I create these workbooks for the piano teachers, students, and parents, who are tired of traditional methods. My Commercial Piano Workbooks can be used in a piano class or in private lessons. If you or your students want to learn to play popular music styles in an authentic way, and use contemporary music theory to compose like pop songwriters and producers, this is the method for you.
Commercial Piano Workbook 1Peter John Stoltzman has produced hip-hop tracks for Warner Bros, recorded and toured around the world with funk, jazz, and fusion artists, including Steve Gadd and Eddie Gomez, and songwriters such as winner of The Voice, Javier Colon.
Commercial Piano Workbook I reveals to the public for the first time the methods he uses successfully with hundreds of students at CU Denver's Music & Entertainment Industry Studies program. Includes links to 45 downloadable play along tracks online, and a YouTube instructional video playlist. |
Commercial Piano Workbook 2Harmony generates the emotional trajectory of music. Creating harmony with chords is the primary function of what a commercial pianist does. This book leads you through expanding your technique and your understanding of chords and progressions, so that you are able to perform and compose contemporary commercial music on the piano in a way that sounds professional and expresses emotion with intention. Along the way, jam with over 60 play-along tracks, practice sight-reading and scales, and improvise over a jazzy 12-bar blues. |
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Huge thanks to Colorado Creative Industries and the National Endowment for the Arts for their generous Career Advancement Grant that helped fund this video series!
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Sight Reading and Scales Workbook
This workbook covers an innovative sight reading method based on the teaching of Charlie Banacos, followed by pages of incremental sight reading examples, chord symbol reading examples, and a method for learning and practicing major and natural minor scales.
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Zero to Jazz Piano in 3 Days
This workbook was designed originally for beginner to intermediate piano classes at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, but it has been used successfully for jazz piano students of all ages, to develop functional stylistic jazz piano playing in a small group context.