This course covers walking bass, blues and gospel inspired jazz standards. We introduce the major blues scale to add soulful licks to your arrangements.
Master the foundational principles of jazz piano including major and minor scales, intervals, triads, 7th chords, spread voicings, and the mighty 251 progression.
Extended chords are one of the hallmarks of jazz piano. We explore the most useful extended chord voicings and how to get comfortable with them in all 12 keys.
In this course we explore a range of voicings for major, minor and dominant chords. This will help you build full, solo piano arrangements.
This course explores the altered chord tones: b9s, #9s, #11s, and #5s / b13s. We then create upper structure triads and apply to 4 famous jazz standards.
Introductions are used to set the mood of a performance. We explore the theory and formulas and create killer intros for a number of jazz standards.
You should now be familiar with the form, the melody and the chord changes. We will now explore the stylistic aspects of how the tune is commonly played.
We start by playing through the form with left hand voicings and then create some bigger 2 handed voicings for the 2nd time through.
The Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist – Joao Gilberto – created a Bossa Nova interpretation of Estaté which made the song famous worldwide.
We start this lesson by applying a stride style in the left hand with some bluesy licks and riffs in the right hand.
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