Um, we just had a question working from the bottom.

Where should a self-talk?

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random letters ask yeah um where should a self-taught piano start to learn jazz chords and

voicings any book recommendations i've watched the two-minute jazz videos to great benefit but often

i'm missing some foundational info so we do have a course actually we do have a course not to. We do have a course. Not to plug our own course, but I think it's actually perfect. And would you say jazz piano for beginners or jazz piano jumpstart? Well, I was going to say jazz chords for beginners is specifically, is the course. Yep. So, but any of those three would actually be great. Yeah, you know, I think jazz course from beginners is good.

And the thing is about books.

I'll put a link in the chat here.

I'm not necessarily anti-book, but I always feel like that's like learning a language from reading it as opposed to hearing it, you know, and what we try to do with the videos.

And there's, look, there's some other great courses, artist works, and many other good places to get courses. But I love the video

medium if you don't have access to an in-person teacher, which most people don't right now.

But especially if you're self-taught and maybe not traditionally taught. I don't know.

Like, I mean, the famous jazz piano book by Levine is very good, I think. I haven't gone deep into it. I know I've heard great things about it. But for a self-taught more beginner kind of, I don't know if that that would be what you, I mean, it just gets so theoretical. It's fine. But what we get to do, and really this is, this is what we've discovered is so, can be so impactful about the video courses is, you know, in the jazz chords for beginners, it's all guided practice session. I'm literally telling you what to play, what practice. We set the metronome. There's no guesswork in like, well, how long should I stay with this or how should we? It's just we do what I, you know, what the instructor says. And it's almost like a guided meditation or like a spin class. Yes. Something like that. But it is like that. A friendly, jazzy spin class. For beginners, especially, they seem to respond really well to that. Where's a more advanced player who knows how to practice, knows how to grow, has their own systems for doing that? Yeah. Throw all the information at them. and they're going to sort that information out and put it in ways that they know can work. But for beginner, we recommend these videos because they just, we are able to hold, hold the student's hand in a way that really makes them sound good, I think, as, and I'm so proud of this that we do this, man, as sound good as efficiently as possible. Yeah, and I think that the guided practice sessions, especially at this level, is a real game changer. I mean, it's not, I mean, that's just what people have been saying to us. And so it's a great program that you've developed because I used to think more like, oh, you should know how to practice.

But that's kind of like, you know, oh, you should know what to do once you get to the gym.

Yeah, if you're like a gym rat or you grew up with a parent that was a personal trainer,

you're going to know intuitively what to do when you get in there.

It's not as easy as just grab a weight and start doing it.

But to get what all the nuances and the types of things that you do in the guided practice session, it's not the only way, but it gives you a efficiency advantage by doing it in that way and gets you to the position where you can develop. Because you're, I mean, all this stuff is you're practicing on your own. Just like in the gym, you're the one who's asked to pump the iron, but it puts you in an efficiency standpoint with the camaraderie of others doing the GPS's too that really gives you

a great advantage.

It's true.

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