Jazz Hanon: Private Lessons Series: 50 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Jazz Pianist, Includes Backing Tracks (Play-Along)

Jazz Hanon Play-Along by Peter Deneff is a piano instruction book built around 50 focused jazz exercises and a play-along format. Designed as a one-on-one style lesson with Musicians Institute instructor Peter Deneff, the book gives beginning to professional jazz pianists a concentrated collection of material for developing technique, expanding musical vocabulary, and bringing greater variety to regular piano practice.

The 50 exercises explore angular lines, large intervals, pentatonic patterns, blues scales, irregular chromatic melodies, and double-note patterns. Suggested fingerings and practice suggestions accompany the material, giving pianists useful reference points as they work through each musical idea. The Play-Along Edition also includes access to online audio accompaniment tracks, allowing the written exercises to be practiced with supporting musical context rather than only at the keyboard alone.

Instead of centering on isolated theory concepts, Jazz Hanon places recurring technical patterns inside a distinctly jazz-focused setting. Its combination of intervallic movement, pentatonic and blues vocabulary, chromatic ideas, and double-note work provides varied material for building coordination while exploring sounds associated with jazz piano. The accompaniment tracks can add energy and musical context to repeated practice, helping technical work feel connected to playing and musical expression.

This book and online audio edition works well for focused piano learning, personal practice, lesson use, and continued exploration of jazz vocabulary. It is also a thoughtful gift for a pianist interested in jazz technique and play-along practice, combining printed exercises with accompaniment tracks in one practical collection for regular use.