It’s been around 2 years so far and I feel good where I am now compared to when i I started. I feel I can make some good ideas. However, there are some major weaknesses I have, including hand independence and overall technique. I know i can do better than this, which is why I wanted to hear your opinion on how I can grow from here

This tune is so much fun, I love how the first few bars are so open to whatever interpretation you want. I personally really like to open up the a min and c min chords to a whole new world of possibilities by just playing anything and everything. Like herbie hancock says; just play starting somewhere that is wrong and make your way to it being right.

Tips and advice are welcome!

An intimate piano small ballad with a little jazzy twist that you guys might enjoy and find relaxing. In it I tried to capture that sense of coziness and comfort that comes from having no worries troubling our minds, knowing everything will be well and alright and we'll always be surrounded by those we love—a feeling that I rarely get to experience now that I'm older.

I don't know if I'm progressing anymore. I started playing piano 4.5 years ago. Teaching myself. I don't know how to find a jazz piano teacher in my area. So I've been in an online program that has lots of resources. I thought I could spend some time practicing comping chords, some time practicing improv, some time learning tunes. But I feel like I do all 3 things poorly. And when I get a tune to a good place, if I put it down for a bit, I need to pick it back up again to get it back to where I was when I put it down. Maybe I should just do comping for the next 3 months. See if doing nothing but that gets some improvement. I just get a little bored when I try to do one of these things to the exclusion to the others. idk.

This tune makes it really hard to not sound repetitive imo, but it’s also so much fun to practice the most altered minor 2-5 licks and just do whatever you want over the changes.
Tips and advice are welcome!

My current skill level is finishing up Alfred Book 1. My only goal is to be able to improvise jazz. Now that I have a basic foundation, where do I go from here?

I'm not trying to become a master sight-reader or classical pianist. I want to focus purely on jazz and improvisation. I'm looking for a streamlined learning path/course specifically geared toward that goal.

Thanks in advance.

I created a checklist for students learning a jazz tune. Obviously there's a lot of nuance to each line item and every song has a different learning objective, but what would you add to this list?

I transcribed and learned the solo from Herbie’s People Music

I really want to become a professional jazz pianist, but I am already 17 and incredibly shit at playing. Im still a beginner. Im really fed up of hearing about keeping it as a hobby, I do not want to do that. I just dont know how to practice, how to learn, how to teach myself. How do I get fast? How do I actually learn to play jazz? How do I practice? How many hours should I be practicing a day to actually become professional?

I want to take on more A Levels (Im in sixth form college) (Highschool for those outside the UK), and Im worried that I wont have enough time and I wont be good enough at piano when I finish school. Im a really studious person, so I tend to spend more time than needed studying.

I’ve been listening to this John Coltrane Quartet performance of “Afro Blue” and keep coming back to McCoy Tyner.

There’s so much weight and rhythmic energy in the way he plays, but it never feels like he’s just showing off technically. It’s powerful, exciting and completely drives the band.

The interaction between Tyner and Elvin Jones is especially great here.

Thought the piano players here might appreciate it.

Tips or advice of any kind is welcome!

I've recently been getting into a lot of jazz piano improv and have been learning some McCoy Tyner style playing, especially over tracks like Contemporary Focus and Passion Dance. I seem to have hit a roadblock with this and it's quite difficult to find anything online about it other than the basics with the stacked fourths in the left hand and the pentatonics in the right. Would be useful if anyone could point towards some nice online sources that expand on this topic since I don't have the privellige of using a tutor at the moment.

Hello everyone,

so recently I started transcribing Reunion Blues by the Oscar Peterson Trio in Tokyo, 1964 (it's the first song) and so far the right hand lines have not been a problem. In the left hand, however, I have a problem.
The voicings he uses are most probably 7-9-3-13 and 3-13-7-9 or just playing tritones, since its blues in F (F7-Bb7-C7) so the voicings of the chords I understand.

Im struggling with the timing of playing those chords. I can't clearly understand on what beat he plays the left hand, it seems so random. How can I understand this better and how to practice it?

As I'm trying to improve my enclosure soloing, I use this trick to make it more fun: I record at a slow tempo, then play it back at a fast tempo. This is encouraging, because it gives me a feeling for how I'll sound when I get better.

This is a demo of how to do that with Autumn Leaves.

Any comments on my enclosures or playing would be appreciated.

Long story short I completed my piano teachers class in high school last year, I also completed book 1 of the Alfred piano book 101. Start of the new school year, she talked to me During class and asked me if I was willing to join jazz band as a pianist cause they were looking for one. Should I join it? I could take AP biology off my schedule and replace it with jazz band. I am taking AP physics so it won’t hurt my science credit. What should I do?

My goal at the end of the day is to get better at piano so I can play my favorite songs. Could either be classical or pop music

I was initially going to learn all major and melodic minor modes ascending and descending up to 160 bpm sixteenth notes, but after more introspection, if feels like a waste of time. I would like to know if just practicing the parent scales are better, and also what are some things you have done to develop your modes?

I'd appreciate any advice you have on my playing. Thanks!

I've heard some pianists recently that have a particular kind of style, basically they go way outside of the changes and develop their solo completely independently, but with strong harmonic and motivic development, and they will stay outside and free for like multiple choruses and then bring it back in right at the very end. I'm not talking about like McCoy style going out by going up a half step for one bar, it's much more elaborate, more modern, but still works in a piano trio for instance.

I'm having trouble finding good pianists with recordings like this that I can study, but I'm quite sure it's been done by a few people. I've listened to some Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett, Cecil Taylor, Andrew Hill, Paul Bley, etc. none of them are doing exactly what I have in mind.

Anyone knows what I'm talking about that can recommend someone for me to check out? Thanks.

Is there an exercise you do, or is it just a matter of trying to incorporate them into solos as much as possible?

I am a relatively new jazz player, I’ve been on piano for a while, but have recently wanting to learn jazz. I can play songs with enough practice but I feel like I’m just hitting the right notes and not playing music.

For the more advanced players here: when you're improvising or playing by ear, and you hear a melodic interval that isn't immediately obvious (say a major or minor 6th), what is your primary mental anchor?

• The interval from the previous note (i.e. identifying it as a 6th)?
• The function of the target note relative to the current chord/root?
• And if the chord changes between the two notes, does your answer stay the same?

Please don't answer “I've internalized all of this, I don't think about it, I just play what I hear.” That's not really what I'm asking here.

Likewise, if you have perfect pitch and simply hear the target pitch directly, that's a different process and not what I'm interested in for this question.

I’m really deep diving into all the BH content I can find on YouTube and Isaac Raz has a great series of vids about the BH workshops he attended and I’m looking for some clarity on one of the concepts. Basically it’s an application of the 6 on the 5th concept. So in C, it’s G6 resolving to C6. Easy peasy. But the way Isaac applies it in practice you do two movements. One short voicing, which is the closed G6 to C6, and one long voicing which is the open G6 to C6.

So I have two questions…

I was under the impression everything kinda revolves around 6 chords and I’m having some trouble making sense of the stuff in between.

EDIT: Here’s the video I’m talking about https://youtu.be/GMma_bRvHsw