Accompaniment – Track 2
Learn the principles of accompaniment on piano. This track focuses on various approaches to playing accompaniments for pop, jazz, and blues styles of music.
Pop Accompaniment
Learn accompaniment techniques for Pop music
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Pop & Contemporary Piano Accompaniment Patterns 2
Learn 48 beautiful accompaniment patterns that work almost over any pop or rock song, including 8 essential right hand techniques, 6 left hand techniques, chord positions, and more.
Pop & Contemporary Piano Accompaniment: Popstinatos
Learn how to create driving pop piano accompaniments using the Popstinato technique, including 16 patterns, 5 positions, and various popular progressions.
Pop Piano Accompaniment: The One Chord Wonder
Learn the incredible sus2 chord that will transform your pop and contemporary piano accompaniment. With the One Chord Wonder, your chords will sound gorgeous.
Jazz Accompaniment
Learn accompaniment techniques for Jazz music.
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Cocktail Jazz Piano Accompaniment 2
Master the essential techniques to play cocktail jazz piano accompaniments. You will learn a variety of patterns for both hands to create beautiful textures over the most common jazz progressions.
Jazz Swing Accompaniment 2
Learn 7 techniques to accompany a singer or instrumentalist on a jazz swing tune. We’ll cover the the basic chords, rootless voicings, walking bass lines, quartal voicings, stride, and re-harmonization.
5 Jazz Comping Approaches 2
5 Jazz comping (accompanying) approaches for tunes like Fly Me to the Moon & Autumn Leaves. We explore the chords, comp rhythms, and 5 harmonic approaches.
6 Jazz Ballad Harmonic Approaches 2
6 Jazz Ballad harmonic approaches using chords from Misty. Topics include Rootless Voicings, Altered Dominants, Block Chords, Drop 2s, Quartal Voicings, Passing Chords, & Chord Substitutions.
Jazz Intro and Outro Runs
Learn 6 gorgeous jazz runs up the piano that you can use as intros or outros (endings) for just about any jazz tune. You'll learn the formulas behind these upper structures plus the "setup chord".
The Amazing Turnaround
Learn one of the most important progressions in jazz, the Turnaround Progression (Rhythm Changes). Explore different chord voicings, bass lines, the outer-inner technique, and how to improvise.
The Incredible Minor Turnaround
In this workshop, we'll learn about the incredible minor turnaround. We'll look at songs that use this essential jazz progression, talk about various voicing approaches, and explore comping rhythms. We’ll also discuss how to add reharmonization and how to solo to get a professional sound.
Blues Accompaniment
Learn accompaniment techniques for Blues music.
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Slow Blues Left Hand Accompaniment 2
A total of 8 must-know left hand patterns to take your slow blues playing to the next level. With the shuffle, stride, bass walk-ups & broken 10ths, you'll have all the tools you need to jam with the pros.
Rockin Blues Bass Lines 2
Learn 12 must-know blues bass lines techniques to rock out on any blues tune. We dive into walking bass, jazzy-blues, 4-on-the-floor, stride blues, jump blues & more.
Jazzy Blues Comping 2
Discover how to comp with walking bass lines, shells chords, and crunchy rootless voicings. After this course, you'll be able to confidently accompany other musicians on tunes like Route 66!
10 Essential Jazz & Blues Piano Endings 2
Learn 10 essential jazz & blues piano outros and endings for intermediate & advanced players that you can use on just about any lead sheet or fake book song.
Song Accompaniment
Learn accompaniment techniques for specific songs
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The Girl From Ipanema – Accompaniment
In this course, you will learn how to create a beautiful bossa nova accompaniment to "The Girl From Ipanema." Jonny teaches the A section of the song for all playing levels, progressively adding more syncopated rhythms to the accompaniment. Yannick explores the B section of the song and expands on the groove and musical concepts involved.
Silent Night – Bossa Accompaniment 2
Create a relaxing atmosphere with this beautiful Bossa Nova accompaniment of the classic Christmas tune Silent Night. With jazzy chord voicings and the Bossa rhythm, you'll never hear it the same way again.
O Holy Night – Contemporary Piano 2
Learn an advanced contemporary arrangement of O Holy Night. Starting with the lead sheet, we'll learn the melody & chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other advanced contemporary techniques.
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Accompaniment
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Learn the principles of accompaniment on piano. This track focuses on various approaches to playing accompaniments for pop, jazz, and blues styles of music.
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Learn the principles of accompaniment on piano. This track focuses on various approaches to playing accompaniments for pop, jazz, and blues styles of music.
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