The Learning Site for Piano Players

These pamphlets are 20 to 30 page tutorials on a single subject.

Each one presents an in-depth analysis and explanation including many illustrations and exercises. Designed to develop both your understanding and facility with the material, they are like a master class in each subject! You can now order them as PDF files in an email attachment (no shipping charge), for $6.00 each, or you can have them shipped to you as printed documents.

Click on miniature cover for written and audio examples of each pamphlet.

		How To Use Licks. Develop the ability to play pre-learned runs and fills in your music. This pamphlet shows you exactly (and easily) how it’s done.
		Intros and Endings. This pamphlet prepares you to play professional style introductions and endings for any type of song. Dozens of ideas that work in a variety of musical situations.
		Color Your Playing with Superimpositions. Everything you ever wanted to know about your old high school sweetheart “Poly Tonality”.
		Right Hand Fills with Tritones. Adding the tritones (the 3rd and 7th) under the melody is an efficient and musical method of filling out your right hand. This pamphlet will teach you how to use tritones on all chords.
		Diminished Chords Scales & Voicings. Good players use diminished chord voicings and diminished scales all of the time. The material presented here is a comprehensive look at this very useful chord family.
		Fake Stride Piano. An easy method of playing swing piano in the style of Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson and other stride pianists.
		How To Use Turnaround Patterns. These chord patterns provide the harmony for about half of all standard pop tune progressions.
		Right Hand Triads. This pamphlet was written to help sharpen your skill in grabbing right hand major triads and inversions. The exercises are musical, interesting, and progressively challenging.
		Left Hand Walking Bass Lines. Devoted solely to developing valid keyboard walking bass lines, this material will prepare you for any harmonic situation.
		Major Chord Voicings. Great ideas for two handed major chord voicings. Included are the “So What” voicings, pentatonics and fourth voicings for blues scales.
		Whole Tone Scales & Augmented Chords. The two whole tone scales are easy to play and provide a unique, colorful source of fill or soloing ideas on dominant 7th chords, especially when the music calls for an augmented chord. This pamphlet is a comprehensive tutorial about these chords and scales.
		Altered Dominant Scales & Mixolicks. The most important of the jazz scales and a 6-note version that will have you burning up and down the keyboard in no time.
		Great Be Bop Licks. The be bop era was probably the most prolific in the development of jazz soloing licks. Many of them are taught in this pamphlet.
		Musical Modulations. A step by step guide to moving smoothly from any key to any other key.
		Cool Walking Tenths. If you want to develop a left hand like Teddy Wilson, this pamphlet will get you there. An original insight on how to use tenths and walking tenths for a great sound no matter how far you can reach.
		Soft Winds Voicings. A thorough examination and tutorial of what is probably the most common voicing in the blues idiom.
		Six Note Minor Scales. This edited version of the harmonic minor scale is a great source for fill or soloing ideas. Everyone uses it, and the scale, along with many good ideas, is presented here in all twelve keys.
		The Chromatic Scale. This pamphlet features exercises that will quickly have you playing chromatics from any note. Learn many of the licks and fills that use this valuable scale.
		The Ultimate Improvisation Technique. A complete tutorial on the most useful melody, fill and improvisation idea in music. This valuable technique is heard in all styles of music from Chopin to Be Bop.
		Musical Clichés you should really know. Melodies taken from songs, jingles, and themes that are part of our musical heritage.
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