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Ask any jazz pianist to recommend a book to learn jazz piano, and the number one book that gets recommended is The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine.
But this book is seriously confusing for jazz beginners- I'm here to guide you through this really confusing book!
In this video, I go through chapter 3. I cover:
- Three-Note Voicings/ shells
- Voice leading
- How to play from the lead sheet "Just Friends" in the book
- Why the 'suggested tunes to work on' is full of terrible choices for beginners
- The tunes I recommend to work on at this level come from The Real Book Vol I:
. All the Things You Are
. The Girl From Ipanema
.How High The Moon
- I guide you through 2 more advanced chords in All The Things You Are from the book above so you can play the whole song
- Chapter 3 doesn't give you quite enough to be able to start most jazz songs- you need the chords from Chapter 5 as well!
- Watch out for ties in the melody when changing chords
- Watch out for chord symbols in lead sheets that don't line up properly with where they are supposed to be- this is a common issue!
- Importance of absolutely knowing all the scale degrees of every note as you're playing- no shortcuts!
You can download a sheet of foundational reference information that I give to my beginner students that will help you with these beginning chapters here (and it also contains translations of British- American music terms)
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