Learn the essential building blocks of Jazz harmony with chord shells and guide tones. Master these voicings with exercises for major, dominant, and minor 7th chords in all 12 keys to build your foundation for advanced jazz harmony.
Course Objectives
Learn the construction of Chord Shells and Guide Tones
Understand Common Chord Shell Voicings
Play Major 7, Dominant 7, and Minor 7 chords with Shells in 2 Positions
Master the 2-5-1 Progression with Shell Voicings in 12 Keys
Learning Focus
Accompanying
Chords
Exercises
Lead Sheets
Technique
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the chords shells were explained very well and playing them in all keys was done well also thanks
Learning the chord shells then the with the inversions as well and the 2 - 5 -1 in
all the keys and doing it with the backing track and showing examples of how
to use the chord shells in making a jazz solo was very interesting and you were
a big enouragement as well thanks for that as well
Totally worth it!
Having gone through multiple times, I can really see this course paying off in a big way. Thanks for your patient instruction.
Challenging yet rewarding!
After years of performing and writing, I am finally filling in some major holes in my learning. It’s like being a lifelong artist and being shown the color wheel for the first time.
Essential
I finally slowed myself down enough to understand how to make this course creative! I know that this is absolutely essential to making real progress. I am really starting to feel like I am getting somewhere!
Difficult
I understand how important this process is but I still find it to be difficult! This is why I subscribe to Piano with Jonny, I know I need to learn this!
the chords shells were explained very well and playing them in all keys was done well also thanks
Learning the chord shells then the with the inversions as well and the 2 - 5 -1 in
all the keys and doing it with the backing track and showing examples of how
to use the chord shells in making a jazz solo was very interesting and you were
a big enouragement as well thanks for that as well
Totally worth it!
Having gone through multiple times, I can really see this course paying off in a big way. Thanks for your patient instruction.
Challenging yet rewarding!
After years of performing and writing, I am finally filling in some major holes in my learning. It’s like being a lifelong artist and being shown the color wheel for the first time.
Essential
I finally slowed myself down enough to understand how to make this course creative! I know that this is absolutely essential to making real progress. I am really starting to feel like I am getting somewhere!
Difficult
I understand how important this process is but I still find it to be difficult! This is why I subscribe to Piano with Jonny, I know I need to learn this!
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