Here’s a great warm up exercise for jazz piano.
If you did this warm up everyday at the piano in all 12 keys for a month or so your playing will go off the charts!
Your fingering would improve, your understanding of some fairly altered and extended harmony would grow and if you work at playing it with feel, so will your sense of timing and groove.
Here’s the video tutorial on this great jazz piano warm up exercise.
Feel free to tweak it and to make it suit your style or to simply get some other warm up ideas going.
Jazz Piano Warm Up Exercise
Jazz Piano Warm Up in all 12 Keys
Here’s the warm up in the key of C
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