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 to groove in this lesson with these funky blues piano chords, rhythms, bass line, and a tasty blues riff over the 12-bar blues!
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 this Funk-Gospel jam that uses fat minor 7 chords, 2nd-Inversion Gospel chords, slides, & syncopated bass.
Slides, 3-Note Melodies, 4-Note Melodies
5-Note Melodies, 6-Note Melodies
Multiple Octaves, 6 Super Funky Riffs
The Chord Progression, 4 Left Hand Grooves
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.
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.
Learn how to infuse Funk, Blues, & Gospel with the tune Swag Time. Discover techniques like Blues blocked chords, Funky 4ths, boogie octaves, rolls, harmonized turns, and other improv techniques.
Learn how to infuse Funk, Blues, & Gospel with the tune Swag Time. Discover techniques like Blues blocked chords, Funky 4ths, boogie octaves, rolls, harmonized turns, and other improv techniques.
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 most comprehensive Funk improv course! Learn the Funk progression, how to build sweet 4, 5, & 6-note lines, funky riffs, and funk left hand bass accompaniments.
The most comprehensive Funk improv course! Learn the Funk progression, how to build sweet 4, 5, & 6-note lines, funky riffs, and funk left hand bass accompaniments.
3 Cool Riffs, 3 Funky Runs
Conclusion & Questions
Solo Techniques, Slides and Turns
C Blues Scale, 8th Notes & Triplets
2 Harder Grooves, 8th Notes
The Progression, 5 Left Hand Grooves
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.
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