Varying the Left Hand & Parting Thoughts
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Tim RichardsTim Richards wraps up the course, blending barrelhouse and Yancey left-hand styles in one performance and pointing the way to part 2.
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Exploring Left Hand Styles in Performance
So, you probably noticed that's the first time we've used more than one style of left hand in a performance of several pieces.
Key Takeaways:
- Consistency is Key: It's not always recommended to do too many changes of left hand style.
- In this session, I restricted it to:
- Barrel House
- Yancey left hand
- In this session, I restricted it to:
Flexibility is Important
However, it is good to try and develop your flexibility with all these different left hand styles.
What's Next?
In the next course, we'll be looking at some more challenging and complex left hand techniques.
- For instance, expect to explore:
- A lot of eight to the bar stuff
- Other really exciting styles.
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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
