examined in this lesson: a dramatic voicing without a third, an ascending major chord line cliche and rich drop 2 voicings. Learn how he uses them, the theory that makes them work and strategies for incorporating these devices into your own playing. JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. ...
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New on jazzpianoonline.com: Chordscales of Major II-V-I Progressions
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Michael Ricci
Chordscales are an essential component of improvisation and major ii-V-I progressions make up most of the chords to any given standard tune. Together, these two elements constitute the bulk of what jazz improvisation is about. In this lesson, watch as the chordscales for major ii-V-I progressions are derived and then see how they are used by Miles Davis in his improvised solo over the tune It's Only A Paper Moon from his 1951 Prestige release, Dig. JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising over Just in Time
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All About Jazz
Improvising Over Just In Time
The melody of this 1956 standard tune is, you could say, spare. The basic motive is composed of two notes a half step apart that are repeated in quarter notes up to 15 times in each section. To say that Anthony Wonsey's solo over the chord changes to this tune is in contrast to this tame theme is an understatement to be sure. His energetic and exuberant solo from his 2004 Sharp Nine trio album ...
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New on jazzpianoonline.com: Improvisation Drill Approach Patterns Part 2
Source:
Michael Ricci
Barry Harris' solo over the changes to Tadd Dameron's Good Bait on Warne Marsh's 1986 quartet recording Back Home, is the basis for the series of improvisation drills introduced in this lesson. Six drills are derived from his use of approach patterns in the solo and presented over Rhythm Changes. Print and play the drills to help you assimilate these patterns into your own melodic vocabulary. The third installment in the Improv Drill series of lessons, this lesson builds on ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising over Passing Diminished Chords
Source:
All About Jazz
Improvising Over Passing Diminished Chords
Improvising Passing Diminished Chords There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds diminished chords. How do they work exactly? What chordscales do they take? How do you improvise over them?
Gain some insight into these questions through an examination of Red Garland's solo over the changes to the standard tune It Could Happen to You from the recording Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet from 1956.
This lesson will show you a couple of his ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising over Confirmation
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All About Jazz
Tommy Flanagan spins out a dizzyingly virtuosic solo (at quite a brisk tempo, needless to say) over this classic Charlie Parker standard on his 1977 Enja trio recording “Confirmation," with George Mraz on bass and Elvin Jones on drums.
In this lesson, the tune is analyzed for harmonic content by deriving chordscales from the progression and then his solo is deconstructed into it's component parts of chord tones, scale patterns, arpeggios and approach patterns to demonstrate his use of each ...
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