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
Stuck with playing root position chords in the left hand? Level up your accompaniment voicings on the piano using easy shell chords on a jazz ballad!
Exploring the chords from Misty, learn 2 approaches to harmonize a jazz ballad: Block Chords and Drop 2 Voicings.
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of Eb Major with the scale, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with a fun Boogie song.
Get that classic jazz sound with this essential Block Chord riff that works as an intro or outro for any swing tune.
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.
Learn how to comp over the Cycle of 5ths Progression using the Guide Tone, or 3-7 approach.
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.
Stuck with playing root position chords in the left hand? Level up your accompaniment voicings on the piano using easy shell chords on a jazz ballad!
Harmonize the chord progression from Misty with beautiful inverted 9th chords.
Harmonize the chord progression from Misty with beautiful inverted 9th chords.
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.
Root Position Chords, Stride-Ballad Left Hand with 3-7 Guide Tones
Bass Note & Chord "Money Range", Inverted Chords
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
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