Tag Archives: Doug

‘This Nearly Was Mine’ – solo jazz piano lesson

‘This Nearly Was Mine’ – solo jazz piano lesson. To clearly read the music, you will need the high quality youtube version – http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qe8OF8ymzGM&fmt=18 Wonderful tune from South Pacific – lots of jazz pianists have played it – Fred Hersch, Chick Corea, Dick Hyman, Cecil Taylor. I tried to keep this as simple as I … Continue reading

My Foolish Heart – Jazz piano lesson – stereo?

My Foolish Heart – Jazz piano solo and trio. Another experiment to see if I could achieve a stereo audio track, and still not sacrifice too much video quality. The text and notation can be seen, though less clear than I would have hoped. This was derived from a midi file that I had recorded … Continue reading

Misty – Jazz piano lesson

This is a ‘trio’ version of the ballad ‘Misty’ – with lots of extra information helpful (I hope) to jazz piano students. At my site at http://web.newsguy.com/dougmck there is a much clearer copy of the video for download, as well as a transcription, the midi file recored with the video, and an MP3 file of … Continue reading