Improvisation
Learn how to improvise jazz lines over your favorite jazz standard.
Improvisation Content
99 Courses
653 Lessons
228 Smartsheets
Learn 3 exercises to master slow blues piano improv, inluding 8th note, triplet, and slide exercises over the minor blues walkdown progression.
Learn how to play Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas lead sheet in a Jazz Ballad or Cocktail Jazz piano style using 8 essential improv techniques.
Learn to improvise over the Extended Turnaround Progression, including 2 left hand accompaniments, 12 right hand soloing techniques, 12 improv exercises, and the 3 Line Building Principles.
Learn how to improvise over the Extended Turnaround Progression, including 3 left hand accompaniments, 4 right hand soloing techniques, and 6 exercises to master improv.
Learn to play Jingle Bells in a jazz swing piano style, including how to color your chords with extensions & alterations, how to swing your melody, & more.
Learn to play Jingle Bells in a jazz swing piano style, including how to color your chords with extensions & alterations, how to swing your melody, & more.
Learn how to play It Came Upon a Midnight Clear in a jazz waltz style. Explore chord shells, right hand harmony, slides, fills, & turns, and exercises for soloing.
Soloing and connecting scales
Right hand embellishments: harmony, slides, pops, fill, turns, rolls
Melody, Chords, Harmonic Functions
Left Hand Rootless Voicings Explained
Learn how to play It Came Upon a Midnight Clear in a jazz waltz piano style. We'll cover chord shells, right hand harmony, slides, fills, & turns, 3 exercises for soloing.
Soloing, the Gospel Scale, 3 exercises
Right hand embellishments - 3/7 harmony, slides, fills, turns
Left hand chord shells
Lead sheet melody and chords
Learn how to improvise jazz piano with in 6 steps. You'll learn the Turnaround Progression, Mixo-Blues scale, & 3 exercises to master jazz improv.
Learn 3 exercises to master jazz piano improv using the Turnaround Progression and the Mixo-Blues scale. We'll cover 8th notes, triplets, and slides.
Learn 2 jazz piano intro runs that work on any lead sheet, including Cocktail Jazz, Jazz Swing, Latin Jazz, Blues, Bossa Nova, Samba, and Jazz Ballads.
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