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
Learn this Funk-Gospel jam that uses fat minor 7 chords, 2nd-Inversion Gospel chords, slides, & syncopated bass.
If you love Herbie Hancock and funk piano, then you'll love this easy lesson including a sweet pentatonic funk riff, chords, and funky blues bass line.
Learn to groove in this lesson with these funky blues piano chords, rhythms, bass line, and a tasty blues riff over the 12-bar blues!
Learn 10 Awesome Funky Blues Riffs And Licks For Piano Using Syncopation, Turns, Runs, and Harmonized Notes. Easy And Advanced Patterns For Both Hands!
Learn the Circular Progression 1, and important "cyclic" progression used in Jazz & Gospel music. Discover the chords, how to add jazz harmony, and improvisation techniques using various scales.
Lead Sheet, Left Hand Groove, Right Hand Melody
Improvising, Blues Scale, 2 Scale Approach, Diminished & Modal Scales
Learn an important cyclic chord progression used in Jazz & Gospel music, Circular Progression 1. Discover the chords, harmonization approaches, 4-On-The-Floor groove, and improv techniques.
The Basic Chords, Harmonizing the Melody, 4-On-The-Floor
Improvisation, the A Blues Scale, Slides, Turns, Triplets, Double Slides
2nd Solo: Funky-Blues Rolls, Harmonized Slides, & Harmonized Turns
Solo 3: Funky-Blues Rolls!
First A Section
Second A Section, Boogie Octaves
1st Solo: Funky-Blues Licks, Turns, & Punches
Bb Blues Form, Intro
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of G Minor with the scales, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with a funkalicious groove!
The Natural, Harmonic, & Melodic Scales
4 Common Chord Progressions
"Funkaliscious" Lead Sheet, Melody, Chords, & Groove
Learn 10 Awesome Funky Blues Riffs with Syncopation, Turns, Runs, and Harmonized Notes.
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