Piano Lessons

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Cost of a Piano Lesson How much should you pay, well the cost of a piano lesson in the UK is about 8 pounds and 50 pence, thats about 15 us dollars and about 25 Australian, thats for a half an hour private lesson, depending on were you are youll be able to get [...]

Boy Willie Berniece’s brash, impulsive, and fast-talking brother, the thirty-year-old Boy Willie introduces the central conflict of the play. Coming from Mississippi, he plans to sell the family piano and buy the land his ancestors once worked as slaves. His impulse is to use the family’s legacy practically—that is, convert it into capital. In this [...]

Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Themes Memory/Historical Legacy As noted by Wilson, the two questions that pervade The Piano Lesson are: “What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?” The Charles’ legacy is incarnated by the piano, an artifact and record of the family’s history under slavery. Consequently, [...]

Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, August Wilson’s sensitive story of a family’s struggle to reconcile the past with the present centers around the carved piano which dominates the living room of Doaker Charles and his niece Berniece. The legs of the piano are carved with faces of their slave ancestors, carvings made [...]

Contents: Introduction Author BiographyPlot SummaryThemesStyle Historical ContextCritical OverviewCriticismSourcesFurther Reading Characters Avery Avery was one of Boy Willy’s acquaintances down South but like so many other southern African-Americans he migrated to the North. He now works in Pittsburgh as an elevator operator. Avery has also become a preacher and is trying to raise funds to build [...]