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Contemporary Progressions and Improv 1

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Instructor
Jonny May
Course
Intermediate
00:54:28

Learn 6 of the all-time most beautiful Contemporary progressions. Learn closed & open position left hand accompaniment, how to harmonize the melodies, & how to improvise over each progression.

Course Objectives
  • Learn 6 beautiful Chord Progressions
  • Master the various Left Hand Patterns
  • Understand how to add the Right Hand Melodies
  • Explore how to improvise over each Progression
Learning Focus
  • Basslines
  • Chords
  • Improvisation
Featured Reviews

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Beautiful and not too difficult for a beginner
Lovely selection of beautiful progressions. I enjoyed learning and playing these progressions, which did not seem too difficult to play for me as a beginner. This provided a way to start Improvising that was not too scary!
Really helped my confidence
Thank you for this course which really helped me start to gain confidence in improvisation. My fingers have started to do their own thing without me having to think about each and every note.
Great fun
Easy for beginners like me, I really appreciate those beautiful and pure lines Jonny makes up!
Excellent course
It was a lot of fun. Very interesting. Thank you Jonny May. Beautiful job.
Simple and beautiful music that you can play now.
This puts the professional edge on all the stuff I’d self taught over the years. It’s so great to give some formal backing to all that. Superbly taught as always by Jonny, even though those hands are scarily orange! They look like washing-up gloves. Love it!

Course Lessons

1
Contemporary Progressions and Improv 1 – Lesson 1
11:46

Chords, Left Hand Foundation (Closed and Open Position)

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2
Contemporary Progressions and Improv 1 – Lesson 2
26:25

Progressions 1, 2, and 3

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3
Contemporary Progressions and Improv 1 – Lesson 3
16:17

Progressions 4, 5, and 6

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

Beautiful and not too difficult for a beginner
Lovely selection of beautiful progressions. I enjoyed learning and playing these progressions, which did not seem too difficult to play for me as a beginner. This provided a way to start Improvising that was not too scary!
Really helped my confidence
Thank you for this course which really helped me start to gain confidence in improvisation. My fingers have started to do their own thing without me having to think about each and every note.
Great fun
Easy for beginners like me, I really appreciate those beautiful and pure lines Jonny makes up!
Excellent course
It was a lot of fun. Very interesting. Thank you Jonny May. Beautiful job.
Simple and beautiful music that you can play now.
This puts the professional edge on all the stuff I’d self taught over the years. It’s so great to give some formal backing to all that. Superbly taught as always by Jonny, even though those hands are scarily orange! They look like washing-up gloves. Love it!
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