Lead Sheets
Learn how to play your favorite jazz standards and pop tunes using just the melody and chords from fake books or The Real Book.
Lead Sheets Content
114 Courses
653 Lessons
148 Smartsheets
Lead Sheet & Developing the Harmony
Learn to transform a lead sheet into a jazz swing piano arrangement in 3 steps using the familiar tune "Ode to Joy." Playing from a Fake Book easy as 1-2-3.
Learn how to transform the Ode to Joy lead sheet into a swing arrangement in 3 simple steps.
Learn how to transform the Ode to Joy lead sheet into 3 essential jazz styles, including Swing, Jazz Ballad, & Latin Bossa Nova.
Learn how to transform the Ode to Joy lead sheet into 3 essential jazz styles, including Swing, Jazz Ballad, & Latin Bossa Nova.
Learn 7 blues piano styles, including the Shuffle, Burlesque, Slow Blues, 4-On-The-Floor, Jazzy Blues, Boogie Blues, & Funk Blues.
Learn 7 blues styles, including the Shuffle, Burlesque, Slow Blues, 4-On-The-Floor, Jazzy Blues, Boogie Blues, & Funk Blues.
In this lesson, you'll learn the melody to "The Way You Look Tonight," lead sheet chord shells, cocktail stride left hand, right hand harmonies, and improv.
In this comprehensive course on Minor 7 Chords, you'll learn how to build Minor 7 Chords, the Chord Symbols, all 12 Minor 7 Chords, 4 tunes to practice them with, & the most common Minor 7 progressions.
In this comprehensive course on Minor 7 Chords, you'll learn how to build Minor 7 Chords, the Chord Symbols, all 12 Minor 7 Chords, 4 tunes to practice them with, & the most common Minor 7 progressions.
With Drop Guide Tones, you can easily play jazz standards by moving just one note between chords.
Learn how to play a jazz piano lead sheet in 4 easy steps. You will learn the melody, walking bass line, rootless voicings, and the full arrangement.
Transform a lead sheet into an awesome swing arrangement with this course. Learn essential swing techniques like walking bass lines, harmonizing the melody, adding fills, & soloing.
Transform Fly Me to the Moon into a swingin' arrangement. From a lead sheet, we apply swing ingredients like shells, harmonies, chord pops, & fills. Plus, learn an intro, outro, & how to improvise.
Learn the easiest and fastest approach to transpose chords using the number chart method.
Learn how to quickly and easily transpose any melody using a number chart.
Learn 3 stock primary chords that you can use to jam over just about any tune. We'll explore them over Ode to Joy.
Start comping like a jazz pro! In this lesson, you'll learn how to construct rich piano voicings for jazz piano and how to comp with upper structure triads.
If you want to learn how to comp well and understand jazz harmony, then you need to know how to use guide tones for jazz piano, the 3-7 approach!
In this tutorial, you'll learn 3 nice and easy R&B piano chords, also usable in soul/smooth jazz. As well as a chord progression utilizing major 7th chords!
If you want to get that lush cocktail sound like you'd hear at a classy lounge, then you need to know how to play rootless voicings on a jazz piano ballad.
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