Take our most comprehensive course on Cocktail Jazz. Discover how to develop a lead sheet, stylize the left hand, harmonize the right hand, add fills, & improvise.
Course Objectives
Learn the Lead Sheet Melody & Chords
Explore the Stride-Ballad Left Hand
Discover the Bass & Chord "Money Ranges" & Inverted Chords
Learn How to Harmonize the Right Hand
Discover How to Solo in the Upper & Lower Positions
Learning Focus
Improvisation
Lead Sheets
Reharmonization
Songs
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Wow, after 60+ years it all makes sense
Thank you Jonny. Finally some things have fallen into place and I feel like I’m well on my way to being able to improvise confidently. The way the shells and stride style LH were explained made perfect sense. I’ve been applying what I’ve learnt to quite a few different lead sheets and it works. I know I have a very long way to go but I feel like I’ve started properly now.
Outstanding and Comprehensive. Awesome course.
I want to thank you so much for adding this course, the Jazz Ballad challenge. It's the reason I joined pianowithjonny.com. I started with the free version, and realized how much it could contribute to my playing. I felt that here was a comprehensive and integrated introduction to jazz playing, wrapped in an interesting ballad arrangement.
A Journey Into Cocktail Jazz - Sinatra Would Be Proud
I am so jazzed by this course (pun intended)! I learned so many useful techniques in this course from using Inverted 7th Chords, to left hand Shell Chords and above all an introduction to Stride Piano. I have always been a fan of this Cocktail Piano approach to playing piano. I feel like I could back up Ol' Blue Eyes himself! Great course!! So many useful insider tips for arranging a tune in the Jazz Ballad style. I could go on, but I won't. Thank you, Jonny. I am so glad that I tried PWJ!! One of these days I hope to find the time to share a performance video. Until then, I still have quite a bit of practicing to do to fully master this course!! I am so thankful for your courses!!
Excellent course.
Beautiful content, great material. Thank you very much for the explanation. Amazing style of teaching. Thank you very much Jonny May.
Simple, beautiful, fun
Thank you PWJ for breaking this style down into learnable steps! The song was beautiful and simple and will be a great foundation for me to build on.
Thank you Jonny. Finally some things have fallen into place and I feel like I’m well on my way to being able to improvise confidently. The way the shells and stride style LH were explained made perfect sense. I’ve been applying what I’ve learnt to quite a few different lead sheets and it works. I know I have a very long way to go but I feel like I’ve started properly now.
Outstanding and Comprehensive. Awesome course.
I want to thank you so much for adding this course, the Jazz Ballad challenge. It's the reason I joined pianowithjonny.com. I started with the free version, and realized how much it could contribute to my playing. I felt that here was a comprehensive and integrated introduction to jazz playing, wrapped in an interesting ballad arrangement.
A Journey Into Cocktail Jazz - Sinatra Would Be Proud
I am so jazzed by this course (pun intended)! I learned so many useful techniques in this course from using Inverted 7th Chords, to left hand Shell Chords and above all an introduction to Stride Piano. I have always been a fan of this Cocktail Piano approach to playing piano. I feel like I could back up Ol' Blue Eyes himself! Great course!! So many useful insider tips for arranging a tune in the Jazz Ballad style. I could go on, but I won't. Thank you, Jonny. I am so glad that I tried PWJ!! One of these days I hope to find the time to share a performance video. Until then, I still have quite a bit of practicing to do to fully master this course!! I am so thankful for your courses!!
Excellent course.
Beautiful content, great material. Thank you very much for the explanation. Amazing style of teaching. Thank you very much Jonny May.
Simple, beautiful, fun
Thank you PWJ for breaking this style down into learnable steps! The song was beautiful and simple and will be a great foundation for me to build on.
The complete course on how to create a gorgeous cocktail jazz ballad. You’ll learn Stride-Ballad Left Hand techniques, rootless voicings, and right hand embellishment with extensions, fills, runs, and more.
Discover 6 approaches for harmonizing a Jazz Ballad. Working through the chord progression for Misty, we discuss how to add beautiful extensions to create that classic jazz sound.
Learn to improvise over a Jazz ballad with Jazz Ballad Soloing Challenge. Working with the Turnaround Progression, we explore scales, lower/upper positions, exercises, chromatic connectors, & more.
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Lessons are combined into courses. Most lessons build upon concepts of the previous lesson, with the exception of Quick Tips which stand alone.
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