Jazz Ballads
Learn the lush voicings, colorful scales and improvisational techniques behind your favorite jazz ballads.
Jazz Ballads Content
73 Courses
468 Lessons
187 Smartsheets
Song with Dominant "B" Voicings
This comprehensive course covers rootless voicings on dominant 7th 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.
Song with Dominant "B&A" Voicings
Dominant 13 "B" Voicing Exercise
Dominant 13 "A" Voicing Exercise
Song with Dominant "A&B" Voicings
Alternate Dominant 13 "B&A" Voicings
Alternate Dominant 13 "A&B" Voicings
Song with Dominant "A" Voicings
Definition & Positions
This exercise prepares beginner piano students to play jazz standards by mastering 2-5-1 progressions using chord shells in all 12 keys.
This exercise prepares beginner piano students to play jazz standards by mastering 2-5-1 progressions using chord shells in all 12 keys.
In this workshop, we're learning a jazzy arrangement of Silent Night. We'll reharmonize the lead sheet with extensions, add a swing accompaniment pattern, embellish the melody with fills, passing chords, and learn a beautiful intro/outro!
Adding Chord Extensions
Spread Voicings
Passing Chords & Fills
Lead Sheet
Traditional Hymn
Reharmonized Lead Sheet
Accompaniment
Intros and Endings
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