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Berklee Jazz Piano

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(Berklee Guide). Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music and mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousands of others reveals the pedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels, Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated by the accompanying practice audio, accessed online for streaming or download, where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and original compositions, and how you can do the same. You will learn: Jazz chords and their characteristic tension substitutions, in many voicings and configurations Modes and scales common in jazz Techniques for comping, developing bass lines, harmonizing melodies, melodizing harmonies, and improvisation Practice techniques for committing these concepts to your muscle memory Variations for solo and ensemble playing Advanced concepts, such as rhythmic displacement, approach-chord harmonization, and jazz counterpoint. The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berklee College; Pap/Com edition (January 1, 2009)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0876390505


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 04


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.28 x 12 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #265,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #82 in Jazz Songbooks #1,049 in Piano Songbooks #1,347 in Music Instruction & Study (Books)


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This is a great book for an intermediate player who already has some exposure to jazz and good reading skills, and who needs to learn the jazz vocabulary and needs ideas and good examples on how to apply it. There are good examples and exercises to get the student playing and learning up to a professional level. And there are plenty of topics taught in a concise and new way not found elsewhere. It is also very applicable if you are learning with a teacher who can use it as a guide. The author Ray Santisi is famously experienced, being a professor of piano at Berklee, etc., and having taught jazz for decades, including some big names such as Diana Krall. And indeed the material is very up to date and relevant, and shows his years of experience, giving you unique ways of understanding some well known topics. Having said that, the book is there to sell copies and does not to give in depth instruction using Berklee's jazz piano teaching methods. Rather, it gives a whirlwind tour of the Berklee method, which covers many topics at a high level. While the examples are effective, and easy to understand and apply, there is a large amount of exercise and instruction missing here. So for example you'll learn some good basics about walking bass and other piano bass lines, a great introduction for the beginner. But after that, you are on your own to sink or swim next time you jam with your quartet or go solo. The result is that the book delivers a bag a of tricks for the jazz pianist, and while they are useful, they sometimes require considerable effort to incorporate into your playing - I bet some of you learning on your own will identify with this. Very useful topics are how to play five and six note voicings, and how to understand modes and apply them to playing situations. And there are many more. However in other places, no context or explanation is given as to where voicing come from, so sometimes you `ll see chords clustered all over the place without explanation. Sometimes the author just becomes too clever, seemingly over complicating some of the voicings (look at those examples on particalization - some examples are not so easy to remember, let alone apply your jazz group!). The bottom line is that to get the most out of this book, firstly you already have understand voicing construction, swing feeling, harmony and some other fundamentals before you get to this book. Secondly you need to work hard to apply these to standards. Other typical frustrating aspects include statements like "now apply these techniques to standards". More examples and exercises please! Learning a style is journey - I need a more detailedroadmap. If you are looking for a single jazz book to get you from beginner to pro, and you are doing it without a teacher, I'd go for Mark Levine's Jazz Piano and use that as my basis, and maybe Santinis book as a supplement. Levine's approach is thorough and the material is clear and practical and shows you how to go from zero to pro over time. This book is too shorthand to help. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2011 by Arran Valkin
    • Berklee Jazz Piano Book by Ray Santisi
Berklee Jazz Piano Book by Ray Santisi is a wonderful book about jazz piano techniques, harmony, pentatonic patterns, compositions, rhythm tracks to play along with, modernistic jazz concepts and most of all, the tried and true methods that the author Ray Santisi has used with his students at Berklee for over 50 + years. Ray is still teaching at Berklee and playing gigs in Boston every week. Mr Santisi taught Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall and many other noted and famous jazz musicians. As a former Berklee student myself in the 70's and studying jazz piano privately with Mr Santisi personally, I can attest to the exceptional value of going through the book at your own pace, using what works for you and hearing the exercises and drills filter in the student's style to keep advancing to higher levels in the art. If the student takes the time to play through the book even 10-20 daily for a month, a significant improvement will be noticed in the performance. Another plus about buying the book is; an enclosed CD of the drills and examples plus the play along rhythm tracks and original compositions played by Mr Santisi or his advanced students to get an idea of how the exercises sound in real time. Many jazz piano technique books don't include a CD, so this is really like getting a freebie CD with Berklee Jazz Piano. Some pianists are not good at sight reading and can transcribe music faster by ear, so the CD comes in handy for this purpose. Just pop the CD into ITunes and you're ready to rock..(jazz). Although this book is geared more toward medium to advanced jazz piano students or classical pianists needing additional sources for jazz piano techniques, beginning students could use it as a method book with the guidance of a jazz piano teacher. I will also use it myself if I start teaching modern keyboard styles in the new year 2011. Berklee Jazz Piano by Ray Santisi is a great text which teaches jazz piano techniques in a concise and necessary manner, easily understood and applied to the student's needs and desires to grow as a jazz pianist. You also can't beat the price of the book being offered here at Amazon. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2009 by nitekatt2011
    • Inspired me to study much more
I play the piano since decades, but it doesn't mean I know everything. No one does. So I bought Santisi's book to complement my insights with his. He is a great musician. I had a hunch this is going to be an interesting ride when I already disagreed with Santisi on page 1. ("What do you mean, basic jazz chords are sixths and sevenths? All the chords you listed here are sevenths in various inversions. It depends where they lead to, you say? To something third. Unless they are played by Kenny Werner, then he'll resolve them to Z sharp major. Yeah, there's no such scale, but that won't stop Kenny.") I skipped the various ensuing time-honed techniques (render unto Garner the things which are Garner's...) right to page 38 where the good stuff is - yess, fourth voicings! Starting with the same C major diatonic chord chart I worked out too. The second chart is C minor chords. Well, nope. These sound like dominant sus or major to me. For a minor, one uses the 6th, what Santisi exactly warns against. It worked for Bill Evans... and where are the various dominant and modal fourth charts? To make it short, so far I only agree with Santisi on maybe 1 page's worth of stuff out of the whole book, but it's all good. Because this made me go back and research more things on my own, so instead of becoming a weak second version of Santisi, I'll become a strong first me. You cannot ask a musical educator anything better than this. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2013 by Matyas Kiraly
    • Gets you started in all the areas you need to build your foundation
I've played guitar and bass for over 50 year and now it's bucketlist time and learning piano is item one. I started with some other books, but this one has the fundamentals I need to get going on piano so I can start applying things I know from years of guitar on piano.
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2021 by Steve B.

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