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'Yesterdays' - Solo jazz piano tutorial jazz2511 - 410 views - 1 day ago

'Yesterdays' - Solo jazz piano tutorial. I have upgraded a previous video to wide screen and High Definition - adding scrolling notation, and an extra view of the Keyboard - hopefully making it of more use as a tutorial.

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'Prelude To a Kiss' - solo jazz piano lesson jazz2511 - 275 views - 1 day ago

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'Prelude To a Kiss' - solo jazz piano lesson. This is an upgraded version of the video I have posted before. It is now in widescreen, and has an added scrolling transcription view, and large and clear keyboard view. Unfortunately, the annotations are a little small - you would be best to view in HD mode and push the 'Full screen' button.

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'Something Cool' - tutorial - accompanying a jazz singer jazz2511 - 713 views - 1 week ago

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Michelle sings this song and the piano was improvised from a leadsheet. The video can be downloaded free from my website at
http://www.bushgrafts.com
In addition to the video and midi file, a transcription and the leadsheet are on my DVD - details are on my website.

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'Shiny Stockings' - tutorial - accompanying a jazz singer jazz2511 - 461 views - 1 week ago

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Michelle sings this song - with new (and more acceptable) lyrics that she and one of her students wrote. The bass and drums backing was created in Real Tracks - an add-on to PG Music's 'Band in a Box' program. The piano was improvised from a leadsheet. No editing to the piano part has been done.
The video can be downloaded free from my website at
http://www.bushgrafts.com
In addition to the video and midi file, a transcription and a copy of the backing track are on my DVD. Details are on my website.

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'Star Eyes' - jazz piano tutorial jazz2511 - 1,322 views - 2 weeks ago

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In Mark Levine's best selling 'Jazz Piano Book' he includes a final chapter ('Practice, Practice, Practice' pp. 254 -267), in which he makes a number of suggestions that apply some of the ideas contained in his book to the standard 'Star Eyes' (Don Raye and Gene DePaul).

This version was improvised from the basic chords and melody leadsheet in 'New Real Book No.3'.
I didn't set out to specifically incorporate Mark Levine's ideas in this. However this might be useful to piano players who have studied this chapter - suggesting some additional ways to play the song. The full quality video is available to download free from my website at
http://www.bushgrafts.com and the transcription and backing track are on my DVD
http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz /DVDbuy.htm

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'Les Grelots' (Michelle Petrucciani) - latin jazz piano tutorial jazz2511 - 1,606 views - 1 month ago

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I recorded this midi file some time ago - I transcribed the song from a Michelle Petrucciani CD. This video is the midi file converted to notation (using PG Music's 'Power Tracks Pro Audio' software). I have added quite a few comments to the video and I have also added a leadsheet that scrolls as the song plays to play along!
He recorded it a number of times - several times solo, and at least once with the composer Eddie Louiss - usually as a samba. The backing that I recorded, especially the bass line, is more in the loose jazz-salsa mould.
The video and midi file can be downloaded from my website at http://www.bushgrafts.com
On my DVD -
http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz /DVDbuy.htm
is also an MP3 of the backing track, a printable copy of the notation, and also a printable copy of the leadsheet.

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'It's the Talk of the Town' - jazz piano tutorial jazz2511 - 1,684 views - 1 month ago

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It's the Talk of the Town. I used the Band in a Box 'Real tracks' to create the bass and drums backing. There are lots of annotations on this video highlighting things other jazz piano players might find interesting,

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Nardis - jazz piano lesson jazz2511 - 1,925 views - 1 month ago

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Nardis - jazz piano lesson. This tune (attributed to Miles Davis - though he apparently never recorded it) has been played by quite a few jazz pianists - notably Bill Evans. There are several excellent versions on youtube - try the version by 7notemode -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =egwA5XUkb-8
This I did some time ago as a midi file - and using computer software was able to transform it into a video lesson with piano and notation views, as well as some annotations.
The printable transcription is on my DVD - http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz /DVDbuy.htm -
(over 120 printable transcriptions of these videos and more than 9 hours of high quality video for $25 !)

