Learn jazz drop 2 voicings technique from solo piano video of jazz standard "The Nearness of You" with some theory A jazz ballad is always good for demontsrating the beauty of jazz voicings. Here's my solo piano video of popular jazz standard "The Nearness of You" [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKiVK2e6Ui8] DROP 2 VOICINGS A word by the great Marc Sabatella on drop 2 voicings, "Drop voicings are formed by taking a close position voicing and dropping one of the notes down an octave. A drop 2 voicing is formed by dropping the second to the top note. Thus, for ...

Learn solo jazz piano arrangement of jazz standard "On Green Dolphin Street" with video, transcription and some theory. On a lazy afternoon, I decided to take a walk on green dolphin street.. :D Check out what I came up with in this video. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4eqrOEyI1I] Here is the transcription of the first few minutes of my video on this great jazz standard. Transcription-On-Green-Dolphin-Street-by-Rewsnat  --- UPPER STRUCTURE According to The Jazz Piano StudyLetter, Upper structures are triads played in the right hand which have a different root from the left-hand chord." Here is an example of upper structure being applied in my video, ...

Learn how to improvise a solo over Jazz Standard On Green Dolphin Street, with transcription, video and brief analysis. This is the solo piano video of the jazz standard posted by theimprovisor. The transcription I've prepared for this post is from 02m57s until 03m45s of the video [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzzkabXIUE] Here's my transcription in PDF format. On-Green-Dolphin-Street-Solo-Transcription-(2) Chromatic Movement of Patterns It is always safe to move a similar pattern chromatically to create an interesting effect in your solo lines. This technique can be use in almost ANY chord changes, but there must be a point of resolution, usually ...

Learn how to improvise a solo over Jazz Standard On Green Dolphin Street, with transcription, video and brief analysis. This is the solo piano video of the jazz standard posted by theimprovisor. The transcription I've prepared for this post is from 01m45s until 02m56s of the video [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzzkabXIUE] Here's my transcription in PDF format. On-Green-Dolphin-Street-Jazz-solo-transcription-pdf The left hand part is basically spreading out chord tones in this two types of rhythmic figure Thus helping to maintain a salsa feel throughout the solo. ----- Sliding to the 3rd and 5th note of the key, from the note one semitone ...

Learn to play salsa montuno by solo piano, with video, transcription and analysis "Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise" ,George Gershwin The solo piano video shown here is posted by a guy who calls himself the improvisor, and he sure knows how to improvise. Here's his solo piano salsa version of On Green Dolphin Street [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzzkabXIUE] And here's my transcription of the first few minutes of this video. Green-Dolphin-Street-Piano-Salsa-transcription-pdf It would be interesting to see how the improvisor orchestrated a whole salsa version of this jazz standard with just a piano. The typical piano ...

Jazz piano solo improvisation tips from transcription and video of Round Midnight by 7notemode Do you feel like killing yourself?? Are you at the brink of going crazy?? If your answer is "yes", Good!! This is a great time to learn to play the piano like Thelonious Monk.. :)   [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw] Normal listeners would see this as a guy going crazy on the piano, while musicians call this the Monk dissonance. Before we unravel some of the secrets behind his technique, here is a video of 7notemode playing a solo piano version of Round Midnight [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkabuXMGLA] Here's the ...

Transcription of Yardbird Suite Solo Improvisation by Miles Davis and Lucky Thompson, with sample mp3 and brief analysis.   Miles Davis, one of the most innovative Jazz musician in history. Here is the short clip of Miles Davis and Lucky Thompson solo over this jazz standard Yardbird Suite. Yardbird-Suite-Miles-Davis-solo-mp3  And here's the transcription in PDF format, Yardbird-Suite-Chord-and-Solo-Transcription-2 Quote from Genius Guide to Jazz, "Davis understood that the space between the notes was sometimes just as important as the notes themselves. But he also understood that too much space between the notes, and people would think that the ...

Learn salsa piano guaje with video, sheet music and backing track They told me that I would have a hard time imitating him Plastic surgery cost a lot nowadays.. :( So I think I might as well try to imitate him instead.. :) Anyway, this is what I came up with for your viewing pleasure.. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL6L4c-Sd48] Salsa piano is a very exciting groove to learn. Here is one of the guaje ( salsa piano part ) I used in the piano video above. For practising purpose, and to help you develop a salsa feel, here is the ...

This post analyzes solo techniques of Charlie Parker on the tune Yardbird Suite, with the help of a transcription / sheet music. As Charlie Parker once said, 'You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.' You can see that, great jazz musicians may seem to be just playing from their heart, and having fun on stage, but few could even imagine the hours they spent practising. Some fun facts, Charlie Parker was known to have ...

This post provides a few tips and tricks for advance reharmonization techniques on Charlie Parker's Confirmation with music sheet. In this post I will demonstrate how I applied some reharmonization techniques to this popular Charlie Parker number, Confirmation. In order for the chords to sit well with the melody, I slowed down the tempo, thus bringing out the "color" of my reharmonization. Charlie Parker's Confirmation is filled with ii-V-I chord progressions throughout, leaving it wide open for plenty of reharmonization ideas. Here's my playing: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6XLLeR3ks] REHARMONIZATION TECHNIQUES APPLIED Chord Substitution (at 0m10s) The original chord progression ...