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Pianist Matt Rollings: How to Be a Session Musician People Want to Hire
Grammy-winning producer, pianist, and songwriter Matt Rollings shares what it takes to be a successful session musician, including what to charge and when to say yes or no to a project. He also shares how his recording career took off after he said yes to a young Lyle Lovett.
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Cuban Music Fusion: Pianists to Put in Heavy Rotation
In this sneak preview of a lesson from the upcoming Latin Piano Styles course, we look at how Cuban musicians traveling to perform abroad in the early part of the twentieth century created a natural mix of styles and opened the doors to brand new flavors of musical fusion.
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Boston Red Sox Organist Josh Kantor on Playing Fenway Park
Josh Kantor has been playing the organ at Fenway Park since 2003, and he hasn’t missed a single home game since.
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Simple Piano Tips for Songwriters
In my experience working with singer-songwriters, a topic that often emerges is how to use simple and strong instrumental techniques to express our songs.
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Piano Voicing Techniques
Understanding the basics of piano voicings and the use of common tensions is a first step in creating effective orchestrations of reharmonized melodies.
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Simplifying Jazz Harmonic Theory with Suzanna Sifter
Suzanna Sifter is author of Berklee Jazz Keyboard Harmony: Using Upper Structure Triads, an extraordinary book that helps pianists organize and understand tensions
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Imaginary Barlines in Musical Notation
Jonathan Feist explains the concept of imaginary barlines in music theory, a notation convention designed to help the music reader know what’s syncopated.