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Summary: Want to play Jazz piano? Learn some jazz tips on playing syncopations in this free video clip on jazz piano tips.
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"Hi I'm Austin McBride here on behalf of Expert Village to show you how to play syncopated jazz music. A brief explanation of syncopation is when there are two different rhythms going against each other and then towards the end of the musical phrase they happen to line back up. So where they're bouncing off, bouncing off, bouncing off, and then collide, they're the same, they hit together at the same time and then they separate once again. That's what syncopation consists of. I'll show you a simple syncopated line here as I play a walking bass line with my left hand. It'll be following just a basic jazz walking bass line. The right hand will syncopate on the off beats but then will match up as the phrase comes to a close. And away we go. It's going off from the beats. A few little errors in there but that is basic instruction to syncopated music."
eHow Article: How to Play Syncopated Jazz Piano
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bahalvorsen said
on 3/22/2009 Yeah man. This is probably the greatest piano player AND jazz educator there is. Everything he says is so true. Listen to his immaculate taste, his sense of swing and his harmonic mastery. Not to mention his virtuosity.
"A few little errors in there, but that is a basic introduction to syncoptated music." Wohahahaha! Come on. Somebody, get this bullshit off of the web.
willdrums711 said
on 3/14/2009 God, this really is dreadful. It is the most uninventive, worthless way of playing I have ever encountered. This is not jazz people!!! Syncopation is simply when a particular phrase accents the weak beats in a bar, or crosses the bar in some way. All that is being played in this video is something based around a C blues scale, in both hands. No real jazz musician would ever play that.
evuser17584 said
on 3/26/2009 Mr. McBride,
This must be a joke.
jazzmasterpurvi said
on 3/12/2009 I know so much more about the world after watching these videos! Austin, do you have any CDs out?