Practice Jazz Bass Lines and Jazz Piano

There was a time when wanting to learn jazz meant endless commuting to and from the school, countless hours of waiting to get your teacher’s attention and boredom to top it all. Things are different now. Thanks to the Internet, if you wish to practice jazz bass lines all you have to do is to join an online jazz school. Online schools have videos where your instructor takes you through easy steps while teaching you, say, jazz piano bass lines in A Major.

There are free lessons for explanation by a professional pianist. For you to practice jazz piano with ease, the video shows the movement of fingers clearly even as you listen to the instructor and his music. There is a video transcript at the end of the page as an aide memoir. To reach perfection you can repeat the video and practice independently.

Jazz Play Alongs

Jazz music came into its own somewhere in the 1920s though its seed was sown probably in the 1890s. It is likely that its association with the bar led to its decline after a couple of decades. Jazz was revived to its present glory with the advent of the radio. It hasn’t looked back since then. Today jazz play alongs have made the task of learning jazz a breeze. It’s quite simple to get your own personalized jazz play alongs from web sites. You can select your own preference from a rich catalogue of more than 400 tunes in jazz. The tunes are on tracks comprising of piano, drum and bass. You may select your own tracks as per requirement for your play alongs. Thereafter there are more options, select your scale or key, select the tempo or beat and you could even select the duration of the song. Finally, after you are completely satisfied with your jazz play along you could download in either the MP3 format or the MIDI format for under $4 per song!

Jazz midi files are another tool for jazz lovers. Essentially a type of jazz play along, MIDI is the acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface- which is software. Essentially the music is digitally engineered. So if you wish to play jazz music to some fine accompaniment you could download the jazz midi files of your choice from the internet. You must have the necessary software required to be able to change various characteristics including the tempo. So you could select from among “April showers Fmaj. Mid” or “Blue turning gray Bbmaj. Mid” or the tune “My funny valentine vg. Mid.” You could then use the jazz play along as accompaniment to your own music instrument.

Gone are the days when you would need to find a music teacher in town, commute to his school and take expensive lessons. You would also need to commute long distances at odd hours to satisfy your love for jazz music. Today with jazz play alongs like jazz midi files and online accompaniment tracks, learning jazz music has never been easier.