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HWT
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Hi there

I am looking for the best ever sheet music book for jazz for solo piano. The style of jazz is soft contemporary or traditional jazz (typically the ones you hear in being played by a band at a party but some mixes of Diana Ross, David Benoit, and of course, the great Billy Joel will be excellent. Even the backup to jazz songs are great. Basically, it has to be soft, not too "techno-ish" and freakly contemporary).

I've looked all over already but can't decide which is the best.

Can anybody please help me?

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Posted: 1st Feb 2006 02:29
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There's a lot of piano books, show us some links to stuff you're deciding between.


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Posted: 1st Feb 2006 12:36 Edited at: 1st Feb 2006 17:13
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Okay, give me some time to gather them all. Thanks

EDIT: Here is the site http://www.music44.com/X/products/piano%2Bjazz%2Bmusic%2Bbook but if it doesn't work, goto http://www.music44.com/X/ and search for "piano jazz music book" under "all titles and names".

Also, I was hoping anyone who'd already purchased a music book(s) would tell me about it too (if it's related to jazz). Thanks

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Any help on this one? Please?

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Lol I thought you meant "The Sound Of Music" as in the musical, done in a jazz style. That would be amusing, especially "the lonely goatherd" - I once did a gansta rap verision of that for a bet/laugh


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I just realised that

I was actually referring to the "sound of music" musical but just for an interesting title (kind of like a cheap pun).

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Well it worked

As for jazz piano, I personally like a lot of te "rag time" classics, you could start there (search for "rag time" books in music shops, there's tons of good examples, from beginners to to very complex and impressive.)


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Quote: "As for jazz piano, I personally like a lot of te "rag time" classics"

But then that would be ragtime as opposed to jazz.

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Rag time is a deriative of Jazz?

Well if that doesn't count in your eyes, New Orleans style Jazz is a good place to start


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Posted: 2nd Feb 2006 19:41 Edited at: 2nd Feb 2006 19:46
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Quote: " Rag time is a deriative of Jazz?"

Other way around actually. But the styles are quite a bit apart. To be honest it would be better to say that ragtime is one of the many styles that Jazz took from.

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Posted: 2nd Feb 2006 19:47 Edited at: 2nd Feb 2006 19:48
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lol sorry thats what I meant! - long day ! Yeah thats why I suggested it as its a good way to learn some of the basic jazz "foundations" of where it stemmed from


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But what about jazz sheet music books for piano? Does anyone know any good titles?

Thanks

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The funny thing is that the great jazz musicians dont really use sheet music alot ya know? Its 70% improvision with 30% being the recognizable melody if youre playing a certain song. If you hear someone recording a CD, and your listening to the different takes, sure they might play a bunch of stuff kind of the same, but they probably arrived at that thru improvision. Same for most styles of music... If your looking for ragtime I suggest strongly George Gershwin, hes one of the best in my opinion. Get the Rhapsody in Blue sheet music, I know its sitting on my piano right now. Hes done alot of great stuff but I'm most familiar with Rhapsody in Blue, full of great stuff.

@Benjamin - Thats why jazz is so great, its the best of a billion and one worlds.

Be forewarned, if you cant reach an octave between your thumb and pinky you are going to struggle a bit if your trying to play ragtime or some 4 and 5 part obscure jazz chords. Especially in ragtime the bass line likes to jump around, and its not nessicarilly sticato, but its short and fast, lots of left hand dexterity is needed for straight ahead jazz and ragtime.

If you want to get real good at plying the piano, use a bit of sheet music, its always wonderful to be able to read... but playing by ear is how you learn to improvise and come up with your own great sound. Like with playing drums, you have to hear it and feel it before you play it... Thats the style issue.

Dont get me wrong, being able to read music is a must, but dont feed off of that.

I hope you get really good and record some stuff for us to listen to and drink coffe with .

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Yes I agree that most "proper" jazz is improvised around a theme, and when you are playing in an ensemble each person gets an alocated ammount of time to play litterally whatever they feel like at the time - you ccan't really write that down

Playiong by ear id the way to go for such things, but learning your different scales until they become entirely natural is the best way to make sure that your improvisations will sound right, so you know which notes go together and which really don't!


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^^^^ ezactly.

Yea learn scales so you know what to play whilst improvizing .

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Dorian and mixolydian FTW!

@HWT

Try this one:
http://www.music44.com/X/product/695773-H2
To get some basic skills under your belt. Then you can use a fakebook, like the first one on the list.
http://www.music44.com/X/product/240079-H2


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You may be able to find a good midi piano collection on the net, and play the files through one of the Voyetra programs that displays the file in sheet music notation, and screen-print out the displays - if you are into hard copy. I'm not into contemporary jazz so I can't recommend good midi sources there. I will say, however, that there are sites for ragtime, stride, and older forms of jazz that have phenomenal midi files (both sequenced and "live" midi recordings). They are also useful for practicing since you can play them off the computer to a midi-compatible keyboard and play along until you have gotten it down. I have a monitor mounted atop my keyboard, and I think it definitely beats hard copy sheetmusic (scrolls the pages instead of me turning them).
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my sister's bf plays bass in a jazz band, and i think she was going to sing with them but took the church gig instead. Good jazz is hard to play, tis why i stick to just learning blues.


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Thanks alot for the replies

Unfortunately, what I'm looking for is a book for intermediates. I can already read etc... music. I just want a book that will give me some jazz piano pieces to play. Kinda like the book of Mozart's piano sonatas but jazz instead.

Any more ideas?

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