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Jazz Chord Hanon: 70 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist.(Book Review)
Jazz Chord Hanon: 70 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist, by Peter Deneff. Musicians Institute: Private Lessons. Hal Leonard Corporation (P.O. Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213), 2003. 70 pp. $12.95. Intermediate to advanced.
For many pianists who come from a classical background, jazz is another country. Whether we like jazz or think it is a force from the dark side, and whether we will acknowledge it or not, we all want to be able to sit down at a piano and improvise a tune with some elegant voicings underneath. But how to begin?
Jazz Chord Hanon: 70 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist is the latest in a series of supplemental books by Peter Deneff, each applying the concepts initially found in Hanon's The Virtouso Pianist to a particular popular style: jazz, rock, salsa or blues. Jazz Chord Hanon is designed to program "the fingers to automate the playing of jazz chord voicings." As Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist exercises strengthen the fingers through varying linear progressions, Jazz Chord Hanon moves sequentially through diatonic and chromatic scales and ...
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