Scot Ranney's Jazz Piano Notebook Volume 2 Latinesque - Jazz Piano Exercises Etudes and Tricks of the Trade You Can Use Today

Scot Ranney's Jazz Piano Notebook series is a collection of jazz piano books written by Scot Ranney and other professional jazz pianists. The authors of these books share their favorite jazz piano ideas in the form of a dozen or so jazz piano sheet music exercises grooves chord progressions improvisation ideas jazz theory and anything else they find interesting based on their years of performing on stage composing and practicing. Volume 2 is called Latinesque because more than half of the book focuses on Calypso jazz piano. There are exercises progressions and grooves including an exploration of a calypso groove inspired by Monty Alexander. The intention of this book is to help you improve your chops and creativity and to strengthen that connection between what you hear internally and what your fingers are playing. Level: Easy to difficult depending on the piece. Minimum requirements: Know how to read piano sheet music and be willing to practice. Paperback version.