BIJAN TAGHAVI- PIANIST, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR
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    • Bijan Taghavi >
      • Stella by Starlight (Solo Piano)
      • Body and Soul (Solo Piano)
      • Autumn Leaves (Solo Piano)
      • I Should Care (Solo Piano)
      • Have You Met Miss Jones (Solo Piano)
      • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Solo Piano)
      • Ask Me Now (Solo Piano)
      • Wave (Solo Piano)
      • East of the Sun (Solo Piano)
      • Everything Happens to Me (Solo Piano)
      • Girl From Ipanema (Solo Piano)
      • I Fall in Love Too Easily (Solo Piano)
    • Bill Evans
    • Kenny Barron
    • Barry Harris
    • Hank Jones
    • Herbie Hancock
    • Oscar Peterson
  • Lesson Videos & PDFs
    • Comping >
      • Group Comping Voicings Overview
      • Jazz Piano Comping EXPLAINED!
      • Oscar Peterson Take The A Train Transcription Analysis
      • 2 Tips Comping For Vocalists
      • Chromatic Approach
      • LH Contrasting Texture (Body and Soul)
      • Comping over Rhythm Changes (for a Bass Solo)
      • The Secrets to Walking Basslines on Piano
      • Funky Bassline
      • LH Comping Approach for Solo Piano
    • Comping P.2 >
      • Comping Fill over Just Friends
      • Develop Your Rhythmic Vocabulary to Create Interplay (Bb Blues Comping)
      • Bossa Nova Duo Comping
      • Exchanging Ideas When Comping over a Ballad
      • LH Sweeping Texture on "Ask Me Now"
      • SECRET To Playing Bossa Nova Solo Piano
      • How Listening Fuels CREATIVITY
      • Why Your Left Hand is Failing You and How to Fix It (4 LH Comping Techniques over "Pent Up House")
      • 5 Ways to Use Your LH in a Jazz Solo ("Isfahan")
      • Piano+Sax Duo Interplay (ft. Dick Oatts)
    • Harmony >
      • How to Harmonize a Melody with 2 Voices
      • Inverted Pedal Point on Rhythm Changes
      • How to Jazzify the Living Pianos Theme Song
      • How to Get a Full Sound out of the Piano
      • 5 Inner Voice Movements on "I Should Care"
      • How to Create RH Counter-Melodies (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Use a Pedal Point
      • Create Chords From ANY Scale (Barry Harris)
      • How To Create Inner Voice Movement
      • How to REHARMONIZE Jazz Standards
    • Harmony P.2 >
      • Barry Harris Round Midnight Reharmonization
      • 3 Inner Voice Movements for a dom7 chord
      • How to Use Barry Harris' "Diminished Notes"
      • Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "Days of Wine and Roses"
      • Let Your Melodies Dictate Your Chords (Solo Piano Rubato Intro P.2)
      • How to Harmonize Every Melody Note with a New Chord
      • 3 Inner Voice Movements on "Wave"
      • 3 Ways to Create Motion
      • The SECRET to Creating LH Counterpoint like Bill Evans
      • Do You Know the Original Chord Changes to "Wave"?
    • Harmony P.3 >
      • How to Use Pedal Points (Part 1)
      • How to Use Pedal Points (Part 2)
      • 2 Ways to Use Pedal Points
      • Swing Like Bach: Contrary Motion in Your Improv
      • This Tritone Sub Got a 'Woo' From My Drummer!
      • How to Pass Voices Through the Thumbs like Bach (Lesson from Fred Hersch)
      • Do You Know this SECRET Tension Chord?
      • 6 Chord Substitutions & Inner-Voice Movements
      • How to Use Contrary Motion ala Bach & Bill Evans
      • How to Use Contrary Motion P.2 ala Fred Hersch
    • Harmony P.4 >
      • How to Use Contrary Motion ala Bach & Bill Evans
      • HEARTWARMING Chords They Don't Teach You in School! (Solo Piano Cadenza on "Ask Me Now")
    • Improv >
      • Barry Harris Passport (Blues) Improv Analysis
      • Kenny Barron Autumn Leaves Melody Transcription Analysis
      • Rhythm Changes Improv Ideas (Bijan Transcription)
      • Rhythmic Motifs in Jazz Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 2
      • Jazz Improv - How to Play OUTSIDE
      • How to Create LH Counterpoint (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Create LH Counterpoint (P.2)
      • Using Quotes in Jazz Improvisation (Quoting "A Love Supreme" on "How Deep Is The Ocean")
    • Improv P.2 >
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas (2 Melodic Motifs on "Esau")
      • Modal Solo on min7b5 (from "It Always Happens")
