Description
The Next Step on Your Jazz Piano Soloing Journey
Are you ready to elevate your jazz piano skills and bring more creativity to your solos?
Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing by Nathan Hayward is your essential guide to mastering the art of jazz improvisation. This book is designed for pianists who are ready to move beyond the basics and delve into a more nuanced world of jazz soloing.
A Wealth of Techniques That Will Quickly Transform Your Playing
From the foundational concepts of chromatic passing notes and phrases, to the sophisticated use of minor pentatonic modal substitutions, this book covers it all.
You’ll apply the techniques of jazz legends like Bud Powell by soloing with arpeggio extensions, and discover the modal soloing techniques of McCoy Tyner to bring new depth to your playing. You’ll also master some powerful arpeggio substitutions that quickly add depth and variety to your playing.
The Jazz Piano Soloing Skills You’ll Learn
- Chromatic Passing Notes and Runs: Start with the basics and build up to more complex chromatic runs that add a distinctive jazz character to your solos
- Left-Hand Chords and Extensions: Streamline your left-hand voicings with essential guide tones and learn to add rich extensions for a fuller sound
- Altering the 9th, 11th, and 13th: Discover how altering chord extensions can add tension and interest to your solos
- Modal Jazz Techniques: Dive into modal improvisation with techniques inspired by Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner, focusing on melodic soloing and left-hand concepts
- Pentatonic Soloing: Learn how to extract pentatonic scales from modes to create easily-playable, fluid, dynamic lines
Each chapter includes detailed explanations, dozens of examples licks you can immediately add to your repertoire, and easy, practical exercises that help you quickly apply each concept to your playing.
Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing will help you take your jazz piano skills to new heights and will give you the skills and confidence to create your own distinctive solos on a variety of chord sequences.
Audio Included
With over 200 audio examples and backing tracks available for download, you’ll have all the resources you need to practice and master the concepts covered in this book. These examples provide a practical way to reinforce your learning and refine your skills.
It’s Time to Shine
Embrace the journey, practice with dedication, and enjoy the creative process of becoming a more fluent, expressive jazz pianist with Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing.
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