Jazz Piano School

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Jazz Piano School Ep. 106 - Our Lab's Two Hand Voicing Building System Nov 10, 2017

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I struggled for yearsss. 15+ to be exact learning how to achieve some sort of jazz freedom on the piano. I was sick of just playing what other peopled showed me. It was like a coloring book. No matter how much freedom you had to choose colors you were still coloring other peoples pictures. I wanted to DRAW my OWN pictures! This podcast is taken directly from one of our lab upgrade formulas. The education contained in our lab, Launching in the next couple of weeks, will allow you to draw you own pictures. It was give you the tools to finally achieve jazz piano freedom so you can truly express YOURSELF! Enjoy!

Jazz Piano School Ep. 105 - What To Do With Slow Swing Tunes Nov 03, 2017

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Isn’t it strange that when it comes to the slower tunes we start to struggle more? There’s just soon much space! What do we do when the tempo is deathly slow and we start feeling anxiety to fill in everything. In this episode I’ll give you some tips to start feeling confident over slow swing tunes.

Jazz Piano School Ep. 104 - How To Start Improvising With Extensions Oct 27, 2017

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In this episode we explore how to build a relationship with extensions. Once your ear starts to learn the mood and atmosphere they produce, you can easily start to implement them into your improv to get different types of sounds you want to express.

Jazz Piano School Ep. 103 - Modal Interchange Reharm Part 2 Oct 20, 2017

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We go a further down the rabbit hole and explore some of the way you can begin to use the modal interchange chords we discussed in the last episode for reharm. I also talk about my favorite ways to use these chords and how to optimize their beautiful harmonies.

Jazz Piano School Ep. 102 - What In The World Is Modal Interchange? Oct 13, 2017

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Modal Interchange starts to dive head first into the theory rabbit hole for sure. But in this episode, I'll cover the basics of what it is, where you'll see it and how you can start to use it in your playing!

Jazz Piano School Ep. 101 - Comping Rhythms For Harmonic Changes Oct 06, 2017

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I announce the contents winners for our podcast review and giveaway more prizes to everyone who entered. Meanwhile we explore rhythmic comping for harmonic movements.

Jazz Piano School Ep. 100 - Keith Jarrett Analysis, "Someone To Watch Over Me" Sep 29, 2017

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Not to take anything away from Keith on this one, but we reached PODCAST 100! Kind of crazy if you ask me? When I think about to all the hurdles, and problems we had to get through, I can't believe we've come this far. In order to celebrate we 're giving away 2 amazing gifts. #1 A LIFETIME membership to jazz piano. Yes you read that correctly. And #2 - A free reserved membership to our new "Lab" this is coming by the end of the year. Now in order to enter all you have to do is give the podcast a 5 start rating and write a brief review. I mean it could literally say "This podcast rocks!" and you will be entered to win 1 of 2 memberships to Jazz Piano School. Here are the directions. 1. Click this link to the Jazz Piano School Podcast. Click Here For The Jazz Piano School Podcast 2. Click the small button that says "VIEW IN ITUNES" 3. Click the "RATINGS AND REVIEWS" tab. 4. Click "Write A Review" 5. Write a review and leave a 5 star rating and we will enter you in. REMEMBER: You have to write a review because that is the only way we 'll know your name. We will announce the winner at the start of the following week 's podcast. The great thing about the entry is that you 're helping spread the love of jazz piano education to others around the world. Back to Keith. Keith Jarrett is brilliant at the way he moves his inner voicings around. Especially in a ballad. This can clearly be seen in this week 's analysis of "Someone To Watch Over Me". Please enjoy!

Jazz Piano School Ep. 99 - Seven Steps To Heaven - Herbie Hancock Solo Analysis Sep 22, 2017

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Herbie has always been a god in the jazz piano world. In this iconic track, Seven Steps To Heaven, we take a look at how Herbie is burnin' it up all over the place. He's got some beginner movements mixed with some advanced concepts. Anyone can learn from taking a look at this one. Enjoy!

Jazz Piano School Ep. 98 - Beautiful Love, Bill Evans Transcription Analysis Sep 15, 2017

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Bill Evans was one of the greats for a reason...well...multiple reasons. In this episode we take a look at the phrasing, subtleties, rhythmic motifs, and note selection of Bill Evans in this solo off one his famous albums, "Explorations".

Jazz Piano School Ep. 97 - Freddie Freeloader, Wynton Kelly Transcription Analysis Sep 09, 2017

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It's the small nuances and attention to detail that will take your playing to the next level. What sound are you trying to create? How do you get it? After you've learned the building blocks of jazz improvisation, these transcription analysis will help put you on top.

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