      • Using Shapes in Jazz Improv
      • How to Use the Melody in Your Improvisation
      • Watch What Made Rodney Whitaker "Swink"
      • How to Outline Chord Changes (Improv on "Autumn Leaves")
      • 16th Note Improv Lines over "Autumn Leaves"
      • Soloing in 3/4 on "Autumn Leaves"
      • How to STOP Playing the Same Licks in Your Jazz Solos
      • 5 Octaves in 5 Seconds with this KILLER Run
    • Improv P.3 >
      • What is Over the Barline Phrasing in Jazz Improvisation?
      • How to Use Theme & Variation like Kenny Barron
      • Modal Solo on Cmin7 (from "Crossfire")
      • Use This Motif When Improvising in 3/4!
      • 2 Ways to Use Triplets in Your Improvisations
      • 3 Ways to Approach the Bridge of Rhythm Changes
      • How to Use Shapes to Achieve New Sounds in Your Improvisations
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas P.7 (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • How to Play Bluesy over Non-Blues Chord Changes
      • What are Red Garland Block Chords?
    • Improv P.4 >
      • Repetition in Improvisation
      • How to Use 16th Notes in Your Jazz Solos (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • How to Adapt Improv Shapes to Fit Over New Chords (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • 3 Tips to Take Your 16th Note Lines to the Next Level
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 3
      • 3 Ways to Sound Like McCoy Tyner
      • Use this Shape to End Your Phrases
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 4
      • What are New Orleans Block Chords?
      • 3 Tips for Soloing in 3/4
    • Improv P.5 >
      • How to Build Your Solo Using Motifs
      • Stop Time
      • 16th Note Line EXPLAINED (Have You Met Miss Jones)
      • 3 Substitutions over a 36251
      • Building a Jazz Solo
      • How to Play Fast Like Bud Powell
      • Up-Tempo Improv over "Donna Lee"
      • Playing the Blues
      • How to Start Your Solo
      • How to Interact with the Drums While Soloing
    • Improv P.6 >
      • Piano + Drums Duo?
      • The SECRET to Fluid Improvisation in 3/4
      • The Power of ACCENTS
      • How to Use This Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk Improv Shape
      • The Piano is an Orchestra
      • The SECRET To Channeling McCoy Tyner
      • The Importance of DANGER in Improvisation?
      • The SECRET to Playing Fast Bebop Lines like Oscar Peterson
      • TASTEFUL Chordal Improvisation on "Wave"
      • The SECRET to Spontaneity in Jazz Improvisation
    • Improv P.7 >
      • 6 Ways to Create Tension-Release
      • 3 Ways to Create Your Own Jazz Lines!
      • Regular 2-5-1 vs Sidestep 2-5-1
      • Jazz Improv Tip: Get the Drummer Involved!
      • Jazz Improv Tip: Develop Your Ideas P.14
      • Interlocking Polychords
      • 2 SECRETS to Playing Fast Runs (Ala Mulgrew & Herbie)
      • Improv Analysis on "I'll Remember April"
      • Use Monk Clusters to Create HIP Phrasing
      • Take Your Phrasing to the NEXT LEVEL with this Simple Trick!
    • Improv P.8 >
      • How to Improvise on a SOLO BREAK
      • Jazz Improv Tip: Get the Drummer Involved (P.2)
      • Use Polychords to Create Harmonically RICH Improvisation
      • UNLOCK Up-Tempo Improv with Pentatonic Permutations
      • Keep Your Ideas Going to Achieve FLOW in Your Improvisation
      • 2 Ways to Improvise over a Sidestep 2-5
      • Why This Jazz Line Made My Drummer STANK FACE (Descending Rhythmic Rates)
    • Rhythm >
      • Polyrhythm vs Polymeter EXPLAINED
      • How to Create Rhythmic Tension in 3/4
      • 2 Ways to Create Rhythm Section Interplay (Rhythmic Telepathy Part 8)
      • Soloing on an E Minor Blues in 12/8
      • The SECRET To Making Stride Piano Swing
      • Polymeters EXPLAINED (Superimposing 3 over 4)
      • Improvising over Changing Time Signatures (over Ahmad Jamal's "Crossfire)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 6 ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Trio)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 7 (Superimposing 3 in 4 on "End of a Love Affair")
    • Rhythm P.2 >
      • Jazz Slang P.2 - Double Time Feel EXPLAINED
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 1: 4 to 3)
