Play jazz piano with tremendous facility and expression.
Ray Santisi, one of Berklee’s most revered educators—mentor to Keith Jarret, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, Makoto Ozone, and thousands of others—reveals the pedagogy that has become core to Berklee’s jazz piano curriculum. This unique blend of theory and application gives you a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz, applying its concepts to jazz standards and Ray’s own compositions. The accompanying practice CD illustrates the concepts and shows how they are used by one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time. It maps to Berklee College curriculum, supporting beginning through advanced levels.
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