Milan Dvořák - Jazz Piano Etudes 2

Translated Preface: In the preface of the first volume, right at the beginning I made the quite untactical remark, that somebody who isn’t a jazz player will not become one, even when studying all those etudes. That’s not too important for the second volume, since here are more styles/genres. The title was kept because of the first volume, although not everything is really jazz. When ordering them, I tried to have contrasts in style, tempo, genre, such that every etude has something “new“ to offer. I believe, these etudes do not only help to perfection for technique or style of professional/amateur pianists who play jazz, pop music, but also that at least some of them can be used as concert piece. Etude 1: When we mastered this one technically, we try to learn the mechanical tempo without acceleration (positive, negative). All syncopated notes we will accentuate a bit. Etude 2: Keeping the tempo is the main challenge here. Be careful in measure 9 and 10. The left hand should pl