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Hi I'm Austin McBride here on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you how to imitate
a jazz trio playing on the piano by yourself. So in a jazz trio, you have three elements.
Typically, jazz drums, jazz piano, and jazz trumpet. There's obviously different variations
of this, saxophone, whatever, there's tons of different instruments that could be used
in this scenario, however, when playing it strictly on the piano by yourself, it is easiest
for me, I found, to start off with the bass line. So think of yourself as a bassist at
the beginning.
We're just in the basic C jazz key here. So we'll just pick it up with the bass line,
and when you're going with it and you feel comfortable, throw in something that might
be classified as a, perhaps the piano or perhaps a trumpet, a line that's going to be in a
higher pitch, a higher register, and that way you can imitate something someone else's
doing.
And if you're feeling especially loose and musically inclined, I suppose you could attempt
to beat box with your mouth and then you would have the drums and you'd be a complete one
man jazz band. And that's how
you imitate a jazz trio here on the piano by yourself.