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 | Warren Bernhardt provides you with a wealth of musical knowledge, giving you the tools to discover what jazz piano is all about - and to really start playing.
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DVD: DVD-BER-JP21
VCR: VD-BER-JP01
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YOU CAN PLAY JAZZ PIANO 1 - Getting Started
(90-minute DVD or VHS videotape)
Taught by Warren Bernhardt | Learn the basics of pop and jazz piano from one of the world's leading players! This 90-minute lesson is packed with musical insights and keyboard technique for students beginning in the jazz idiom.
Here are just a few of the things that Warren Bernhardt covers on this remarkable tape:
 Basic hand positions
Ascending and edescending diatonic 3rds
Triads and inversions
Chord voicings
Melodic improvisation
The II-V-I chord progression
Playing the blues
Using tri-tones and blues scales
Melodic ornamentation
 and much more ...
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DVD: DVD-BER-JP22
VCR: VD-BER-JP02
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YOU CAN PLAY JAZZ PIANO 2 - Basic Keyboard Harmony
(90-minute DVD or VHS videotape)
Taught by Warren Bernhardt | Enter the world of keyboard harmony with this fascinating piano lesson from one of today's jazz masters. You need only an elementary knowledge of the keyboard to use this 90-minute tape and see a quick improvement in your playing.
Here are just a few of the things that Warren Bernhardt covers on this remarkable tape:
Basic chords and intervals
Notation system for chords
Voice leading and progressions
Open and closed chord voicings
Substitutions and inversions
The II-V-I chord progression
The III-VI-II-V-I progression
Scales for improvisation
Special exercises for chordal playing
And much more ...
A music booklet accompanies this video and include rhythm charts, scales, chord voicings and complete lead sheets to the songs.
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DVD: DVD-BER-JP23
VCR: VD-BER-JP03
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YOU CAN PLAY JAZZ PIANO 3 - Soloing & Performing
(90-minute DVD or VHS videotape)
Taught by Warren Bernhardt, with Mike DeMicco (electric guitar) | For this powerful 90-minute lesson, Warren Bernhardt teams up with guitarist Mike DeMicco for a great session that will teach you to play in new and dynamic ways. The wealth of ideas Warren opens up will give you the tools to be more creative with your music, expand your repertoire and discover what jazz soloing is all about.
Topics on this lesson include:
Scales for soloing and improvisation
Setting up a solo
Preparing a song for performance
Playing with other musicians
Four original Jazz Etudes
And much more ...
By the end of thelesson you'll be soloing on several great songs including Sara's Tough, Pali Lookout, Ain't Life Grand? and B-Loose Blues.
A music booklet accompanies this video and includes rhythm charts, scales, chord voicings and complete lead sheets to the songs.
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VCR: AD-BER-JP
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WARREN BERNHARDT TEACHES JAZZ PIANO
6 CDs plus book - a 6 hr. program |
A Hands-On Course in Improvisation and Technique, Creating Harmony and Building Solos. Sit down at the keyboard for an exciting play-along lesson with jazz virtuoso Warren Bernhardt. With his expert guidance, you'll quickly develop an understanding of the building blocks of jazz piano: scales, melodic development, rhythm comping, chord building, bass lines, the "swing feel" and much more. Applying these elements to commonly used progressions, including the blues form, will take you a long way towards creating your own jazz piano style.
Digging deeper, you'll see why literally hundreds of jazz tunes are based upon variations of the III-VI-II-V progression, and how you can improvise over these rhythm changes. Warren's illuminating focus on scale tones, tri-tone relationships, the cycle of fifths, diminished scales and other essential musical knowledge will allow you to improvise, jumpstart your creativity and start to swing!
Warren provides a wealth of exercises designed to build dexterity of both brain and fingers, especially in his examinations of the cycle of fifths and the pentatonic and whole tone scales. As you master two original tunes, "B-Loose Blues" and "New Samba," Warren shows you how to apply what you've learned about chord changes, voicings, substitutions, soloing and tempo and "feel" to your own improvisations.
Warren Bernhardt's expert use of open and closed chord voicings to create harmonic textures, and his examination of the special colors of the four primary modes, will add depth and beauty to your piano playing. Combine these compositional cornerstones with tempo changes, pedal tones and other devices and your jazz technique will move up to a whole new level.
Bonus: Two challenging and beautiful jazz etudes that Warren's mentor, Bill Evans, taught him. No jazz pianist should miss this session! Immediate improvement is guaranteed.
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CDZ-WB01
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WARREN BERNHARDT TEACHES
JAZZ PIANO - Vol. 1
A Hands-On Course in Improvisation and Technique
CD plus 32-page music book
| This is a very well-edited ("Readers' Digest version") one-hour reduction of the first three lessons of the six hour audiotape series listed above.
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CDZ-WB02
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WARREN BERNHARDT TEACHES
JAZZ PIANO - Vol. 2
Creating Harmony and Building Solos
CD plus 32-page music book | This is a one hour reduction of the final three lessons in the audiotape series listed above.
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DVD: DVD-DON-JP21
VCR: VD-DON-JP01
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DONALD FAGAN
CONCEPTS FOR JAZZ/ROCK PIANO (90-minute DVD or VHS videotape)
Playing, writing and arranging - with Warren Bernhardt
| This video gives us rare insight into the musical thinking of one of the most influential songwriters and arrangers in American popular music. In an intimate conversation with jazz pianist Warren Bernhardt, Donald Fagan explores the process that went into the writing and arranging of some typical Steely Dan songs (penned with partner Walter Becker), as well as some of his own solo works.
Both Fagan and Bernhardt illustrate how a sophisticated jazz-rock tune can evolve from a simple twelve bar blues form. This tape can be a powerful tool to enhance your own playing, writing and arranging.
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