Smooth Jazz
Learn to play piano in a smooth jazz cocktail style to add a relaxing ambiance to your parties.
Smooth Jazz Content
13 Courses
77 Lessons
38 Smartsheets
Have you noticed that fake books don't contain intros? Master each stock jazz piano intro in this lesson to setup your favorite standards with confidence.
Have you noticed that fake books don't contain intros? Master each stock jazz piano intro in this lesson to setup your favorite standards with confidence.
Transform your piano sound by enhancing your major chords with jazzy chord extensions found in smooth jazz and R&B styles using this simple trick.
Transform your piano sound by enhancing your major chords with jazzy chord extensions found in smooth jazz and R&B styles using this simple trick.
Learn how to play smooth jazz piano in 3 steps. You'll learn the most important smooth jazz chord progression, grip, and scale to improvise with freedom.
Learn how to play smooth jazz piano in 3 steps. You'll learn the most important smooth jazz chord progression, grip, and scale to improvise with freedom.
Learn how to play jazz piano like Herbie Hancock. Learn the Signature Herbie groove used on tunes like Watermelon Man, Cantaloupe Island, & Chameleon.
Learn how to play jazz piano like Herbie Hancock. Learn the Signature Herbie groove used on tunes like Watermelon Man, Cantaloupe Island, & Chameleon.
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 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 7 blues piano styles, including the Shuffle, Burlesque, Slow Blues, 4-On-The-Floor, Jazzy Blues, Boogie Blues, & Funk Blues.
Start improvising now with this beginner jazz piano scale. Professional pianists use the Gospel Scale to improv in any style—swing, Latin, stride, pop,...
Master the sounds of Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, & Richard Tee, with this funky-blues improv course. Learn left hand grooves, scale for soloing, slides, turns, riffs, & runs.
In this comprehensive course on Minor 7 Chords, you'll learn how to build Minor 7 Chords, the Chord Symbols, all 12 Minor 7 Chords, 4 tunes to practice them with, & the most common Minor 7 progressions.
Common Minor 7 chord progressions
F#m7, Bm7, C#m7, Swing Groove, Chord Inversions
Ebm7, Bbm7, Abm7, Funk Groove, Chord Inversions
Am7, Dm7, Em7, Pop Groove, Chord Inversions
Cm7, Fm7, Gm7, Latin Groove, Chord Inversions
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