Jeremy Siskind
Deep Dive on Minor ii-V-I’s
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Pianist, jazz impresionado, and jazzercise impresionado Jeremy Siskind made a really unpopular video...so he's doubling down! He's focusing on how to use guidetone lines to improvise long, smooth phrases over changing modes. Try out these guidetone lines over the first two chords of "Recordame" by Joe Henderson.
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Pianist, educator, and trampolene jumper Jeremy Siskind watches his solo on "Misty" and criticizes himself relentlessly while hopefully usefully explaining what's going through his head.
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0:46 What are Voicings?
1:57 "Rules"
5:40 Type A and B
8:34 Shell Voicings
12:25 Bass Shells
18:03 Thick Bass Shells
22:56 Color Tones (Extensions)
32:49 One handed A/B Voicings
35:59 Shout Voicings
37:48 Shearing Voicings
43:35 Drop 2 Voicings
45:51 Drop 3 Voicings
47:34 Modal Voicings
50:08 So What Voicings
52:57 Quartal Voicings
54:43 Pentatonic Voicings
56:28 Review
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Pianist, sex symbol, and gun-toting Old West Cowboy shares his recent obsession with studying 5-tuplets (quintuplets), some practice techniques, and how to explore this unique rhythm.
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Jazz pianist Jeremy Siskind plays a solo piano medley, starting with a free improvisation, continuing with Victor Young's famous composition "Stella by Starlight," and ending with the "Wizard of Oz" Harold Arlen classic "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This performance was recorded from a live concert at the University of Utah.
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Pianist Jeremy Siskind guides you through his performance of Erroll Garner's standard "Misty," sharing what he's thinking about, and what techniques he's using.
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Pianist, author, educator, and obsessive snacker Jeremy Siskind presents America's new favorite gameshow - 1 tune, 8 ways, featuring 8 different solo piano versions of the jazz standard "Bye Bye Blackbird" played in solo piano styles.
The Eight Styles (Thanks to Casey Dahl for the timestamps)
0:59 Bassline
1:53 LH Shuttle
3:00 Closed-Position
4:09 Stride
5:12 Call & Response
6:23 Ballad
8:38 ECM
9:57 Contrapuntal
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Pianist, author, and popsicle stick joke-writer Jeremy Siskind shares how to use the gestures of Chick Corea, rather than the notes or scales, to capture his pianism in an introduction for Autumn Leaves. More to come!
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Pianist Jeremy Siskind shares information about the piece that the winners of the Nottingham International Solo Jazz Piano Competition played two years in a row and what it teaches us about great solo jazz piano.
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Pianist, composer, author, and ne'er-do-well Jeremy Siskind demonstrates how to form an arpeggiated introduction inspired by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel on the standard tune "All the Things You Are" by Jerome Kern. Happy arpeggiating!
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Pianist, author, composer, and lovable scamp Jeremy Siskind shows how musicians can create colorful harmonies by incorporating notes from minor keys into major tonalities. He demonstrates using the harmonic major scale and the Mixolydian b6 mode (5th mode of the melodic minor) to improvise over these colorful progressions.
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Pianist, composer, author, and huckster Jeremy Siskind is trying his hand at a tutorial! Here, he's demonstrating how to play an ethereal solo piano version of Wayne Shorter's classic modal blues tune "Footprints."
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Pianist, author, and amateur virologist Jeremy Siskind describes how to create smooth connection when creating jazz improvisations on changing modes, as in Wayne Shorter's beautiful waltz "Miyako."
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Pianist, actor, heartthrob, and model Jeremy Siskind explains why targeting notes is at the core of learning to improvise in a bebop style at the piano. He shows different sorts of target devices and demonstrates how to practice them to incorporate them into your playing.
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Pianist, author, educator, and tiny dancer Jeremy Siskind describes why "cocktail piano" (if that is even a real style) is not really as compelling as real jazz piano, and how we can use the differences to learn about what constitutes good rubato ballad playing. He uses the Vernon Duke/Ira Gershwin tune "I Can't Get Started" (with you)" as an example.
