Exploring Jazz Piano Volume 2 (book/Audio Online)

Publisher : Schott Music
Author Tim Richards

Volume 2 deals with more complex and colourful harmony, from suspended fourth, sharp eleven and thirteenth chords to diminished and altered scales. Advanced voicing, accompaniment and improvisation techniques are examined in detail, including the following topics:

• quartal harmony
• modal improvisation
• long and short II ­ V patterns
• altered dominant chords
• polychords
• stride piano
• Bossa Nova clave and Partido Alto
• Lydian and Locrian modes
• how to make scales swing
• building bebop lines
• the b3 pentatonic scale
• 'rhythm' changes
• turnarounds
• playing in 3/4 time
• playing in double-time
• minor II ­ V ­ I
• R235 patterns
• tension and release
• transcribing solos
• practice routines

32 pieces by the author appear alongside: Beautiful Love, Blue Bossa, Blue in Green, Caravan, Impressions, Ladybird, Misty, On Green Dolphin Street, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Summertime, Tune Up and Yesterdays.
Also included are transcribed solos by Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Hampton Hawes.