Accompanying - introduction
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Tim RichardsTim Richards introduces how to accompany yourself or another musician at the piano with bass and chords, and why playing with others sharpens your timing.
What's in the course
29 lessons (1h 19m) · 1 free
01. Accompanying - introduction
You are here0:40
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
5:31
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
Lesson transcript
Introduction to Piano Accompaniment
Hi, I'm Tim Richards. In the following lessons, I'm going to show you some methods for accompanying yourself at the piano, or, for that matter, accompanying another musician.
Playing with Others
Maybe you're playing in a duo with a vocalist or any other instrumentalist, or perhaps you sing yourself and you'd like to accompany yourself at the piano.
Benefits of Accompanying
In fact, playing with another musician, whether it's a friend, your teacher, or just somebody that you've invited to play with you, is probably the best way to fast track your musicianship.
- You can learn a lot from each other.
- When you're accompanying somebody, you have to keep good time, which is a really good discipline.
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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
