Playing Jazz Guitar Octaves
November 26th, 2009 | 
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It is no secret that professional piano players do not use techniques that amateur pianists. So what else is new? Professional golfers use techniques that Amateur golfers do not use (at least not very good) and use techniques pro ball player, do not use the Sandlot and weekend athletes – or again, not very good.
So it's not surprising that professional piano players have some tricks up their sleeves that the rest of us mortals do not. But that does not mean we can not try, emulate the great pianists. We can not deduct them as well but we can sure a lot of fun trying, and who knows? Maybe some of us really can learn these techniques well enough to win some admiration from our friends to join a group to play for our own enjoyment, or whatever.
Here is a list of just some of the techniques of the pros, if they play the piano. There are of course more, but that's a pretty good estimate of the important skills:
Pro Secret 1: Straddles. Leaving one more notes of a chord to create an open feeling.
Pro Secret 2: 2 / 1 & 3 / 1 Breakups. Breaking a chord by playing a portion of the tendon and then the rest of the chord.
Pro Secret 3: Waterfall Chords. Broken chords cascading from top to bottom of the keyboard similar to a waterfall.
Pro Secret 4: Tremolo-Fired Runs. Rapid-fire run of chords, but starting with a tremolo.
Pro Secret 5: Half-Step Slides. Closer to the next chord is 1 / 2 step up or down.
Pro Secret 6: suspensions. With the 4th as "cat" instead of the 3rd.
Pro Secret 7: Chord Substitutions. Harmonization of songs with different chords than the traditional ones.
Pro Secret 8: Voicing in 4ths. Stacking chords at intervals of 4ths rather than 3rds.
Pro Secret 9: Turn-arounds. A chord progression that you turn around, like a cul-de-sac.
Pro Secret 10: Introductions. Create a front door for the song.
Pro Secret 11: Endings. Creating a back door for the song.
Pro Secret 12: Transpose. Playing a song in a Key other than it was written on
Pro Secret 13: Continuous. smoothly from first to the key.
Pro Secret 14: Changing a tune into a new Create melody. With adjacent tones craft a new tune.
Pro Secret 15: inversions. Instead of always chords in the basic position, with a number of "upside down "chords.
Pro Secret 16: Create original chord progressions. Linking creative chords together.
Pro Secret 17: Echoes – rhythmically, melodically, harmonically. The easiest way to begin the mediation process.
Pro Secret 18: Touch. The difference between a sledge hammer and a pillow.
Pro Secret 19: II7 to V7 progression. One of the most common chord progressions.
Pro Secret 20: Latin American rhythms. With different rhythms such as Samba, Bossa Nova, Cha Cha, etc.
Pro Secret 21: Locked Hands style. The melody in both hands under the right chord with a melody.
Pro Secret 22: Jazz Styles. Lush, offset beats, comping, shades, etc.
Pro Secret 23: Two-Handed Arps. The flowing river of sound. simultaneously with broken chords in both hands.
Pro Secret 24: parallelisms. Moving parts in the same direction (like 10ths, octaves, etc.)
Pro Secret 25: Ragtime techniques. Barrel House and early jazz styles.
Pro Secret 26: Polytonality & overlay. The game in two keys simultaneously play two different chords at once.
Pro Secret 27: Delay-Catch-up technique. Falling behind the beat, then catch up.
Pro Secret 28: Slash Chords. Chords of a left counter melody.
Pro Secret 29: Counter melodies. Creating a Sub-theme that is complementary to the main melody.
Pro Secret 30: Western sounds. Wagon Wheel bass styles, etc.
Pro Secret 31: Gospel Sounds. "On Get the Church "and" yelling "styles.
Pro Secret 32: 12 Bar Blues. The basis for thousands of songs in all styles.
Pro Secret 33: Passing notes. Sounds, "pass" the current chord.
Pro Secret 34: Question-answer techniques. The repetition of a previous musical Phrase, but in a new way.
Pro Secret 35: Far-Out Harmonies. Extended chords, altered chords.
Pro Secret 36: syncope. Matches between Beats.
There are other techniques of professionals and new techniques are being invented again and again. But for a list of lofty goals for an aspiring pianist, this List keeping us busy for a long time.
Jazz Improvisation: Solo Guitar Lessons : Higher Octaves: Jazz Guitar Improvisation
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