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Embraceable You - solo jazz piano lesson jazz2511 - 1,583 views - 1 month ago

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Embraceable You - jazz piano lesson. This is an enhanced version of the original video posted here on Youtube. Now that I can upload High Definition videos, it is worth upgrading some of my earlier videos that have had lots of hits, with added notation, and clear views of the keyboard.
Herbie Hancock does a great solo version of this on his (fairly) recent 'Gershwin's World' album.
This is a very simple play through ( 3 times) which should be fairly easy to play.
The printable transcription is on my DVD - http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz /DVDbuy.htm -
(over 120 printable transcriptions of these videos and more than 9 hours of high quality video for $25 !)

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Strange Meadowlark (Dave Brubeck) - solo jazz piano lesson jazz2511 - 1,385 views - 1 month ago

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This is one of Dave Brubeck's most beautiful compositions - from the best selling 'Time Out' album. It is quite unusual in form.

One feature of the original is the sparkling arpeggios that Brubeck plays up the piano - while I have not copied exactly the notes played by Brubeck, I have shown a few different options in creating these (relatively) easy to play, but impressive sweeping arpeggios. See 2:42, 3:38, 5:44 for some examples.

There is a free to download copy on my website at http://www.bushgrafts.com
The printable transcription is on my DVD - http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz /DVDbuy.htm -
(over 120 printable transcriptions of these videos and more than 9 hours of high quality video for $25 !)

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A Fine Romance - Jazz piano tutorial jazz2511 - 1,429 views - 1 month ago

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Solo piano - this was improvised drom the leadsheet shown. The video and the midi file recorded with the audio are on my website at http://www.bushgrafts.com

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'Ballad of the Sad Young Men' - with Michelle Benjamin jazz2511 - 1,330 views - 2 months ago

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'Ballad of the Sad Young Men' - with Michelle Benjamin. Another great song with Michelle Benjamin - with scrolling accompaniment shown. The video and a midi file of the piano accompaniment are downloadable (free) from my website http://www.bushgrafts.com
The transcription is on my DVD - details on the website

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	jazz2511 uploaded a new video (1 day ago) 'Yesterdays' - Solo jazz piano tutorial 'Yesterdays' - Solo jazz piano tutorial. I have upgraded a previous video to wide screen and High Definition - adding scrolling notation, and an ex... more

	jazz2511 uploaded a new video (1 day ago) 'Prelude To a Kiss' - solo jazz piano lesson 'Prelude To a Kiss' - solo jazz piano lesson. This is an upgraded version of the video I have posted before. It is now in widescreen, and has an ad... more

	jazz2511 uploaded a new video (1 week ago) 'Something Cool' - tutorial - accompanying a jazz singer Michelle sings this song and the piano was improvised from a leadsheet. The video can be downloaded free from my website at http://www.bushgrafts.c... more

	jazz2511 uploaded a new video (1 week ago) 'Shiny Stockings' - tutorial - accompanying a jazz singer Michelle sings this song - with new (and more acceptable) lyrics that she and one of her students wrote. The bass and drums backing was created in... more

	jazz2511 uploaded a new video (2 weeks ago) 'Star Eyes' - jazz piano tutorial In Mark Levine's best selling 'Jazz Piano Book' he includes a final chapter ('Practice, Practice, Practice' pp. 254 -267), in which he makes a numb... more

	zzzGerrYzzz (6 days ago) greetings from Indonesia : )
	arizzoschettino (1 week ago) Doug, you are number one. I dig your work so much. The understanding of how to teach things that you have is from another planet. Not only do I dig your playing but also your approach to teaching and explaining things. I wish one day I can get closer to this! Thanks for posting,
	tessy58 (1 week ago) Wow you have an excellent channel I have subscribed! Georgia :)
	paulbreeze (1 month ago) eternally gracious! from california
	kitty28go (1 month ago) Fabulous channel......
	motoven (1 month ago) great; God bless you.
	Navarrous (1 month ago) Thank you, teacher. I am a piano jazz student from Brazil, and appreciate your videos very much. Again, thank you!
	bonecracker23 (1 month ago) I can't thank you enough for the great videos you're posting, incredibly useful, best online jazz lessons I have ever seen, thank you so much !
	lollypiehi2 (2 months ago) I wonder if you would play, CRAZY, the way Floyd Cramer play it for Patsy Cline, if so let me know. My friend in spain needs to hear it. Thanks Lollypie2 Hawaii
	HuggumsMcgehee (2 months ago) Where would a beginning jazz pianist start practicing?