Stride Hanon: 50 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist (Musicians Institute Private Lessons) [Paperback] Review

I purchase three "jazz Hanon" books when I hit my first wall (after about three months) of jazz piano study. This book helped me break through that wall. Especially, being new to jazz, I barely had an understanding of what "stride" meant, and I certainly couldn't play it. This book starts slow with relatively simple, major-minor exercises. Before long, the book has you going up, down, and all around a lot of different areas of the register I'd never really even thought of playing on before. Eventually, as one might expect, I got tired of the "boom-dah, boom-dah" of the exercises, which was when my instructor showed me how to put the exercises into a tune. Then my interest was renewed and I again started making progress. In short, this book is not easy and will require most inexperienced or new-to-jazz pianists to actually work a little bit. It will take some time to get through everything in this book. I believe that anybody who makes the effort and tries to apply some of these exercises will advance significantly enough to become satisfied with their purchase of this book. I know I am.

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60 essential exercises for the beginning to professional pianist, all based on the requisite Hanon studies. The exercises address: stride, ragtime, Broadway, honky-tonk, New Orleans, Harlem stride, 2-beat swing, Fats Waller, Dr. John, Scott Joplin, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Art Tatum, Jelly Roll Morton, and more.

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