Live from Los Angeles, California
YouTube Playlist: Jazz Piano
Piano Technique is perhaps not the FIRST thing you think of in jazz piano practice. However, keeping an eye on a few key technique concepts will not only help optimize your playing, but it will promote back, neck, and wrist health, allowing you to stay fit in the context of hours of practice and/or gigs. The first tips in this video are simple but they are highlighted here because of their high level or prevalence. In other words – I see tons of piano students who need to correct certain issues! And the final tip is truly essential to elevating your piano playing to the highest level of beauty and artfullness! Watch.
LINKS
(jazz pianists to check out)
Oscar Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTBRRzM4Mvw
Bill Evans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LFVWBmoiw
Larry Goldings
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/in-my-room/id436962708
Keith Jarrett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqK1JJOFxw
