Beginner to Professional Piano Performance Instruction for Rock, Pop and "Smooth Jazz" Piano!

"At Last!  You Can Play Piano With a 'Real Feel' and Create 'Rhythmic & Soulful Grooves' Quickly..."

Learn Techniques to Create and Play "Toe-Tapping" Smooth Jazz Piano.

There's no doubt, it's probably the most difficult skill for any adult to learn.

Of course, some people will tell you that you can do fine with only a fundamental understanding of harmony and rhythm.  WRONG! 

Just take a look at their course descriptions along with their basic case studies of songs!  (America, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Happy Birthday...etc.)

And of course, their "sanitized" renditions speak for themselves.

However, the big problem is that most play piano e-books and online programs are filled with a lot of theory but not enough practice strategies to make learning to play smooth jazz piano easier. 

Sound at all familiar?

But now there's good news!

You can become a member of Play Smooth Jazz Piano.com and finally learn the actual practice techniques to help you play smooth jazz piano, or ANY other contemporary style, for that matter.

The Right (and the Wrong) Way to

Learn to Play Smooth Jazz Piano

Music comes from within you...

Many people believe that music is external, that it comes from outside themselves.   They read notes or chord symbols and out comes the music.

Music, specifically, creative smooth jazz sounds are internal and comes from within the individual.  It is a reflection of your soul.

Our membership program is an attempt to help you unlock the music that already resides within your mind.

Don't be afraid of the opportunity to express yourself through improvisation.  It's the most natural way to make music.

Right Brain - Left Brain

Smooth Jazz musicians have always mentally heard music then practiced until they could play those ideas on their instrument.

Knowing the fingerings, scales and chords (arpeggios) to each of the chords/scales in the harmony is fundamental. 

But don't make the mistake of taking a lifetime to learn the fundamentals and never take time to enjoy making music.

Sometimes we forget to balance the learning of scales, chords, fingerings, technique, etc. with the joy of playing a simple melody that we hear in our head.

The most successful musicians are those who can balance the left-brain knowledge with the creative right-brain.

If you can only play by ear (right-brain), you'll find yourself limited to only what-you-know.

If you over emphasize the left-brain, you may end up sounding like a "well-oiled" jazz machine but not too inspiring or original.

The Play Smooth Jazz Piano.com lessons use an approach that allows both sides of the brain to be used.

Cooperation is a key word here...

I'm suggesting that you cooperate with yourself. 

Practice with the scales, chords, patterns, licks and get so you can weave through the harmony without really thinking about it.

As a member, you will learn how to be spontaneous, creative, surprising, and imaginative.

This is a just a sample of what you will learn:

• Jazz Rhythm Changes
• Blues Scale Usage
• Pentatonic Scale Usage
• Whole Tone Scale Usage
• Diminished Scale/Chord Usage
• Variant Turnarounds
• Practice Procedure for Memorizing Scales and Chords to Any Song
• Using Pick-Ups
• TheDominant 7thTree of Scale Choices
• Bebop Scales
• 2-Note Voicings
• 3- and 4-Note Voicings
• Rhythms Used in Blues, Rhythm & Blues and Contemporary Jazz

Okay... What Makes Your

Membership Site SO Different?

I'm glad you asked...

1. The Price!  Your subscription will only cost you $39.97 per month.  It's affordable!

2. The Lesson Quality.  I've been teaching piano online for over 6 years, and I know what YOU need to learn to be successful at playing the piano.

3. The Teaching Method.   This is the ONLY Membership Site that is focused on teaching Adult Contemporary Piano Stylings, with an emphasis on the Beginner to Advanced student.

Need Proof?  Here it IS!

Many of my online students are either full-time College students, working adults or retirees with families.

I mean they have their own lives, and often it becomes difficult to carve away some private time for practice.  But remember, there is no substitute for practice!

I understand that YOU need to have a regular practice routine that contains certain constant elements (such as warm-up exercises) as well as variable elements that address your current avenue of study.

And performing doesn't count as practice.

Although playing "gigs," performing in church or just "playing around" on the keyboards for your personal and social enjoyment is an essential part of your musical development, it won't REPLACE time in the practice room.

So should you give up?

Must you put off the idea of improving your musicianship until you have more time (and are you sure that time will come)?

Here's my alternative - Randy Halberstadt's concept called "target bombing"

Let's say, you only have an hour to practice.

Find something to practice that is not currently in your arsenal.  It could be a lick, a scale, a set of chord voicings, a section of a tune, a transcribed solo, ANYTHING.

But this is important: it must be small.

DON'T set a general goal (e.g., mastering the McCoy Tyner style of pentatonic scale improvisation). 

Instead, select a little piece of business (such as a particular pentatonic lick to be learned in 12 keys). 

Assume that this is the only opportunity you'll have to learn this particular item.  Tomorrow you'll move on to something else.

Approach the hour's practice with this attitude: "What can I do within the next hour to permanently improve my musicianship in one very small but measurable way?"

More specifically, "What can I do to master this one item so that it will be self-reinforcing, so that it will immediately begin to show up in my actual performances?"

Your plan is to DEVOUR this one small thing so completely that it can't slip away.

If you don't get it by the end of the hour, you lose it forever.  But if you ingest it fully enough, then it will IMMEDIATELY begin to show up in your performances. 

It WILL BECOME a small element of your style and you'll NEVER LOSE IT!

Your Play Smooth Jazz Piano Membership offers a group of concepts for you to "gnaw" on for 30 days!   And of course, the next month you will receive another group of lessons and/or concepts to practice for 30 days, at your OWN PACE.

It requires a type of "tunnel vision," a willingness to gnaw on one thing for one hour without letting other concerns intrude.

Although at first it may be a method that you use because you can't find time for the more traditional, routine-oriented practice, you may find it so SUCCESSFUL and FUN that you make it your primary approach.

I've seen this approach work wonders for many of my students (worldwide), and I use it all the time myself!

Your membership also includes: short video clips, audio accompaniment tracks, and smooth jazz "lead sheets" to develop improvisation skills!"

So what are you waiting for?  Subscribe TODAY!

Just Remember... "Good Musicians SEE What They Hear and HEAR What They See!"

ONLY $39.97 per Month

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