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Oct 7, 20121 min read

Advanced Jazz Comping with Fourth Voicings – Pentatonic Inversions

In this video, I show you how to use the classic Bill Evans “So What” voicing and move it up the Pentatonic scale. It’s a great exercise...

Sep 30, 20123 min read

Mother Monster: How Lady Gaga Created Her Fame

In a recent study by web-based software company Vocus and digital analyst Brian Solis, the criteria for being an online “influencer” was...

Sep 23, 20124 min read

MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS: The New Music Industry Is Yours for the Taking

It’s probably safe to say that anyone reading this wants to achieve financial stability. Most of you want to be famous, whether you’ll...

Sep 15, 20121 min read

Advanced Ear Training – Relative Pitch Exercises Part 1

In this video, we will go through some advanced ear training exercises that will train your relative pitch to a point where you no...

Sep 8, 20121 min read

How to Improvise – Major Block Chords for Jazz Piano and Arranging

Here is another video about a key jazz tool for both pianists and arrangers called major block chords. Below you will find the video as...

Aug 26, 20121 min read

How to Play Like Erroll Garner – Misty

It isn’t often that you hear Erroll Garner’s piano style being mimicked by contemporary pianists. Maybe it’s because his style was so...

Aug 22, 20121 min read

How to Play Stride Piano

Here is a video demonstrating the basics of stride piano as concisely as possible. If you have any further questions, feel free to email...

Aug 9, 20122 min read

Tendonitis Heads Up

Unfortunately, the subject of how to cure tendinitis has been on my mind a lot lately since I have been playing music nonstop and have...