Exploring Jazz Piano - Volume 2: Book/CD (The Schott Pop Styles Series) [Paperback] Review

This volume and volume 1 follow "Improvising Blues Piano," which you might look at first if you're just starting to search for ways to go beyond sightreading music.Definitely go through volume 1 of "Exploring Jazz Piano" before going on to this volume 2.This volume assumes you have that volume, and that you've learned what's in it.This volume seems like--after providing a foundation in volume 1 for how to play jazz (as opposed to just sightreading sheet music of jazz standards)--Tim Richards had a list of things he thinks you should also know, and he tossed them all in here: playing in modes, quartal harmony, bebop scales, various exotic chords, etc.There's a kitchen sink full of things to choose from.There are also jazz standards, with explanations of how they're made and how to improvise over them, and there's the CD that not only plays the exercises but also provides a drum and bass accompaniment to play along with.If you get this book and the other two, and put in the practice time to learn what's here, I'm thinking you'll be amazed.

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Volume 2 deals with more complex and colorful harmony, from suspended fourth, sharp eleven and thirteenth chords to diminished and altered scales. Advanced voicing, accompaniment and improvisation techniques are examined in detail, including the following topics: Quartal harmony, modal improvisation, long and short II V patterns, altered dominant chords, polychords, stride piano, Bossa Nova, clave and Partido Alto, Lydian and Locrian modes, how to make scales swing, building bebop lines, bebop scales, R235 patterns, the b3 pentatonic scale, rhythm changes, turnarounds, minor IIVI, playing in 3/4 time, playing in double-time, tension and release, transcribing, practice routines.32 pieces by the author appear alongside special arrangements of well-known jazz standards, including: Beautiful Love * Blue Bossa * Blue in Green * Caravan * Impressions * Ladybird * Misty * On Green Dolphin Street * Softly as in a Morning Sunrise * Summertime * Tune Up and Yesterdays. Also included are transcribed solos by Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Hampton Hawes.

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