Explore bebop enclosures and approach patterns with practical tips to improve your jazz vocabulary, phrasing, and improvisation skills.
Discover how to start jazz improvisation the right way! You’ll learn how to use chord tones, scales, and blues concepts to craft expressive jazz solos.
We discuss and explore the foundations of improvisation. What is improvisation? What are the universal elements of improvisation throughout the history of music? How to get started?
"Georgia on My Mind" – Jazz Piano Improvisation Welcome to this lesson on jazz improvisation using "Georgia on My Mind" as our study piece. In this session, we explore the essential techniques for crafting a rich and expressive solo over this jazz standard. We cover major and minor blues scales, chord tone arpeggios, grace notes, […]
Learn to improvise over common progressions using major and minor 6th voicings. 6th chords can be applied over any chord progression, thus very helpful in improvisation.
An interactive Zoom workshop on jazz piano improvisation. Tuomo explains ways to transform random notes into cohesive and thematic improvised solos.
Learn how to use our new Licks & Lines Library to build your improvised vocabulary and apply it to any tunes that you are working on.
In this workshop we study melody, harmony, and improvisation over the jazz standard “Tune Up” as well as listening to different notable versions of the tune.
In tandem with the launch of the “Cocktail Piano Improv Course”, Hayden hosts a workshop to help students get started with cocktail style improvisation over their favourite jazz ballads.
We start with some improvisation tips and principles over common progressions and then explore improvisation over a handful of popular Broadway and Brazilian tunes.
Explore improvisation over Beautiful Love with a focus on minor ii-V-I progressions. We’ll develop melodic ideas, target chord tones, and create flowing improvised lines.
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.
Build stronger melodic ideas and improvisational phrasing. Learn how to shape your improvisations with jazz language and motivic development.
Learn Charlie Parker’s iconic ‘Billie’s Bounce’. Discover how to interpret the melody, voicings for comping, and different options for improvisation and soloing.
Discover altered scale motifs, licks, and practical ways to weave altered scale runs into your jazz standard arrangements and improvisations.
Learn how to use diminished scale runs and fills in your solos. We cover fingerings, patterns, and slick ways to connect diminished runs in your improvisations.
Develop jazz improvisation skills by working with melodies and transposing ideas. Unlock your ability to solo over any tune.
Learn voicings, phrasing, and soulful improvisation techniques to enhance your blues playing – perfect for pianists who want to master the feel of slow blues.
A discussion on how to strike the right balance between keeping things simple and introducing complexity in improvisation, arrangements, and comping.
Take a deep dive into this classic tune. We explore the unusual form, chord voicings, reharmonisations, and improv tips and principles.
Take a deep dive into the tune “Pennies From Heaven” using the iconic Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson recording.
In tandem with our new course launch, we explore stride piano technique, chord voicings, fills, and improvisation for the jazz ballad “The Nearness Of You”.
In this lesson we explore the tune “My Funny Valentine”. We analyse the harmony and voicing options and discuss some simple but effective improvisation techniques.
In this seminar Jovino provides guidance and techniques for arranging and improvising over the festive tunes in PianoGroove’s Jazzy Xmas Song course.
A workshop dedicated to half diminished (-7b5) and diminished chords. We explore voicing options and techniques for improvisation and soloing.
If you’re new to improvisation this seminar is for you. Jovino explains concepts and principles that will help you to develop your ability with spontaneous improvisation.
In this live seminar Jovino explains how we can envisage musical trails to develop intuitive and logical pathways when improvising over tunes and chord progressions.
In this live seminar Jovino explains the use of triads as the principle source of melodic development. This concept was taught to Jovino by his mentor Hermeto Pascoal; one of Brazil’s greatest musical minds.
In this live seminar we explore how to harness our ability as spontaneous improvisers. We discuss communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.
