Live Piano Performance
Did a rough video recording of my live performance, check out this compilation video: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lt7alOafqY]
Learn Bossa Nova, with Piano Transcription
Learn Basic Bossa Nova Comping Styles, with Piano Transcription of 7notemode on The Dolphin 7notemode did a wonderful youtube clip on this bossa nova tune, The Dolphin. Here is the piano transcription of the head: piano transcription of the dolphin by 7notemode (PDF) The basic bossa nova pattern looks something like this Of course…
AudioMicro: Music Clip Market Place
AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of user-generated royalty-free stock music, sound effects, production music, production elements and music cues. Finally, high quality audio content is available at unbelievable prices with no hidden costs or fees. AudioMicro is an artist friendly community, paying the highest royalty rate in the micro stock music industry! In addition, customers…
eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method Review
Recently I received a package originated from United States, another part of the world. It was a big box. What’s packed inside is the new piano and keyboard method CD-ROM new version 2.0! eMedia should have mailed me only the CD-ROM because there is nothing more than a CD and some fliers inside the relatively…
Cool Jazz Tricks #2
Learn Gospel Blues Piano Style of Ray Charles, with Video. Scott “The Piano Guy” Houston, together with guest pianist Milton Ruffin, did a nice analysis on the gospel piano style of Ray Charles. Milton explained how Ray Charles applied the 1 and 2 technique in his playing, a way of switching between the inversion of two…
Learn Stevie Wonder’s song Overjoyed
Transcription and Video of Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder, a very talented singer, songwriter, and multi instrumentalist, wrote this beautiful song titled “Overjoyed”. Here’s the video clip. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edxYCXaQLaw] And here’s the transcription of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed in PDF format: Overjoyed-Stevie-Wonder-Transcription A simple song with some nice harmony and beautiful modulations. Do keep in mind…
A Story your Music Teacher didn’t tell you
“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…
Tutorial on Assigning Target Tones in Jazz Solo Improvisation
Forward Motion Application on Jazz Bebop Au Privave Solo Improvisation, with video and analysis. Check out this video of my solo improvisation over popular jazz bebop tune “Au Privave” [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgd3hh76oQ] This is the solo line at 00m16s of the video Improvising a string of eight notes connected over a few bars, would be a difficult…