jazz piano voicings
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New to Jazz? Here’s How to Play Drop 2 and 4 Jazz Piano Voicings
Introduction Drop 2 and 4 voicings are very effective and consistent, and ideal for beginners to start grasping what each chord in a jazz standard is made of. Let’s take a look at Afternoon In Paris chord by chord and… Read article →
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The Charlie Brown Christmas Album is a Masterpiece: Want to sound like Vince Guaraldi?
Vince Guaraldi plays one of the most beautiful jazz piano in the album: “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Here are three piano video lessons showing a few techniques he uses during his solos. If you want to learn more about jazz… Read article →
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How to Play Rootless Voicings for Jazz Piano & Guitar
Introduction As a piano player you have surely come across chord symbols in jazz standards lead sheets. These chords are embedded with a huge amount of information and trying to interpret the actual meaning of these chords could sometimes be… Read article →
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A New Symbol in Harmonic Analysis
In the process of writing The Jazz Standards Progressions Book Series I realized the need to express a very common harmonic event with a new symbol. So far we had solid and dotted arrows and brackets to express II-V relationships… Read article →
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60 Top Hat Piano Grooves Free is waiting for review
Originally posted on Music App Developer: Today we submitted the new version of 60 Top Hat Piano Grooves Free. I added 4 modules that are available as in-app purchases,using the method I described on my previous post In App Purchase… Read article →
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Introduction to using mCircle
This is an introduction to the free online software (javascript app) from mDecks: mCircle located at http://www.mdecks.com/graphs/mcircle.php mCircle was created by Ariel J Ramos using his Decoding the Circle of Vths (fifths) method to analyze and study musical structures and subsets… Read article →
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