Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method - Book 2 The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings Book/Online Audio

Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method - Book 2 The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings Book/Online Audio

by Mark Davis
Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method - Book 2 The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings Book/Online Audio

Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method - Book 2 The Player's Guide to Authentic Stylings Book/Online Audio

by Mark Davis

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Overview

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method Book 2 is a detailed, easy-to-use guide for anyone interested in furthering their jazz piano skills. There are many harmonic concepts, useful licks, and comping techniques for you to absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book. Includes: harmonic exercises; melodic vocabulary; chord progressions and substitutions; melodic minor scale theory; locked-hands style; drop-two voicings; stride; walking bass lines; Latin styles; modern sounds; and much more! "This is a powerhouse of a book a real 'owner's manual' for the jazz piano mind. Mark Davis presents the essential material in easily digestible packets, each buidling on the last, and as a whole building on the concepts from the first book. I'll be referring both beginning and intermediate students to this course." Geoffrey Keezer, multiple Grammy -nominated pianist.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781540039682
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Publication date: 06/01/2019
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 945,288
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Mark Davis is an accomplished pianist and an influential educator who has performed with jazz luminaries Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Benny Golson, Slide Hampton, Tom Harrell, Jimmy Heath, Brian Lynch, Charles McPherson, Frank Morgan, and Phil Woods, among others. Mark is the author of the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method and the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method - Book 2. Previous work for the Hal Leonard includes transcriptions for Miles Davis: Kind of Blue from their Transcribed Score series and numerous recordings for their Real Book Play-Along series. Mark began classical piano studies at age eight and soon took to improvising and composing. His teachers included Adelaide Banaszynski and David Hazeltine. He later studied with jazz legend Barry Harris, who remains one of Mark's primary inspirations as a player and educator. Mark taught at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and served as Chair of Jazz Studies from 1992-2019. In 2019, he founded the Milwaukee Jazz Institute (www.milwaukeejazzinstitute.org) and currently serves as Artistic Director. He is on the music faculty of Alverno College and teaches students of all ages in his Milwaukee studio. Many of Mark's former students have gone on to successful music careers, most notably Dan Nimmer, pianist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
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