Jazz Ballads

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Learn to play Happy Birthday in a Cocktail Jazz piano style. You'll learn how to add beautiful jazz harmony, color chords, use chord extensions, & more.

Learn Happy Birthday in a Cocktail Jazz piano style.

Learn to play 5 amazing jazz piano scales for improv on dominant 7 chords, including Mixolydian, Dominant Diminished, and Altered Scales.

Learn to play 5 amazing jazz piano scales for improv on dominant 7 chords, including Mixolydian, Dominant Diminished, and Altered Scales.

Learn how to play Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas lead sheet in a Jazz Ballad or Cocktail Jazz piano style using 8 essential improv techniques.

Learn 4 note voicings over the major and minor 251 patterns in 2 positions. This sheet applies drop 2 and quartal harmony with common jazz extensions on all 12 keys.

Learn how to play rootless voicings in the A and B position for each chord type, along with 2 essential exercises using the 2-5-1 progression.

Learn 2 jazz piano intro runs that work on any lead sheet, including Cocktail Jazz, Jazz Swing, Latin Jazz, Blues, Bossa Nova, Samba, and Jazz Ballads.

Learn 2 essential runs that you can use on any jazz tune. You'll learn 2 stock runs, the Cocktail Jazz Run and the Blues Run.

Learn 3 exercises to master Cocktail Jazz Piano over the Turnaround Progression using Major Blues Scale (Gospel Scale), 8ths, triplets, and slides.

Learn 3 essential exercises to master Cocktail Jazz Piano over the Turnaround Progression. We explore shells, rootless voicings, the Major Blues Scale (gospel scale), 8th notes, triplets, and slides.

Learn modern jazz piano chords using Minor 11 Parallel Quartals, an essential technique to improvise modern jazz. We'll harmonize with the C Dorian scale.

Learn Minor 11 Parallel Quartals, an essential technique if you want to improvise modern jazz.

Learn how to transform the Ode to Joy lead sheet into 3 essential jazz styles, including Swing, Jazz Ballad, & Latin Bossa Nova.

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Latin Bossa Nova - Ode to Joy

Jazz Swing - Ode to Joy

Lead Sheet & Developing the Harmony

Jazz Ballad - Ode to Joy

Learn how to transform the Ode to Joy lead sheet into 3 essential jazz styles, including Swing, Jazz Ballad, & Latin Bossa Nova.