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Jazz Piano Minimum Requirements - The Jazz Piano Site
Jazz Piano Minimum Requirements - The Jazz Piano Site
(http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/)
Ingredients
Combining Ingredients
Think of these as your ‘ingredients’ for Jazz Piano. It’s them up to you to combine these ingredients
into a full song (meal). You have to be able to combine any two of these techniques:
Walking Bass-line (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-chord-
voicings/walking-bass-lines/) + Rootless Chords (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-
piano-lessons/jazz-chord-voicings/rootless-voicings/)
Walking Bass-line + Quartal Chords (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-
lessons/jazz-chord-voicings/quartal-voicings/)
Stride + Melody
Rootless Chords + Improvisation (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-
lessons/jazz-improvisation/)
Root Notes + Two Handed Quartal Voicings
And keep in mind that this is just the minimum requirements for Jazz Piano. It’s enough to make you
appear like a competent Jazz Pianist and like you know what you’re doing. You can then start
combining these technique to create some interesting variations. For example, you could combine
stride piano using rootless voicings and intersperse it with walking bass-lines. And there are
countless other voicings and techniques and scales you can learn. Right, we haven’t even talked
about upper structures (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-chord-
voicings/upper-structures/), using chord substitutions (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-
lessons/jazz-chords/chord-substitution/), adding passing chords
(http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-chords/passing-chords/), using the
wholetone scale (http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-scales/wholetone-scale/)
to improvise, etc.
But for each new song, as a bare minimum, I learn to play it using all the techniques listed above. In a
sense, this is my quick ‘to do’ list for each new song. Now, obviously this is entirely subjective, so feel
free to add or remove other items to make your own customised list.
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