Congratulations on finishing the course!
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Tim RichardsTim Richards wraps up the course, encouraging you to keep practising the routines and to keep listening widely across different jazz pianists.
What's in the course
31 lessons (1h 44m) · 1 free
Lesson transcript
Congratulations on Completing the Course!
I'm convinced that if you practice all these routines, it will greatly improve your playing and your ability to improvise and play jazz.
Continue Your Journey
It's really important that you continue your journey and, in particular, listen to as many different jazz pianists as you can.
Recommended Resources
- There's a PDF you can download, which is quite a comprehensive survey of all the different styles, from hard bop to modal to mainstream.
Explore Different Styles
There are so many different styles of jazz out there that you really need to:
- Get a rough idea of which one you most relate to
- Familiarize yourself with some names you may not know
Learn from the Masters
Make it your task to get familiar with their playing, because all these famous jazz pianists learned by listening to other players.
Final Thoughts
Thank you very much for staying with it, and good luck in your further travels!
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Critically acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Tim Richards is one of Britain’s most experienced jazz educators, teaching piano privately for over 30 years, as well as at Morley College, Goldsmiths College, the University of Surrey, Premises Studios and other venues in the UK and abroad. He has produced numerous titles for Schott Music, including the best-selling two-volume Exploring Jazz Piano, Blues, Boogie & Gospel Collection and the acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano. He is also co-author, with John Crawford, of Exploring Latin Piano and Brazilian Piano Collection.
More recently Schott have published Jazz, Latin & Modern Collection (15 pieces for solo piano), comprising Tim Richards originals alongside pieces by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and the two volume set Beginning Jazz Piano (now a two-part MusicGurus course).
“The real joy of Tim’s music… is that it is both hugely educational but also such great fun to play. Anyone with the slightest interest in learning to play or teach jazz piano should really acquire a set of Tim’s books.” PianoDao
As a performer Tim has been a presence on the UK jazz scene since the 1980s, also playing the blues with UK and US legends such as Otis Grand, Earl Green, Dana Gillespie, Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and Mojo Buford. He has released over a dozen albums as a leader (featuring many of London’s best jazz musicians including Pete King, Gilad Atzmon, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde, Seb Rochford, Ed Jones, Dick Pearce and many others), and toured all over Europe with line-ups ranging from duo to nine-piece. His latest recording, the album ‘Telegraph Hill’ by the six-piece Hextet, was described in The Observer as "A true joy from beginning to end".
More info can be found on his website www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk
