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Jazz Piano Voicings: An Essential Resource for Aspiring Jazz Musicians

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This book is great if you have a young one that hasn't played jazz or if you haven't had much jazz training. This book will give you chord changes in a lot of keys with some very basic bass lines.

THIS CAN BE VERY HELPFUL!! If you don't know what to do if you see a chord like this: Db7#5#9, then this is the book for you! This will walk you through many of the common (and some uncommon) chords and you will generally play these chords in all keys and usually with a walking bass of some sort.

If you are looking for a book that will have you playing repertoire to teach you these chords, you will not like this book. There is not one "song" in here - there are a few progressions that are written out with some right hand patterns as well as bass patterns - but you're not going to finish this book being able to play any repertoire.

But, that is the point - if you finish this book and learn what it has to teach, you'll have the TOOLS to play your favorite standards.

This is a good reference book - even if you have played some jazz...

I bought this book hoping to jazz up my playing style, and it did not disappoint. My biggest frustration with jazz piano was learning the basic chord structures that any book teaches (e.g. C7 = C,E,G,Bb) only to hear/see jazz legends such as Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson play a completely different C7 than I had learned (Mullins even mentions Brubeck and Peterson as influences). After learning the chords/voicings in this book, my playing finally sounds like I've arrived as a jazz musician.

I have been using Jazz Piano Voicings, by Rob Mullins, for 3 months. My arrangements sound better than any piano bar in the West! If you are using the same old chords you first played, then you need this book. The beauty lies in the placement of the notes. Spice up your performance so your audience returns to hear you again and again. This is the kind of sound that will intrigue the professional musician as well as the common listener. I always play to that one knowlegeable person in the room. I'm impressing myself with these awesome voicings. I am a classical piano teacher of over 35 years. get hip-get bill!

I am a piano teacher in Orange County California, and I use this book very successfully with aspiring jazz musicians. It is well laid out, and any aspiring student will need every page and to do every bassline and chord voicing together with correct phrasing in order to be at ease playing jazz piano. Especially helpful to me and my students are the chord progressions in the back of the book which lay out advanced blues chord progressions in all the popular keys, and II V I progressions which are a staple for all jazz pianists. The progressions at the back of the book are alone worth the price of the whoe book! Berklee School of Music, one of the most prestigious jazz schools in the country sells this book to its students at its school bookstore in Boston. Great resource for teachers and students.

Do not pass up on purchasing Rob Mullins' Jazz Piano Instruction Book Volume One!!! I've seen this amazing keyboard player perform and he is in my opinion, one of the top musicians of our day. This book is an excellent start for the bored blues/rock/classical musician who wants to challenge him or herself in the jazz realm. I've seen and studied many piano videos and books but Rob's teaching has enabled me to understand in a simple way how to play contemporary Jazz voicings with bass lines...

Jazz Piano Voicings proved to be a waste of money for me. The exercises are redundant, boring and hard to read for a non-expert sight reader. Some of them, to my ear, just sound awful. The ideas in this book could have been presented in a few pages instead of 202. For the same price, much better books are available that show one harmony, scales, modes, rhythms and all the good stuff that jazz is made of. My favorite book for piano voicings isJazz Piano Concepts & Techniques