Piano Lessons

As a guitarist/percussionist who had piano lessons as a kid (and hated them) I have always been a little intimidated by the piano. Toward my goal of being able to comp and improvise over changes, I have purchased several jazz piano method books, including titles by Jerry Coker and Dan Haerle, and they have all [...]

The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping …and much more! Now [...]

The Drop 2 Book “Mark Levine is a wellspring of knowledge on modern jazz piano playing his brilliant playing is proof that he knows what he’s talking about.” – Mulgrew Miller “The “Drop 2″ book is the meat and potatoes of jazz piano.” – Jamey Aebersold Following up on his two previous books published by [...]

PIANO CAN BE FUN “When You Expect The Best” Piano teacher in his student’s homes since 1979 Adjudicator for the National Piano Guild Entertainer and Church Musician Former music teacher at The Montclair Kimberley Academy and the Glen Ridge Public School Married with three children Graduate of Montclair State University BMUS (Piano Performance) 1985 Author [...]

Who the heck is Scot? Photos of stuff, some of Scot Here’s some philosophy. The two steps to becoming good at anything: 1: Practice 2: Repeat Step One And that’s all there is to it! Easy, huh? So now the only problem is that first step. Therein await the secret answers of the universe. The [...]

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Where do I start? This is a question that I am often asked from new and potential students. I suppose if I only have two DVDs available, it would be easier to pick a place to start. However, I have dozens of DVDs available on many different topics. So, I completely understand why many of [...]

Jazz improvisation, piano improvising, music harmony and theory MIOP means Musilosophy Improvisation Open Project. “Improvisation means real time composing… Improvisation means composing new ideas…”. Music bases on harmony. Melody and improvisation base on chords and scales. Accompaniment base on chords and scales too. Chords base on scales. Scales base on physic, mathematical principles and music [...]

This could be a very good technique book as well for people who want to learn popular piano if it is read and used carefully. He has an abundance of technical exercises in rhythm patterns, which is something that cannot be gained from Hanon, the king of technical exercise books. Many teachers are not very [...]