Jazz Piano School

Learn how to create a lush sound while playing solo piano with 3 easy tips. Don't miss the free masterclass with 6 important jazz piano hacks. Find out the number one reason why most students fail and the 4 step learning process to improve your playing. Discover the importance of setting a focused goal and building a strong foundation in theory, technique, improv, and repertoire. Integrate tools into jazz piano practice like a surgeon and learn how to break down complex tasks into manageable steps. Explore the benefits of a structured learning path and guidance from a professional.

Most of the time beginner and intermediate students have a hard time creating a thick and lush sound while playing solo piano. And I don't blame them. It took me FOREVER to figure this out. But with these 3 tips you'll be able to create a large orchestral sound from your solo piano playing in no time. They're easy to learn and easy to integrate. If you're interested in learning more about my solo piano system and how it can help you quickly and easily change your solo piano performance go to the link below to get my free 3 part video workshop. It's very in depth and will give you a lot of amazing education you can work on today. https://jazzpianoschool.com/solopianoworkshop

This tip that I will teach you in literally one minute has the power to drastically change your solo piano sound instantly. Don't believe me? Well there is only one thing I have left to say...try it. It isn't for everyone because you might be well beyond this, but if you're playing LH root position chords with RH single note melody lines...then you absolutely need to watch this. Even if you think you're an intermediate or advanced player, try to do this with some tunes. If you can't...it might be a good time to working on your fundamentals so you can integrate this into your playing. This step will allow you to add many more advanced concepts into your playing with ease. If you're interested in learning more about my solo piano system and how it can help you quickly and easily change your solo piano performance go to the link below to get my free 3 part video workshop. It's very in depth and will give you a lot of amazing education you can work on today. https://jazzpianoschool.com/solopianoworkshop

The podcast discusses the benefits of having a structured practice routine in learning jazz piano. It explores the significance of mindset in achieving goals, while encouraging listeners to share their musical journey. It emphasizes the importance of focused practice, incorporating bebop approaches, and provides examples and exercises for practicing.

here is way more to improvising over the blues then just using the traditional blues scale. When I learned these other two blues scales, and combined them with the traditional blues scale, my playing changed forever. In this lesson, I'll teach you each blues scale, demonstrate how to use them, and then combine them so you can hear what the improvisation potential is when using these three blues improv tools. If you're looking to learn more about improvisation and want to learn my 5 most important improvisation steps to building a solid improv foundation and layering on advanced improv methods...vist the link below to watch my free masterclass. https://jazzpianoschool.com/improvmasterclass

A fellow musician who is learning how to play jazz piano mentioned that all the voicings he uses sound to thin. I asked him what voicings he was using. He said he was using a lot of drop 2's and rootless voicings in the high register of the piano. BOOM. There is the issue. The number 1 issue in fact that students have when comping jazz on piano. Most videos, blogs, even teachers, teach about rootless voicings, or upper structure voicings that are all up high. Most students should actually begin they're comping journey down low with these 2 voicings! Enjoy! If you're interested in receiving a free notated pdf of my 22 most favorite jazz piano voicings go to the link below. https://materials.jazzpianoschool.com/our-top-22-voicings

Learning how to improvise can be extremely overwhelming. Most of the time you'll get very vague advice. In this lesson, I'll teach you the 2 most important fundamental steps to learning improv. These 2 steps will help you build a rock solid foundation and allow you to layer on more advanced concepts with ease. If you're interested in checking out my free improvisation masterclass with even more in-depth education go to the link below. https://jazzpianoschool.com/improvmasterclass

WP & YT Summary: Most jazz piano students have no control over their left hand while improvising. This can drastically take away from your improvisation sound. Most students also don't even know HOW to fix this or what to do. In this video I'll show you 4 very easy patterns and methods your LH can use while you improvise to ensure you sound like a pro. Have you been trying to learn jazz piano with youtube videos, dvds, teachers but feel like you're still constantly guessing, can't play any tunes without copying what someone else has played, and don't know how to connect all the tid bits you've learned? I went through the same thing but thankfully stumbled upon a learning system I created based on proven language learning blocks. The JPS System brings you through 4 main categories of learning, Theory, Technique, Improvisation and Repertoire. I'll show you exactly how to utilize our popular system so you can finally achieve jazz piano freedom: https://jazzpianoschool.com/lookinside

Red Garland was one of the greatest jazz pianists to ever live. This transcription analysis covers the tune, "A Foggy Day", and is off the album, "A Garland of Red". This analysis is taken from directly inside my brand new Improvisation Mastery Specialty course which is now available for purchase at a discount by going to the link below. Click the link below for more info. https://jazzpianoschool.com/improv

In this free lesson I'm going to walk you through how to improvise over the tune Like Someone In Love. This is taken directly from a live lesson that I gave to all the JPS members during the Tune of The Month Series that we do. If you're interested in learning more about improvisation, go check out my new specialty course that's being released called, Improvisation Mastery. Click the link below for more info. https://jazzpianoschool.com/improv