Jazz Hanon: Private Lessons Series Sheet music – June 1, 2001

For example, playing each exercise with all possible inversions available in the left hand. This is a nice text. Other ways to vary the lessons are to sometimes go with a diatonic path rather than the chromatic one provided in the book. For example instead of C, Db, D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, Ab, A, Bb, B... using C, D, E, F, G, A, B as an alternative to the ascending and descending chromatically idea which is what you will find in this book. These exercises also can be nice in combination with ascending and descending runs that would allow you to melodically or harmonically connect octaves. Texts on Amazon such as for example, "The Right Hand According to Tatum" contain more of these said devices which you could use to chain together multiple exercises from this text.

Exercises not very practical.

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This book's major drawback is its lack of variety. The left hand voicings for the first 13 exercises I practiced over a period of eight months were the same, using the root, perfect fourth, and flatted seventh. The right hand involved variations on a minor pentatonic scale, moving chromatically through two octaves. Though I enjoyed the serious practice and development of certain fingerings, I have reservations about its improvisational value. In fact, I don't think it's always wise to practice exercises that have little practical applications. Technique is not an end in itself, and I would have preferred exercises and etudes based on real jazz progressions that incorporate more than just pentatonic ideas. The latter half of this volume seems a bit more inspired, but there's room for improvement. Overall, I give it four stars because some benefits may be derived from this inexpensive book, but what should have been a modern approach to Hanon's original exercises in a jazz context turned out to be stylistically limited and of questionable use. With some imagination, this could have been a far more versatile effort.

It's a collection of exercises on the "jazz scale". The first 10 are pure pentatonic, the rest are built on "ACDD#EGA". All exercises are fully chromatic -- this is not a good book for raw piano beginners.Suggestions for practice -- switching RH / LH parts, "swing" tempo, etc -- are straightforward.If you want to get the jazz scale "under your fingers", it's a good way to start.