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Pianist, author, composer, and Old West gunfighting cowboy Jeremy Siskind describes how to use limitations like triads, seventh chords, tetrachords, and pentatonics in order to play more effective improvisations on tunes like Miles Davis' "So What," John Coltrane's "Impressions," or Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage."
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Pianist, author, composer, and part-time wizard Jeremy Siskind shares variations of the i-vi-ii-V progression in minor keys.
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Pianist, author, composer, and all-you-can-eat eater Jeremy Siskind shares common notation errors and how to fix them to make your notation easier to read for yourself and others.
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Pianist, educator, author, and secret Danish royalty Jeremy Siskind shares what to actually DO with guidetone lines after you've found them. They can be one of the best ways to help you stay focused as an improvisor.
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Pianist, educator, and amateur barista Jeremy Siskind explains the modes of the melodic minor scale, including how to find them and which chords they are associated with.
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Piano technique guru Nancy Reese answers Jeremy's questions about how to play with control but without tension. Whoo! We learned a lot!
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Pianist, author, educator, and bikini model Jeremy Siskind shares exercises he invented based on a Bill Evans solo he is transcribing. He uses the Jerome Kern classic tune "All the Things You Are" as a model.
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Pianist, composer, author, educator, and juggler of knives and chainsaws, Jeremy Siskind explains some tips and tricks to students who are always getting lost when improvising.
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Pianist, composer, author, and champion "fetch" thrower Jeremy Siskind shares ways to take a non-bluesy tune and make it bluesy in the style of Gene Harris or Oscar Peterson, featuring the Richard Rodgers tune "Have You Met Ms. Jones."
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Pianist, author, composer, and Harry Potter fan fiction author Jeremy Siskind shares details about the pentatonic scale, pentatonic voicings, and the less-well-known minor pentatonic scale. Should we be talking about it more? Tune in to find out!
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Pianist, composer, author, and necrologist Jeremy Siskind plays Duke Ellington's classic jazz standard for 10 minutes straight as a solo piano tune. Listen for stride piano, block chords, comping rhythms, and basslines.
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Pianist, composer, arranger, and local PTA president election denialist Jeremy Siskind shares how to start creating arrangements of jazz standards, using "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Disney's "Snow White" as an example. Learn how to create an arrangement for solo piano, piano trio, or a larger ensemble
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Pianist, author, and holy bagel-maker Jeremy Siskind discusses how to find and use voicings based on the octatonic scales. These sound super cool and can be used lots of ways so hold onto your hats! Hold onto them, for goodness sakes!
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Pianist, author, and Czechoslovakian sex symbol Jeremy Siskind shares too many tips on how to play Charlie Parker's legendary bebop standard, "Confirmation." Enjoy!
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Pianist, author, and mathemagician Jeremy Siskind shares the similarities and differences between planing, closed-position, and drop two voicings, using the lead-in to the bridge of "Misty" by Erroll Garner as an example.
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Recorded live at the University of Alabama at Huntsville in Huntsville, AL. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" is a blues written by Mercer Ellington.
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Jeremy chats with Stephen Marquiss, teacher at Piano Portals about his journey to a more sustainable, healthy, engaged piano technique. They discuss their common teacher, Sophia Rosoff, and some exercises that can help to unleash depth in piano study, originating from the emotional core of the music rather than the technical "button-pushing" detials.
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Recorded live in Huntsville, AL at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. "Prelude to a Kiss" is a jazz ballad by Duke Ellington, also performed by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Brad Mehldau, Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, and many others.
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Pianist, author, composer, educator, and real-life Disney prince Jeremy Siskind shares how to improvise a lower countermelody to create a two-voice version of the classic standard "Someday My Prince Will Come."
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Recorded live in Huntsville, Alabama at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. "I Love You" is a composition by Cole Porter, made famous in the jazz world by John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Frank Sinatra, and others.
