- How does the teacher practice?
- How to spend 90 minutes or more practicing jazz piano
- Ear Training for Jazz Musicians
- Get Rid of Your Fear of Sight-reading Once and For All
- How to practice scales on the piano
- The Secrets of Piano Practicing
- Deliberate Practice Revisisted
- Jazz Metronome
- Piano Practice Weekly Planner/Journal
- Practicing with Purpose
- Self-Recording in Practice
A informative gentle reminder on staying focused on what really counts in learning to play jazz.
- Learn tunes: he suggests 25 standards
- Immersive listening: creating playlists of these tunes and playing them constantly
- Working on time: no time, no jamming, no gigs
- Learning to play in different situations: duo, trio, big band, with singers and more
- Worrying about gear. As a drum student, this was an expensive lessons. Piano students suffer less from this malady.
To which I would add Wynton Marsalis' commands to please learn to play your instrument.
David Story
