Improvisation
Learn how to improvise jazz lines over your favorite jazz standard.
Improvisation Content
91 Courses
604 Lessons
216 Smartsheets
Discover how to play in the style of Ray Charles with this soulful improvised blues arrangement. You'll learn a reharmonized blues with rich left hand chords and expressive riffs.
Learn a punchy and upbeat pop contemporary tune that is tons of fun to play. This song features suspended chords, syncopated bass, key changes, and a big buildup to the final chorus.
Explore the sounds of John Williams, Hans Zimmer, & Danny Elfman in this improvisation based on the Film Improv Course. You'll learn the progression and dozens of exciting melodic riffs.
Get that modern jazz sound in your improvisation using this upper structure run for piano. You can use this triad pair pattern over any dominant 7th chord!
Learn 3 essential blues riffs and licks for piano! You'll learn an easy lick, an intermediate lick, and an advanced lick, as well as left hand blues chords.
Get that modern jazz sound in your improvisation using this upper structure run for piano. You can use this triad pair pattern over any dominant 7th chord!
Learn 3 essential blues licks. You'll learn an easy lick, an intermediate lick, and an advanced lick.
Learn 3 stock primary chords that you can use to jam over just about any tune. We'll explore them over Ode to Joy.
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.
Rootless Voicings
Stride-Ballad Left Hand with Rootless Voicings
Harmonizing the Bass With 10ths, 5ths, & 7ths
Harmonizing the Right Hand with Chord Tones
Adding Extensions & Alterations, Fills, Passing Chords, Flashy Runs, Creating an Intro
Putting It All Together, Practice Tips
Root Position Chords, Stride-Ballad Left Hand with 3-7 Guide Tones
Bass Note & Chord "Money Range", Inverted Chords
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.
Lead Sheet Melody
Soloing Techniques: Easy Approach & Advanced Approach
Lead Sheet Melody
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