Scales
Learn the essential scales that form the foundation of all music, and some colorful scales you can use for soloing.
Scales Content
51 Courses
338 Lessons
101 Smartsheets
Discover the 10 most important jazz scales that you must to know to improvise over essential jazz chords with a professional jazz sound.
Discover the 10 most important jazz scales that you must to know to improvise over essential jazz chords with a professional jazz sound.
Improvising with different types of scales can help you create multiple new melodic ideas for your solos…here's a blueprint for how to do it.
Improvising with different types of scales can help you create multiple new melodic ideas for your solos…here's a blueprint for how to do it.
Discover, learn and apply ten classic Oscar Peterson licks that are accessible to jazz piano students of all playing levels.
Confused about piano scale fingerings? This lesson will help you comprehend the logic behind piano scale fingerings once and for all.
Confused about piano scale fingerings? This lesson will help you comprehend the logic behind piano scale fingerings once and for all.
Learn to solo on piano with the ultimate scale for minor chords—the Dorian Scale. Discover when to use this scale and how to sound like a pro!
Learn to solo on piano with the ultimate scale for minor chords—the Dorian Scale. Discover when to use this scale and how to sound like a pro!
Do your improv lines sound aimless? Develop authentic jazz language with bebop scales used by legends like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie!
Do your improv lines sound aimless? Develop authentic jazz language with bebop scales used by legends like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie!
Discover how a major scale exercise that's rooted in a jazz piano musical context can empower your playing beyond traditional scale drills.
Learn how to use the Lydian Augmented Scale and Major 7(#5) Chords to create intriguing improv lines and surprising chord substitutions.
Learn how to use the Lydian Augmented Scale and Major 7(#5) Chords to create intriguing improv lines and surprising chord substitutions.
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of Bb Minor with the scales, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with "Funky Time."
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of Bb Minor with the scales, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with "Funky Time."
Song - Funky Time!
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