Basic Jazz Piano Method

If you're an amateur piano lover, then the time has come to get started with the best basic jazz piano method. 

With this method, you'll get to learn the fundamentals of jazz harmony its intervals, chords, chord progressions, and your first swings. You'll also take your first steps into Bebop jazz, the tastiest groove in this style of piano music. 

Are you ready to get started? You'd better be, because this method is on fire. 

Basic Jazz Piano: Hanon Alfassy for Beginners

Leo Alfassy is a New York jazz pianist who trained in classical piano from a very early age. However, once he reached musical maturity, he knew that jazz was the style that would define his career. 

Thanks to his classical training, one of the methods that helped him most was the Hanon, which is why he decided to develop the Hanon for basic jazz piano. This way, new students get a foundation in classical technique, but with a jazz flavor. 

So there's no better book for taking your first steps and reaching new heights, all while building excellent technique. 

Sections of the Basic Jazz Piano Book

The Hanon Basic Jazz Piano book contains nineteen chapters that guide you through a world of classical technique built on the harmonic and rhythmic foundations of jazz. 

That said, let's focus on six aspects that perfectly capture everything you can learn if you take seriously what the Hanon Basic Jazz Piano has to offer. 

Elements of Jazz Harmony

The first thing Basic Jazz Piano highlights is intervals, which are essential for gaining a proper understanding of this musical style. 

After that, there's an emphasis on chord triads so the novice jazz pianist can take their first steps with them. 

Likewise, you'll find the most basic chord progression involving the tonic, subdominant, and dominant. Applied to the key of C major, this gives us the chord sequence C, F, G. 

The method goes on to cover seventh chords and chord inversions in both major and minor modes, so that new students progress through simple harmonic triads that stay true to the essence of basic jazz piano. 

Right after that, the method moves on to practice pieces that are really small compositions in their own right. 

Jazz Bass

By page 24, after practicing a good variety of scales with the right hand and chords with the left hand, it's now time for students to tackle the bass aspects of basic jazz piano to bring out the color of the jazz sound. 

This bass style is called "walking" because it seems to walk along the scales played with the right hand, though it can just as easily be described with the term "piano" tempo.

The goal is for the basic jazz piano student to develop independence between both hands by keeping quarter notes in the left hand and eighth notes, sixteenth notes, triplets, and other subdivisions in the right hand. 

This way, you'll also come across chord inversions, which are essential and must be practiced until you master them completely. You'll also find chromatic alterations and ninth chords, eleventh and thirteenth chords, and more. 

Other Crucial Aspects of the Basic Jazz Piano Method

Overall, you'll find four highly valuable elements of the jazz style: 

• Chord substitution.

• Scales and modes.

• Jazz piano style and swing.
• Bebop piano.

So that you can start studying basic jazz piano too, we're making the complete method available for you to download and remember, you can reach out to us and we'll answer all your questions.