"Joy of Improv" method books

[FatJeff]

Forgot to mention one other thing re: the Hanon part of each lesson. I'm not taking the pattern, playing it in one position, and moving it through the keys. Too easy. I'm actually playing each pattern in 5 positions (Jimmy Bruno 5 Shapes again) throughout the full range of that shape from low to high to low, not necessarily stopping at octaves. I do this for two keys: the written one in the JoI book, and one a 4th up. This is not nearly as easy as what I originally did (in Lessons 1) which was to just play the written pattern in one position and then move it through the cycle of fifths.

See this PDF for an example of Hanon #1 (as written in the actual Hanon piano book, not the JoI book):

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=...MTEwN2Nk&hl=en

[apak]

Wow, thanks for the very helpful reply Jeff!! very much appreciated.

I'm going to take a bit of time to digest it all