Jazz Swing
Learn how to play jazz tunes in a swing style. In these courses we'll show you how to walk bass lines, voice chords and improvise over classic swing tunes.
Jazz Swing Content
112 Courses
665 Lessons
248 Smartsheets
This month we celebrate the contributions of Herbie Hancock to jazz as a living art form with inspiring quotes, must-see performances and more!
Discover how to improvise jazz piano with the half-whole diminished scale (or "dominant diminished"), including scale exercises in all 12 keys.
Everything you need to know about reharmonization—what it is, how to do it, modern techniques, examples, exercises, charts and more!
Everything you need to know about reharmonization—what it is, how to do it, modern techniques, examples, exercises, charts and more!
To play piano with an original sound think "stylization, not complication." Here are 10 ways to spice up a simple piano chord progression.
Accompaniment
Performance with Backing Track
Inversions, Primary Chord Progression, Long Ago Application
You've learned professional jazz piano voicings, but now what? Explore adding countermelody and tensions with beautiful inner voice movement.
You've learned professional jazz piano voicings, but now what? Explore adding countermelody and tensions with beautiful inner voice movement.
In this course, we'll learn an advanced arrangement of the jazz swing standard - All The Things You Are. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll memorize the melody/chords, embellish the melody with shell voicings & chord extensions, learn a jazz swing bass line, and master a variety of soloing techniques.
In this course, we'll learn an advanced arrangement of the jazz swing standard - All The Things You Are. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll memorize the melody/chords, embellish the melody with shell voicings & chord extensions, learn a jazz swing bass line, and master a variety of soloing techniques.
Intro & Outro
Melody & Variation
Adding Swing Feel
Adding the 3rd & 7th
Adding the 5th & 9th
All About That Bass
7th Chords
Solo Techniques & Exercises
Putting it All Together
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