Steinway & Sons: Jazz Piano The Left Hand

Here is the first volume in a new Jazz Piano series from The Steinway Library of Piano Music! This masterful book answers the age-old question asked by nearly every jazz pianist: what more can I do with my left hand? Using hundreds upon hundreds of musical examples, jazz scholar and pianist Riccardo Scivales (author of, among other important works, The Right Hand According To Tatum, The Soul Of Blues, Stride & Swing Piano, Harlem Stride Piano Solos and Learn To Play Latin Piano) takes you on a tour of the left hand styles and techniques of all the great pianists, from Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller to Chick Corea and Michel Camilo. And he shows you how to use their methods yourself!

An Encyclopedia of Left Hand Style You’ll no longer ponder how to get that swinging bass going, or how to fill in and add spark to the music with authentic left hand grooves. That great mystery of how to become a truly two fisted player will remain a mystery no longer, after you’ve gone through this treasure trove of left hand techniques used by the best jazz players who ever lived! This book is well over 250 pages long—a triumph of historical scholarship and practical, down-to-earth know-how! But here’s even better news… if you are not completely satisfied, you may return it within 30 days for a full refund… no questions asked! There’s no risk… only the opportunity of becoming the complete musician you always wanted to be! !

Put Your Little Finger Here You’ll see exactly what these legendary jazz pianists did, and learn how they made their left hand moves sound so thrilling. You’ll become adept at every left hand style as Riccardo let’s you in on all the secrets… stride bass as adopted and improved by Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, Donald Lambert, Cliff Jackson, Willie The Lion Smith, George Gershwin and Fats Waller… Spanish Tinged left hand stylings… blues and boogie devices… swing style figures made famous by Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Bob Zurke… techniques of Prebop, Bebop, and the new left hand… Erroll Garner’s strumming left hand figures… walking bass style… playing salsa stride patterns, montunos and bossa-novas… the basics of jazz ostinatos… rootless chord voicings… AND MORE!

Published by Ekay Music, Inc.

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CONTENTS

Instructional