Here you will find our free posts designed to help you become a better jazz pianist and pop keyboard player.
November 18, 2024
About this runThis is my favorite jazz piano run for a C7, F7, and G7 chord. It just feels great when played over those chords. It’s one of those devices Oscar Peterson or Teddy Willson liked to play. It sounds very impressive but is actually quite easy to play at even very fast speeds.See me
November 13, 2024
What you will learnIn this post, you will discover a great way of improvising and comping over a jazz cadence in minor more easily.If there is one chord progression a jazz musician wants to master, it is undoubtedly the jazz cadence in all minor and major keys. The idea is to use the same chord type
October 20, 2024
Broken Chord Runs ExplainedWhat do I mean by broken chord runs? Take, for example, a G major triad. We can play this thing one note at a time, which makes it a broken chord. On top of that, we can play it in different inversions. On top of that, we can change the order of the
October 18, 2024
About this articleIn this article I will tell you what Upper Structure Chords are and how to effectively use them in your playing.Examples for how upper structure chords are usedThe following video gives 4 short examples for how Upper Structure Chords can be used in different jazz and pop music genres. As you could see
March 26, 2024
Oscar Peterson and his love for ArpeggiosArpeggios are a considerable part of Oscar Peterson’s improvisations. They are one of those devices he borrows from classical piano literature that allows him to expose his incredible technique. Oscar played a lot of classical music as a child and also took classical piano lessons, so it is only
March 2, 2024
What you learn from this postDefinition of Bossa Nova and Bossa Nova SambaBossa Nova Samba piano patterns for accompanying a singer or an instrumentalistBossa Nova Samba left hand patterns for pianoAuthenticity is paramount!Each example presented here is based on original Bossa Nova Samba recordings by world -class Brazilian musicians like Antonio Carlos Jobim, who composed
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