Jazz Piano with George Whitty: Making Jazz Chords
Tue, 02/09/2016 - 11:12am
In this video, ArtistWorks jazz piano teacher George Whitty shows you how to make that “classic jazz sound” on piano using some simple chord modifications. If you already know some piano basics, this is a great way to incorporate jazz harmony in your playing. Using some basic triads you may already know, we can put them to good use here and get some really nice jazz colors with just some basic chord types.
February Artist Feature
Fri, 02/05/2016 - 11:39am
Read on below to see what some of our teachers are up to in their ever-exciting careers. Also for a limited time, we're offering 4 months of learning for the price of 3! Simply use the code FOUR4THREE at checkout when you sign up for a 3 Month Membership before Tuesday, February 9 at midnight PST.
Talk Jazz with George Whitty - Live Event on YouTube
Mon, 11/16/2015 - 1:09pm
Join us for a live, online hangout on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 11 AM Pacific Time with ArtistWorks jazz piano teacher George Whitty. We'll enjoy George's piano artistry and have a lively chat about all things jazz. No registration is required, just watch the live stream on the ArtistWorks YouTube channel as it happens from the video link here:
Best Digital Piano Sound
Wed, 10/21/2015 - 10:46am
I have been in the trenches with digital pianos since I bought my first Ensoniq Mirage in, I think, 1986. It featured a whopping FOUR SECONDS of memory and had some screwy little 8-bit floating point sampling scheme. It was kind of awful, but Mitch Forman sure played the crap out of it! Things evolved; in the ‘90s I played the Emu Proformance piano module, which was actually really great for what it was: a 2 megabyte (approximately 12 seconds of stereo samples, I think) module that played pretty well. Then came the Gigapiano, this giant 650 meg piano sample in Gigastudio, the big PC-based sampler; couldn’t play jazz on it but boy did it sound like a Thomas Newman score with the sustain pedal down.
I was never a fan of the Ivory pianos until they released the Italian Grand; I heard it at the NAMM show and bought it on the spot.
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