This book is more than an ordinary piano method. It is a portal to the Complete Piano Course.You can access the entire upper structures for piano voicings and improvisation course from within the book.Upper Structure Piano Voicings for Piano Voicings and Improvisation is a unique, unprecedented piano course with comic strips teaching one upper structure a lesson.Learn how to play upper structures, how they work and how to use them in actual songs.Sound like a professional using this incredible technique to build chords with colors you did not think possible.It includes all major and minor upper structure triads over dominant chords, major sevenths chords and minor seventh flat five chords, lesson challenges to practice each upper structure over a backing track and complete song charts of well-known jazz standards using only upper structure voicings throughout. Each song is also demoed by a seasoned piano player.You know how to play chords, now take your playing to a grand level by learning how to use upper structure triads the right way.This course was designed by piano players with years of experience. You will not find a course like this anywhere else.And it's fun. Who else has a comic book that teaches music at this level?

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! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.

For a jazz piano player, chord voicings is an essential skill, not only for comping (accompanying or laying the chord progression for other players to improvise in) but also to use those voicings as an improvisational aid. All piano players get many melodic ideas or lines from their voicings. There are many ways of practicing and developing a Jazz voicing language. We all know how massive the amount of available combinations is, it seems almost infinite. A standard approach in creating, learning and/or developing voicings is stacking simple voicings/structures on top of other simple ones. In this manner a richer and more complex sound is created. These structures/chords/voicings are usually called Upper Structures Quartals as Structures Quartal voicings have become a standard in modern jazz. Their ambiguity in sound allows the jazz player to travel through unexpected paths, sometimes deceiving, sometimes surprising the listener with their unresolved quality. Although quartals are often used in improvisation and comping, it is not surprising that there is no standard chord notation for them due to its lack of harmonic direction (or function) and consequentially rarely used by composers as a source in their compositions. Practicing with these books Every book in this collection uses the same practice method. Each exercise targets a specific upper structure triad, or a progression using USQs, and is introduced by a graph of the USQ (or pair of USQs in the case of a IIm-V7 progression) with all its properties (Tensions, Chord Tones, suggested mental picture and other info). A log is included which permit the students to organize their practice routine in blocks of 2 weeks. The student should write the starting day for that block and keep track of their practice on that topic every day. At the end of the block the student should write comments, end date and rate the USQ voicing for later use and review.

Have instant access to the complete online piano course with video lessons, workouts and jazz standard demos. This is volume 2, dedicated to minor key, walking bass lines and comping rhythms. Learn the most effective 4-note rootless voicings for chords found in the Jazz Standards repertoire. Every voicing in this piano course is a 4-note rootless voicing in closed position. There's a lesson and a 5-minute workout for each key. Practice and learn this essential set of voicings and take your playing to the next level. Includes complete charts with Piano Solos using 4-note rootless voicings on the left hand.

Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way through 7th chords, pentatonic scales and modulating chord progressions, this book features a full etude or tune demonstrating every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Keyboard breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. The DVD demonstrates examples and offers opportunity to play along.

This book provides discussion and exercises for the use of three-note voicings in jazz guitar. The book also includes some four and five-note voicings. Includes chapters on shell voicings, walking guitar, triad pairs, quartal and secundal harmony, and more. With an introduction.

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisation ideas, structure and forms, scales and modes, rhythm basics, interpreting a lead sheet, playing solos, and much more!

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

This comprehensive study of harmony is a must for any musician interested in jazz. This book explains the essentials of jazz harmony in a friendly, easy-to-understand manner. A 12-key system is used to help you learn each concept in every key. Learn about rootless voicings, shell voicings, spread voicings, clusters, and how to select which voicings to use. Other topics include ii-V-I progressions, dominant chord cycles, Rhythm Changes," Giant Steps substitutions, thinking in modes, non-diatonic progressions and much more."