Jazz Piano Technique: Exercises, Etudes & Ideas for Building Chops

this one is the best. Why? Just listen to the CD! If you don't do anything else, listen to the cd. Normally, try to find good music books with the CD's included. This saves a little time and money while training on your instrument. Eventually, you should start getting a basic idea of how to play music, if you listen to scales and music. The CD included is excellent for Ear Training and among the best. If you can't play the piano yet, just listen to the CD as much as you can. Google: Corpus Coliseum. The more you listen to it, eventually you'll be able to play, eventually! Just by listening to the CD! It covers sharps and flats and all octaves. Also, if you can, download Audacity (for free) and record a CD for yourself on your instrument chromatically. Listen to it daily. Give it at least 3 months, maybe even a year according to other college teachers who also write music books and are giftedly talented. Relative pitch should occur sooner, but you never can get too much scale practice, right? See you on stage prodigy:-) Take your time, even if you have to write the letters underneath the notes, it'll be worth it. Since I've started seriously practicing this mint of a book. With a lot, and I do mean a lot! of practice, 1-3 hours daily (whew}! I'm finally beginning to sound a little like a razz-ah-Taz-jazzman! Yah dig? :-) Just get the right mental motivation that works for you and you're good to glow! You're in my prayers, good luck all stars!

As an intermediate, non-jazz piano player: There is a ton of stuff in this book, quite a bit that I have not touched yet. But I love the 45 etudes at the end. There seems to be a wide range of potential proficiency covered, with some pieces requiring quite a bit of skill (as far as I can tell) to be played anywhere near the tempo demonstrated on the CD. Just about every one of the etudes is interesting to hear and practice even if played relatively slowly, and I would be happy to perform quite a number of them for anyone who would care to listen - at least if and when I can play them reasonably well.(Some of the etudes that emphasize isolated finger playing while other notes are held in the same hand can cause a fair amount of tension in my hands, so I play them sparingly if at all and sometimes modify them - reducing or eliminating some of the notes held to simply play the moving notes for their exercise while avoiding excess tension or strain.)** Note ** This book has now (Jan. 2016) changed from including a CD to including a code for online access to recordings of included music.

This book brings many different approaches to building technique which I have found very useful as a jazz pianist. The author seems to have narrowed down the multitude of piano exercises one might encounter to those which seem to be the most effective with an added jazz point of view. There are few books available which connect classical technique to a jazz concept, so this book is of great value to anyone hoping to take their technique to a higher level. No one book can solve every problem for a pianist or give them everything that they might need, but this book attempts to address quite a few important technical issues. If you have studied classical piano you are aware of the technical exercises you have to play for years. This book makes practicing technique much more fun and enjoyable as well as practical. Jazz is based on left hand chords and a right hand solo line in most cases. The exercises in this book are laid out in this type of format often so that the transition into a standard tune will be quite effective. There are also various styles in these exercises which can be applied directly to a jazz tune (or at least make it easier). I have worked through several of the author's other books (especially the first one) and found that this is a great book also.

Need to take your jazz piano skills to the next level? This is the real deal. You’re an intermediate musician, know how to read music and have a good command of western music theory. Transitioning to piano? This will help take you there. Quick faking it, you can do better.

I wanted to love this book- it really helps with “technique” and trust me I know a little something about playing because I am a piano teacher. It’s great for learning scales, chords, inversions, some runs, etc. Theres also a lot in the back of the book that has actual jazz pieces. For me I could just follow along with the music and not really take anything away from trying to play something “jazzy” myself. I would like to find more music that has just treble clef written in with chords for LH and moments in the music where you have to make something up. OR more chord progressions where you have to improvise RH. I bought this for my student and I used it heavily for technique but need to connect the dots to “her” improvising, and this book didn’t give me what I needed.

I purchased this book and expected a new copy. Instead I received a used copy with some wear. I was misled and am sendng a 2 star review.

good purchase

A lot of useful exercises etc. I have been fortunate enough to be a working musician my entire life and I found this book to be terrific with both new ideas and “ brush up” content.

If you believe that good technique is essential to your playing, and you are particularly looking to learn jazz and other modern techniques, then you have to buy this book (although you could just as easily apply it if you are looking to improve your classical technique). The author to some extent borrowed elements from the great classical technique authors such as Hanon, Czerny and von Dohnanyi and then brought them up to date. He has also created a series of etudes to go along with the exercises.This book is hard work. It will expose technique weaknesses you didn't know you had (certainly true for me) and, with a massive amount of careful effort, it should help you sort those weaknesses out. But be warned, it is a sort of musical mental cruelty, in the form of a self-harm manual, but absolutely worth the effort.You should NOT bother buying this book if you are NOT prepared to put in the practice time.PS The author's other books are just as good (keyboard bass lines / intros, endings etc) and slightly LESS mental cruelty.

Diese 176 Seiten Noten dienen der Schulung der Geläufigkeit.Sie sind unterteilt in Exercises (Fingerübungen) und Etudes (Fingerübungen mit musikalischerer Prägung).Nur diese zweite Hälfte des Buches wird auch auf der Demo-CD wiedergegeben. Daher sollte die erste Hälfte in jedem Fall von einem Lehrer betreut werden.Bereits bei den Exercises wird klar, dass hier kein künftiger Mozart-Interptret geschult wird. Es ist klar, in welche Richtung diese Klänge führen. Es geht in den Jazz. Und mündet in einen Klang, der die Voraussetzungen für Akkord-Konstruktionen und Improvisationen des Jazz-Pianisten schafft. Neben der Beweglichkeit der Finger wird auch die typische Harmonik vermittelt.Voraussetzungen: Englisch, mehrere Jahre Klavierunterricht nach Noten, Grundkenntnisse der Harmonielehre

Good exercise book covers different areas of Jazz techniques

Pensavo di trovare molte più cose interessanti...un mix di esercizi tratti da Hanon, alcuni sull'indipendenza molto simili a Cortot. Forse l'unica parte interessante è quella sulle quarte.

Muy buen libro de ejercicios de piano. Unos más difíciles que otros pero todos muy buenos . . . .