Improvisation
Learn how to improvise jazz lines over your favorite jazz standard.
Improvisation Content
93 Courses
616 Lessons
218 Smartsheets
Left Hand Stride-Ballad
Bass Note & Chord Money Range, Inverted Chords
Right Hand Harmonies & B Section Chords
Putting It All Together, Practice Tips
Soloing Techniques: Scales, How to Create Lines, Principles of Soloing, Lower & Upper Position
Popping Chords, Soloing
Adding 10ths, Impovisation
Anticipations, Inverted Chords, 3/7 Approaches
Root Chords, Quarter Note Patterns
Lead Sheet, Melody and Chords
Explore the Cycle of 5ths Progression in 3 Jazz Styles: Swing, Bossa Nova, & Cocktail Piano. An essential course for comping on tunes like Fly Me to the Moon, Autumn Leaves, & All the Things You Are.
Questions & Conclusion
Rootless Voicings
Swing Groove, Bass Line Tips, Passing Tones
Latin Groove, Syncopation, Both Hands
Ballad Style, Melody, Root-Chord Left Hand
Quartal Voicings, Comping
Improv Techniques, the A Blues Scale
The Progression, Root Position Chords, & Shell Voicings
Stylize the Cycle of 5ths Progression in Swing, Latin Bossa Nova, & Jazz Ballad. An essential course if you want to comp on tunes like Fly Me to the Moon, Autumn Leaves, & All the Things You Are.
Root on Bottom, Chord Spread
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