Jazz Ballads

Make it a swingin' Christmas with O Christmas Tree. We'll build a swing arrangement from the lead sheet with techniques like walking bass, block chords, & jazz fills, plus learn how to improvise!

Learn a fun swing arrangement of O Christmas Tree.  Discover how to transform the lead sheet with swing techniques like shells, slides, fills, & tremolos, plus learn to improvise over it.

Learn how to transform a lead sheet into a jazz waltz with the Jazz Waltz Challenge. Learn the chords, rootless voicings, stride-waltz bass, & how to embellish the melody with turns & fills.

Learn to improvise over a Jazz ballad with Jazz Ballad Soloing Challenge. Working with the Turnaround Progression, we explore scales, lower/upper positions, exercises, chromatic connectors, & more.

Jazzify Greensleeves in the spirit of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas Special arrangement.  Learn 2 left hand accompaniments, jazz harmonies, turns, walking bass, & how to improvise a solo.

Section A & B, Chord Voicing Analysis

Section A2, Key Change, Arpeggios

Final B Section, Dynamics, Outro

Lead Sheet Melody & Chords

Left Hand Shells and Rootless Voicings

Harmonize the Melody, Extensions & Inner Movement

Putting the Hands Together

Altered Dominants, Minor 11, and Major 6/9

Block Chords and Drop 2 Voicings

Quartal Voicings

Lead Sheet Melody and Chords

13th Chord Review

Rootless Voicings

Passing Chords, Chord Substitutions, Member Questions

Melody and Basic Chords

The Turnaround Concept