Peter Martin's Jazz Piano Lessons

This lesson focuses on how to swing…  

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 [...]

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.