I'm a big fan of practicing the bridge of rhythm changes. The harmonic movement in fourths is common in many tunes, making this a valuable exercise for improving your ability to navigate various progressions.
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Here is part 2 of chordal playing.
It's playing in 3rds. Someting I like to do. The trick is to learn what you can and can not do with this, because you can't do everything. So you learn rythyms and phrases that you can do and try to stick around that.
Here's another sort of technique. I just call this Bill Evans Style. I'm sure all pianists do it but I noticed it listening to him.
Here is a lesson with an etude. I use the tune Green Dolphin Street and I play a chordal solo. There's very little that monophonic here. I tried to hit always with 2,3 or 4 mallets.
I played a few choruses of Green Dolphin Street and transcibed it.
I also talk about little bit about this series. I will continue it by doing a video for each of the technical ways I am doing this.
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This is video, audio and a pdf all with etudes for the tune Turn Out The Stars by Bill Evans.
It's a complicated tune, but I always think even the complicated tunes spell all the harmony out. It all makes sense musicially.
The videos are below:
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