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Piano Practice – Joy Spring

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:49:19 +0000

I did another short piano practice on the jazz song Joy Spring by Clifford Brown. It’s more like a warm up really.

Click here to listen to my short practice on the Clifford Brown tune Joy Spring.

Joy Spring and On Green Dolphin Street piano practice

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:21:47 +0000

I did about a 45 minute practice on the tunes Joy Spring and On Green Dolphin Street. I have been practicing quite a bit lately and it seems my fingers are in pretty good shape (but my technique could always be better). In the last part of the practice I mainly worked on getting a bit of fluidity into the motion of my fingers, and didn’t focus so much on what notes I was playing.

Click here to listen to my practice of Joy Spring and On Green Dolphin Street in Midi format.

Another Practice on Joy Spring

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:23:58 +0000

I practiced over an hour on the tune Joy Spring by Clifford Brown, as well as some technique. I am using the melody of this tune like a study exercise for working on my technique.

Click here to listen to my practice of Joy Spring in Midi format.

Joy Spring – another practice

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:43:49 +0000

I did another practice, for about 50 minutes, on the tune Joy Spring by Clifford Brown. I’m mainly trying to work on the technique of my right hand. This melody has a lot of notes and runs in different keys, and is almost like some kind of classical “study” piece.
I have also noticed that several keys on my electric piano are starting to stick. This makes it a lot trickier to play and I am concerned that I may be learning some bad habits trying to compensate for the stickiness of certain keys (in particular, the C above middle C). Time to get a new keyboard soon and sell my old ones!

Click here to listen to my practice on the tune Joy Spring in Midi format.

Piano Practice recording – jazz standard Joy Spring, Autumn Leaves, and technique

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:33:56 +0000

I practiced the piano for about an hour today, in two different sessions. The first session was about 20 minutes. I am working on getting my technique flowing again and learning the jazz standard Joy Spring by Clifford Brown. I also did a bit of improvised accompaniment to myself singing Autumn Leaves.

Click here to listen to my piano practice in Midi format.

Here is a nice recording of Arturo Sandoval performing Joy Spring from his album I Remember Clifford:

Joy Spring – Arturo Sandoval

Here is a recording of Joy Spring by the late great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio:

Joy Spring – The Oscar Peterson Trio