The blues is a fundamental element of jazz piano. What would happen if you played a blues every day as part of your jazz piano practice routine in 2022? By playing a blues-a-day, you can challenge yourself to learn melodies, voicings, and improvise in different keys. This will expand your musicality, and make you ready for just about anything!

Playing original compositions can be quite the journey compared to playing regular jazz standards. In this episode I explore 3 weird and very modern chords I had to play and solo over on a recent gig I played. Here's what they are!

We finally wrap up this series by talking about taking action. How do we take action in 2022 to make progress in jazz piano? I'll talk about what practice exercises to use, how to follow the systems, and so much more.

We go a little further into our planning in this one. We're looking at the plan for our goals today. What is the plan to accomplish our goals? What are the systems? In today's podcast episode I'll show you how to plan to accomplish different jazz piano goals like solo piano, improvisation, and more.

A little planning and thoughtful strategizing can go a long way. Can you imagine if coaches never prepared for games with their team? The games would be a mess.

The same holds true for your 2022 year. Knowing HOW to plan, prepare, and set goals is a whole other thing though. That's exactly what I'll teach you in today's podcast.

Enjoy!

When I think about the things that hurt my progress the most through out my jazz piano pursuit there are 4 things that come to mind.

And I dont mean, me sitting on the couch with my hand on my chin wondering.

I mean like BAM!

These 4 things DIRECTLY come to my mind because they're so blatantly obvious now that I can see them and know of them.

In episode 2 of my new mini series I'm going to explain what these 4 things are.

They're STILL, to this day, very heavily rearing their ugly head and the more you can be aware of them...the better off you'll be so you don't go through what I did for 15 years.

Enjoy!

When I think about the things that hurt my progress the most through out my jazz piano pursuit there are 4 things that come to mind.

And I dont mean, me sitting on the couch with my hand on my chin wondering.

I mean like BAM!

These 4 things DIRECTLY come to my mind because they're so blatantly obvious now that I can see them and know of them.

In episode 2 of my new mini series I'm going to explain what these 4 things are.

They're STILL, to this day, very heavily rearing their ugly head and the more you can be aware of them...the better off you'll be so you don't go through what I did for 15 years.

Enjoy!

I get kind of bitter when I talk about it.

I try not to but I really can't help it.

Because this ONE thing was extremely close to robbing me of my jazz piano dream.

And to this day, I feel my body tighten and clench when talking about it.

This is Episode 1, of a 3 part mini series I'm releasing that's going to take a step back.

It's going to hopefully help you rethink your own jazz piano education and journey, as I share all the downfalls, doubts, frustrations and pains I've gone through on mine.

Enjoy!

The age old question. How do you practice improvisation? Practice lines and licks right?

Not exactly. Believe it or not, most of the work and practice should be done outside the tune. Just like baseball players. They work on batting practice outside of games, so when the games do come, they can hit better. In this episode I'll show you my system I still use to this day to practice improvisation.

Rarely does the crucial information you need to make progress expose itself easily. I went through years of nebulous education learning without no clear path. In this podcast lesson, I break down the MOST important 3 steps you need to practice and work on in order to achieve a pro level solo piano sound.