Live Piano Performance

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Did a rough video recording of my live performance, check out this compilation video:
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Learn Bossa Nova, with Piano Transcription

Learn Basic Bossa Nova Comping Styles, with Piano Transcription of 7notemode on The Dolphin
7notemode did a wonderful youtube clip on this bossa nova tune, The Dolphin.
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Here is the piano transcription of the head:
piano transcription of the dolphin by 7notemode (PDF)
The basic bossa nova pattern […]

AudioMicro: Music Clip Market Place

AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of user-generated royalty-free stock music, sound effects, production music, production elements and music cues. Finally, high quality audio content is available at unbelievable prices with no hidden costs or fees. AudioMicro is an artist friendly community, paying the highest royalty rate in the micro stock music industry! In addition, customers […]

陶喆-天天(David Tao - Close to you) LIVE Piano Version

eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method Review

Recently I received a package originated from United States, another part of the world. It was a big box. What’s packed inside is the new piano and keyboard method CD-ROM new version 2.0! eMedia should have mailed me only the CD-ROM because there is nothing more than a CD and some fliers inside the relatively […]

Cool Jazz Tricks #2

Learn Gospel Blues Piano Style of Ray Charles, with Video.
Scott “The Piano Guy” Houston, together with guest pianist Milton Ruffin, did a nice analysis on the gospel piano style of Ray Charles.
Milton explained how Ray Charles applied the 1 and 2 technique in his playing, a way of switching between the inversion of two chords.
Here’s the […]

Learn Stevie Wonder’s song Overjoyed

Transcription and Video of Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder 
 Stevie Wonder, a very talented singer, songwriter, and multi instrumentalist, wrote this beautiful song titled “Overjoyed”.
Here’s the video clip.
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And here’s the transcription of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed in PDF format:
Overjoyed-Stevie-Wonder-Transcription
A simple song with some nice harmony and beautiful […]

A Story your Music Teacher didn’t tell you

“Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything” ~ Chick Corea
Chet Baker demonstrates this simple principle perfectly in his playing.
Check out this video of his playing. 
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Chet Baker possesses the ability to scat a similarly melodious solo with his voice. […]

Tutorial on Assigning Target Tones in Jazz Solo Improvisation

Forward Motion Application on Jazz Bebop Au Privave Solo Improvisation, with video and analysis.
Check out this video of my solo improvisation over popular jazz bebop tune “Au Privave”
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This is the solo line at 00m16s of the video

Improvising a string of eight notes connected over […]

Cool Jazz Tricks #1

Superimposition with Diminished 7th chord in Jazz Improvisation, with video and thorough analysis. 
Check out this video of me improvising over the changes of popular jazz bebop tune “Au Privave”
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Observe 1m21s of the video, what I was doing there is this:

THE TRICK - Superimpose a […]