Five Minute Jazz Piano E-Book

Ray Davis

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Go from intermediate to advanced jazz piano, five minutes at a time. A proven manual for parents, professionals, and anyone else with no spare time.

Do you love jazz piano? Do you love playing, but wished you had more time to practise and improve?

This unique book is for people who want to go from intermediate to advanced jazz playing, but don't have lots of spare time. So, if you're a parent, a professional, or anyone else with spare time and a love of jazz, this book is for you.

This is a carefully sequenced toolkit of techniques to make the process of becoming a master jazz musician swift, smart, and - above all - enjoyable. 

What’s fantastic about this collection of techniques is that they each take five minutes or less. In other words, this really is a proven toolkit of 5-minute steps to take you from intermediate to advanced jazz piano playing.

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Ray Davis

Five Minute Jazz Piano

Go from intermediate to advanced jazz piano, for parents, professionals, and anyone else with no spare time.

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Five Minute Jazz Piano

Go from intermediate to advanced jazz piano, five minutes at a time. A proven manual for parents, professionals, and anyone else with no spare time.

Introduction

Do you love jazz piano? Do you love playing, but wished you had more time to practise and improve?

This unique book is for people who want to go from intermediate to advanced jazz playing, but don't have lots of spare time. So, if you're a parent, a professional, or anyone else with spare time and a love of jazz, this book is for you.

This is a carefully sequenced toolkit of techniques to make the process of becoming a master jazz musician swift, smart, and - above all – enjoyable. What’s fantastic about this collection of techniques is that they each take five minutes or less. In other words, this really is a proven toolkit of 5-minute steps to take you from intermediate to advanced jazz piano playing.

Transcribe and transpose

All great jazz musicians, without exception, started out transcribing others’ solos 

In this drill, you used to sit with a tape or CD player by your instrument, and listen to a track that you’d like to transcribe. Then, you’d play it, in little segments-stopping after each one to try and work it out by ear on your instrument.

Nowadays, you probably listen digitally on your phone or other device, and use one of many apps to help you with transcribing. Search ‘transcription’ on your relevant app store. They’ll usually slow the tune down for you, which helps enormously. There are a few web-based options too, such as tunetranscriber.com.

Whatever technology you use, what we’re really doing is building your own internal musical architecture through this discipline. Transcribing is hard, which is why so few do it. But it probably has the highest pay off in terms of the sheer improvement of musicality. Start off with slower solos where the notes are easy to work out, and as you get better (which I promise you will do), take on some faster numbers.

Depending on your level of ability on your instrument, this may seem like a very difficult and daunting task. As with all worthwhile things, stick with it and you’ll be very pleasantly surprised at how quickly you improve. Anything worthwhile takes time.

This drill is also great as it gives you intimate insight into what the soloist was thinking as he/she went along. By the way, books of transcriptions are a great resource (the old book of Charlie Parker transcriptions should be an essential for any jazz player of any instrument), but they can’t replace the value of the process of sitting down, really listening, and working it out yourself.

Here’s part two, how to take it way further and reap yet more compound interest from your hard word: Once you’ve worked out a line or lick that you’re happy with, the only way to be thorough is then to play it in every key. With time, you’ll find that not only do you have a growing collection of lines, licks and runs ready for your solos, but you’ll also notice the structuring of your solos becoming more exquisite as your subconscious mind picks up and copies ideas.

All great jazz musicians without exception started out transcribing others’ solos!