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 2: 3 to 4)
      • Playing in 2 vs in 4 (Part 2)
      • Half Time vs Double Time ("Here's That Rainy Day")
      • How to "Set Up" The Band
      • Metric Modulation on Have You Met Miss Jones
      • How to Swing
      • Communication on the Bandstand
      • Piano + Bass Rhythmic & Harmonic Telepathy (Part 10)
    • Rhythm P.3 >
      • How to Create Rhythmic Interest on a Ballad
      • Metric Modulation over "Ask Me Now" (Part 1: 4 to 3)
      • Metric Modulation over "Ask Me Now" (Part 2: 3 to 4)
      • CRAZY Rhythmic Technique Creates Piano+Drums Connection
      • INSANE Trio Interplay (Starting & Stopping the Time)
      • 3 Levels of Jazz Basslines
      • CRAZ Duo Interplay (Piano+Bass)
      • 3 Ways to Connect with the Drummer in Your Jazz Solos
    • Rhythm P.4 >
      • 2 Rhythmic Feels on a Ballad
      • How Quoting Jazz Standards Can Create Piano+Drums Connections
      • Metric Modulation on a Jazz Ballad
      • Metric Modulation on "Everything Happens to Me" (3 to 4)
      • Bossa Nova Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW!
      • Jazz Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW!
      • 2 Bossa Nova Rhythmic Hits You MUST KNOW!
    • Rhythm P.5 >
      • How Listening Sparks MAGICAL Trio Interplay on "I'll Be Seeing You"
      • Jazz Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW! (Part 2)
      • How to Use Contrary Motion P.2 ala Fred Hersch
      • Pocket So Deep, I Can't Find My Spare Change
    • Piano Orchestration >
      • 3 Ways to Orchestrate A Melody ("Asojano" from TrioGram)
      • Orchestrating A Melody P.2 ("Esau" from TrioGram)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Autumn Leaves)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • PAINT: How to Orchestrate a Melody for a Ballad (Here's That Rainy Day)
    • Piano Orchestration P.2 >
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Have You Met Miss Jones)
      • How to Add Colors in Your Playing
      • 3 Ways to Fill When Orchestrating
      • What is Inner Tonal Movement?
      • Using the Bottom of the RH to Fill
      • Stride Piano SECRETS on "East of the Sun"
    • Piano Orchestration P.3 >
      • How to Orchestrate a Rubato Ballad (Everything Happens to Me)
      • How to Orchestrate an In-Time Ballad (Everything Happens to Me)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Girl From Ipanema)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Girl From Ipanema PART 2)
      • 4 Ways to Create Motion
      • The MOST Important Thing When Orchestrating a Rubato Melody (It's Not What You Think!)
    • Intros/Outros >
      • Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED
      • Ahmad Jamal Ending Chords
      • How to End a Song Quietly
      • How to Fade Out (Ending to "Secret Love")
      • The CRAZIEST Cadenza You've Ever Heard
      • How to End a Ballad with a Solo Piano Cadenza ("Here's That Rainy Day")
    • Intros/Outros P.2 >
      • The Magic of Circle of 5ths Endings
      • Classic Ending for Any Jazz Standard (#4 Ending)
      • How to Create an Elegant Intro ("Wave")
      • Ending Wave with a Reharmonized Cadenza
      • MUST KNOW Chord Progression to Create a Classic Jazz Intro
      • BLUES OUT on a 3625 Progression
      • Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "East of the Sun"
    • Intros/Outros P.3 >
      • Girl From Ipanema Vamp Intro Breakdown
      • Girl From Ipanema Reharmonized Ending
      • What if the First Chord is the ii?
    • Piano Technique >
      • 3 Parts of the Body
      • 2 Reasons Why You MUST Strike From The Surface of the Keys
      • How to Bring Out the Melody in Your Playing
      • SECRET Practice Exercise for Voicing Control
      • How to Use Dynamics to Create Drama
    • Piano Technique P.2 >
      • 3 Piano Technique Tips - Lessons From Robert Estrin
      • How to Play FAST
      • Subtractions Practice Technique (for Syncopation & Hand Independence)
    • Composition/Arranging >
      • 3 Ways to Use Counterpoint in Jazz
      • 3 Tips When Composing an AABA Tune
      • Inspired by Ahmad Jamal's Poinciana ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio)
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Transcriptions of Bijan

