Bob James Mind Games Transcription
This song performed by the Bob James Trio in Montreaux Jazz Festival is probably one of the grooviest tune ever done by this contemporary jazz pianist. With the double bassist laying out a very groovy bassline, the drummer attempting an unusual but interesting hi hatting technique, and Bob James doing one of his best solos…
How to play One Note Samba, the funky way..
The idea came to me when I was in the toilet doing… something. I use to perform this song alone with only a piano in bossa nova style, which turned out to be not so satisfying even for myself. That’s why instead of trying to make it sound good following the original bossa nova style…
Top 4 Reasons People Quit Learning Piano, and Why They Shouldn’t
You suck man…… Discouragement from people around you is an inevitable phase in music learning. The great alto saxophonist, Charlie Parker, used to practise 16 hours a day at home, until his neighbours beg him to stop. The great pianist, Keith Jarret, had a solo recital in Alice Tull Hall at Lincoln Center, gave a…
Erroll Garner Solo Transcription on Lullaby of Birdland
Erroll Garner, one of the greatest jazz pianist that ever lived, who never learnt to read sheet music. Its hard to find a pianist who can swing as hard as Garner. Check out the pure joy of jazz piano playing [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g32oijfkhH4] In his version of lullaby of birdland, you can see how he create some…
How to do a Funky Music Arrangement
We Pianologists have been doing countless recording projects over the years. Here we would like to let you have a glimpse of what we do, and how we do an arrangement of a song, step by step. Most of our clients actually don’t have any background in any music instruments, but still share our passion…
Joe Sample Solo Transcription on Carmel
Check out this video showing Joe Sample on fire with his solo over this song carmel, one of his best solos i’ve ever seen. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAdRjsNaIPU] This is the transcription of his solo in another version of this song, found in his album “sample this”. Joe Sample Carmel transcription Have fun and enjoy……………. If you like…
Joe Sample’s Street Life Transcription
There was a really nice post in pianologist not long ago, showing a very nice video of joe sample and randy crawford doing this song called street life. I’m sure there are lots of you out there who’s trying to this song with their band or something. Unfortunately I don’t have this version of streetlife,…
Why learn jazz piano??
This is a recording of me answering a question many music lovers have been asking.. Why jazz?? Why listen to jazz?? and why learn jazz?? The reason I’m doing this by recording is to use examples to help make my point clear. Check it out… it will be fun. why jazz.mp3
Bill Evans Autumn Leaves
This is the video of bill evans trio playing on autumn leaves. Its not the version of the transcription on the blog before this, but should keep some of you interested in analyzing his amazing solo techniques. Autumn leaves is a great standard to learn from, any keen learner should check out the transciption on…