Jazz Improv Tip: Get the Drummer Involved! (P.2 ft Bijan Taghavi 🎹 & Keith Hall 🥁) #shorts
How to Improvise on a SOLO BREAK #shorts
Take Your Phrasing to The NEXT LEVEL with this Simple Trick! #shorts
Bossa Nova Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW! (Part 2) #shorts
How to Use Thelonious Monk Clusters to Create HIP Phrasing in Your Jazz Improvisation #shorts
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2 SECRETS to Play Fast Runs in Your Jazz Solos (ala Mulgrew Miller & Herbie Hancock) #shorts
How to Create New Sounds in Your Improvisations with Interlocking Polychords #shorts
Jazz Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW! #shorts
Bossa Nova Rhythmic Language You MUST KNOW! #shorts
Jazz Improv Tip: Develop Your Ideas! (P.14) #shorts
Jazz Improv Tip: Get the Drummer Involved! ft Bijan Taghavi 🎹 & Dom Moio 🥁 #shorts
Use This 2-5-1 Substitution in Your Jazz Improvisation! #shorts
Metric Modulation on "Everything Happens to Me" PART 2 (3 to 4) #shorts
Metric Modulation on a Jazz Ballad? #shorts
How Quoting Jazz Standards in Your Solos Can Create Piano+Drums CONNECTIONS 🎹🥁
John Webber Bass Solo Transcription on “Like Someone in Love” 🎻 #shorts
Swing Like Bach: How to Use Contrary Motion in Your Jazz Piano Improvisation! #shorts
How to INSTANTLY Elevate the Music to the Next Level #shorts
The KEY to Establishing the Tempo & Groove for ANY TUNE! 🫰 #shorts
2 Ways to Use Pedal Points #shorts
How to Use Pedal Points in Your Playing (Part 2) #shorts
How to Use Pedal Points in Your Playing (Part 1) #shorts
2 Rhythmic Feels on a Ballad You MUST KNOW! #shorts
Everything Happens to Me Solo Piano Transcription #shorts
1 Year Ago Today: John Webber iconically PLAYED THROUGH THE SNEEZE! #shorts
Do You Know the Original Chord Changes to “Wave”? 🤔 #shorts
How to Orchestrate a Melody for an In-Time Ballad (Solo Piano) #shorts
The SECRET to Creating LH Counterpoint like Bill Evans #shorts
3 Ways to Create Motion in Your Rubato Ballad Playing #shorts
How to Orchestrate a Melody for a Rubato Ballad (Solo Piano) #shorts
How Listening Fuels CREATIVITY 🎹🎻 #shorts
3 Techniques to Create Your Own Jazz Lines! #shorts
Bijan Taghavi 🎹 & Luther Hughes 🎻 play "East of the Sun" #shorts
Do You Agree with Luther Hughes or Bijan Taghavi? 🤔 #shorts
CRAZY Duo Interplay Creates Piano+Bass Connection #shorts
3 Levels of Jazz Bass MASTERY ft Luther Hughes' INSANE Interplay on "Isfahan" #shorts
What is the SECRET to Building Jazz Solos? 6 Ways to Create Tension & Release You MUST KNOW! #shorts
Stride Piano SECRETS on "East of the Sun" #shorts
The SECRET to Orchestrating a Melody on Piano ("East of the Sun") #shorts
Solo Piano Rubato Intro on "East of the Sun" #shorts
East of the Sun Solo Piano Transcription #shorts
BLUES OUT on a 3625 Progression #shorts
MUST KNOW Chord Progression to Create an Intro for ANY Jazz Standard! #shorts
Wave Solo Piano Transcription #shorts
What is Inner Tonal Movement? MUST SEE Solo Piano Technique to Orchestrate a Melody #shorts
The SECRET to Spontaneity in Your Jazz Improvisation #shorts
TASTEFUL Chordal Improvisation on "Wave" #shorts
Bijan Taghavi is one of the most in-demand sidemen of his generation and among the leading voices in jazz piano education. Bijan is currently an Adjunct Professor of Jazz Piano at Hillsdale College and pianist for The Rodney Whitaker Group. He is also a member of Will Lyle’s TrioGram which recorded their debut album in August 2022; together they toured Mexico, Europe and the United States, performing alongside Lewis Nash, Joe LaBarbera and Mark Ferber. As a leader, the Bijan Taghavi Trio toured Japan in December 2018. Bijan also curated a Duo Series at the National Arts Club NYC, which included collaborations with Dick Oatts, Rich Perry and Jay Anderson. Bijan teaches privately online via his unique Video Submission Lessons and is an educator for JazzPianoSchool.com. A recipient of the Presser Foundation Scholarship, Bijan is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and Michigan State University; he has studied with Phil Markowitz, Fred Hersch, Garry Dial and Xavier Davis.