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Download Tutorials and Transcriptions as they become available at: www.7notemode.com I love playing jazz piano, although I came to it late. I started in my mid twenties I'm currently 50 years old. I began piano lessons at 9. I quit formal lessons at 16. I studied classical, but also played a fair amount of gospel for church as a teenager. At 26 I was lucky enough to find a jazz piano instructor who had a great methodology. I took for about a year. Mainly he taught me how to listen to recordings and solo's, and how to emulate them. Unfortunately, work took me away from piano for a while, but the past few years I have been much more consistent in playing. My work really doesn't allow me to gig, so I pretty much play for my own enjoyment. I saw some great solo video's on youtube, so I thought I would join in. I hope somebody out there enjoys it.

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12 Tone Improvisation -- solo piano

12 Tone Improvisation -- solo piano
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Tags: Yamaha  CP300  Grand  Piano  patch  Atonal  Chromatic  Free  Improvisation  Jazz  Solo  Arnold  Schoenberg  Herbie  Hancock  Chick  Corea  Keith  Jarrett  post  modern  Phillip  Glass  classical  music 

Hit the HQ button for better sound. This is a line out recording of the Yamaha CP300 with a little processing done as well. This is an improvisation in three parts, with each section becoming progressively more atonal in nature. My last two posts were a diatonic and a pentatonic improvisation, so...

Tutorial The Christmas Song -- Part 2-- This is a Repost.

Tutorial The Christmas Song -- Part 2-- This is a Repost.
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Tags: The  Christmas  Song  Tutorial  jazz  piano  lesson  Learn  reharmonize  chords 

YouTube hiccuped, and the original part two audio and video went out of sync. I'm re-posting an in sync version. I redid the digital keys and now the complete video can be downloaded from www.7notemode.com in iPhone format. Sorry for the delay in fixing this. I have gotten a number of emails...

Pentatonic Improvisation - jazz piano solo

Pentatonic Improvisation - jazz piano solo
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Tags: spontaneous  pentatonic  jazz  piano  solo  Chick  Corea  Keith  Jarrett  McCoy  Tyner  Ornette  Coleman  Cecil  Taylor  Synthogy  Ivory  Italian  Grand  Yamaha  CP300 

This is a companion to the Ionic in C video. I played and recorded them back to back as a single take. It is a spontaneous improvisation, with no forethought given to the structure of it. Here I try to simplify my playing to something just above minimalism. The pentatonic scale helps to do this...

Meditation in C -- Spontaneous Piano Improvisation

Meditation in C -- Spontaneous Piano Improvisation
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Tags: solo  piano  improvisation  jazz  gospel  church  Bobby  Timmons  Keith  Jarrett  Chick  Corea 

First of all, the wonderful digtal keys on this video is a beta version of a program by Jamal at Youtube channel GospelMusicians. There are a few kinks before it gets out of beta, but it is by far the best digital keyboard display that I have used. Check it out at www.midikeyz.com This piece is...

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