Persistent golfer's elbow issues have combined with my growing interest in improving my piano playing to spend less time playing/practicing the guitar and more time on my newly acquired Kawai ES-920 digital piano. I've taken some measures to address the golfer's elbow, which I may post about elsewhere. The majority of my piano activities have been focused on working through the updated Jazz Piano Jump Start course on Open Studio.
One of my supplemental activites is learning the electric piano part for "Josie" thanks to this video:
Great series of articles related to playing solo arrangements of song and/or accompanying a singer on piano:
How to Transform a Lead Sheet Into a Performance
10 Great Arpeggios for Left and Right Hand
How to Create Flowing Keyboard Accompaniments
The Basics of Stride Piano
I'm working through the updated Jazz Piano Jump Start.
I'm enjoying the emphasis on GPS compared to the original version.
An area of improvement would be the workbook for Week 5. Adam plays something that doesn't match the onscreen notation which throws me off. I think I understand why the etude is just a chord chart instead of written out like the etudes in the earlier weeks - the idea is to encourage the student to improvise the rhythm.
We used to be able to ask questions in the original version of Jazz Piano Jump Start. Now you have to subscribe to Pro membership or something
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