Jazz Harmony Masterclasses
Learn advanced jazz piano harmony with one of NYCs finest jazz piano players. Tuomo shares his insight on chords, scales, progressions, & improvisation.
Summary Information:
One-time purchase - learn at your own pace, with unlimited access to this course.
- Difficulty: Advanced
- View Online with Lifetime Access
- Video Slow Down Controls
- A/B Loop
- Theory Lessons
- Performances & Arrangements
- 18 PDF Files & Lesson Supplements
Jazz Harmony Masterclasses
Learn advanced jazz piano harmony with one of NYCs finest jazz piano players. Tuomo shares his insight on chords, scales, progressions, & improvisation.
Learn advanced jazz piano harmony with Tuomo Uusitalo. This course covers walking bass lines, advanced voicings, reharmonisations, and comping rhythms.
You can use the specific bassline demonstrated for playing solo piano, learning different blues heads, and for practising improvised solos.
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 So What chord voicing contains all 5 notes of the pentatonic scale. That’s why it works so well in so many different harmonic situations.
For this masterclass, we will be using closed position voicings, meaning that the notes of the chord are inside a single octave.
Coltrane changes, also known as the 'Major Third Tonic relationship' is a harmonic movement where instead of one tonic center, we have 3.
In jazz, Rhythm Changes is a common form. It's very popular in jam sessions and a crucial part of everyone’s piano repertoire.
The secondary dominant, or 5 of 5, is one of the fundamental extensions of the basic 2-5-1 progression in jazz harmony.
In this lesson, Tuomo shows us 3 common reharmonisations of a 251 progression that we can play in our jazz standard arrangements.
You can use this bass line or any bass line for playing solo piano, learning different rhythm changes heads, and for practicing solos.
In this masterclass we’re going create a walking bass line over the tune "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise". Download the PDF bass line file.
In this masterclass we’re going to create a bass line over the song Take The A Train, by Billy Strayhorn.
We discuss blues in jazz, looking at the jazz blues, 8 & 16 bar blues, the blues with a bridge, the Parker blues, and the minor blues.
In this short masterclass I’m going to show 3 simple ideas for comping over a major 251 that you can practice, modify and add to your own playing.
In this short masterclass I’m going to show 3 simple ideas for comping over a minor 251 that you can practice, modify and add to your own playing.
We dig deeper into Barry Harris voicings. If you're not familiar with the subject, check out the other lessons on Barry Harris voicings.
In this lesson we explore how to create introductions for tunes and jazz standards written in minor keys.
In this 5-minute masterclass we talk about the 4 minor chord and its role in jazz harmony, as well as classical and pop music.
You might also like
Learn how to play and improvise in the cocktail piano style. We cover chord voicings, chord progressions, and improvisation techniques for solo jazz piano.
Expand your jazz repertoire with these simple but beautiful arrangements of the most famous and well-known jazz standards.
This course contains intermediate to advanced level jazz standard arrangements. These arrangements are all for solo jazz piano performance.
