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
214 Courses
1216 Lessons
584 Smartsheets
2-5-1 Shells in C, F, Bb
Exercise 3: Minor 7 Shells Around the Circle of 5ths
Exercise 2: Dominant 7 Shells Around the Circle of 5ths
Exercise 1: Major 7 Shells Around the Circle of 5ths
Chord Shells and Guide Tones
Learn the essential building blocks of Jazz harmony with chord shells and guide tones. Master these piano voicings with exercises for major, dominant, and minor 7th chords in all 12 keys to build your foundation for advanced jazz harmony.
Learn how to make any major chord sound jazzy on the piano with Cut 4 approach. You'll discover how to jazz up chord inversions plus best chord voicing.
Learn how to make any major chord sound jazzy on the piano with Cut 4 approach. You'll discover how to jazz up chord inversions plus best chord voicing.
Learn 3 techniques for slow blues piano improv, including blues chords, 12-bar blues form, the harmonized blues scale, 8th lines, triplet lines, and slides.
Learn 3 techniques for slow blues piano improv, including blues chords, 12-bar blues form, the harmonized blues scale, 8th lines, triplet lines, and slides.
4 Right Hand Harmony Techniques
Ornaments & Counter-Melodies
Story Arch & Form
Targeting Consonant Notes
Motifs, Sequencing, Mirror Image, & Rhythmic Displacement
Scale, Step-Wise Motion, & Skips
Chord Sheet & 3 Left-Hand Accompaniment Options
Learn how to compose a jazz ballad on piano, including compositional techniques like motifs, sequencing, mirror image, ornaments, counter-melody, & harmony.
Learn how to compose an original jazz ballad. We'll discuss a chord sheet, 3 left hand accompaniments, & compositional techniques like motifs, story arch, form, ornaments, counter-melodies, & harmony.
Learn how to create happiness at the piano with 4 improv techniques, the happiest chord progression of all time, and a sweet left hand accompaniment.
