Chords

This comprehensive course covers diminished & dominant-diminished drop 2 voicings. We’ll learn these voicings with fun exercises, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.

This comprehensive course covers half-diminished drop 2 voicings. We’ll learn these voicings with fun exercises, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.

Samba D Loves Me - Samba

Drop 2 Exercise - Dmin7(b5), Gmin7(b5)

Won 23 - Jazz Waltz

Drop 2 Exercise - Emin7(b5), Amin7(b5)

Block & Catch - Funk Tune

Drop 2 Exercise - F#min7(b5), Bmin7(b5)

Miner Turn Around - Ballad

Drop 2 Exercise - G#min7(b5), C#min7(b5)

Suite 1625 - Swing Tune

Drop 2 Exercise - A#min7(b5), D#min7(b5)

I'm Only Half Diminished - Bossa Nova

Drop 2 Exercise - Cmin7(b5), Fmin7(b5)

Definition & Usage

This comprehensive course covers half-diminished drop 2 voicings. We’ll learn these voicings with fun exercises, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.

Learn how to play jazz melodies in the classy Locked Hands piano style (aka "Block Chords") of Milt Buckner made popular by George Shearing.

Learn how to play jazz melodies in the classy Locked Hands piano style (aka "Block Chords") of Milt Buckner made popular by George Shearing.

Create rich polychordal jazz piano voicings using the minor triad as an upper structure for major, minor, dominant, altered dominant sounds.

Create rich polychordal jazz piano voicings using the minor triad as an upper structure for major, minor, dominant, altered dominant sounds.

Learn to comp and improv on "Giant Steps"…one of the most feared and revered jazz tunes. Then master reharmonization using Coltrane changes.