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Jazz Piano: Accompanying

Name: Jazz Piano: Accompanying
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Duration1h 20m

Modules29

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (1h 20m)

- 01. Accompanying - introduction
  Free lesson
  0:40
- 01. Playing the roots
  2:34
- 02. Two-feel bass line
  2:26
- 03. Two-feel bass line (performance)
  1:12
- 04. Guide tones
  3:00
- 05. Two-feel bass with guide tones (performance)
  1:06
- 06. Adding right-hand chords
  2:37
- 07. Two-feel bass with chords (performance)
  1:08
- 08. Walking bass lines
  5:57
- 09. Walking bass line (performance)
  2:12
- 10. Chordal rhythms
  5:05
- 11. Rootless voicings
  5:15
- 12. Walking bass line with rootless chords (performance)
  1:10
- 01. Tritones
  3:09
- 02. Blues comping with two-feel bass (performance)
  1:16
- 03. Three-note shapes
  2:52
- 04. Blues comping with walking bass (performance)
  1:17
- 01. Ninth chords
  3:34
- 02. Blue Funk (performance)
  2:40
- 01. Vamps and intros
  4:42
- 02. Playing in 12-8
  2:18
- 03. Gospel Groove (performance)
  1:55
- 04. Diminished seventh chords
  3:39
- 05. Comping practice routines
  4:03
- 01. Latin bass lines
  3:10
- 02. Bossa bass line (performance)
  1:20
- 03. Latin chordal rhythms
  4:38
- 04. Bossa bass with chords (performance)
  1:15
- 05. CHECKPOINT #2 - ICONIC VAMPS
  4:09

About this course

Tim Richards has been a leading voice in UK jazz piano teaching for over thirty years. This course is part of his graded method, also published by Schott Music as a textbook of the same name. Full bio on Tim's artist page.

This is Chapter 2 of Beginning Jazz Piano Pt 2, dedicated entirely to comping. Five style studies cover swing, blues, funk, 12/8 gospel and Latin - each through a real standard or original piece. You'll work through All of Me (swing), Blues in F, Blue Funk, a gospel groove, and Antonio Carlos Jobim's One Note Samba.

By the end you'll have five distinct comping vocabularies in your hands, each with its rhythmic signature and voicing approach. This is the chapter that turns chord-playing into time-feel. Chapter 3 (Interpreting Lead Sheets) is the natural next step.

Who it's for

Pianists ready to play behind a singer or soloist
Self-taught players who can voice chords but not yet groove
Returning players adding rhythmic comping styles

What you'll learn

Comp through "All of Me" with idiomatic swing voicings
Apply funk and Latin rhythms to two-handed comping
Play a rolling 12/8 gospel groove with a bass-line left hand

What you'll need

An acoustic, digital or weighted-key piano
Comfort with seventh chords and basic II-V-I progressions
A few minutes most days at the keys

Explore the series · Beginning Jazz Piano · Pt 2

Based on Beginning Jazz Piano by Schott Music

01
Jazz Piano: Harmony & Improvisation
02
Jazz Piano: Accompanying
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03
Jazz Piano: Interpreting Lead Sheets

Meet the Guru

Tim Richards

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

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Published with

Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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