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Beginning Jazz Piano, Part 2

Name: Beginning Jazz Piano, Part 2
Brand: MusicGurus
Author: Tim Richards

Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying & Reading from Lead Sheets. Where jazz piano starts to sound like jazz piano. Seventh chords, comping in five styles, and reading a lead sheet like you mean it.

Tim Richards

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Modules60

Replay songs24

InstrumentPiano, Keys

LanguageEnglish

Contents (60 modules, 24 replay)

- 01. Contents
- 01. Chapter 1: HARMONY AND IMPROVISATION
- 02. One Two Three
- 03. Leapin’ In
- 04. Pa-dee-doh
- 05. St James Infirmary (Trad.)
- 06. G Minor Waltz
- 07. Sing & Play #4 - Modes Review
- 08. Love That Man
- 09. CHECKPOINT #1 - Ear Training
- 10. LISTENING #1 - Standards
- 01. Chapter 2: ACCOMPANIMENT SKILLS
- 02. Swing Comping - Two-feel Bass Line
- 03. Two-feel Bass with Guide Tones
- 04. Two-feel Bass with Chords
- 05. Walking Bass Line
- 06. Walking Bass with Rootless Chords
- 07. Blues Comping - Blues in F with Two-feel Bass
- 08. Blues in F with Walking Bass
- 09. Funky Comping - Blue Funk
- 10. 12/8 Comping - Gospel Groove
- 11. Latin Comping - Bossa Bass Line
- 12. Bossa Bass with Chords
- 13. CHECKPOINT #2 - Iconic Vamps
- 14. LISTENING #2 - Comping Styles
- 01. Chapter 3: READING FROM LEAD SHEETS
- 02. When the Saints Go Marching in (Trad.)
- 03. Indiana (J Hanley): Lead Sheet Protocol
- 04. Indiana (with added syncopation)
- 05. Indiana (with two-handed voicings)
- 06. Indiana (with left-hand chords)
- 07. CHECKPOINT #3 - Twelve-point Programme
- 01. Coda
- 02. Making Notes
- 03. Index
- 04. Audio Track Listing
- 01. One Two Three
- 02. Leapin' In
- 03. Pa-dee-doh
- 04. St James Infirmary (Trad.)
- 05. G Minor Waltz
- 06. Sing & Play #4 - Modes Review
- 07. Love That Man
- 08. Swing Comping - Two-feel Bass Line
- 09. Two-feel Bass with Guide Tones
- 10. Two-feel Bass with Chords
- 11. Walking Bass Line
- 12. Walking Bass with Rootless Chords
- 13. Blues Comping - Blues in F with Two-feel Bass
- 14. Blues in F with Walking Bass
- 15. Funky Comping - Blue Funk
- 16. Blue Funk (with melody & solo)
- 17. 12/8 Comping - Gospel Groove
- 18. Latin Comping - Bossa Bass Line
- 19. Bossa Bass with Chords
- 20. When the Saints Go Marching in (Trad.)
- 21. Indiana (J Hanley): Lead Sheet Protocol
- 22. Indiana (with added syncopation)
- 23. Indiana (with two-handed voicings)
- 24. Indiana (with left-hand chords)

About this songbook

Beginning Jazz Piano, Part 2 by Tim Richards (published by Schott) is where the playing starts to sound like real jazz piano. It centres on the core language: four-note seventh chords, diatonic progressions and turnarounds, and improvising ideas that connect scales to chord tones.

You work through three areas - harmony and improvisation; accompaniment, building from simple bass lines into two-feel and walking bass with guide tones and rootless voicings across blues, funk, gospel (12/8) and bossa; and reading from lead sheets, with a step-by-step approach to thickening melodies and choosing left-hand options including stride. Every piece has audio: full takes with bass line and drums, plus solo sections that demonstrate the improvising.

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Also available as a video course · Beginning Jazz Piano · Pt 2

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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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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