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Méthode de Piano Jazz - Partie 2: Harmonie, improvisation, accompagnement & lecture des lead sheets

Name: Méthode de Piano Jazz - Partie 2: Harmonie, improvisation, accompagnement & lecture des lead sheets
Brand: MusicGurus
Author: Tim Richards

The moment your jazz piano really starts to sound. Seventh chords, comping in five styles, reading lead sheets.

Tim Richards

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Modules61

Replay songs25

InstrumentPiano, Keys

LanguageFrench

Contents (61 modules, 25 replay)

- 01. Table of 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 Recap
- 08. Love That Man
- 09. CHECKPOINT #1 - Ear Training
- 10. LISTEN #1 - The Standards
- 01. Chapter 2: ACCOMPANIMENT SKILLS
- 02. Swing Comping - Two-feel Bass Line (half notes)
- 03. Two-Beat Bass with Guide Tones
- 04. Two-Beat Bass with Chords
- 05. Walking Bass Line
- 06. Walking Bass with Rootless Chords
- 07. Accompanying the Blues - Blues in F with Two-Beat Bass
- 08. Blues in F with Walking Bass
- 09. Accompanying Funk - Blue Funk
- 10. Accompanying in 12/8 - Gospel Groove
- 11. Accompanying in Latin Style - Bossa Bass Line
- 12. Bossa Bass with Chords
- 13. CHECKPOINT #2 - Iconic Vamps
- 14. LISTENING #2 - Accompaniment Styles
- 01. Chapter 3: READING LEAD SHEETS
- 02. When the Saints Go Marching in (Trad.)
- 03. Indiana (J Hanley): Stages of Reading a Lead Sheet
- 04. Indiana (with Added Syncopation)
- 05. Indiana (with two-handed voicings)
- 06. Indiana (with left-hand chords)
- 07. CHECKPOINT #3 - Twelve-Step Program
- 01. Coda
- 02. Taking Notes
- 03. Index
- 04. Audio Track List
- 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. Blues Comping With Walking Bass
- 16. Funky Comping - Blue Funk
- 17. Blue Funk (with melody & solo)
- 18. 12/8 Comping - Gospel Groove
- 19. Latin Comping - Bossa Bass Line
- 20. Bossa Bass with Chords
- 21. When the Saints Go Marching in (Trad.)
- 22. Indiana (J Hanley): Lead Sheet Protocol
- 23. Indiana (with added syncopation)
- 24. Indiana (with two-handed voicings)
- 25. Indiana (with left-hand chords)

About this songbook

You've already got the basics - now make your jazz piano sound like a real band. In this Part 2, Tim Richards takes you to the heart of harmony (7th chords), improvisation and accompaniment, then guides you all the way to reading lead sheets efficiently.

Here's what you'll work on, concretely:

Harmony and improvisation: I-II-III chords, horizontal improvisation, On-Off left-hand syncopations, enclosure approach and turnarounds
Accompaniment: two-beat bass, guide tones, walking bass, rootless voicings, blues in F, funk groove, 12/8 gospel and bossa
Lead sheets: thickening the melody, following sight-reading phases, choosing left-hand options and aiming for a convincing interpretation

And above all: everything is recorded and designed for practice. Every piece comes as a full track and a backing track, and the Replay tool on MusicGurus lets you play along with the drums, slow down/speed up and loop passages until you've fully mastered them.
A clear summary of the scales (major, Mixolydian, Dorian, pentatonics, blues) helps you choose the right colour over the right chords.

Start today and come back often - jazz rewards regularity.

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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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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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