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
Learn how to transform a lead sheet into a jazz waltz with the Jazz Waltz Challenge. Learn the chords, rootless voicings, stride-waltz bass, & how to embellish the melody with turns & fills.
Get ready to learn Silent Night in a fun Blues Rhumba Style with slides, tremolos, and rolls. A Rhumba Intro and Outro are included, along with a valuable toolkit of soloing techniques.
3 Beginner, 2 Intermediate, & 5 Advanced Options with Modern Jazz Techniques
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of G Major with the scale, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with an original tune, "Jonny's Lullaby."
Learn the Circular Progression 1, and important "cyclic" progression used in Jazz & Gospel music. Discover the chords, how to add jazz harmony, and improvisation techniques using various scales.
Lead Sheet, Left Hand Groove, Right Hand Melody
Improvising, Blues Scale, 2 Scale Approach, Diminished & Modal Scales
Learn an important cyclic chord progression used in Jazz & Gospel music, Circular Progression 1. Discover the chords, harmonization approaches, 4-On-The-Floor groove, and improv techniques.
The Basic Chords, Harmonizing the Melody, 4-On-The-Floor
Improvisation, the A Blues Scale, Slides, Turns, Triplets, Double Slides
Take the St Louis Blues Challenge, where we'll develop the lead sheet into a blues shuffle arrangement. Learn techniques like shuffle grooves, melodic embellishments, slides, & chord pops.
Lead Sheet Melody & Chords
Beginner & Intermediate Shuffle Grooves
Melodic Embellishments: Slides, Chord Pops, Harmonies, 2-Hand Blues Shuffle
Hands Together
Chris's Blues Melody & Chords, Blues Scale Fills + 3 Left Hand Techniques: Shuffle, Broken 10ths, Bass Walkups
6 More Left Hand Techniques: Easy Stride, 5-1 Stride, 7-1 Stride, 1-7 Stride, Broken 10ths Stride, Big & Bold
Chris's Blues Melody & Chords, & 2 Left Hand Techniques: Four-On-The-Floor, Even 8ths
6 More Left Hand Techniques: Syncopated 8ths, Shuffle, Closed Stride, Closed Stride + Pickups, Open Stride, Open Stride + Pickups
Root Position Chords
The Bossa Nova Groove, Rootless Voicings
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