You Can Teach Yourself Jazz Piano

Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Jazz Piano written by Uri Ayn Rovner and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the perfect introduction to jazz piano for those who are already somewhat proficient as pianists but aspire to playing in the jazz style. The author emphasizes the importance of chords in playing jazz music and offers acomprehensive dictionary of triads, dominant sevenths, half and fully diminishedseventh chords, plus ninth, and thirteenth chords. Chord symbols and voicings aswell as modal and blues scales are also addressed. The last half of the book includes a generous fakebook and a songbook consisting of several of the authors progressively arranged compositions. Includes access to online audio