Peter Martin's Jazz Piano Lessons

In this lesson, Peter continues with part two of Autumn Leaves  

A study of techniques to use for the tune Autumn Leaves, focusing on the head with techniques for solo piano and trio playing.

This lesson focuses on how to swing…  

Peter teaches with a tune made famous by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Big Butter and Egg Man.     

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 [...]

All about bass lines…how to play, develop, and practice this crucial aspect of jazz piano. I use an F Blues and the Charlie Parker tune “Donna Lee” as examples. In this lesson I discuss: bach interventions, bass lines, blues, counterpoint, creative practice, independence, metronome, solo piano, swing, tempo time.