Peter Martin's Jazz Piano Lessons

This lesson addresses those difficult chords.  

This lesson covers approaches to learning new tunes by focusing in on reference recordings instead of the fake book chart. Peter uses the song “Have You Met Miss Jones” as an example, and refers to the Frank Sinatra recording of the tune. Did you know you can download an audio version of all lessons to [...]

This lesson showcases playing bebop using Charlie Parker’s Donna Lee as the focus.  Topics include: changes, chords, harmony, improvising, contrast, swinging, shell voicing, root, metronome. Did you know you can download an audio version of all lessons to listen to when you are on the go?  Look for the “Audio Version Button” below!

A practice pattern that uses a diminished pattern ascending, and a pentatonic pattern descending.  In this lesson, I discuss: arpeggios, chromatics, diminished, fingering, keys, Macfarren, patterns, pentatonic scales, triads.  Happy Practicing!    

This lesson is all about “voicings.” Remember, great voicings depends on where you’re coming from, and where you’re going. They should never be viewed as static entities.     

This lesson focuses on the importance of scales.