The piano is an important instrument for the jazz musical bands, since the origins of jazz music and it can be played in the style of a solo performance or as part of a band. As the guitar, the piano is one of the few musical instruments in a jazz band that can play chords, notes, rather than just single notes only instruments such as saxophone, trombone, trumpet or even the vibraphone (1 or 2 scores together).

Gone were the days when a jazz pianist ’s role is simply to keep pace with repetitive chord combinations. Today is the pianist is free to choose any technology or style to accompany a band or a singer with both the short and sustained chordal and melodic fragments called comping.

A accomplshed jazz pianist must not only look good at reading and well improvise chord symbols, but also must be able to adapt to different playing styles of the various bands with jam. Jazz pianist must balance this interpretation and improvisation to the musical style of the band.
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Two singers can sing the same song with the same musical arrangement and a singer delivers the song with such feeling, passion and enthusiasm that the teary eyed audience clapping away non-stop, while the other singers belt only from the song a bored audience. Guess, the Superstar, and is always the mediocre singer? Why is this so?

For most people, good singing simply means the only memorizing texts and hits the right notes, without the key. If a singer can only do so and is blessed with a good singing voice, “then this singers have great potential in his / her singing career.

Well, if it’s just so simple, so many of us have a great potential as a superstar singing, but this is clearly not the case, is not it?
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