Description

The Virtuoso Jazz Pianist is a comprehensive collection of exercises designed for developing the technique that jazz piano requires. While technical ability at the piano can always be achieved through the study of classical works—complete compositions written specifically for the piano, the harmonic and melodic vocabulary of jazz, along with the improvisational demands of the idiom, call for a different approach. These include a mastery of scales, embellishments, arpeggios and chord voicings, and other keyboard expressions commonly used in jazz that are unavailable in the study of traditional literature. Contents include basic technical exercises, scales, arpeggios, melodic and harmonic intervals, embellishments, chromatic and pentatonic scale studies, chord voicing studies, and much more. To see two pages from the book (pages 107 and 108) click here→  To listen to these two pages click here→

(167 Pages)