Jazz Ballads

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!

Hone your intuitive sense of swing in this dedicated lesson on jazz articulation with ghost notes. Includes tips for bass, melody and harmony.

Play minor 2-5-1 progressions in 5 levels—from beginner to pro. These voicings are perfect for minor tunes like "Summertime" and "Beautiful Love."

Learn how to play jazz melodies in the classy Locked Hands piano style (aka "Block Chords") of Milt Buckner made popular by George Shearing.

Create rich polychordal jazz piano voicings using the minor triad as an upper structure for major, minor, dominant, altered dominant sounds.

Learn to comp and improv on "Giant Steps"…one of the most feared and revered jazz tunes. Then master reharmonization using Coltrane changes.

An essential guide for understanding and mastering various two-hand voicings techniques used by jazz pianists when comping in an ensemble.

Looking to reach some new milestones in your jazz improv? Take some giant steps with these 3 jazz exercises to practice every day!

You've heard of drop 2 chords, but what about lift 2 chords? If you want your playing to sound priceless, then invest in "The Gold Chord Voicing."

Learn the ultimate piano chord hack that professional jazz pianists use to navigate complex jazz harmonies with ease—upper structure triads!

This exercise prepares beginner piano students to play jazz standards by mastering 2-5-1 progressions using chord shells in all 12 keys.