Piano – Page 6 – You'll Hear It

Autumn Leaves (part 1) – Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

In this 2 Minute Jazz video, Peter Martin explains his approach to building voicings around a melody using the standard “Autumn Leaves”.

Open Studio May 2, 2017

Three Sick/Sweet Substitutions over a 2-5-1 – Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

In this 2-Minute Jazz video, Peter Martin demonstrates a few sweet and sick substitutions over a 2-5-1 chord progression.

Open Studio April 28, 2017

How to Play Jazz With One Easy Scale – Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

In this 2-Minute Jazz video, Peter Martin demonstrates his technique for applying one blues scale over multiple chords.

Open Studio April 24, 2017

Rhythm Section Fundamentals – Slow Blues (excerpt)

Peter Martin (piano), Reuben Rogers (bass), and Gregory Hutchinson (drums) go deep in a blues at a difficult tempo.

Adam Maness April 6, 2017

The Most Useful Scale in Jazz – Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

In this 2-Minute Jazz video, Peter Martin demonstrates the half/whole diminished scale.

Peter Martin March 27, 2017

Using Pentatonic Scales in Jazz – Peter Martin | 2-Minute Jazz

In this 2-Minute Jazz video, Peter Martin demonstrates a few ways to use pentatonic scales in jazz.

Open Studio March 27, 2017

5-Note Voicings

Last year I challenged myself to get rid of all of the concepts in my playing that I didn’t really care for but had been playing out of habit. This became a much larger task than I had anticipated. One of the first things to go was a handful of crappy voicings that I always seemed to default to for no good reason. This left a bit of a whole in my voicing arsenal. I started to scramble for voicing ideas that might seem useful.

Adam Maness February 20, 2017