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Custom Sheet Music (easy to read)
Complete Courses:
A Study in Blues Piano – Focusing on Twelve Licks
Sheet Music for Lick #1 optional supplement
Sheet Music for Lick #2 optional supplement
Sheet Music for Lick #10 optional supplement
Sample Blues Piano Solo sheet music – optional supplement
The Blues Piano Crash Course
Piano Chords 108
Private (local, one-on-one) Lessons in Orange County, California. Update: Kent is not currently enrolling new private (local, one-on-one) students, sorry! If you’re seeking a local piano teacher in Orange County, CA, or the Los Angeles area, feel free to contact Kent for recommendations and advice on your search.
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More Runs, Licks, and Fills
Memorize the 12 “Minor Pentatonic” Scales – Today
A 3-finger Technique for Impressive Pentatonic Piano Licks
“Sixteenth Note Triplet” Piano Licks
“The Blues Piano Crash Course” Lesson #3: “Five must-know Riffing Devices”
Blues Licks #1 and #2 from “A Study in Blues Piano”
How to Play “Piggyback” Arpeggios
Getting All Lydian on the IV Chord
Practice your blues licks with Ray Charles’s What I’d Say.
Jazz Drill: “Approach tones” practice
Using the Pitch-Wheel on Keyboards (part one: Whole-Step Licks)
How to Riff on Moondance – Part 1 of 3
How to Riff on Moondance – Part 2 of 3
How to Riff on Moondance – Part 3 of 3
Keyboard Technique (Chops)
An Easy “Trick” for Smoother Scales
Jazz Drill: “Approach tones” practice
Using the Pitch-wheel on Keyboards (part one)
Music and Keyboard Theory
A “Basic Professional” chord piano approach
Do you need to read music to learn jazz or blues piano?
Half-steps and Whole-steps on Your Keyboard
The Amazing Tetrachord: How to Instantly Visualize any Major Scale
Understanding “Thirds” – how standard chords are built!
Learn All 12 Dominant Seventh Chords in About an Hour
Essential Theory: Fourths and Fifths
Memorize the 12 “Minor Pentatonic” Scales – Today
The Major Pentatonic Scale, and its cousin, the “Relative Minor” Pentatonic scale
Tetrachords, Scales, and Modes: Answer to a Student Question
Guest Contributor: Info-graphic on Essentials of Reading Piano Music
Eastern Scales, Relative Minor, and The Educated Guess
Bohemian Rhapsody Movie Sparks “Third Beat” Questions
Playing Tip: What are the Most Important Notes of a Chord?
More on Chords and Chord Voicings
“Fourth Chords” — Very Useful (Part One)
How to learn ALL your Dominant Seventh Chords in about an hour
A Good Way to Learn All Your “Thirteenth” Chords (by Pattern, NOT by Rote)
Chord Symbols: add2 or add9? (includes my video on using added ninth to chords)
Rootless left-hand voicings for jazz chords – Part One (Type A)
Rootless left-hand voicings for jazz chords – Part Two (Type B)
Possibly the Funkiest Chord Ever
A “Basic Professional” chord piano approach
How to Read and Play “Slash Chords” from Sheet Music
Recommended Study
Book Review: Jazz Piano Series by John Mehegan
Nice Info-graphic on Essentials of Reading Piano Music
Tired of practicing? Here’s a little comic relief
