In this lesson, we will explore a simple Samba groove that will be effective for working with all kinds of Brazilian Samba and Bossa Nova tunes.
I’m going to cover a few ideas and concepts that will help you think of the piano as an orchestra and think of your solo jazz piano arrangements as an orchestration.
We can always play the last 4 or 8 bars of the tune as an intro. In this lesson, we will explore other ways to create introductions for any tune.
The tune “Emily” is played in many different keys, but we will create this arrangement in the key of G, like several Bill Evans recordings.
Diminished scales and chords are a very important subject. Diminished harmony works as a ‘base’ or a ‘spine’ to all harmonic movement.
This type of passing chord is a dominant chord built a half step up. Dominant chords always have a strong pull to resolve a half step down.
In this series of short and concise tutorials, Hayden shares his knowledge of jazz harmony and tricks and tips when arranging for solo jazz piano.
Written in Eb, Skylark follows a 32 measure A-A-B-A form. We’ll start the tune with some simple voicings, and then add subs and reharms.
This course contains intermediate to advanced level jazz standard arrangements. These arrangements are all for solo jazz piano performance.
In this 6 lesson course, we’ll explore Tonal Harmony & Related Dominants with a unique approach to improvising over the Dominant – Tonic relationship.
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