Post Category: Jazz & Improvisation

VIDEO: 7 Reasons you should improvise at the piano

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...

Learn the blues on piano

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. ...

Piano Improvisation: The Ostinato

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...

Piano Improvisation like Erik Satie

This is the fourth video in a new series called “Quickies” – short, info-packed tutorials designed to give you great information you can use TODAY. In this tutorial, I show you how...

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