Jazz Piano Handbook
Essential Jazz Piano Skills for All Musicians
by Michele Weir
Piano Method - Sheet Music

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Essential Jazz Piano Skills for All Musicians. Composed by Michele Weir. Improvisation; Keyboard/Piano; Method/Instruction. Jazz. Book and Digital Download. 128 pages. Alfred Music #00-26926. Published by Alfred Music (AP.26926).

ISBN 9780739047958. UPC: 038081308043. English.

If you're a jazz singer or instrumentalist and don't already have basic skills in jazz piano: now is the time! Piano skills are the gateway to understanding chords and progressions, checking lead sheets for accuracy, learning new tunes, arranging, writing your own tunes, becoming a better improviser and so on. This book outlines an easy step-by-step process that makes learning basic jazz piano easy and fun!

  • Before You Begin: Piano Review
  • Technique basics
  • Five-note warmup
  • Scales
  • Diatonic triads
  • THE ESSENTIALS
  • Chapter 1: Jazz Piano 101
  • Circle of Fifths
  • Chord Types
  • Intro to Voicings
  • Chapter 2: Position #1 (P1)
  • Voicing P1 (major, dominant and minor seventh chords)
  • ii-V-I progression
  • Pattern P1 major
  • Voicing P1 (minor seventh, flat five chords)
  • Pattern P1 minor
  • Chapter 3: Position #2 (P2)
  • Voicing P2 (major, dominant and minor seventh chords)
  • Pattern P2 major
  • Voicing P2 (minor seventh, flat five chords)
  • Pattern P2 minor
  • Chapter 4: Applying the Patterns
  • Connecting the dots
  • The nature of chord progressions
  • FAQ: What do I do if...?
  • Chapter 5: Rhythmic Styles
  • Swing
  • Bossa Nova
  • Additional rhythmic styles: jazz waltz, samba and ballads
  • Above And Beyond
  • Chapter 6: Expanding Your Palette
  • Color Notes
  • Five-note voicings
  • Chapter 7: Positions #3 (P3) and #4 (P4)
  • Voicing and pattern P3
  • Voicing and pattern P4
  • Mixing and matching patterns (P1, P2, P3, and P4)
  • Chapter 8: Open Voicings
  • Drop 2
  • Non-formulaic open voicings
  • Chapter 9: Pianistic Texture
  • Broken Chords
  • Passing notes
  • Chapter 10: Playing the Tune
  • Harmonizing the melody
  • Fills
  • Melodic troublemakers
  • Appendix I: Etudes (Jazz Standards)
  • 1. Rainy Day
  • 2. You Love Me
  • 3. The Moon Has Risen
  • 4. Lullaby for the Birds
  • 5. A Fool's Day
  • 6. In Love I Will Fall
  • 7. Time and Time Again
  • 8. Far Away a Long Time Ago
  • 9. What Could Be New?
  • 10. Don't Tell Me
  • 11. You Are All Things
  • 12. Valentine's Day
  • 13. Embraceable You
  • 14. A Foggy Day
  • Appendix II: Catalog of Chord Symbols and Color Notes
  • Glossary