Five Minute Jazz Piano
Go from intermediate to advanced jazz piano, five minutes at a time. A proven manual for parents, professionals, and anyone else with no spare time.
Introduction
Do you love jazz piano? Do you love playing, but wished you had more time to practise and improve?
This unique book is for people who want to go from intermediate to advanced jazz playing, but don't have lots of spare time. So, if you're a parent, a professional, or anyone else with spare time and a love of jazz, this book is for you.
This is a carefully sequenced toolkit of techniques to make the process of becoming a master jazz musician swift, smart, and - above all – enjoyable. What’s fantastic about this collection of techniques is that they each take five minutes or less. In other words, this really is a proven toolkit of 5-minute steps to take you from intermediate to advanced jazz piano playing.
Transcribe and transpose
All great jazz musicians, without exception, started out transcribing others’ solos
In this drill, you used to sit with a tape or CD player by your instrument, and listen to a track that you’d like to transcribe. Then, you’d play it, in little segments-stopping after each one to try and work it out by ear on your instrument.
Nowadays, you probably listen digitally on your phone or other device, and use one of many apps to help you with transcribing. Search ‘transcription’ on your relevant app store. They’ll usually slow the tune down for you, which helps enormously. There are a few web-based options too, such as tunetranscriber.com.
Whatever technology you use, what we’re really doing is building your own internal musical architecture through this discipline. Transcribing is hard, which is why so few do it. But it probably has the highest pay off in terms of the sheer improvement of musicality. Start off with slower solos where the notes are easy to work out, and as you get better (which I promise you will do), take on some faster numbers.
Depending on your level of ability on your instrument, this may seem like a very difficult and daunting task. As with all worthwhile things, stick with
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 17.12.2020
ISBN: 978-3-7487-6869-2
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