Articles

“Using Target Tones When Changing Hand Position”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, February, 2010)

“Use Blocking as a Fingering Technique”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, December, 2009)

“In Jazz Harmony, Simpler is Better”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine October, 2009)

“Avoiding Tension With Movement”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, February, 2009)

“Using Small Intervals to Manage Large Leaps”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, December 2008)

“Practice Exaggeration for Large Leaps and Intervals”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, October, 2008)

“15 Tips for Successful Jazz Improvisation” 

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, August, 2008)

“Jazz Improvisation:  15 Tips for Getting Started”

Creative Keyboard (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, June, 2008)

“Practice Transposition to Develop Your Ear and Technique” 

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, April, 2008)

“An Easy Method for Understanding and Playing Polyrhythms”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, February, 2008)

“Using Simple Rhythms to Play Difficult Rhythms”

 Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, December, 2007)

“Working With Cross Rhythms”

Creative Keyboard (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, October, 2007)

“Harmonizing Jazz Melodies Using Clusters”

Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, October, 2007)

“Develop an Aural Connection to the Piano”  

 Creative Keyboard  (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, July, 2007)

“Listen, Then Play by Ear”

Clavier 37, no. 9 (November, 1998): 11-12.

“Get Out of a Rut- Mixing Up Practice Sessions”

Clavier 36, no. 7 (September, 1997): 20, 22-24.

“Dave Kikoski’s Solo on Chick Corea’s ‘Steps’ ”

Jazz Educators Journal 29, no. 5 (March, 1997): 48-57.

“Teaching Students How to Find Comfortable Fingering”

Clavier 35, no. 10 (December, 1996): 15-18, 22.

“The Aesthetics of Art as Improvised Performance…”

Aesthetic Investigations New York University, (1995): 32-36

“Helping Students Master Improvisation”

Music Educators Journal 82, no. 2 (September, 1995) 32-36.

“Transcribing for Greater Musicality”

Music Educators Journal 82, no. 1 July, 1995): 25-28, 63.

“Introducing Jazz Improvisation”

Teaching Music 2, no. 5 (April, 1995): 30-31.

“Comparing Electronic and Acoustic Pianos”

Clavier 32, no. 4 (April, 1993): 26-28.

“The Harmony of Bill Evans: An Introduction”

Letter from Evans 1, no. 5 (May-June, 1990): 12-15.

“Consider the Opposite Hand When Working Out Fingerings”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Learn Intervals and Use Them”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Practice Right Hand Improvisation with Left Hand Ostinati”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Trust Your Body”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Practice Tips”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Read the Left Hand First”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Understanding Keyboard Symmetry”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Understanding Rotation”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“When Appropriate, Slide a Finger from Black to White Keys”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Develop Your Tactile and Kinesthetic Sense of the Keyboard”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Basic Fingering Principles”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Harmonic Embellishment”

Originally Published on bobhinz.com

“Creating Bass Lines”

Creative Keyboard (Mel Bay’s Online Webzine, April, 2009).