The Genius JamTracks App is a key element in my jazz improvisation practice. I only promote products that I strongly believe in and this one is at the top of my list. It makes me a better musician all-around by being the app that really PLAYS and THINKS like a real band - a trio that wants to keep you on your toes! Work on your polyrhythms, ability to hear and feel grooves, metric modulations, and advanced rhythmic concepts while playing the tunes you know and love - in any key and at any tempo.
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Carnegie Hall, 1952 - The Oscar Peterson Trio featuring Ray Brown and Barney Kessel absolutely blew the audience away with their rendition of Tenderly and changed the course of jazz forever.
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Learn to make your piano sound like the ocean, using an arrangement I made of Toad The Wet Sprocket's "Walk On The Ocean" using rising and falling arpeggios and contrasting motion between hands. Plus, take a listen to my cover of the song
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A look into the musican musician behind the Mr. Rogers show - namely - Jazz pianist, Johnny Costa
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Looking primarily at the strange music trends from the 1950s, we discuss the novelty song in its many forms - and how Mitch Miller (who helped launch the careers of Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day and more) tried to steer Columbia Records away from the Rock n Roll craze. It'll be a walk down memory lane for many of you as we look at the influence of Lawrence Welk, Disney, Perry Como, Brian Hyland, Peggy Lee and many more greats from music history.
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Some of my favorite songs are about summer, fall, winter and spring. Let's talk about some of the very best "season songs" that have ever been written.
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An overview of the many uses for the extremely versatile diminished 7th chord and how great composers over the last 6 decades or so have used this chord of intrigue to make rich and compelling pop songs.
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