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Posts Collected as Courses (full access to courses requires an ALL-ACCESS membership)
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
Kent’s famous Blues Piano Crash Course
Piano Chords 108 – Lose that Chord Catalog
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.
Other Posts Arranged by Category
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
Other Stuff
A few selections of custom sheet music (classical)
Tired of practicing? Here’s a little comic relief
