If you’re new to the blues, start here! You will learn the 12 bar blues form, basic voicings, how to count the slow blues, filling in space, and improvisation drills and exercises.
Learn the tune “Georgia On My Mind” in the soulful style of Ray Charles, starting with the most basic arrangement techniques and gradually increasing the complexity.
A selection of well-known festive arrangements. Share these jazzy Christmas tunes with your friends and family over the holiday season.
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.
Learn how to play and improvise in the cocktail piano style. We cover chord voicings, chord progressions, and improvisation techniques for solo jazz piano.
Explore the history and development of New Orleans Piano with Grammy winner Jon Cleary. We cover 12/8 Grooves, Rhumba & Habanera Grooves, Blues, & Funk styles.
If you’re looking at this course, there’s a good chance it’s because you’ve heard boogie-woogie, and it immediately lit up something inside you. Welcome.
Learn the groove of authentic Brazilian Samba & Bossa Nova piano. Taught by 3–time Latin Grammy nominee and master pianist Jovino Santos Neto.
This course covers walking bass, blues and gospel inspired jazz standards. We introduce the major blues scale to add soulful licks to your 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.
Jazz piano comping and improvisation studies on the most famous jazz standards. Learn techniques for comping and improv on standards, blues, and modal tunes.
In this course we explore gospel chord progressions, hymns, time signatures, introductions, leading tones, holy shout music, and vocal accompaniment.
This course contains intermediate to advanced level jazz standard arrangements. These arrangements are all for solo jazz piano performance.