1. Bijan Taghavi: Stella by Starlight (Solo Piano)

2. Bijan Taghavi: Body and Soul (Solo Piano)

3. Bijan Taghavi: Autumn Leaves (Solo Piano)

4. Bijan Taghavi: I Should Care (Solo Piano)

5. Bijan Taghavi Have You Met Miss Jones Take 1 (Solo Piano)

6. Bijan Taghavi: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Arrangement

7. Bijan Taghavi: Ask Me Now (Solo Piano)

8. Bijan Taghavi: Wave (Solo Piano)

9. Bijan Taghavi: East of the Sun (Solo Piano)

10. Bijan Taghavi: Everything Happens to Me (Solo Piano)

11. Bijan Taghavi: Girl From Ipanema (Solo Piano)

12. Bijan Taghavi: I Fall in Love Too Easily (Solo Piano)

Transcriptions of Masters

1. Bill Evans: On Green Dolphin Street (Trio Version)

2. Bill Evans: On Green Dolphin Street Intro & Solo (Kind of Blue version)

3. Kenny Barron: There Will Never Be Another You

4. Barry Harris: Passport (Blues)

5. Hank Jones: Robbins Nest

6. Herbie Hancock: New York Minute (½ transcription)

7. Oscar Peterson: Poutin' (Bb Minor Blues)

8. Herbie Hancock: Pinocchio Comping

9. Curtis Fuller: Speak Low Solo

10. Kenny Barron: Autumn Leaves (1 Chorus Only)


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  • About
  • Media
    • CACTUS SESSIONS CD
    • Pianist
    • Educator
    • Composer/Arranger
    • Articles
  • Calendar
    • Upcoming Performances
    • Past Performances
  • Educator
    • Video Exchange Lessons
  • Transcriptions
    • Bijan Taghavi >
      • Stella by Starlight (Solo Piano)
      • Body and Soul (Solo Piano)
      • Autumn Leaves (Solo Piano)
      • I Should Care (Solo Piano)
      • Have You Met Miss Jones (Solo Piano)
      • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Solo Piano)
      • Ask Me Now (Solo Piano)
      • Wave (Solo Piano)
      • East of the Sun (Solo Piano)
      • Everything Happens to Me (Solo Piano)
      • Girl From Ipanema (Solo Piano)
      • I Fall in Love Too Easily (Solo Piano)
    • Bill Evans
    • Kenny Barron
    • Barry Harris
    • Hank Jones
    • Herbie Hancock
    • Oscar Peterson
  • Lesson Videos & PDFs
    • Comping >
      • Group Comping Voicings Overview
      • Jazz Piano Comping EXPLAINED!
      • Oscar Peterson Take The A Train Transcription Analysis
      • 2 Tips Comping For Vocalists
      • Chromatic Approach
      • LH Contrasting Texture (Body and Soul)
      • Comping over Rhythm Changes (for a Bass Solo)
      • The Secrets to Walking Basslines on Piano
      • Funky Bassline
      • LH Comping Approach for Solo Piano
    • Comping P.2 >
      • Comping Fill over Just Friends
      • Develop Your Rhythmic Vocabulary to Create Interplay (Bb Blues Comping)
      • Bossa Nova Duo Comping
      • Exchanging Ideas When Comping over a Ballad
      • LH Sweeping Texture on "Ask Me Now"
      • SECRET To Playing Bossa Nova Solo Piano
      • How Listening Fuels CREATIVITY
      • Why Your Left Hand is Failing You and How to Fix It (4 LH Comping Techniques over "Pent Up House")
      • 5 Ways to Use Your LH in a Jazz Solo ("Isfahan")
      • Piano+Sax Duo Interplay (ft. Dick Oatts)
    • Harmony >
      • How to Harmonize a Melody with 2 Voices
      • Inverted Pedal Point on Rhythm Changes
      • How to Jazzify the Living Pianos Theme Song
      • How to Get a Full Sound out of the Piano
      • 5 Inner Voice Movements on "I Should Care"
      • How to Create RH Counter-Melodies (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Use a Pedal Point
      • Create Chords From ANY Scale (Barry Harris)
      • How To Create Inner Voice Movement
