Learning how to play jazz piano is part of the more the advanced portion of piano lessons. It requires that you have learned and mastered the basics o...
Learning how to play jazz piano is part of the more the advanced portion of piano lessons. It requires that you have learned and mastered the basics of playing a keyboard.
As with most types of piano music, it is essential that you understand the basic notes, chords and hand placement for you to begin to understand how to put jazz chords together. Jazz is a fantastic form of music filled with trademark chords, unconventional rhythms, and is filled with emotion and soul.
A jazz piano lesson teaches you the ability to improvise and lets you be creative with these personal and soulful sounds. The right lesson plan early in your piano skills development is important for you to begin learning how to properly play jazz chords.
To begin learning a jazz piano lesson, you first have to understand the specific jazz chords. This requires that you are beyond the basic ability to play triad chords. Jazz notes start in the 6th cord, which are 4 note combinations. Then there is the 7th cord, 3 notes with the 4th being lowered a half step.
You also must be able to play a major 7th cord. When you begin to practice these chords, you will start to hear some of the distinctive sounds of jazz. Once you have mastered these chords you can begin learning how to put them together into a progression, or series of chords.
The most common jazz progression is 1-4-2-5. This means each number is the first note in each chord. Proper finger placement will speed this process up. Jazz is all about improvisation so as you practice these chords it is good to try them out in minor keys too. This will let you get the feel for jazz piano. The next step will then be learning how to add base.
If these steps seem confusing to you, remember that learning the basics step by step is the easiest way to move quickly through your lessons. This is where a quality online teaching program is very helpful in speeding up the learning process.
An online piano learning program like the Rocket Piano system with video tutorials and dynamic learning tools are very easy to follow for beginners.
Rocket Piano, which you can follow from beginner to advanced levels of piano lessons, has additional course materials on specifically learning how to break down and play jazz chords. It really makes learning how to play jazz pianoa lot easier.
Remarkable rendition of a jazz standard by young piano prodigy Georgie Dave. This version was developed by Professor Doug McKenzie. After 2 1/2 years of music instruction at a college in his hometown, Georgie shows his unusual talent in a studio jazz session accompanied by professional musicians: bass by Edwin Proaño (his ensemble professor), and drums byFidel Vargas (professional drummer).
Learn how to play jazz piano like Charles Crawford does in How High the Moon. This jazz piano solo is incredible and will teach you how to play jazz piano. For more videos, check out www.charlescrawfordonline.com
Check out my book: bit.ly The point of this tutorial is to show you how easy piano improv can be. There’s a lot of mystique surrounding jazz piano, blues and other keyboard improvisation styles. And it’s true that to improvise at a high level takes a great deal of skill and practice. However, getting started with piano improvisation is dead easy. The trick is just to realise that you don’t have to use the whole keyboard at once. You can start with just one note. The way I get started here is by improvising different rhythms on middle C. I then add a single note at a time, working my way up the blues scale. If you take this approach it allows you to start improvising with something very, very easy and push your boundaries gradually. In the whole tutorial I only cover five notes in the right-hand. But you can do an enormous amount with those five. For example, you don’t have to play just one note at a time — you can form simple chords and use them to create rhythmic effects and jazzy licks. It’s important to remember that the piano is a percussion instrument, so you should really explore what you can do with rhythm and the quality of sound you get from hitting the keys in different ways. So far, so easy. Piano improvisation needs left-hand work as well, though. What I do in this tutorial is used a simple repeating left-hand pattern. There’s quite a good lesson here: you can achieve an awful lot with a very simple left hand. As long as it provides some harmonic context and …
Great Oscar Peterson plays solo! “I can’t get started” Variant in HD quality here: www.youtube.com All jazz books and transcriptions you need for educational purposes www.learnpiano.narod.ru
Lesson on building and jamming with rootless jazz piano chords. Apply these voicings for soloing and for playing behind other instruments. www.freejazzlessons.com
My Romance – jazz piano Lesson. This is another re-cycled midi file done some time ago. After the solo first chorus, I tried to get the ‘collective improvisation’ feel with bass, drums and piano responding to each other – even though I was playing all parts – this involving re-recording each part several times. I was hoping for a High Definition video here, as it is difficult to read the notation without it. There is a high quality video free to download at www.bushgrafts.com On my video – http there is a printable copy of the notation and the bass and drums backing track.
This song is a real pleasure to play. The natural flow of the piece is very melancholy and inwardly directed. Bill Evan’s version is a stand out. Nina Simone gives an amazing, haunting vocal rendering of this tune. If I were to be self critical of my playing on this piece, I think I overly relied on runs. I come close to derailing the melancholy mood with too much movement. If I do it again, I think I will focus on a more economical use of notes and pare it down a bit. I used Ivory Steinway patch and Yamaha CP300 as the keyboard controller.
www.PianoClubhouse.com This is a tutorial to play “I SMILE” by Kirk Franklin (Hello Fear album, 2011). For access to more full-length tutorials, visit PianoClubhouse.com. ===================