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Bill Rinehart

Bill Rinehart did undergraduate work at the Berklee College of Music and holds the M.Mus. degree in Jazz Studies from the Boston Conservatory/Berklee College of Music where he studied with Ray Santisi, Joanne Brackeen and Charlie Banacos. Bill has played extensively around the Boston area for the better part of the last two decades appearing everywhere from the legendary Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge MA to a long stand at the Hampshire House on Beacon Hill in Boston.

Bill now spends his time running JazzPianoOnline.com, an on- demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. Each transcription-based lesson features a birds-eye view of the piano keyboard synchronized to animated and annotated music notation. Choose from an ever-growing collection of over 70 lessons on Jazz Theory & Composition, Improvisation & Licks, Chords & Voicings and Arranging, Styles & More. Each lesson includes downloadable PDF practice sessions with self-paced exercises and tunes for you to play with the accompanying custom play-along files provided in MIDI, Band-in-a-Box and GarageBand formats.

Gear

yamaha DC-3


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Education

New on jazzpianoonline.com: Chordscales of Major II-V-I Progressions

New on jazzpianoonline.com: Chordscales of Major II-V-I Progressions

Source: Michael Ricci

Chordscales are an essential component of improvisation and major ii-V-I progressions make up most of the chords to any given standard tune. Together, these two elements constitute the bulk of what jazz improvisation is about. In this lesson, watch as the chordscales for major ii-V-I progressions are derived and then see how they are used by Miles Davis in his improvised solo over the tune It's Only A Paper Moon from his 1951 Prestige release, Dig. JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, ...

Primary Instrument

Piano

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Alumnus, Jazz Piano Performance, Berklee College of Music M.Mus., Jazz Studies-Pedagogy, Berklee College of Music/Boston Conservatory Please see my website for more details on studying with me.

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