Jazz Piano Skills For Non-Pianists with Anton Schwartz at California Jazz Conservatory

The piano is an invaluable tool for any jazz musician. This workshop focuses on things a non-pianist (or non-jazz pianist) can do to efficiently acquire skills that will be useful in their music. The goal is not to become a performing pianist but to be able to use the piano to improve your ear, help you learn songs, demonstrate ideas to bandmates, and eventually compose and arrange music. As a result, this workshop is very different from Òbeginning jazz piano.Ó Topics will include: roles of the left and right hand, simple chord voicings with a pathway to more complexity, bass notes and bass lines, and the ranges of the piano most appropriate for different purposes...

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The piano is an invaluable tool for any jazz musician. This workshop focuses on things a non-pianist (or non-jazz pianist) can do to efficiently acquire skills that will be useful in their music. The goal is not to become a performing pianist but to be able to use the piano to improve your ear, help you learn songs, demonstrate ideas to bandmates, and eventually compose and arrange music. As a result, this workshop is very different from Òbeginning jazz piano.Ó Topics will include: roles of the left and right hand, simple chord voicings with a pathway to more complexity, bass notes and bass lines, and the ranges of the piano most appropriate for different purposes. Appropriate for jazz players with a minimum of piano knowledge or non-jazz pianists interested in jazz. Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the piano, not necessarily jazz. Participants should be able to at least find individual notes.

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