Did a rough video recording of my live performance, check out this compilation video: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lt7alOafqY]  

"Only play what you hear. If you don't hear anything, don't play anything" ~ Chick Corea Chet Baker demonstrates this simple principle perfectly in his playing. Check out this video of his playing.  [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAgXr3ba9s] Chet Baker possesses the ability to scat a similarly melodious solo with his voice. Another proof that he is really playing ONLY what he hears, and NOTHING MORE. No meaningless scale runs of any sort, a true jazz master.  But many don't know, behind all these mastery, is a story of a man's thriumph over adverse conditions in life. Here's a short ...

An Article on Inner Target Note/Guide Tone Application in Jazz Solo Improvisation "If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. " A quote from the great motivation guru, Anthony Robbins. Here's another paragraph from the true story of how Ear Training Guru, David Lucas Burge, first acquire his perfect pitch ability, "Once I stopped straining my ear, I started to listen NATURALLY. Then the simple secret to Perfect Pitch jumped right into my lap." Two contradicting quotes show how different mastering music is, compared to acquiring other skills in life. Simply because music ...

Daniel from DailyBlogTips wrote a post titled What Does Your Desktop Look like, detailing the design of his workstation. Of course he was inspired by Darren from Problogger who showed readers the problogger HQ in a video clip. Here is how the Pianologist Workstation looks like: this is a picture of the pianologist blogging HQ / recording studio / piano room / entertainment room / bedroom etc etc etc .. :) The first thing many would ask will be where's my desktop or laptop, well the answer lies in the fact that the ...

Its the end of the year, and holiday seasons' coming. Pianologist have been busy doing jazz gigs night after night after night.. this is proof... :D Evidently, I'm the nerdy guy behind the piano. And I have the privilege of playing with a very talented, groovy and experience bassist, together with a soulful and beautiful jazz singer. Anyway, I have been storing up some nice stuffs, including transcriptions and videos, which I will be posting soon. So stay tune.. or better still, subscribe to our feed to be updated automatically... ...

Words often fail to fully express one's love , so let music do it for you. It is an undisputable fact that music has the power to stir emotions, including love. The words of the late Duke Ellington, “I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.” And as Jaco Pastorius harshly put it, "I’m not here to raise hippie consciousness, I’m here to wet some panties." Not actually what I had in ...

Spend a whole day surfing around for music related blogs, here are some cool stuffs I found. Enjoy.. :D Nice Jazz Photos - tm_marcello is a photographer who have been posting a lot of nice photos of jazz artists. Here's a few samples. There are many more in his archives. Transposing song from one key to another - The Headless Piano Teacher talked about transposing music in this article. Sonny's Improvisation Tips - SonnysPiano gave a few tips for students starting out improvising Pursuing Musical Profession: A Wrong Choice - TheGoodMusician talks about pursuing ...

Girls attracted to-->Talented men Piano players-->Talented men By ommiting the middle of the equation, Girls attracted to-->Talented men-->Piano players We get, Girls attracted to-->Piano players Is this a viable equation? And if it is, why am I still a bachelor after so many years of piano playing? Heck, I should be in one of the important case studies for this research.. :( To put this equation in a graphical way, can these two pictures be combined together in any sensible way? This is an open challenge to all you photo modification experts out there.. :D I started ...

Ever wonder how to compose or do a song arrangement from scratch?? You've come to the right place. In this series of posts, I will show you: 1) How to compose a song, the melody and chords 2) How to do a complete song arrangement from scratch I've just received a nice lyric without any melody or chords to go with it yet. And I will show you step by step how I compose a song base on this lyric. On top of that, I will show you how I arrange the song, ...