Two-Handed Jazz Voicings: A Practice Guide (Full Article)
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Two-Handed Jazz Voicings: A Practice Guide
(find the full article on Patreon) One of the most common difficulties among jazz piano students is playing two-handed voicings. Generally, the problem is twofold: What are the “good” voicings and how do you practice them? There are lots of resources on jazz voicings. With a little bit a research, it’s not difficult to discover a […]
Bud Powell Solo Piano Transcriptions
Five tunes by Bud Powell! Lead sheets and solo piano transcriptions available here on Patreon. Links go to YouTube where you can hear the originals. The Fruit Parisian Thoroughfare Oblivion Hallucinations Dusk in Sandy I’m confident these are 99.9% accurate, but undoubtedly, there are typos, and corrections will need to be made. Please let me […]
Songs Without Words – Fred Hersch
Six tunes by Fred Hersch. Here’s the album on Spotify. Lead sheets and solo piano transcriptions are available on Patreon.
Jazz Counterpoint – Improvising Melody & Bass at the Piano (Full Article)
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Jazz Counterpoint – Improvising Melody & Bass at the Piano
When musicians think about counterpoint, most likely they think about traditional fugues and “Bach” counterpoint. In some cases, they may also think about renaissance counterpoint, species writing and the music of Palestrina. When you listen to improvising pianists like Brad Mehldau, Fred Hersch, and Egberto Gismonti, you will hear lots of interesting hand independence and a […]
Piano Transcription & Deep Analysis – Sugar Ray by Phineas Newborn Jr.
I thought I’d take a break from the grind of writing about hand independence and transcribe something instead. In my own practice, I revisited this tune by Phineas Newborn Jr. called Sugar Ray. I encourage students to learn it because the melody has a very specific piano/band arrangement, it covers a good spatial range at the piano, […]
Hand Independence and Counterpoint
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Idiomatic Gestures, the Economy of Motion and Jazz Piano Improvisation (Exercises)
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Idiomatic Gestures, the Economy of Motion and Jazz Piano Improvisation
Idiomatic Gestures, the Economy of Motion and Jazz Piano Improvisation The Chromatic Scale and Anchor Points A Scale for Ascending — Idiomatic Gestures, the Economy of Motion and Jazz Piano Improvisation Before I get into the exercises, I’d like to share a few (incomplete) thoughts and observations that I’ve had over the last few years. […]