In this beginner focused seminar we’ll explore useful techniques for runs, fills, and melodic embellishment and ornamentations.
Learn to incorporate ‘tension and release’ in your improvised melodic vocabulary. We’ll explore the stability of chord tones and how to anticipate chord changes with enclosures and approach patterns.
Discover the beautiful tune “It Could Happen To You”. We’ll explore harmonic analysis, spread voicings, reharmonizations, melodic embellishment, & playing at fast tempos.
In this lesson we explore improvisation principles and techniques over the B section of the jazz standard “The Nearness Of You”.
Learn essential fingering techniques for our beginner jazz standards: My Foolish Heart, My Funny Valentine, Misty, Autumn Leaves, and Moon River.
Learn how to access the course index pages, use the jazz standard index, and search for specific topics or your favourite jazz standards.
Explore bebop enclosures and approach patterns with practical tips to improve your jazz vocabulary, phrasing, and improvisation skills.
We use simple jazz harmonisation techniques before introducing more advanced chord voicings, embellishments, and arranging concepts.
We’ll focus on setting goals, defining what success looks like, and creating practice plans that are both effective and enjoyable.
A beginner-focused session on essential left hand ballad techniques. We explore shell voicings, stride movements, and how to ‘roll’ chords with the sustain pedal.
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