Fundamentals
Learn fundamental piano techniques and exercises to improve your playing.
Fundamentals Content
115 Courses
829 Lessons
209 Smartsheets
Cm7(b5), Fm7(b5)
"Suite 1625" (Swing)
"I'm Only Half Diminished" (Bossa)
G#m7(b5), C#m7(b5)
F#m7(b5), Bm7(b5)
A#m7(b5), D#m7(b5)
"Miner Turn Around" (Ballad)
Definition & Positions
This comprehensive course covers half-diminished block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.
Learn to improvise with the exotic Phrygian Dominant Scale, the most hauntingly beautiful jazz scale. Discover its origin and how it's used.
Learn to improvise with the exotic Phrygian Dominant Scale, the most hauntingly beautiful jazz scale. Discover it's origin and how it's used.
This comprehensive course covers dominant block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.
Block Chord Exercise (Ab, Db, Gb)
"Locked Out" (Funk)
"Dominant Dominic" (Swing)
Block Chord Exercise (F, Bb, Eb)
Definition & Positions
Block Chord Exercise (D, G, C)
"Blocked, Not Broken" (Ballad)
Block Chord Exercise (B, E, A)
"Right-Hand Dominant" (Bossa)
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