Soloing in Styles – Track 2
Learn advanced soloing and improvisation techniques specific to different styles. This track focuses on soloing techniques for blues, jazz, latin, pop and funk.
Blues Soloing
Learn essential techniques for blues soloing.
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The Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale) 2
Discover the most important piano scale for improvising over any musical style - the Major Blues Scale. We’ll cover left hand accompaniments, right hand embellishments, and we'll explore several advanced techniques for improvising with this scale over various styles.
The 10-Lesson Blues Challenge 2
The most comprehensive course on Blues soloing. Learn essential techniques for generating awesome blues lines, including harmonized 8ths & triplets, slides, turns, rolls, runs, smash licks, and more.
Jazz Soloing
Learn soloing techniques used over common jazz progressions.
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Soloing Over a Turnaround 2
Discover how the pros master soloing in this course by practicing the underlying principles such as: how to target notes, how to connect scales, and how to create rhythmic alterations & displacements.
Extended Turnaround Improv 2
Learn how to improvise jazz piano over the Extended Turnaround Progression. Learn 2 accompaniments, 13 improv techniques & exercises, & line building tips.
Breaking Down a Jazz Solo 2
Master the techniques used by jazz pianists to solo over a minor turnaround progression. Utilizing scale theory, enclosures, triad shifting, and more, Jonny deconstructs his top techniques for soloing.
Jazz Ballad Soloing Challenge
Learn to improvise over a Jazz ballad with Jazz Ballad Soloing Challenge. Working with the Turnaround Progression, we explore scales, lower/upper positions, exercises, chromatic connectors, & more.
Pop Soloing
Explore riffs and techniques common to pop soloing.
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The Love Progression Challenge
Learn the art of improvisation with the Love Progression Challenge. In this challenge, discover techniques like 3rds, 6ths, patterns, & effects to create beautiful improvisations.
Pop Piano Improv Happy Monday
Jam on one of the happiest piano progressions ever! In this course, you'll learn the "Happy Monday" Progression plus how to improvise over it with the pentatonic scale, riffs, and harmonized notes.
Film Improvisation
Explore the sounds of John Williams, Hans Zimmer, & Danny Elfman in the Film Improv course. You'll learn this essential progression used by many film composers, common melodic riffs, and improv tools.
Funk Soloing
Master common soloing approaches for funk.
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Funk & Smooth Jazz Grooves & Licks 2
Master the Funk and Smooth Jazz styles! You'll learn the funk progression, 5 right hand chord options, 4 right hand rhythm options, 6 bass lines, and 6 licks.
Funky Blues Soloing 2
Master the sounds of Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, & Richard Tee, with this funky-blues improv course. Learn left hand grooves, scale for soloing, slides, turns, riffs, & runs.
Funk Improvisation
The most comprehensive Funk improv course! Learn the Funk progression, how to build sweet 4, 5, & 6-note lines, funky riffs, and funk left hand bass accompaniments.
Latin Jazz Soloing
Have fun with Latin Jazz progressions and soloing techniques.
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Latin Jazz Soloing
This in-depth soloing course covers scales, single and double note riffs, octave riffs, and runs. Latin inspired melodies are included as the starting point of improvisations.
Bossa Nova Soloing Challenge
Discover how to solo over Brazilian Bossa Nova. Topics include the Bossa Nova rhythm, left hand accompaniment grooves, soloing scales & exercises, turns, brushes, outlining chords, & enclosures.
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Soloing in Styles
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Learn advanced soloing and improvisation techniques specific to different styles. This track focuses on soloing techniques for blues, jazz, latin, pop and funk.
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