Post Category: Jazz & Improvisation

Calling all jazzers (or aspiring jazzers)! This awesome video is going to teach you how to walk a bass line on any jazz standard. It is super easy and straight ahead and I will take you step-by-step...

For anyone who is a jazz instrumentalist, vocalist or enthusiast, you know that the Bossa Nova is a staple of this music.  Songs by Jobim and Gilberto are part of our repertoire, and we love to...

Welcome to the courses!  Here is a quick-and-dirty tutorial on how to utilize the Teachable Platform.  Teachable is such a user-friendly and intuitive platform, which is why I chose it as the home of...

Improvisation brings with it a number of benefits which are really useful for musicians of different genres and even ability levels.  Here are 7 reasons you should improvise at the piano. Here are 7...

Learning to play on the blues is a lot of fun and is a wonderful gateway into jazz improvisation.  The term “blues” refers to a style of music, a kind of song form, a scale and a feeling. ...

Practicing technique at the piano is often boring and requires a lot of scale running and Hanon playing.  Over the years, I teach less and less rote technical work and spend more time teaching people...