      • How to REHARMONIZE Jazz Standards
    • Harmony P.2 >
      • Barry Harris Round Midnight Reharmonization
      • 3 Inner Voice Movements for a dom7 chord
      • How to Use Barry Harris' "Diminished Notes"
      • Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "Days of Wine and Roses"
      • Let Your Melodies Dictate Your Chords (Solo Piano Rubato Intro P.2)
      • How to Harmonize Every Melody Note with a New Chord
      • 3 Inner Voice Movements on "Wave"
      • 3 Ways to Create Motion
      • The SECRET to Creating LH Counterpoint like Bill Evans
      • Do You Know the Original Chord Changes to "Wave"?
    • Harmony P.3 >
      • How to Use Pedal Points (Part 1)
      • How to Use Pedal Points (Part 2)
      • 2 Ways to Use Pedal Points
      • Swing Like Bach: Contrary Motion in Your Improv
      • This Tritone Sub Got a 'Woo' From My Drummer!
      • How to Pass Voices Through the Thumbs like Bach (Lesson from Fred Hersch)
      • Do You Know this SECRET Tension Chord?
      • 6 Chord Substitutions & Inner-Voice Movements
      • How to Use Contrary Motion ala Bach & Bill Evans
      • How to Use Contrary Motion P.2 ala Fred Hersch
    • Harmony P.4 >
      • How to Use Contrary Motion ala Bach & Bill Evans
      • HEARTWARMING Chords They Don't Teach You in School! (Solo Piano Cadenza on "Ask Me Now")
    • Improv >
      • Barry Harris Passport (Blues) Improv Analysis
      • Kenny Barron Autumn Leaves Melody Transcription Analysis
      • Rhythm Changes Improv Ideas (Bijan Transcription)
      • Rhythmic Motifs in Jazz Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 2
      • Jazz Improv - How to Play OUTSIDE
      • How to Create LH Counterpoint (Body and Soul)
      • 2 Ways to Create LH Counterpoint (P.2)
      • Using Quotes in Jazz Improvisation (Quoting "A Love Supreme" on "How Deep Is The Ocean")
    • Improv P.2 >
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas (2 Melodic Motifs on "Esau")
      • Modal Solo on min7b5 (from "It Always Happens")
      • Using Shapes in Jazz Improv
      • How to Use the Melody in Your Improvisation
      • Watch What Made Rodney Whitaker "Swink"
      • How to Outline Chord Changes (Improv on "Autumn Leaves")
      • 16th Note Improv Lines over "Autumn Leaves"
      • Soloing in 3/4 on "Autumn Leaves"
      • How to STOP Playing the Same Licks in Your Jazz Solos
      • 5 Octaves in 5 Seconds with this KILLER Run
    • Improv P.3 >
      • What is Over the Barline Phrasing in Jazz Improvisation?
      • How to Use Theme & Variation like Kenny Barron
      • Modal Solo on Cmin7 (from "Crossfire")
      • Use This Motif When Improvising in 3/4!
      • 2 Ways to Use Triplets in Your Improvisations
      • 3 Ways to Approach the Bridge of Rhythm Changes
      • How to Use Shapes to Achieve New Sounds in Your Improvisations
      • Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas P.7 (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • How to Play Bluesy over Non-Blues Chord Changes
      • What are Red Garland Block Chords?
    • Improv P.4 >
      • Repetition in Improvisation
      • How to Use 16th Notes in Your Jazz Solos (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • How to Adapt Improv Shapes to Fit Over New Chords (Days of Wine and Roses)
      • 3 Tips to Take Your 16th Note Lines to the Next Level
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 3
      • 3 Ways to Sound Like McCoy Tyner
      • Use this Shape to End Your Phrases
