Intermediate
This is for players with some experience playing piano, who want to fill in the gaps of their knowledge & try new styles of music.
Intermediate Content
202 Courses
1148 Lessons
516 Smartsheets
Intro & Ending
In this comprehensive jazz swing course, we'll learn how to accompany on Fly Me to the Moon in a band setting. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll memorize the chords, apply rootless voicings, add right hand fills, and learn an intro/outro for a beautiful final arrangement.
Discover a fun improv practice game for expanding your jazz vocabulary with original 2-5-1 jazz licks using 3 different dominant scales.
How do Hollywood film composers like John Williams, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer create gripping chord progressions? Learn 3 tricks to create cinematic chords on piano.
How do Hollywood film composers like John Williams, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer create gripping chord progressions? Learn 3 tricks to create cinematic chords on piano.
This comprehensive course covers major block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.
Block Chord Exercise (Ab, Eb, Db)
Block Chord Exercise (C, F, Bb)
"Locked Hands in Peace" (Swing)
Definition & Positions
Block Chord Exercise (A, D, G)
"Blocked Call" (Bossa Nova)
"Shearing the Hedges" (Ballad)
Block Chord Exercise (F#, B, E)
"Block & Bowl" (Funk)
Learn to add the exciting effect of music modulation to virtually any tune, even if a key change is not indicated in the original score.
Learn how to play piano lead sheets using rootless voicings, including 8 songs with the most common progressions in fake books. You'll also learn melody embellishments and various ways of adding rhythm in both hands.
Chromatic Walk-Up
Turnaround Progression
Misty Progression
Sentimental Progression
