PGMusic Jazz Piano Master Class Vol 1 and 2 TUTORiAL

I remember marking a class with a famous jazz pianist in New York, who said he would give me half an hour of class, and only gave me the instructions to do exactly what this first PGMusic tutorial does, which is, rightly, to play chords with only 3rds and 7ths in the right hand and the basses in the left, that in all tonalities, then the inversion of that, finally, I paid 500 dollars for this half-hour class. Today, we download 501 jazz pdf books teaching all this, but there are people who will not understand the reason for any lesson brought in these 501 books, nor will they have the minimum discipline to understand or solve issues of harmony, so,
except that a good mentor makes a difference when teaching and playing with you.
The thing that PGMusic shows you how to do it, but he doesn't teach you why to exclude the 5th chords and other tricks.

You should study the cadence in all tonalities, every day, until finally memorizing, playing from scratch. It's no use, if you don't do all the cadences and all the tonalities, because this is a main conditioning for Jazz, and it should be studied like Hanon every day until you learn for life or until Alzheimer's arrives. If you do only the V-I cadences, you'll resolve almost 80% of music problems.

You will be disappointed with the PGMusic MIDI score, it is not accurate and shuffles the notes sometimes, but you can understand a lot, unfortunately the keyboard bar pauses the score, but not the colorful notes of the virtual keyboard.

PGMusic has done a lot of good in the past and not everything has been reworked for the new operating systems, MIDI scores don't show up from windows 7 as they don't install fonts used for notes. PGMusic was a major contributors to software for musicians and took a lot of people out of the boredom of computers in the late 1980s. The problem is that a lot still has an old platform that we saw on windows 98.

Unfortunately PGMusic could reduce all this giant size to less than 15% if they convert all *.wav files to another format like the German Fraunhofer mp3 128 Kbps, that has more quality than this, since PGMusic *.wav files are of poor mono quality, 16 Bit PCM, just 22050 Hz. All content is only 43.2 MB of files without the WAV files.

The great failure is not to teach jazz harmony, which is part of the triarchy of jazz, along with rhythm and improvisation. American harmony contribution is enough with the 6th note addendum and the blue note. And since the XIX century; Chopin with the '13th chord', and Scriabin, the 9th, 11th. So jazz sound numbers are pure: 6 9 11 13, flatted and raised when needed, and a interval of major or minor 10th between the bass and the 3rd, helps to build that American Jazz Sonority contribution.

Anyway, this program brings dozens of primordial amazing concepts that all jazz pianist will use, it is not 100% explained, but for good understander half word is enough. Now any beginner will crash in the first few lessons when trying to play, I say most will not be able to, because you must have learned other basic concepts of the piano, like basic fingering that he doesn't teach in this program.

Believe me, everyone can, if you do every day with dedication, I personally, paused only 2 years of my entire life, to just study arpeggios in octaves, 3rd and 6ths, all major, harmonic minor and melodic scales. Then all chord inversions major, minor with 7th, 9th, 13th and diminished, and all cadences in all keys.

Every day without exception for two years, at least 6 hours a day and only came down on Sundays. I did not play any other music. Today, people ask me how I can do so many tricks on the piano, how easy I am to perform such difficult songs, yeah, that number is 6 X 6/2.

'PGMusic Jazz Piano Master Class' is a method well done, especially considering that it was done so long ago. For those who don't know, they have a very old amazing software called, The Jazz Pianist among others. I hope they continue in this contribution with new musical ideas.