Category Archives: Piano Exercises

The Chord-Scale Method

Posted on Monday, 23rd January 2012 by Edinburgh

Well done for me for (not) reading emails carefully! Looks like Simon’s emailed us an exciting new exercise to help with our improvisation skills. This exercise is based on the four basic jazz chords: dominant 7th, Maj7, m7 and half-diminished … Continue reading →

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Jazz Specific Piano Practice

Posted on Friday, 6th January 2012 by Edinburgh

Happy New Year everybody! Hope you had a great time doing whatever you felt like doing during the break. As for myself, I managed to alternate between gluttony, sleep (loads) and some piano practice of course. I wanted to make … Continue reading →

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Stretching Exercises for Pianists

Posted on Wednesday, 7th December 2011 by Edinburgh

I love the outdoors. Hiking and cycling has played a huge role in my life over the past few years. One thing I learned there is the value of physical exercises and stretching. Any musician uses muscles to play an … Continue reading →

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Advice to the Young Pianist

Posted on Sunday, 4th December 2011 by Edinburgh

In search for some more piano exercises I came across this one titled Advice To the Young Pianist. It’s basically a confirmation of what I discovered already: the more you play the better you get 🙂 Frederick Hodges’ advise is basically … Continue reading →

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Can You Sight Read

Posted on Sunday, 27th November 2011 by Edinburgh

Anyone seriously interested in improving their sight reading should take a look at a book by Lois Phillips Can You Sight Read. Unlike many other sight reading books this one focuses on your ability to read and transpose at the … Continue reading →

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Piano Technique and Chord Progressions

Posted on Tuesday, 15th November 2011 by Edinburgh

Two aspects will be mentioned today. I’ve always thought my knowledge of the piano technique was inadequate but at the same time thought it probably wasn’t very important to pop musicians. The book the Edinburgh Library kindly loaned to me … Continue reading →

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Rhythm Exercises for Piano

Posted on Friday, 11th November 2011 by Edinburgh

I decided to start a series of articles on piano practice. I keep coming across interesting exercises that are just too good to be forgotten. Today, I’ll describe some rhythm exercises. Pianists like any other musicians need to know rhythm. … Continue reading →

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