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
210 Courses
1196 Lessons
560 Smartsheets
Learn 3 essential techniques for adding passing chords or reharmonizing any song. Techniques include relative chords, secondary dominants, and lower neighbor diminished 7th chords.
Learn 10 of the most common mistakes that hold back blues pianists, and how to overcome each one.
Learn a variety of scales to get started with improvisation over major and minor chords. After covering common progressions, you'll discover the tips and tricks to improvise with confidence.
Learn a variety of scales to get started with improvisation over major and minor chords. After covering common progressions, you'll discover the tips and tricks to improvise with confidence.
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2 Minor Progressions, Natural Minor Scale, Minor 11, & Minor Pentatonic
C Major 9 Scale, Cluster Positions, Pentatonic Scale
2 Progressions, Major Scale, Principles of Soloing
Learn the essential scales used to improvise over the most common 7th chords found in jazz and popular music. Scales are the musical building blocks used to create interesting solos.
Practice your rootless chord voicings in the “A position” over the 251 progression in every key. For this exercise, the chords are played in the right hand while the left hand plays the root of the chord.
Learn all 7th chord types in all 12 keys: Major, Minor, Dominant, Half-Diminished, and Fully Diminished. These chords are the main building blocks for interpreting lead sheets in a variety of styles.
Transform Fly Me to the Moon into a swingin' arrangement. From a lead sheet, we apply swing ingredients like shells, harmonies, chord pops, & fills. Plus, learn an intro, outro, & how to improvise.
Learn and master your "position 1" rootless jazz voicings with these walking bass 251 exercises in all keys. This is immediately applicable to creating accompaniments for hundreds of songs.
Learn all your triads in all 12 keys. You will discover the modifications made to each chord with the changing 3rd intervals. This is essential for any student who wants to play lead sheets and improve quickly.
Learn and master your "position 2" rootless jazz voicings with these bossa nova 251 exercises in all keys. This is immediately applicable to creating accompaniments for hundreds of songs.
Learn and master your "position 1" rootless jazz voicings with these bossa nova 251 exercises in all keys. This is immediately applicable to creating accompaniments for hundreds of songs.
Discover how to spice up your blues playing with this super hip blues tune. You'll learn tricks such as turns, tremolos, the walk-up progression, and crunchy altered voicings. Join the Blues Fellas.
Learn a medium-swing jazz tune with a catchy earworm melody. Discover a variety of techniques with dominant chords on the turnaround, extensions, tritone substitution, and quartal voicings.
Play a feel-good blues tune with essential techniques such as turns and third enclosures. You'll also learn to add more color to the blues with secondary dominants and suspended chords.
Learn a beautiful contemporary piece in the key of B Major. This song includes a syncopated left hand accompaniment and a sequenced melody harmonized in 3rds. A perfect song to share with a loved one.
Learn a gorgeous cocktail jazz ballad in 12/8 time using the turnaround progression. With suspensions, colorful extensions, & harmonized notes in the melody, you'll create an authentic sound.