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L’autore Jeremy Siskind e il cantautore Francesco Manfredi presentano il libro in una simpatica intervista/colloquio parlando di musica, jazz e del percorso necessario per tradurre l’opera didattica multimediale “Suonare il Piano Jazz Solo”
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Pianist, composer, educator, and apparent prankster Jeremy Siskind shares the one easy exercise that will make you sound just like jazz legend Keith Jarrett. (note: posted on April 1, 2023)
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Recorded live at the University of Huntsville in Alabama. "Heartsong" is a Fred Hersch composition you can hear Fred play on "Songs Without Words," "Heartsongs," and "Live at Maybeck Recital Hall."
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Pianist, educator, author, and hula instructor Jeremy Siskind shares how a pianist can take a few simple patterns and create a great accompaniment for vocalists on a jazz standard like "My Romance." Learn how to incorporate comping patterns, imply swing, and add fills.
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Pianist, composer, educator, and dilettante Jeremy Siskind heard your complaints and PUMPED UP the volume! He also talks about navigating "Beautiful Love" and getting the chord colors right...despite what the leadsheets might say.
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Pianist, author, teacher, weekend birthday party clown clone Jeremy Siskind discusses why students need to change from "seekers" to "filters" and how to use community, deadlines, and lists to avoid "Shiny Object Syndrome" and frequent distractions.
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Pianist, composer, author, educator, and international sex symbol for "no, thanks" Jeremy Siskind discusses the gesture of a "push-off" which includes two consecutive eighth-note comps, one on and one off the beat. He cites an example of Wynton Kelly comping on "Remember" from Hank Mobley's album "Soul Station."
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Peter is an accomplished pianist, composer, arranger, songwriter, and music director, and his career has flourished on both coasts. Originally a New Yorker, Peter has lived in Los Angeles since 2005.
Upcoming projects include the release of his latest jazz trio recording, “Dollar Dreams,” as well as a series of video releases from the “Highland Park House Band.”
Peter was an associate Music Director for both seasons of The Four on Fox, working directly with contestants and in conjunction with Music Directors Rickey Minor and Adam Blackstone. He was also the associate Music Director on Duets (John Beasley was MD), the hit singing competition show on ABC. Peter worked directly with Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles, Robin Thicke and John Legend, not only accompanying them and their contestants in rehearsal, but collaborating with them on the musical arrangements for the show.
He is especially in demand as an arranger and musical director for singers, in various musical genres. Peter is music director for Ty Taylor’s project: The Nouveau Mid Century Romance Songbook,”which debuted at the Wallis in LA. Peter is co-producer /collaborator (with Rob Perkins and Ty Taylor) as well as pianist and arranger for the album of the same title, which will be released by Universal Music Group. He is also co-creator of “Too marvelous for words: a celebration of Nat “King” Cole.” Peter performs in the show alongside Keith David. Rickey Minor hires Peter consistently for various projects, including David Geffen’s recent 75th birthday concert, where Peter played in Rickey’s band accompanying various Broadway singers, including Sasha Baron Cohen and Rory O’Malley.
Peter began working with Natalie Cole as her primary accompanist just prior to her passing, and he has been traveling the world as Molly Ringwald’s pianist/MD, serving as co-producer and arranger on her Concord Records release: Except Sometimes. He has played on major stages large and small: Iridium, Birdland (NYC), Jazz Alley (Seattle), Yoshi’s (SF), Blues Alley (DC), Montreal Jazz festival, Vector Arena (NZ), Melbourne Recital Centre (AUS), and many, many more.
Peter’s composing career has merged with the Industry in Los Angeles, and his compositions can be heard on numerous TV shows (Mindy Project, CSI, Bones, Arrow, Bojack-Horseman, Young Sheldon, Benched, Supergirl, Growing Up Fisher, Black Lightning, Pitch, Charmed, How to Live With Your Parents) as well as in the films Hotel Noir, Myth of Fingerprints, and Bleached.
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Pianist, author, and failed Elvis impersonator Jeremy Siskind shares how to choose notes to give accents to and how to physically achieve accents through rotation, while mentioning pedagogues Dorothy Taubman & Edna Golandsky.


