www.jazzpianolessons.com Whether you're looking to impress your friends this year at your Christmas party or just gather the family around the piano...
www.jazzpianolessons.com Whether you’re looking to impress your friends this year at your Christmas party or just gather the family around the piano for a sing-along, you’ll find the over 3 hours of step-by-step instruction on these DVDs to be an early Christmas present to yourself and your listeners! You’re going to learn two classic Christmas song arrangements. I break down each song and teach it to you using my clear step-by-step method. This means you’ll spend less time practicing and more time playing. Now, you do not need to know how to read music to use this DVD. However, if you do read music, PDF music has been provided for you. Chords are the building blocks of songs and harmony. It is important to learn chords. But more importantly, you need to understand why certain chords work with certain melody notes. I’m going to break down all of the chords and teach you what notes are needed and which ones are not. I’ll also teach you how to determine the best chord for a particular melody note. I’ll also teach you how to apply certain chords to melody notes to get that full and rich sound. No more scratching your head trying to figure out what I am playing. I will explain all of the notes that I am playing plus there is a virtual keyboard that lights up the notes that I play.
This is an exclusive Piano tutorial for the official song of World cup 2010 – Waving Flag by K’naan. I worked very hard on this video and I even took the time to make music sheet (this version of the song is better than my other video). Adapted from Brasilianmusician’s version. Sheet: www.megaupload.com
A MIDI file of my solo, PDF notation file of my solo, and MIDI and MP3 backing tracks for this song are available on my website at www.Lot2Learn.com. “Voyage”, written by the great pianist Kenny Barron is a beautiful (and difficult) song. Loving the key of F Minor like I do, I just had to take a stab at it. I take it at a decent pace of 205 bpm. The key for me during my improvisation is to have an idea of where I want to go and what I want to say. This is sometimes referred to as “intent”. To quote Paul E. Rinzler in his book The Contradictions of Jazz, “Technique in jazz is defined not through a universal standard, but in terms of intent. That is, good technique is that which expresses and makes manifest an improviser’s intent, as a matter of positive freedom. The stark dissonances of Thelonius Monk may sound like mistakes to jazz neophytes just like Miles Davis’s unfocused tone, but those dissonances are actually the consistent result of clear intent from a great musical mind that saw creative possibilities in harmony and dissonance that no one else in jazz had before.” Although I try to make clear my intent, I might sometimes have difficulty in execution. This is just part of my own musical “voice”. A player can have monster chops, but IMO, if the intent does not come through in their playing, then it’s all technique and no heart. What does the above paragraph have to do with breaking down my improvisation in the tune “Voyage”? Everything. -L2L Tech Notes Roland FP …
Visit www.HearandPlayJazz.com for more… Dear Fellow Musician, Let’s face it. Most musicians fail to reach professional “guru” status because they place themselves in a musical box. You see, they think just because they play one particular style of music, that they should only learn chords, patterns, and tricks from that same genre. Simply put, if they’re gospel musicians, they tend to buy only gospel courses. If they’re country musicians, they generally seek out country-related material. …and I’m not saying this is wrong. I’m just saying that it’s limiting. It’s like a basketball player refusing to train outside the gym because of a misconception that only track stars “run the bleachers.” Or a chef that only cooks chicken (…and never includes other dishes, cultures, meats, or flavors in their recipes). Personally, I think music is the same way. Good musicians pick a genre, learn everything about that one genre, and ultimately sound good in their “comfort” settings. Great musicians master several genres. They’re able to play in any setting, and most importantly, take things that are “commonplace” in one genre, and “sneak” them into another (…and usually wowing people while they’re at it). Being “good” is fine but in my opinion, good is the enemy of great. If you only want to be good, take my advice above and you’ll do “good” in certain environments. If you want to be great, however, keep reading everything I have to share with you on this page… Visit http for more…
Who Can I Turn To. Another song that was a favourite of Bill Evans. I have added comments again, and provided a clear piano view and also notation. It would be best to download a higher quality video if you want to look more closely at this, and be able to stop/start/loop at will – I have posted an easier to see video (as wmv file) and the midi file that was recorded at the same time, and a pdf file of the transcription at web.newsguy.com Ifyou have a fast connection and want to see this in high quality video to see the notes clearly (and improved audio), add the letters &fmt=18 straight after the existing internet address line above.
-L2L Tech Notes Roland FP …
Soon on my new Album.