Pop and Jazz Piano Lessons on PEI
Learning pop and jazz music on the piano is a decidedly different endeavour than learning to play Mozart or Beethoven. Or is it? Mozart and Beethoven were also great improvisors, in a different style!
Pop and Jazz piano lessons with Donald will help you look inside music to see what’s really going on. In fact, this type of study will improve your classical piano playing as well.
To get a better understanding of how to approach these more commercial styles of piano playing, Donald will guide you to a better understanding of :
Modes
The ii-V-I progression
Three-Note Voicings
Learning how to read lead sheets using chord symbols only
Learning what these chord symbols mean!
Sus Chords
Phrygian Chords
Tritone Substitution
Diminished Scales
Quartal Harmony
Pentatonic Scales
Comping
Latin styles
Putting it all together with Pop and Jazz Piano Lessons on PEI
Putting all these new techniques and concepts together is the exciting part of learning to play pop and jazz on the piano.
The main difference in the learning is that very little appears on the printed page! Styles are created using interesting chord combinations and voicings using rhythms that are associated with each style.
You will learn to play the music not on the page!
Learning the musical language of pop and jazz will improve your playing in many ways. Musical theatre for the most part is based on more commercial music. Once you begin to experience the music theory possible here, everything on the printed page will start to make more sense.
The style is everything.
It’s time to consider expanding your musical vocabulary now with Pop and Jazz Piano Lessons on PEI!
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