Patrons can now download my (readable) Thelonious Monk transcriptions! Ask Me Now Blue Monk Bluehawk Everything Happens to Me Monk’s Point North of the Sunset Pannonica Reflections Round Lights Round Midnight Ruby, My Dear This has been a long-term goal of mine. I have hundreds of pages of hand written, solo piano transcriptions that I’ve […]
My Bebop Isolation series is complete! This is a playlist of self-produced piano music that I performed, edited, sound designed, and mixed. Pianistically, every track features various approaches to 2-part counterpoint and hand independence. Mp3s, sheet music, and MIDI source files are available on Patreon. Track List: The Fruit (Bud Powell) Chi-Chi (Charlie Parker) Donna […]
tl;dr – I’m starting to release self produced piano music every couple weeks — Hey everyone! I’ve been promising new piano music for months – I’m excited to finally be able to share it with you Every couple weeks, I’ll be releasing a video with some jazz improvisations and compositions. I’m still unsure the best way […]
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(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 […]
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 […]
Six tunes by Fred Hersch. Here’s the album on Spotify. Lead sheets and solo piano transcriptions are available on Patreon.
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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 […]
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, […]