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240 Lessons
66 Smartsheets
Learn to interpret the lead sheet for "Bésame Mucho" with beautiful jazz piano chords and professional improv techniques.
Learn to interpret the lead sheet for "Bésame Mucho" with beautiful jazz piano chords and professional improv techniques.
Learn how to craft a beautiful solo piano arrangement of Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine" from a lead sheet.
Learn how to craft a beautiful solo piano arrangement of Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine" from a lead sheet.
Explore the harmonic genius behind 5 of Stevie Wonder's biggest hits! Discover what makes these chord progressions sound so good and unique.
Explore the harmonic genius behind 5 of Stevie Wonder's biggest hits! Discover what makes these chord progressions sound so good and unique.
Explore 5 levels of passing chords that you can use to personalize tunes, add variety and increase harmonic expressiveness.
Discover 6 steps to play solo piano with the peaceful and captivating new age compositional style of Windham Hills pianist George Winston.
Discover 6 steps to play solo piano with the peaceful and captivating new age compositional style of Windham Hills pianist George Winston.
Want to be able to play piano by ear? In this lesson, you'll discover ear training exercises to improve your aural skills and 8 steps to learn any tune by ear.
Want to be able to play piano by ear? In this lesson, you'll discover ear training exercises to improve your aural skills and 8 steps to learn any tune by ear.
Learn how to easily create beautiful contemporary folk music on the piano using patterns and characteristics of popular folk artists!
Learn how to easily create beautiful contemporary folk music on the piano using patterns and characteristics of popular folk artists!
Discover the songwriting techniques behind 5 iconic 80s power ballads. Afterward, you'll be able to write your own "ear candy" piano intros.
Discover the songwriting techniques behind 5 iconic 80s power ballads. Afterward, you'll be able to write your own "ear candy" piano intros.
Learn how to draw on modal interchange to create unique chord progressions with borrowed chords. Then, use borrowed chords in reharmonization.
Learn how to draw on modal interchange to create unique chord progressions with borrowed chords. Then, use borrowed chords in reharmonization.
Learn to add the exciting effect of music modulation to virtually any tune, even if a key change is not indicated in the original score.
Learn essential techniques to play Brenda Lee's holiday classic, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," in a jazz piano style.
In this course, we'll be learning a jazz ballad standard - Misty. Going phrase by phrase, we'll explore chord shells, melodic fills, stride rhythms, improv techniques, and more!
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