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		<title>Sight Reading &#8211; Is it Important For Pop And/Or Jazz Pianists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole H. E. Lee Sight reading is the ability of a musician to spontaneously play any piece of music put in front of him/her. Traditionally, to be able to read music, as in the actual standard music notation, is the only way to learn a musical instrument. In the case of piano lessons, every&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Mehldau &#8211; Committed Improviser</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pianist Brad Mehldau doesn’t so much stride between jazz, classical music and pop as swirl and eddy between them, absorbing traces as he goes. The American’s even-tempered independence reflects early classical training; his renowned interpretations of the jazz repertoire stem from a high school obsession. And he still loves pop and rock and roll. “I&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>David Benoit Keeps the Creative Energy Flowing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversation, David Benoit is as laid-back and reflective as the piano music he composes and plays. Contacted at his home in oceanside Palos Verdes, Calif., Benoit, 56, chatted casually about the free concert he will perform Thursday at the Mount Union Theatre in Alliance. Joining him onstage will be bassist David Hughes and drummer&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Hiromi: The Solo Piano Sorcery of Place To Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From its very first moments — a machine-gun volley of perfectly-timed notes, frenetically joyous and angular — you can tell that Hiromi’s Place To Be is anything but another sleepy, contemplative solo piano album. In fact, filling the space left by her excellent regular bandmates, the young jazz fusion keyboardist&#8217;s musical energy manifests even more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Chord Families?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole H. E. Lee Chords are an essential element in playing any contemporary music style. Hence, a firm understanding and grasp of modern harmony is very important in order to be able to play a jazz or pop piece convincingly. However, it seems like there are so many chords and chord types that it&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz Improvisation &#8211; Why is it So Hard and How to Overcome the Initial Difficulty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole H. E. Lee Thanks to Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum, Michael Buble and many other young jazz and jazz-influenced artists, interest in jazz music has been making a strong comeback. And with singer/piano players like Norah and Jamie, it&#8217;s not hard to see why jazz piano-playing has taken on with many piano enthusiasts as&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>7 Ways to Become a Better Pop or Jazz Pianist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole H. E. Lee &#8220;Practice!&#8221; That&#8217;s what piano teachers always tell their students, or &#8220;Practice makes perfect,&#8221; spout many. But practice what? Practice how? If practice makes perfect, then it is also true that imperfect practice makes imperfection! And we don&#8217;t want that. To become really good at our craft, i.e. piano-playing, it is&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Pieces For a Beginner Jazz Pianist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole H. E. Lee Learning how to play jazz piano for the first time is exciting yet very intimidating if one starts with the wrong songs. Selecting pieces that are melodically pleasing, rhythmically simple, harmonically easy (as in the chord changes) and all structured within a straightforward form is very important if a beginner&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Thelonious Monk: In His Own Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thelonious Monk Quartet’s 1963 album on Columbia Records. Playing and Performance Style Thelonious Monk is always mentioned with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as a founder of modern jazz, but Monk’s style is not at all like the other musicians of his time. Unusual approaches to harmony, melody, and rhythm give Monk a particular asymmetry&#8230;]]></description>
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