You'll learn it as you progress. If you wish to learn it right now, try this video at U-tube. Or if you prefer lady teacher, you can check with this one.
Both lecture is quite relevant what is required. But if you have been playing with you PC keyboard a while, you must be well aware of your body position. Easy with PC keyboard does apply to the easy position with piano keyboard.
What could be the best way to learn jazz piano is you enjoy it. Sing your favorite tune as you walk. Keep rhythm with you body. The body movement is usally quite stable up until you reach 70 years old. (Well, this is my experience. So you may enjoy the stable movement till you die.)
Keep rhythm is much more important to learn how to play jazz piano.
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Jun 29, 2009
Jun 24, 2009
33 Tips to Becoming a Great Pianist
I have noticed that this article could help. I agree with their comment that you are like a horse pulling carriage with eyemask. You don't know what's happening around you nor where you are heading to. Well, for that matter, it could be said to any other skill learning as well.
You need some kind of whole picture to measure your progress. Although there are some double notation, this list covers the themes nicely. I'll be going through item-by-item on this blog.
So tune in on us within a week.
33 Tips to Becoming a Great Pianist: "In our piano teaching studio at Piano University we have identified 33 distinct skill that must be developed if a person wants to play up to the limit of her or his potential. Here they are:
1 - Hand & Body Position -- Should you look down at your hands? How to use 'eye flips'
2 - The key to productive practice -- Spaced repetition
3 - Attitude -- how it affects your learning
4 - How & when to pedal. Using explosive dynamics
5 - Exposure: why it's critically important
6 - Ear Training -- Intervals from 2nds to 13ths
7 - Fingering -- which finger do you use when?
8 - Chord substitutions that create fantastic sounds
9 - Chord recognition -- how to recognize what chord is being used
10 - Musical vocabulary: tempo words, form words
11- Arranging: how is your 'bag of tricks' coming along? 'Head arrangments'
12 - Melodic sense: how does the melody relate to the chords?
13 - Sight-reading: 7 fundamentals you just cannot ignore
14 - Key orientation: Can you think in the key you're playing in?
15 - Scanning the score before you start playing
16 - Mental practice -- how to learn music in bed
17 - Repertoire: Why you need one to be prepared for any opportunity
18 - Goal setting: How good can you get? Is there a limit?
19 - Rhythm awareness -- samba, bossa nova, bolero, etc.
20 - Why knowing music history is important to you
21 - Idea stealing -- how and where & from who
22 - 12-bar blues; creating a motif; 'blue notes'
23 - Extended chords: 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, suspensions
24 - Technique acquisition: rubber balls, fingering drills
25 - Harmonization: Using I, IV & V to harmonize
26 - Key identification: Recognizing key signatures
27 - Voicing: Open, closed, registers, color tones
28 - Improvisation: Making music right out of your head
29 - Harmony & theory: How much should you know?
30 - Stylistic devices: Western, boogie, jazz, etc.
31 - Analysis: How to understand what you're hearing
32 - Riffs & runs & fills: How to develop them
33 - Cross-pollination: The best of all worlds!
You need some kind of whole picture to measure your progress. Although there are some double notation, this list covers the themes nicely. I'll be going through item-by-item on this blog.
So tune in on us within a week.
33 Tips to Becoming a Great Pianist: "In our piano teaching studio at Piano University we have identified 33 distinct skill that must be developed if a person wants to play up to the limit of her or his potential. Here they are:
1 - Hand & Body Position -- Should you look down at your hands? How to use 'eye flips'
2 - The key to productive practice -- Spaced repetition
3 - Attitude -- how it affects your learning
4 - How & when to pedal. Using explosive dynamics
5 - Exposure: why it's critically important
6 - Ear Training -- Intervals from 2nds to 13ths
7 - Fingering -- which finger do you use when?
8 - Chord substitutions that create fantastic sounds
9 - Chord recognition -- how to recognize what chord is being used
10 - Musical vocabulary: tempo words, form words
11- Arranging: how is your 'bag of tricks' coming along? 'Head arrangments'
12 - Melodic sense: how does the melody relate to the chords?
13 - Sight-reading: 7 fundamentals you just cannot ignore
14 - Key orientation: Can you think in the key you're playing in?
15 - Scanning the score before you start playing
16 - Mental practice -- how to learn music in bed
17 - Repertoire: Why you need one to be prepared for any opportunity
18 - Goal setting: How good can you get? Is there a limit?
19 - Rhythm awareness -- samba, bossa nova, bolero, etc.
20 - Why knowing music history is important to you
21 - Idea stealing -- how and where & from who
22 - 12-bar blues; creating a motif; 'blue notes'
23 - Extended chords: 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, suspensions
24 - Technique acquisition: rubber balls, fingering drills
25 - Harmonization: Using I, IV & V to harmonize
26 - Key identification: Recognizing key signatures
27 - Voicing: Open, closed, registers, color tones
28 - Improvisation: Making music right out of your head
29 - Harmony & theory: How much should you know?
30 - Stylistic devices: Western, boogie, jazz, etc.
31 - Analysis: How to understand what you're hearing
32 - Riffs & runs & fills: How to develop them
33 - Cross-pollination: The best of all worlds!
There certainly is the information overload to learn jazz piano.
This is my first post on "how to play jazz piano". I have been learning internet marketing for 6 years. The conclusion of those years is that I go back to the basic. Do whatever you love to do. And this is my site to tell my way= lazy way to learn jazz piano.
I've been checking through those video on piano lessons at YouTube every now and then out of my curiosity. They are wonderful! But they are wonderful only if you had done finger training for certain extent and if you had learned how to read notes on sheets. Well, you don't have to read thoroughly, though. I mean you don't need to be able to play as you read if the score is of one of those classic music.
Since I started playing piano as late as 17 years old, my finger was totally in lack of training. So I have known that if I cannot play, I cannot read sheet nor figner positions on keyboard.
I started learn jazz piano as I started finger training using Hanon. I had two teachers, one for fingers and the other for jazz play.
I've been checking through those video on piano lessons at YouTube every now and then out of my curiosity. They are wonderful! But they are wonderful only if you had done finger training for certain extent and if you had learned how to read notes on sheets. Well, you don't have to read thoroughly, though. I mean you don't need to be able to play as you read if the score is of one of those classic music.
Since I started playing piano as late as 17 years old, my finger was totally in lack of training. So I have known that if I cannot play, I cannot read sheet nor figner positions on keyboard.
I started learn jazz piano as I started finger training using Hanon. I had two teachers, one for fingers and the other for jazz play.
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