Jazz Ballads
Learn the lush voicings, colorful scales and improvisational techniques behind your favorite jazz ballads.
Jazz Ballads Content
71 Courses
457 Lessons
185 Smartsheets
In this lesson on how to compose a melody, John Proulx employs a simple, 10-Step guide to demonstrate the creative process for writing an original song.
Discover the 10 most important jazz scales that you must to know to improvise over essential jazz chords with a professional jazz sound.
Explore "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)" with a multi-level lens on jazz piano chords and arranging techniques.
Discover how to interpret the lead sheet for "Over the Rainbow" with basic chords as well as advanced jazz piano reharmonization techniques.
Discover 10 of the most recognizable and most requested jazz piano ballads. Explore jazz ballad techniques specific to your playing level.
Learn to interpret the lead sheet for "Bésame Mucho" with beautiful jazz piano chords and professional improv techniques.
Learn to transform the melody and chords for your favorite classical tunes like Beethoven's "Fur Elise" into a jazz piano style.
Learn how to craft a beautiful solo piano arrangement of Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine" from a lead sheet.
There's more to playing standards on piano than single-note melodies. Discover 6 ways to add harmony notes to jazz melodies for a fuller sound.
Discover pro insights on how to dress up Erroll Garner's "Misty" with intermediate and advanced jazz piano concepts and techniques.
Do your improv lines sound aimless? Develop authentic jazz language with bebop scales used by legends like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie!
Discover how to professional jazz pianists use voice leading techniques on piano to approach harmony from a melodic perspective.
Looking to play beautiful jazz piano chords like Bill Evans? Rootless voicings are the sound you're after, and this is your complete guide!
Want to make big gains in the next 12 months? It's all right here—Jonny's Jazz Piano 1-Year Practice Plan, with daily exercises for all levels.
Discover essential jazz ballad performance techniques for crafting a solo piano arrangement of the popular standard "When I Fall In Love."
Learn a beautiful jazz piano arrangement of "O Come All Ye Faithful" ("Adeste Fideles") and jazz arranging tips for other holiday favorites!
Explore essential jazz piano skills and concepts for beginners as you learn how to play "Misty," the timeless jazz ballad by Erroll Garner.
Stretch your piano sound with quintal chords! These voicings use stacks of 5th intervals to create complex colors that are perfect for contemporary jazz, gospel and R&B music.
Take your jazz improv up a notch with double time lines using 16th notes. Explore double time licks for all levels over 2-5-1 progressions.
The essential guide for students of all levels to master playing jazz licks with professional sound…including what makes the pros sound so good!
Discover why "polychords" are so important for jazz and blues piano. This mental framework is the fastest way to play hip piano voicings!
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