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An original American music style that originated in the early 20th century by improvisation and syncopation.
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Problems With Learning a Second Instrument
I’m trying learn jazz piano. For about ten years I played the violin; solo and in orchestras and quartets. … I’ve also absolutely no trouble enjoying for instance Keith Jarrett’s more complex solo pieces (Radiance, La Scala, etc.) in addition to more harmonically sound jazz. …
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Keeping track of theme when improvising
Improvisations in jazz is done over the song itself, typically. …
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Jazz piano: chords and melody in right hand. How?
During my time learning piano I’ve basically in my solitude opened up jazz standards and learned them with compact voicings in my left and melody in my right. Straight forward. … This is significant with jazz piano/theory: this overwhelming amount of combinations. …
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Piano Fingering for Jazz
My goal is to become a jazz pianist/improviser. I’m currently learning through Blake Neely’s How to Play from a Fake Book and I’m stuck at fingering. … Lays down the generally strategy for a jazz pianist as well as documenting how to deal with all possible cases. Levine for fingering, I guess. What do you recommend for solving this general problem? …
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Jazz piano: Keeping base tone for soloing but not for ensemble
As a pianist I want to excel at playing solo as well as in a jazz ensemble. When playing solo one has to play the base tone oneself, while in an ensemble the bass player covers that. … In a jazz ensemble (I occasionally jam at a club here in Gothenburg) I hence collide with the bass player. Not wrong, but harmonically it's uninteresting. …
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Jazz piano, chords: planning ahead
I’m an aspiring jazz pianist, playing tunes without sight reading of any kind (once I’ve learned it), in ensembles and solo.
I have for long had the problem that my chords are staggering. …
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Jazz piano: fingering — special cases and hacks
I have a couple of questions related to corner cases in fingering:
How do you play Gmaj9 in RH when it is inversion F♯, A, B, D? Thumb on the (black) F♯ and the rest line up? Another alt …
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Piano: getting chords up to speed
I practice a transcription that involves more elaborate jazz chords, modal sus9 and 13-chords, those kind of things, occupying many or all of the hands' fingers. …
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Jazz piano: accompanying oneself
My goal is to be able to by ear play a jazz standard, with improv sections.
When keeping an accompaniment in my left hand (say, a walking base or similar) while soloing with my right, then I stall. …
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Jazz piano: improving voicings
Should I get Levine’s classic The Jazz Piano Book? Maybe I’m looking for a path that is constructive, pedagogical and doesn’t involve reinventing the wheel. …
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Jazz: Getting a feel for chords/harmonies
For instance, I can play the melody line for any jazz standard by ear basically, but with chords I have very little intuition and mostly end up guessing what chord that comes next (when playing by ear) …
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Jazz piano: problem remembering harmony, melody is fine
In my quest to become a general jazz pianist I practice jazz standards. …