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Méthode de Piano Jazz - Partie 1 : Tous les outils et ressources pour bien commencer

Méthode de Piano Jazz - Partie 1 : Tous les outils et ressources pour bien commencer

Tim Richards' jazz piano method, in French. Triads, two-chord vamps, the "three-chord trick" - the jazz vocabulary as it's actually played.

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Modules56
Replay songs19
InstrumentPiano, Keys
LanguageFrench

Contents (56 modules, 19 replay)

About this songbook

Move from reading to improvising - by starting to play what you hear right now. Jazz Piano Method - Part 1 guides you step by step towards the basics of jazz playing and improvisation, with one simple priority: laying down a convincing groove.

You'll learn to connect melody and harmony like a jazz pianist, starting from very concrete ideas:

  • understanding chord symbols and major triads
  • exploring approaches to improvisation (pentatonics, grouped-note ideas)
  • developing your rhythmic feel (swing, offbeats, placement)


Every piece is recorded as an MP3: the full tracks include a bass line "for your friend or teacher" with drums, and the solo sections give you improvisation examples. If no one is available, use the backing tracks (bass + drums, no piano) - the second track number (e.g. 1/21) is the backing track.

And to go further, the Replay feature on MusicGurus offers interactive sheet music: play along with the backing track, slow the tempo down or speed it up, and loop passages until everything falls into place naturally.
Start now - hit play on a track, and let your first improvisation ideas ring out.

Interactive Replay
Slow the tempo down
Practise any passage at your own speed — pitch stays correct.
Loop tricky bars
Select a section and drill it hands-free.
Fretboard & keyboard pop-ups
Notes light up on a guitar fretboard or piano keys as they play, with fingering shown.

Also available as a video course · Beginning Jazz Piano · Pt 1

  1. Beginning Jazz Piano: Triads & Pentatonics
    01
    Beginning Jazz Piano: Triads & Pentatonics
  2. Beginning Jazz Piano: Two-Chord Vamps
    02
    Beginning Jazz Piano: Two-Chord Vamps
  3. Beginning Jazz Piano: The Three-Chord Trick
    03
    Beginning Jazz Piano: The Three-Chord Trick

Meet the Guru

Tim Richards

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 PianoBlues, 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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