Jazz Piano Handbook
Essential Jazz Piano Skills for All Musicians
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Piano/Keyboard
SKU: AP.26926
Essential Jazz Piano Skills for All Musicians. Composed by Michele Weir. Improvisation; Keyboard/Piano; Method/Instruction. Jazz. Book and Digital Download. 128 pages. Alfred Music #00-26926. Published by Alfred Music (AP.26926).ISBN 9780739047958. UPC: 038081308043. English.
If you're a jazz singer or instrumentalist and don't already have basic skills in jazz piano: now is the time! Piano skills are the gateway to understanding chords and progressions, checking lead sheets for accuracy, learning new tunes, arranging, writing your own tunes, becoming a better improviser and so on. This book outlines an easy step-by-step process that makes learning basic jazz piano easy and fun!
Song List (64)
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- Before You Begin: Piano Review
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- Technique basics
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- Five-note warmup
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- Scales
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- Diatonic triads
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- THE ESSENTIALS
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- Chapter 1: Jazz Piano 101
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- Circle of Fifths
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- Chord Types
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- Intro to Voicings
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- Chapter 2: Position #1 (P1)
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- Voicing P1 (major, dominant and minor seventh chords)
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- ii-V-I progression
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- Pattern P1 major
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- Voicing P1 (minor seventh, flat five chords)
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- Pattern P1 minor
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- Chapter 3: Position #2 (P2)
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- Voicing P2 (major, dominant and minor seventh chords)
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- Pattern P2 major
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- Voicing P2 (minor seventh, flat five chords)
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- Pattern P2 minor
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- Chapter 4: Applying the Patterns
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- Connecting the dots
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- The nature of chord progressions
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- FAQ: What do I do if...?
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- Chapter 5: Rhythmic Styles
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- Swing
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- Bossa Nova
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- Additional rhythmic styles: jazz waltz, samba and ballads
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- Above And Beyond
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- Chapter 6: Expanding Your Palette
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- Color Notes
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- Five-note voicings
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- Chapter 7: Positions #3 (P3) and #4 (P4)
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- Voicing and pattern P3
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- Voicing and pattern P4
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- Mixing and matching patterns (P1, P2, P3, and P4)
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- Chapter 8: Open Voicings
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- Drop 2
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- Non-formulaic open voicings
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- Chapter 9: Pianistic Texture
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- Broken Chords
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- Passing notes
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- Chapter 10: Playing the Tune
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- Harmonizing the melody
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- Fills
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- Melodic troublemakers
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- Appendix I: Etudes (Jazz Standards)
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- 1. Rainy Day
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- 2. You Love Me
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- 3. The Moon Has Risen
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- 4. Lullaby for the Birds
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- 5. A Fool's Day
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- 6. In Love I Will Fall
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- 7. Time and Time Again
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- 8. Far Away a Long Time Ago
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- 9. What Could Be New?
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- 10. Don't Tell Me
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- 11. You Are All Things
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- 12. Valentine's Day
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- 13. Embraceable You
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- 14. A Foggy Day
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- Appendix II: Catalog of Chord Symbols and Color Notes
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- Glossary