Jazz Piano and Harmony : A Fundamental Guide (Book & CD) [Paperback] Review

Jazz Piano and Harmony written by John Ferrara is geared to beginners and intermediate players, especially classical players who want to learn jazz piano basics.Chords, inversions, diatonic harmony, and improvisation techniques are all covered in a well-organized, progressive manner.Three and four part chords are shown to be related to a major scale which is actually the basic way improvisational melodic lines are derived: from chord scales.The discussion on inversions illustrates how left hand voicings can move smoothly from one chord to another utilizing common tones.The bottom line is that it gives you a way to construct left hand accompaniment to a melodic line.For classical players who are primarily note readers, this removes a lot of the mystique from the concept of playing a chordal arrangement with only a melodic line and chord symbols.The chapter on chord scale construction shows how simple it is to create chord scales that will work over diatonic and non-diatonic structures.This gives you the option of playing and thinking linearly, rather that playing around the chord tones which most untrained players tend to do.The written exercises are excellent in helping the student assimilate the material.I would highly recommend this book which has been designed to help a good pianist become a great musician!!

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A comprehensive guide to jazz piano and harmony for thebeginning to intermediate pianist/musician. The subject content startswith basic triad and seventh chord construction, and continues withinversions and voice leading, left hand voicings, improvisationtechniques, tensions, spread voicings, diatonic harmony andsubstitutions, secondary dominants, harmonic analysis, cadences, andblues. There are over fifty full pages of music examples, along withexercises to help the student comprehend the subject matter.

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