Nathan Hayward

The Next Step on Your Jazz Piano Soloing JourneyAre you ready to elevate your jazz piano skills and bring more creativity to your solos? Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing by Nathan Hayward is your essential guide to mastering the art of jazz improvisation. This book is designed for pianists who are ready to move beyond the basics and delve into a more nuanced world of jazz soloing.A Wealth of Techniques That Will Quickly Transform Your PlayingFrom the foundational concepts of chromatic passing notes and phrases, to the sophisticated use of minor pentatonic modal substitutions, this book covers it all. You'll apply the techniques of jazz legends like Bud Powell by soloing with arpeggio extensions, and discover the modal soloing techniques of McCoy Tyner to bring new depth to your playing. You'll also master some powerful arpeggio substitutions that quickly add depth and variety to your playing.The Jazz Piano Soloing Skills You'll LearnChromatic Passing Notes and Runs: Start with the basics and build up to more complex chromatic runs that add a distinctive jazz character to your solosLeft-Hand Chords and Extensions: Streamline your left-hand voicings with essential guide tones and learn to add rich extensions for a fuller soundAltering the 9th, 11th, and 13th: Discover how altering chord extensions can add tension and interest to your solosModal Jazz Techniques: Dive into modal improvisation with techniques inspired by Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner, focusing on melodic soloing and left-hand conceptsPentatonic Soloing: Learn how to extract pentatonic scales from modes to create easily-playable, fluid, dynamic linesEach chapter includes detailed explanations, dozens of examples licks you can immediately add to your repertoire, and easy, practical exercises that help you quickly apply each concept to your playing.Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing will help you take your jazz piano skills to new heights and will give you the skills and confidence to create your own distinctive solos on a variety of chord sequences.Audio IncludedWith over 200 audio examples and backing tracks available for download, you'll have all the resources you need to practice and master the concepts covered in this book. These examples provide a practical way to reinforce your learning and refine your skills.It's Time to ShineEmbrace the journey, practice with dedication, and enjoy the creative process of becoming a more fluent, expressive jazz pianist with Intermediate Jazz Piano Soloing.Order your copy and start transforming your jazz piano solos today Buy it now

Learn Jazz Piano Soloing Skills With This Easy Step-by-Step MethodDo you want to learn how to improvise jazz piano solos?Would you like to recreate the sounds of the jazz piano greats, but have no idea where to begin?Do you want a simple method to teach you how to solo confidently and even write your own licks?Beginner Jazz Piano Soloing is a simple, easy-to-follow guide, that teaches you the language of jazz in easy steps. This well-conceived method is so effective that even if you are a novice at jazz, by the end you'll be able to confidently improvise a solo.Like any language, jazz has its own vocabulary and expert tutor Nathan Hayward will teach you the right way to learn, memorise and apply it. You'll discover...- Major and Minor Pentatonic and Blues scales- How to blend scales to make new sounds- How to use simple ideas to create an authentic jazz sound- Expand your jazz vocabulary with dozens of licks- How to connect licks to form longer ideas- How to apply rhythmic ideas to get endless variations of the licks you knowThis book demystifies jazz improvisation as it works through each idea step by step. You'll never feel overwhelmed - instead you'll be encouraged by your rapid progress. By the end you'll have built a musical vocabulary that will help you to solo convincingly over simple jazz chord sequences.

Master 100 Modern Jazz Piano Licks & Learn the Language of 10 Jazz Piano MastersBud Powell - Oscar Peterson - Thelonious Monk - George Shearing - Bill Evans - McCoy Tyner - Herbie Hancock - Chick Corea - Keith Jarrett - Brad Mehldau -Do you want to take your jazz piano playing to the next level?Want to improve your jazz vocabulary to create meaningful, personalized solos?Ready to discover a complete theoretical and technical breakdown of the jazz language?100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano is so much more than a book of licks It's a doorway into the minds of the most innovative jazz pianists ever recorded...Learn the style of 10 modern jazz piano giantsMaster 10 genre-defining piano licks for each playerCombine and personalize jazz vocabulary into your own unique styleDiscover extensive biographies and essential discographies for every playerGo Way Beyond "Traditional" Piano Lick Books100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano will lift your playing to new heights.We can learn only so much from transcriptions, so this book goes one further by explaining the harmonic and melodic concepts used by the jazz piano masters. You'll build an intimate knowledge of the theory and techniques that fuel their musical creativity. In fact, you'll get years of insight condensed into one powerful resource.Learn genre-defining piano lines in the style of: Bud Powell - Oscar Peterson - Thelonious Monk - George Shearing - Bill Evans - McCoy Tyner - Herbie Hancock - Chick Corea - Keith Jarrett - Brad Mehldau -Here's What You Get: 100 jazz piano licks in the style of 10 essential jazz pianistsExplanations of the theory and techniques that help you get behind the licksPlaying advice and breakdown of every lick, from fingering to applicationA complete study piece in the style of Keith Jarrett that will help you to construct your own solosPerfectly notated examples with studio-quality audio to download for freeBonus: Essential listening tips for each pianist - learn from their seminal recordingsBonus: Tips on phrasing, articulation and how to make each lick your ownEach player in this book fundamentally changed the sound of jazz piano through their innovations. More than a collection of licks, you'll receive a history lesson on the development of jazz piano - from the ground-breaking bebop of Bud Powell to the advanced contrapuntal harmonies of Brad Mehldau.Along with mastering 100 exciting jazz piano licks, you'll learn a complete solo in the style of arch-improviser Keith Jarrett. This is a master class in melodic improvisation for those who truly want to learn jazz piano.Hear it100 studio-quality audio examples help you hear how each lick should sound. You'll get inside the music and quickly learn to apply each every new idea to any musical situation.Buy it now and take your jazz piano playing to new heights.