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Slash Chords

Understanding slash chords is very important when playing rock music and reading sheet music or lead sheets (“lead sheets” refer […]

What are diatonic intervals? “Interval” is simply the term we use in music when we want to measure the distance

As we’ve discussed countless times on this site and in various lessons, the language of jazz borrows and lends itself

My first musical influences growing up were in the pop-rock genre. I have always had a love for the music

From time to time I get questions from students asking more about the general knowledge side of music performance as opposed to

Stride piano is a popular style of piano playing in which the left hand acts as a complete rhythm section.

In this article we’ll cover a couple advanced jazz piano comping techniques. These are the jazz comping techniques employed by

Drop 2 voicings piano technique formula is an essential jazz piano technique. In this article we’re going to explore a

This article is going to focus on a variety of gig tips for musicians, but primarily pianists. Over the years

In Part 1 of our article “Gig Tips for Pianists” we discussed some very important aspects of gigging, including where

In Part 1 of our article on advanced reharmonization we discussed two tips for understanding how to get started with

In this article we’ll look at a very important blues piano tip – displacing the beat. Actually, this is not