Shell Voicing in Jazz Piano
Berklee professor Paul Schmeling explains how to master the toughest jazz standard with ease and improve your left hand technique by utilizing shell voicings to represent chords in the left hand.Frankly, this is the first time I heard about shell voicing. What’s shell voicing?Does it sound like the voice you hear when you speak into…
Jazz History Time Line & Jazz Musician
You can listen to jazz standard tunes categorized by artist at Jazz On Line.The website owner is asking downloader to contribute to the hosting cost by subcribing to pay US$5 with Paypal for 3 months unlimited download. The streaming is smooth. These are all very old tune which are probably the standard jazz we used…
How to use the Three Pedals of the Piano
Joshua Nemith wrote an articles explaining about the use of the piano pedals. Even though I’ve played piano for years, I still learned something from his post. The Damper Pedal (on your right) produce sustained sounds the sound is reverberated within the framework of the piano when you press the pedals, all the dampers are…
Tritone Substitution in Jazz Music
In jazz voicing, the 3rd note and the 7th note shows the character of a chord. So it is very common when a pianist is playing comping, he can omit the root and the fifth, and voices the chord mostly with 3rd and 7th. The reason these dominant seventh chords may be substituted for each other is that they share the two pitches that form a tritone in each chord (the third and seventh, albeit reversed). In a G7 chord, the third is B and the seventh is F. In the Db7 chord, the third is an F and the seventh is Cb (enharmonically B). Note that the interval between the third and seventh of a dominant seventh chord is itself a tritone. Hence, we got the name “tritone” which is 3 tones equal to three whole steps or 6 semitones apart.
Learn Jazz Chord Voicing with 3-6-9
Jazz chord always comes with lots of tension. Tension is formed with the notes other than the normal basic triad. This video shows a simple but fantastic sounding voicing method. You just need to play 5 notes with your 10 fingers.
How to Play Piano Accompaniment for Soloist
The piano is a very versatile instrument. You can play it as a solo instrument, or you can play accompaniment for soloist or vocalist. This makes the piano such a fun instrument to learn. In this article, you will find the most common rules, guide lines and method to play accompaniment.
Learn Piano Accompaniment: Simple Bass Pattern
In fact, there are million ways to play a piano accompaniment. I probably know merely a few of them. Through years of practice, I’ve developed my unique style of piano accompaniment especially for vocalist solo in pop and jazz feel. I would like you to know that there is really no strict and rigid rules on how to learn an accompaniment. You can give a few great pianist the same lead sheet or chord chart, we will all play it in different ways. I might be able to imitate some other pianist but definitely I can’t copy exactly the same thing spontaneously. At the end, we are all specialists in our own style. But I can tell that the best musician is still the one who can play whatever created in his/her mind. I am not at that level, yet. However, before I play the accompaniment, no doubt that it is created in my brain first before the neurons trigger my fingers.
Where to Start? MusicBeginnings.com
MusicBeginnings.com is a new blog operated by father and son team. Father plays many instrument and writes all the articles to convince people to take up music lesson. They also recommend Pianologist.com as a free piano lesson site.
Learn Keyboard Licks from LearnLicks.com
I stumbled upon another great music site today – LearnLicks.com. It is a free site for musicians to share videos of music licks, tips, techniques and concept. You can browse licks by instrument such as electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum kit and keyboard. Sorry, no piano 🙁 ha .. who cares? Piano is…