      • Chordal Improvisation Part 4
      • What are New Orleans Block Chords?
      • 3 Tips for Soloing in 3/4
    • Improv P.5 >
      • How to Build Your Solo Using Motifs
      • Stop Time
      • 16th Note Line EXPLAINED (Have You Met Miss Jones)
      • 3 Substitutions over a 36251
      • Building a Jazz Solo
      • How to Play Fast Like Bud Powell
      • Up-Tempo Improv over "Donna Lee"
      • Playing the Blues
      • How to Start Your Solo
      • How to Interact with the Drums While Soloing
    • Improv P.6 >
      • Piano + Drums Duo?
      • The SECRET to Fluid Improvisation in 3/4
      • The Power of ACCENTS
      • How to Use This Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk Improv Shape
      • The Piano is an Orchestra
      • The SECRET To Channeling McCoy Tyner
      • The Importance of DANGER in Improvisation?
      • The SECRET to Playing Fast Bebop Lines like Oscar Peterson
      • TASTEFUL Chordal Improvisation on "Wave"
      • The SECRET to Spontaneity in Jazz Improvisation
    • Improv P.7 >
      • 6 Ways to Create Tension-Release
      • 3 Ways to Create Your Own Jazz Lines!
      • Regular 2-5-1 vs Sidestep 2-5-1
      • Jazz Improv Tip: Get the Drummer Involved!
      • Jazz Improv Tip: Develop Your Ideas P.14
      • Interlocking Polychords
      • 2 SECRETS to Playing Fast Runs (Ala Mulgrew & Herbie)
      • Improv Analysis on "I'll Remember April"
      • Use Monk Clusters to Create HIP Phrasing
      • Take Your Phrasing to the NEXT LEVEL with this Simple Trick!
    • Improv P.8 >
      • How to Improvise on a SOLO BREAK
      • Jazz Improv Tip: Get the Drummer Involved (P.2)
      • Use Polychords to Create Harmonically RICH Improvisation
      • UNLOCK Up-Tempo Improv with Pentatonic Permutations
      • Keep Your Ideas Going to Achieve FLOW in Your Improvisation
      • 2 Ways to Improvise over a Sidestep 2-5
      • Why This Jazz Line Made My Drummer STANK FACE (Descending Rhythmic Rates)
    • Rhythm >
      • Polyrhythm vs Polymeter EXPLAINED
      • How to Create Rhythmic Tension in 3/4
      • 2 Ways to Create Rhythm Section Interplay (Rhythmic Telepathy Part 8)
      • Soloing on an E Minor Blues in 12/8
      • The SECRET To Making Stride Piano Swing
      • Polymeters EXPLAINED (Superimposing 3 over 4)
      • Improvising over Changing Time Signatures (over Ahmad Jamal's "Crossfire)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 6 ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Trio)
      • Rhythmic Telepathy PART 7 (Superimposing 3 in 4 on "End of a Love Affair")
    • Rhythm P.2 >
      • Jazz Slang P.2 - Double Time Feel EXPLAINED
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 1: 4 to 3)
      • Metric Modulation over "Autumn Leaves" (Part 2: 3 to 4)
      • Playing in 2 vs in 4 (Part 2)
      • Half Time vs Double Time ("Here's That Rainy Day")
      • How to "Set Up" The Band
      • Metric Modulation on Have You Met Miss Jones
      • How to Swing
      • Communication on the Bandstand
      • Piano + Bass Rhythmic & Harmonic Telepathy (Part 10)
    • Rhythm P.3 >
      • How to Create Rhythmic Interest on a Ballad
      • Metric Modulation over "Ask Me Now" (Part 1: 4 to 3)
      • Metric Modulation over "Ask Me Now" (Part 2: 3 to 4)
      • CRAZY Rhythmic Technique Creates Piano+Drums Connection
      • INSANE Trio Interplay (Starting & Stopping the Time)
      • 3 Levels of Jazz Basslines
      • CRAZ Duo Interplay (Piano+Bass)
      • 3 Ways to Connect with the Drummer in Your Jazz Solos
