Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 1): 
       Explanations, Exercises, Listening Guides 
                  and Practice Plans
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                       Jeremy Siskind
       Jazz Piano Fundamentals is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind’s welcoming, clear, and detailed
       guide to the first stages of jazz piano study. Each of the book’s twelve units presents lessons,
       exercises, licks, activities, listening guides, and practice plans to keep studies organized,
       productive, and creative.Step-by-step lessons guide students towards mastery in improvisation,
       chord symbols, leadsheet reading, voicings, swing rhythm and articulation, comping, playing
       basslines, personalizing a melody, the blues, bossa nova, and more. Every unit includes
       frequently asked questions and exclusive video content to ensure that all subjects are presented
       clearly and with sufficient depth.This book is designed to be used in conjunction with The Real
       Book, Volume 6. Recommended for pianists with knowledge of all major scales and coordination
       to play a Chopin Nocturne or Bach Invention.“I love this book - and plan on using it in at my own
       school. A must for any beginning jazz piano student!”- Martin Bejerano, jazz pianist/composer
       and professor, Frost School of Music, University of Miami"Jazz Piano Fundamentals creates a
       methodology and answers questions in a way that I have almost never seen done in a jazz
       educational tome. He breaks down the practice of improvisation to its smallest building blocks,
       and is careful to relate each lesson to real-life examples from the jazz canon....This book will be
       excellent for jazz beginners, players of other instruments who wish to bone up on their piano
       skills, and advanced improvisers may find ways to fill in gaps in their skill sets"- Mark Shilansky,
       pianist/composer, professor, Berklee College of Music“Jazz Piano Fundamentals is not only
       perfect to start this wonderful journey called Jazz Piano, but also one to come back to... Thank
       you!!”- Otmaro Ruiz, Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and professor, UCLA“Jazz Piano
       Fundamentals is a reflection on who Jeremy is as a pianist - a true artist who has done his
       homework. Behind the meticulous attention to detail is a respect for jazz tradition and a desire to
       help pianists explore their own creativity.”- Aimee Nolte, jazz pianist/vocalist and YouTube Star
       Jazz Piano Jason Alexander, Jazz Piano Ja Morant, Jazz Piano Jackson Odell, Jazz Piano
       Jayson Tatum, Jazz Piano Jack Harlow
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       Stylings
       Laughia, “Excellent! You could say I’m “jazzed” about it.. I’m a classically trained piano teacher
       with an MA in music. Still, theory isn’t my forté. I can read well and capture a decent jazz style
       sound, but I don’t read charts quickly, improvise much, or think fast enough about chord
       progressions (yet) to create meaningful progressions and melodies on my own.I have 25+ jazz
       history books from Leroi Jones, Osteansky, Tanner & more, and old Mosaic and True Blue mags
       onup.I’ve got over 20 of the most current and older jazz method books out there, from the great!
       John Mehegan, and Aebersold (poorly organized and presented with beginner to advanced skill
       all in each exercise), up to Berklee that’s too advanced for most, to Beale who has a great
       course laid out, but doesn’t simultaneously teach you to play it on piano. Sadly, there’s an
       arrogance to many of the newer ones, assuming a high level of theory knowledge and advanced
       playing ability from the get go. There’s a clear difference between books written by great players
       andthose by great players who are also great teachers at all levels, not just college or advanced
       levels. Siskind is clearly both.His book is an actual structured course with clear and doable
       weekly goals and assignments. It begins with a doable improv exercise for those with no jazz
       experience. It immediately teaches swing rhythm with perfect exercises and gives you excellent
       general practice advice and doable daily exercises and spot on listening assignments with time
       coordinated analysis of the form. He introduces chord symbols and major, minor and dominant
       7th chords. He has you comping and grasping the ii-V-I progression and gives you all of the
       above most fundamental basics of jazz in the first 3 chapters to ground you firmly. And he
       simultaneously asks and answers the important questions, while teaching terminology, several
       jazz standards, and techniques in doable chunks. [Have I mentioned that his method is really
       doable?]Suskind’s treats learning jazz like learning a language—my own philosophy—and
       breaks it all down accordingly.While learning jazz isn’t necessarily a pursuit for complete
       beginners on piano, he makes it accessible at least to an intermediate student.As a teacher I am
       muchmoreable to at least introduce my students to jazz playing and style with this. Then when
       they need a serious jazz teacher I can refer them out with at least the basics and good
       technique. Plus, this book has also inspired me to work the course myself and up my game from
       simply reading transcriptions.You could say I’m “jazzed” about it. Bravo! Mr. Siskind”
       Awesome!, “Excellent book!. There are a voluminous amount of jazz piano books available.
       None of them compare to this book.As a beginner improviser, it can be a daunting task to
       develop the necessary skills to improvise. The information in this book starts with basics, and
       builds to more complicated skills.There is a natural and logical progression to the lessons that
       really help to ensure progress. Which assumes of course that the student is willing to put in the
       time and hard work necessary to learn this art form.The author is a natural educator and writes
       with great clarity. Readers who are interested to learn more about the author should seek out his
       performances on YouTube.  He is a massively talented musician.”