    • Rhythm P.4 >
      • 2 Rhythmic Feels on a Ballad
      • How Quoting Jazz Standards Can Create Piano+Drums Connections
      • Metric Modulation on a Jazz Ballad
      • Metric Modulation on "Everything Happens to Me" (3 to 4)
      • Bossa Nova Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW!
      • Jazz Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW!
      • 2 Bossa Nova Rhythmic Hits You MUST KNOW!
    • Rhythm P.5 >
      • How Listening Sparks MAGICAL Trio Interplay on "I'll Be Seeing You"
      • Jazz Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW! (Part 2)
      • How to Use Contrary Motion P.2 ala Fred Hersch
      • Pocket So Deep, I Can't Find My Spare Change
    • Piano Orchestration >
      • 3 Ways to Orchestrate A Melody ("Asojano" from TrioGram)
      • Orchestrating A Melody P.2 ("Esau" from TrioGram)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Autumn Leaves)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (I Fall in Love Too Easily)
      • PAINT: How to Orchestrate a Melody for a Ballad (Here's That Rainy Day)
    • Piano Orchestration P.2 >
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Have You Met Miss Jones)
      • How to Add Colors in Your Playing
      • 3 Ways to Fill When Orchestrating
      • What is Inner Tonal Movement?
      • Using the Bottom of the RH to Fill
      • Stride Piano SECRETS on "East of the Sun"
    • Piano Orchestration P.3 >
      • How to Orchestrate a Rubato Ballad (Everything Happens to Me)
      • How to Orchestrate an In-Time Ballad (Everything Happens to Me)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Girl From Ipanema)
      • How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Girl From Ipanema PART 2)
      • 4 Ways to Create Motion
      • The MOST Important Thing When Orchestrating a Rubato Melody (It's Not What You Think!)
    • Intros/Outros >
      • Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED
      • Ahmad Jamal Ending Chords
      • How to End a Song Quietly
      • How to Fade Out (Ending to "Secret Love")
      • The CRAZIEST Cadenza You've Ever Heard
      • How to End a Ballad with a Solo Piano Cadenza ("Here's That Rainy Day")
    • Intros/Outros P.2 >
      • The Magic of Circle of 5ths Endings
      • Classic Ending for Any Jazz Standard (#4 Ending)
      • How to Create an Elegant Intro ("Wave")
      • Ending Wave with a Reharmonized Cadenza
      • MUST KNOW Chord Progression to Create a Classic Jazz Intro
      • BLUES OUT on a 3625 Progression
      • Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "East of the Sun"
    • Intros/Outros P.3 >
      • Girl From Ipanema Vamp Intro Breakdown
      • Girl From Ipanema Reharmonized Ending
      • What if the First Chord is the ii?
    • Piano Technique >
      • 3 Parts of the Body
      • 2 Reasons Why You MUST Strike From The Surface of the Keys
      • How to Bring Out the Melody in Your Playing
      • SECRET Practice Exercise for Voicing Control
      • How to Use Dynamics to Create Drama
    • Piano Technique P.2 >
      • 3 Piano Technique Tips - Lessons From Robert Estrin
      • How to Play FAST
      • Subtractions Practice Technique (for Syncopation & Hand Independence)
    • Composition/Arranging >
      • 3 Ways to Use Counterpoint in Jazz
      • 3 Tips When Composing an AABA Tune
      • Inspired by Ahmad Jamal's Poinciana ("Secret Love" arr. Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio)
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